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Oral Presentations:

 

  1. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Ivan A. Janssens, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard “Physiological, metabolic, and transcriptional analysis of Arabidopsis to gain insight into plant responses to climate extremes“ talk delivered at 3rd International Plant Physiology Conference (IPPC), New Delhi (11th-14th Dec 2015).

  2. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Ivan A. Janssens, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard. “Repeated selection under heat stress improves stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana” talk delivered at 19th National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences, Gembloux, Belgium (7th Feb 2014).

  3. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Lucia Vergauwen, Ivan Nijs, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard, Ivan A. Janssens. “Biochemical and molecular responses of Arabidopsis thaliana to a combination of heat wave and drought under elevated CO2” talk delivered at 7th symposium of the Belgian Plant Biotech Association, Brussels, Belgium (29th Nov 2013).

 

Poster Presentations:

 

  1. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Marios N Markakis, Chris Volschenk, Katrien Sprangers, Ivan A Janssens, Han Asard, Gerrit TS Beemster “Transgenerational induction of heat tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the ‘International Conference for Arabidopsis Research’ at Turku, Finland  (25th - 29th  June 2018).

  2. Amit Kumar Sinha, Marios N Nektaris, Gaurav Zinta, Ajay A Kumar, Gerrit TS Beemster, Ronny Blust, Gudrun De Boeck “Interactive effects of salinity and ammonia on marine fish: insights from genome-wide transcriptional analysis” in the “Society of Experimental Biology Conference” at Gothenburg, Sweden (3rd–6th  July 2017).

  3. Hamada AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, Marios Nektarios Markakis, Viktoriya Avramova, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard “Growth and genome-wide transcriptional analysis reveal that elevated CO2 mitigates the impact of drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the ‘12th International Conference on Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants: from model systems to field’ at Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy (24th – 26th June 2015).

  4. Amit Kumar Sinha, Hamada AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, Han Asard, Ronny Blust, Gudrun De Boeck “Nutritional status as the key modulator of antioxidant responses induced by salinity stress and high ammonia in European sea bass” in the annual meeting of Society of Experimental Biology (SEB), Prague,  2015 (30th June - 3rd July 2015).

  5. Hamada AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, Viktoriya Avramova, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han  Asard “Growth and genome-wide transcriptional analysis reveal that elevated CO2 mitigates the impact of drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the conference ‘Recent progress in drought tolerance: from genetics to modelling’ at Montpellier, France (8th - 9th June 2015).

  6. H. AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, M. N. Markakis, V. Avramova, G.T.S. Beemster, H.  Asard. “Elevated CO2 mitigates drought and temperature-induced oxidative stress differently in grasses and legumes” in the conference ‘Agriculture and Climate Change: Adapting Crops to Increased Uncertainty’ at Amsterdam, Netherlands (15th – 17th Feb 2015).

  7. Hamada AbdElgawad, Dirk De Vos, Gaurav Zinta, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard. “Unraveling the effects of future climate conditions on proline metabolism in grassland species: An integrated biochemical and modeling approach” in the ‘19th National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences’ at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (30th Jan 2015).

  8. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Ivan A. Janssens, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard. “Transgenerational effects of heat stress in Arabidopsis thaliana: A multilevel analysis” in the 211th meeting ‘Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology’ jointly organized by Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) with Belgian Society of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Antwerp, Belgium (6th - 7th Nov 2014).

  9. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Marios Nektarios Markakis, Ivan A. Janssens, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard.  “Multilevel analysis revealed that repeated selection under heat stress improves heat tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the ‘Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress’ at Dublin, Ireland (22nd - 26th June 2014).

  10. Hamada AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, Marios N. Markakis, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard. “Elevated CO2 mitigates the impact of drought on Arabidopsis thaliana: Growth and genome-wide analyses” in the ‘Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress’ at Dublin, Ireland (22nd - 26th June 2014).

  11. Hamada AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, Han Asard. “Elevated CO2 reduced the impact of drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the ‘19th National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences’ at Gembloux, Belgium (7th Feb 2014).

  12. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Lucia Vergauwen, Ivan Nijs, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard, Ivan A. Janssens. “Biochemical and molecular responses of Arabidopsis thaliana to a combination of heat wave and drought under elevated CO2” in the ‘7th symposium of the Belgian Plant Biotech Association’ at Brussels, Belgium (29th Nov 2013).

  13. Hamada AbdElgawad, Gaurav Zinta, Han Asard. “Elevated CO2 reduced the impact of drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the ‘7th symposium of the Belgian Plant Biotech Association’ at Brussels, Belgium (29th Nov 2013).

  14. Gaurav Zinta, Hamada AbdElgawad, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Lucia Vergauwen, Ivan Nijs, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Han Asard, Ivan A. Janssens. “Elevated CO2 mitigates the impact of a combination of heat wave and drought in Arabidopsis thaliana” in the ‘11th International POG Conference Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants’ at Warsaw, Poland (17th-19th July 2013).

  15. Gaurav Zinta, S. K. Singh, Poonam Shirkot, S.V. Bhardwaj. "Genomic diversity of Asparagus adscendens Roxb. in western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh” in the national symposium on ‘New Biology in Agriculture’ at Punjab University Chandigarh, India (7th - 8th Nov 2008).

 

Workshops / Trainings / Symposia Attended:

 

  1. Attended “EMBL Advanced Course on Whole Transcriptome Data Analysis”, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, (23rd-25th June 2015).

  2. Attended conference “Recent progress in drought tolerance: from genetics to modelling”, Montpellier, France (8th-9th June 2015).

  3. Attended 211th meeting “Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology” jointly organized by Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) with Belgian Society of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Antwerp, Belgium (6th-7th November, 2014).

  4. Attended international conference “Plant Biology Europe FESPB/EPSO Congress” Dublin, Ireland (22nd - 26th June, 2014).

  5. Attended “19th National Symposium on Applied Biological Sciences”, Gembloux, Belgium (7th February 2014).

  6. Attended “7th symposium of the Belgian Plant Biotech Association”, held at the Royal Library, Brussels, Belgium (29th Nov 2013).

  7. Attended workshop on "Next Generation Sequencing" at Center of Medical Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium (4th Oct 2013).

  8. Attended “11th International POG Conference Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Plants”, Warsaw, Poland (17th-19th July 2013).

  9. Attended course “Information on Q-PCR” organized by Applied Biosystems at University of Antwerp, Belgium (25th Nov 2012).

  10. Attended course “Analysis of public microarray data using Genevestigator”   organized by Bioinformatics Training and Service Facility (BITS) at VIB Ghent, Belgium (6th and 9th Nov 2012).

  11. Attended workshop “Plant modeling with L-studio” conducted by Richard Smith and Pierre Barbier de Reuille from Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern (Switzerland) at University of Antwerp, Belgium (3rd - 7th September 2012).

  12. Attended statistics course “Basic principles of Statistics” organized by University of Antwerp, Belgium, (26th, 28th, 29th June and 12th and 13th July 2012).

  13. Attended course “Mind Mapping” at University of Antwerp, Belgium (27th April 2012).

  14. Attended course “Academic Presentation Skills” at University of Antwerp, Belgium (2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd May 2011).

  15. Attended training “Genevestigator Training” organized by Bioinformatics Training and Service Facility (BITS) at VIB, University of Ghent (12th April 2011).

  16. Attended course “Imaging Day” organized by Bioinformatics Training and Service Facility (BITS), VIB, at University of Leuven, Belgium (27th Jan 2011).

  17. Attended systems biology course “Statistical analysis of ~omics data” at Wageningen University, Netherlands (13th – 17th December 2010).

  18. Attended course “Applied Communication Skills” at University of Antwerp, Belgium (16th - 19th June 2010).

  19. Attended training on “Computers in Computational Biology” organized by Bioinformatics Center, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agricultural University Palampur, India (16th - 17th  March 2009).

  20. Participated in international symposium “Recent Developments in Molecular Biology Techniques” at Panjab University Chandigarh, India (21st – 22nd Feb 2009).

  21. Attended national symposium “New Biology in Agriculture” at Punjab University Chandigarh in collaboration with All India Biotech Association, India (7th – 8th Nov 2008).

  22. Participated in international symposium “Chromosome to Genome” at Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India (3rd -5th July 2007).

  23. Attended training “Creation and Management of Databases” organized by     Sub-Distributed Information Center (SUBDIC) at Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan (H.P.), India (19th – 24th March 2007).

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