Dr. H.B. Mahesh

Brief Biosketch of Dr. H.B. Mahesh

Dr. Mahesh. H. B. obtained his B. Sc Agriculture degree in 2005 and M.Sc Agriculture in Genetics and Plant Breeding in 2007 from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He has received eight gold medals in B. Sc and M. Sc for his outstanding performance in academics. From 2007 to 2010, he has worked in Monsanto Company in various aspects of corn molecular breeding such as pre-selection through seed chipping, marker-assisted breeding, haplotyping and SNP based fingerprinting. In Monsanto, he has received Rapid Recognition awards, Emerging star award and Breeding Champion award for his outstanding contribution to corn breeding. He has received a prestigious and highly competitive  Monsanto’s Beachell-Boralug International Fellowship (fellowship grant of USD 1,44,239) from Texas A & M, USA for his Ph. D research at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore and Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He is one among 12 PhD students in the world to receive this prestigious fellowship in 2011. He has been conferred with prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Outstanding Ph.D thesis research in Crop Science by Indian Council Agricultural Research (ICAR), New. Delhi. He has 10 years of experience in plant breeding, genomics and bioinformatics. He took a lead in genome sequencing and functional annotation of rice, finger millet, sandalwood, horsegram, winged bean, Magnaporthe oryzae, Sarocladium oryzae and Bacillus velezensis genomes. He published indica rice, ragi, horsegram, Sarocladium and Sandalwood genomes first time in the world. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, V C Farm, Mandya,  University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (UASB) since 2018. His research interests are application of genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics technologies to develop high yielding and disease-tolerant varieties in rice, finger millet, and other important food crops. He has visited Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, London, USA, Mexico and Singapore and presented his research findings in international conferences. Currently, he is operating DBT, DST and RKVY projects.