Brief Academic Achievements :

Dr Jasmine M. Shah has served as a DST INSPIRE Faculty. She completed her M.Sc. in Genetics and Plant Breeding from the University of Kerala, her Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Madurai Kamaraj University, and her post-doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. She is currently serving as the Joint Director of the Kasaragod Botanical Garden and Research Centre, Central University of Kerala. She is also the Joint Secretary of the Kerala Academy of Sciences.

She has received many awards and fellowships, including the DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship, the Women Achiever Award 2023 from Central University of Kerala, the Young Scientist Award, the DBT Research Associateship, the IIT Madras post-doctoral fellowship, and the CSIR Junior Research Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Kerala Academy of Sciences.

She has published research articles in peer-reviewed international and national journals, including BMC Plant Biology, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, and Plant Cell Reports. She is the editor of Frontiers in Genome Editing and a sub-editor of the Journal of Cytology and Genetics. She reviews about 20 national and international journals, including Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE, BMC Plant Biology, and Molecular Genetics and Genomics, and reviews proposals for funding agencies such as KSCSTE and the Goa State Research Foundation. Her research interests are stress-induced mutations and transgenerational epigenetic memory.