Payal Mavadiya

Biography:

Payal Mavadiya is a plant molecular biologist with nearly ten years of research experience in gene editing, Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, and molecular cloning. During her doctoral research, she worked on the functional characterization of ACL5 homologs in plants, which involved gene cloning, generation of transgenic lines, detailed phenotypic characterization, and qRT-PCR–based transcript profiling. Currently, she is working as a Research Associate at the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC) under the project titled “Genome Editing in Potato.” Her work focuses on CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing for the development of marker-free edited lines, followed by molecular validation using Sanger sequencing and next-generation sequencing (NGS). Her strong interest in genome editing is driven by a desire to better understand plant physiology and the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate plant growth and development.