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Pranav Dawar
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Pranav Dawar is a postdoctoral research associate at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory.

He earned his PhD in biology from Texas Tech University, where he discovered new RNA-microRNA modules and their significance in plant abiotic stress response. Dawar also attempted to understand the role of unique genetic connections and novel RNA-microRNA modules in organ development. As a postdoctoral research associate, he focuses on interdisciplinary applications of nanodroplet SPlitting for Linked-multimodal Investigations of Trace Samples, a platform used for simultaneous multimodal transcriptomics and proteomics analysis from the same single cell and understanding the interplay between the two modalities in relation to the research question at hand.

Research Interests

  • Single-cell and bulk proteomics and transcriptomics 
  • Understanding cellular response to biotic and abiotic stress conditions 
  • Multi-omics data integration and analysis

Education

  • PhD in biology, Texas Tech University 
  • BSc in agricultural biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University

Publications

2023 

  • Azad, M. F., Dawar, P., Esim, N., & Rock, C. D. (2023). Role of miRNAs in sucrose stress response, reactive oxygen species, and anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14. 
  • Mittal, M., Dhingra, A., Dawar, P., Payton, P., & Rock, C. D. (2023). The role of microRNAs in responses to drought and heat stress in peanut (Arachis hypogaea). The Plant Genome, e20350. 
  • Azad, M. F., de Silva Weligodage, H., Dhingra, A., Dawar, P., & Rock, C. D. (2023). Grain development and crop productivity: role of small RNA. In Plant Small RNA in Food Crops (pp. 385-468). Academic Press. 
  • Dawar, P. (2023). Characterizing gene interactions and microRNA nodes in Arabidopsis thaliana gene regulatory networks.