• Ph.D. (2022): in Zoology from Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.  (Thesis title: “Identification and characterization of putative interacting protein partners of Dengue Virus envelope(E) protein in the insect vector Aedes aegypti.”)
• M.Sc. (2015) in Zoology with entomology a specialization from Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
• B.Sc.(Hons) (2013) Zoology, Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

§ Senior Research Fellowship (2019–2022): Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.  

§ Junior Research Fellow (2017–2019): Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India.  

§ Qualified CSIR-NET, June 2015- conducted by CSIR, New Delhi, India.

• Assistant Professor (Permanent) , 29-Nov-2023 to till date , Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi

1. Animal Diversity 
2. Cell and developmental biology 
3. Apiculture 
4. Sericulture 
5. Ayurveda and nutrition 
6. Sustainable ecotourism and entrepreneurship  

“Identification and characterization of putative interacting protein partners of Dengue Virus envelope(E) protein in the insect vector Aedes aegypti.”

1. Yadav, K., Rana, V. S., Anjali, Saurav, G. K., Rawat, N., Kumar, A., Sunil, S., Singh, O. P., & Rajagopal, R. (2023). Mucin Protein of Aedes aegypti Interacts with Dengue Virus 2 and Influences Viral Infection. Microbiology spectrum, e0250322. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02503-22 
2. Rawat, N., Yadav, K., Jamwal, R., Sabu, B., Bandyopadhyay, A., & Rajagopal, R. (2023). Prevalence of multiple-drug resistance and identification of underlying antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli isolated from ready-to-eat chicken salads being sold in restaurants in Delhi, India. Food and Humanity, 1, 951-957.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foohum.2023.08.011 
3. Rana, V. S., Popli, S., Saurav, G. K., Yadav, K., Kumar, A., Sunil, S., ... & Rajagopal, R. (2020). Aedes aegypti lachesin protein binds to the domain III of envelop protein of Dengue virus‐2 and inhibits viral replication. Cellular microbiology, 22(7), e13200. 
4. Rawat, N., Jamwal, R., Devi, P. P., Yadav, K., Kumar, N., & Rajagopal, R. (2021). Detection of unprecedented level of antibiotic resistance and identification of antibiotic resistance factors, including QRDR mutations in Escherichia coli isolated from commercial chickens from North India. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 
5. Rawat, N., Anjali, Shreyata, Sabu, B., Jamwal, R., Devi, P. P., Yadav, K., Raina, H. S., & Rajagopal, R. (2023). Understanding the role of insects in the acquisition and transmission of antibiotic resistance. The Science of the total environment, 858(Pt 1), 159805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159805. 
6. Yadav, K., Saurav, G. K., Rana, V. S., Rawat, N., Anjali, Jamwal, R., Singh, O. P., Bandyopadhyay, A., & Rajagopal, R. (2024). Polyubiquitin protein of Aedes aegypti as an interacting partner of dengue virus envelope protein. Medical and veterinary entomology, 38(1), 48–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/mve.12696
7. Jamwal, R., Devi, P. P., Rani, V., Rawat, N., Daimei, G., Saurav, G. K., Renukadevi, P., Yadav, K., Anajali & Rajagopal, R. (2024). Structural and Functional Analysis of Groundnut bud necrosis virus (GBNV) Using Computational and Biochemical Approaches. Molecular Biotechnology, 1-14. 
8. Phage therapy: A promising cure for bacterial infections in humans. June 2023 issue of Journal of Bioresources - Accepted for publishing.

• Certificate of Appreciation in International Colloquium on “Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying Behavior, Physiology and development”, 2021. 
• Certificate of first prize in Poster presentation in International Conference of Virology (VIROCON 2020) on Evolution of Viruses and Viral Diseases, 2020. 
• Certificate of second prize in Poster presentation in INSCR 2019. 
• Certificate of oral presentation in INTERVIROCON International Conference, 2018.

• ​​​​​Dr.Chandra sathiraju medal for highest scorer in biochemistry and best student for session of 2011 to 2012.

Technical Proficiency  

• § Molecular analysis: Isolation and estimation of genomic DNA/RNA, cDNA synthesis, PCR amplification, Restriction digestion, carried out agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis immunoblot analysis of different protein. 

  § Insect cell culture: C6/36 cell line maintenance and Dengue virus propagation, isolation and storage. SF9/SF21 cell line maintenance, propagation for recombinant protein production. 

   § Animal handling: BALB/c inbred mice  

  § Aedes aegypti colony maintenance and propagation 

  § Protein-protein interaction: Yeast two-hybrid 

                                                   Phage display library screening 

                                                   Pull-down assay/reverse pull down 

                                                   Immunoprecipitation  

                                                   Coimmunoprecipitation 

   Gene Expression (qualitative and quantitative analysis) 

  §Antibody inhibition assay using dsRNA and polyclonal antibodies (in insect Aedes aegypti.) 

  § Confocal microscopy immunofluorescence 

  § Microbial techniques: Plasmid isolation from bacteria, cloning and transformation.  

  § Recombinant protein production and purification in heterologous expression system 

  § Proteomics: Isolation and estimation of proteins, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting.  

  § Bioinformatics and computer skills: Knowledge of basic computational bioinformatics software (for primer designing, protein modelling, BLAST, other web-based bioinformatics tools). 

  §Protein-protein Docking. 

  § Graphpad prism and R Statistical Tools