Dr Avik Kumar Pal

Professional Experience

2025-Current: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Golm, Germany

2024-2025: Postdoc, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

2026-2028: EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow

Degree

(2018-2024) - Integrated Ph.D. National Centre of Biological Science (NCBS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

(2015-2018)- Bachelor of Science, Microbiology, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, University of Calcutta, India

Publications

Pachamuthu, Kannan, Vivek Hari Sundar, Anushree Narjala, Rahul R. Singh, Soumita Das, Harshith CY, Avik Pal, and Padubidri V. Shivaprasad. "Nitrate-dependent regulation of miR444-OsMADS27 signalling cascade controls root development in rice." Journal of experimental botany 73, no. 11 (2022): 3511-3530.

Harshith, C. Y., A. Pal, M. Chakraborty, A. Nair, S. Raju, and P. V. Shivaprasad. Wound‑induced small‑peptide‑mediated signaling cascade, regulated by OsPSKR, dictates balance between growth and defense in rice. Cell Rep. 2024; 43: 114515. 2024

Prasad, Melvin, Prateek Shetty, Avik Kumar Pal, Gábor Rigó, Kamal Kant, Laura Zsigmond, István Nagy, Padubidri V. Shivaprasad, and László Szabados. "Transcriptional and epigenomic changes in response to polyethylene glycol-triggered osmotic stress in Brassica napus L." Journal of experimental botany 76, no. 9 (2025): 2535-2556.

Avik Kumar Pal, Vivek Hari-Sundar Gandhivel, Amruta B. Nambiar, and P. V. Shivaprasad. "Upstream regulator of genomic imprinting in rice endosperm is a small RNA-associated chromatin remodeler." Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 7807

Avik Kumar Pal, Saumyapriya Rana, Riju Dey, and Padubidri V. Shivaprasad. "Loss of function of chromatin remodeler OsCLSY4 leads to RdDM-mediated mis-expression of endosperm-specific genes affecting grain qualities." PLoS genetics 21, no. 12 (2025): e1011956.