Arvind Mohan Kayastha

Arvind Mohan Kayastha (Hindi: अरविन्द मोहन कायस्थ) (A.M. Kayastha), born on August 1, 1960 at Dharmashala, is Professor^[1] at School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi (India) and an established scientist in the field of Plant Biochemistry and Enzyme Technology. He is Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India^[2] and National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India.

Education and personal life

Kayastha has long association to the campus of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). He earned his B.Sc. (year 1979) and M.Sc. (Biochemistry) (year 1982) the from Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University.^[3] He did Undergraduate Diploma in German Language from Department of German Studies, BHU in year 1983. He successfully earned Ph.D. in Enzymology from Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in year 1988 under the guidance of the O. P. Malhotra. Kayastha earned his postdoctoral research experiences at National Institutes of Health, Bathesda, Maryland, USA and also at University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.

Kayastha is married to Ritu Kayastha and the couple is proud to have two sons Kanwal and Arpan. The happy family lives in Varanasi.

Professional life

After having postdoctoral research experiences in National Institutes of Health and University of California USA, Kayastha returned back to India and decided to join his Alma mater BHU as a faculty. He joined School of Biotechnology, BHU as a faculty in October, 1990. He became full Professor at School of Biotechnology in October, 2007. He is Coordinator^[4] of Centre of Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology since March 2010. Kayastha has mentored a dozen Ph.D. scholars from his laboratory at BHU.

Publications

A. M. Kayastha has credit of publishing more than 80 peer reviewed journal articles^[5][6] and several papers have got extensive citations in science community. He has also contributed with Book chapters / monograph to six bioscience books.

Awards and recognitions

Kayastha has received a number of awards, medals and prizes in science community. He serves as an expert editorial board member to several peer reviewed scientific journals.

• Fellow, The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) (2003)^[7]
• Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), India (2007)^[8]
• Associate, Indian Academy of Sciences (Bangalore) (1991–95)^[9]
• Member, American Nano Society Society,^[10] Society of Biological Chemists (India)^[11] and Indian Biophysical Society.^[12]
• Visiting Professor, External Expert on the Board of Studies (Botany) and In-charge of Distance Education Centre, Varanasi, for Dayalbagh Educational Institute (DEI) (Deemed University), Agra^[13]
• Editorial Board Member of Protein and Peptide Letters^[14] (Bentham Science Publishers), Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine^[15] (KHU Press, Korea), Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology^[16] (Springer) and Journal of Proteins and Proteomics,^[17] (Serials Publications).

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