Nancy Choudhary

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Research overview

I am working on elucidating the biochemical pathways of Withanolide biosynthesis in Nightshade plants. Thereafter, I am particularly interested in studying the evolution of the withanolide biosynthesis genes and their structural diversification. For this, I use long-read sequencing to generate genome sequences. BLAST, synteny analysis, co-expression anlaysis and phylogenetic analysis among others are used to detect gene candidates. 'Data reuse' using publically available genomic and transcriptomie sequences and 'public sharing' is a big component of my work principles.  

Qualifications

• 2023-Present: PhD student, TU Braunschweig 
• 2021-2023: M.Tech in Biotechnology, IIT Mandi, India
• 2017-2021: B.Tech in Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, India

Publications

• Hakim S.E.*, Choudhary N.*, Malhotra K.*, Peng J.*, Arafa A., Bültemeier A., Friedhoff R., Bauer M., Witte C.-P., Herde M., Heretsch P., Pucker B., Franke J. (2024). Phylogenomics and metabolic engineering reveal a conserved gene cluster in Solanaceae plants for withanolide biosynthesis. bioRxiv 2024.09.27.614867; doi: 10.1101/2024.09.27.614867.

• Choudhary N, Pucker B (2024) Conserved amino acid residues and gene expression patterns associated with the substrate preferences of the competing enzymes FLS and DFR. PLOS ONE 19(8): e0305837. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305837.

• Rempel A., Choudhary N. and Pucker B. (2023). KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways. PLOS ONE 18(11): e0294342. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294342.

Scholarships and Awards

• DAAD-Kospie scholarship
• HTRA schlolarship