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Dr. de Magalhaes graduated in Microbiology in 1999 from the Escola Superior de Biotecnologia in his hometown of Porto, Portugal, and then obtained his PhD in 2004 from the University of Namur in Belgium, where he worked in the Ageing and Stress Group led by Dr Olivier Toussaint. Following a postdoc with genomics pioneer Prof George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, in 2008 Dr de Magalhaes joined the University of Liverpool to develop his own group on genomic approaches to ageing. Now a senior lecturer, Dr de Magalhaes leads the Integrative Genomics of Ageing Group (http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~aging/) which focuses on understanding the genetic, cellular, and molecular mechanisms of ageing. The group’s research integrates different strategies but its focal point is developing and applying experimental and computational methods that help bridge the gap between genotype and phenotype, a major challenge of the post-genome era, and help decipher the human genome and how it regulates complex processes like ageing. Dr. Girdhar K. Pandey received B.Sc (Hon.) in Biochemistry from Delhi University and M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India. He was awarded Ph.D. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and then pursued post-doctoral career at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley. There, he extended the work in the field of calcium mediated signaling in Arabidopsis by studying CBL-CIPK, phosphatases, channels/transporters, and transcription factors involved in abiotic stresses. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Delhi University South Campus. His group’s research interest is to understand the detail mechanistic interplay of signal transduction networks in plant under mineral nutrient deficiency (mostly K+, Ca2+ and NO3-) and abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity and oxidative stresses. His laboratory is working on the coding and decoding of mineral nutrient deficiency and abiotic stress signals by studying several signaling components such as phospholipases (PLA, PLC, and PLD), calcium sensors such as calcineurin B-like (CBL) and CBL-interacting protein kinases (CIPK), phosphatases (mainly PP2C and DSP), transcription factors (AP2-domain containing or ERF, WRKY), transporters and channels proteins (K+, Ca2+ and NO3- channels/transporters), small GTPases, and Armadillo domain containing proteins in both Arabidopsis and rice. The long-term goal of his research group is to establish the mechanistic interplay and cross talk of mineral nutrient deficient conditions and different abiotic stress signaling cascades in Arabidopsis and rice model plants by using the advance tools of genomics, genetics, cell biology, biochemistry and physiology with greater emphasis on functional genomics and proteomic approaches. This will ultimately help to dissect the interaction of several pathways to converge and diverge at some points and mapping of the “Signaling Interactome” under stress conditions. Dr. Pandey published 40 research articles in the reputed international peer-reviewed journals such as The Plant Cell, PNAS, JBC, Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, Cell Research, Molecular Plants, DNA Research, BMC Genomic, PLoS One, European Journal of Biochemistry, Plant Science, Current Genomics, FEBS Journal, Fronteir in Plant Sciences and others. Some of his research work in the field of development of abiotic stress tolerance has been patented in the USA. Visit his Lab web-page for further information about research work: http://sites.google.com/site/gkplab/home; http://www.dpmb.ac.in/index.php?page=girdhar-pandey