Gautam Saripalli

Dr. Gautam Saripalli joined as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Sachin Rustgi’s group at Pee Dee Research and Education Center in Florence, SC, USA, in September 2023. Before joining here, he worked in wheat genomics at the University of Maryland (UMD) as a postdoc for 2 years (September 2021 to September 2023). He holds a master's degree in Agricultural Biotechnology from Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat and a Ph.D. from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, located in India. During his Ph.D., he worked in genomics for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in wheat. He published over 20 papers in this area (https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=8uflux4AAAAJ&hl=en) during his Ph.D. and postdoc tenure at UMD. At Dr. Rustgi’s lab, he will be focusing on peach genomics and will continue to work in wheat genomics. In peach, his work involves the development of peach rootstocks resistant to Armillaria root rot (ARR) while concurrently minimizing decomposition rates and carbon cycling within the environment using molecular biology approaches.

January 2025