Dr. Ravail Singh
Sr. Scientist
Plant Sciences and Agrotechnology Division (PSA)
CSIR – Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Canal Road, Jammu – 180001
Email: ravail.singh @iiim.res.in
Bio Sketch
Ravail Singh is a Scientist at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, the constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. He has been recipients of DAAD fellowship for carrying out his PhD research work at Oldenburg university, Germany. He received his Ph.D. on deep sea benthic biology from Senckenberg am Meer, Oldenburg university, Germany in 2015. After his PhD, he was promoted as Post-doctoral researcher under the project “Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining” in the same institute. Subsequently, he joined CSIR as a Scientist on 2017 and began his independent research career.
At the IIIM, Jammu his research focuses on creating a better understanding of the role of benthic fauna in the aquatic ecosystem function, and advancing our knowledge of meiofauna and nematode biology and ecology. To understand the morphological and cellular level functional strategies that enable these invertebrate species to exploit diverse habitats and to establish biogeographic patterning His group is also involved in screening the benthic invertebrates to discover the biological important secondary metabolites for variety of applications.
Aside the core research outlined above, he is also using artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches to develop software programme for automatic identification of benthic invertebrate fauna.
Education
Degree | Subjects | University | Qualifying Year |
PhD | Marin Biology | Oldenburg University, Germany | 2015 |
M.Sc | Fisheries | Bhopal University | 2008 |
B.Sc | Medical (Chemistry, Botany, Zoology) | Jammu University | 2005 |
Position Held
Position Held | Period | Organization |
Sr Scientist | Jan 2021 to Present | CSIR-IIIM |
Scientist | Jan 2017 to Jan 2021 | CSIR-IIIM |
Area of Expertise
- Taxonomy
- Molecular biology of benthic invertebrates from coastal as well as deep Sea
- Ecological modelling
- Bioinformatics
- Programming
Projects
Aroma Mission project Vertical A: (Ecological modeling)
Involved in the latter stage and working on the modeling of the plant database. The attempt has made to work on the functional traits of plant and their ecological significance in terms of the ecosystem functioning.
Publications
Authors | Title | Journal |
Ravail Singh, Dmitry M. Miljutin, Maria A. Miljutina, Pedro Martinez Arbizu and Baban S. Ingole (2014) | Deep-sea nematode assemblages from a commercially important polymetallic nodule area in the Central Indian Ocean Basin.
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Marine Biology Research 10, 9: 906-916.
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Ravail Singh and B.S.Ingole (2016) | Structure and function of nematode communities across the Indian western continental margin and its oxygen minimum zone.
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Biogeoscience, 13: 191–209.
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Ravail Singh, Dmitry M. Miljutin, Ann Vanreuse, Teresa Radziejewska, Maria M. Miljutina, Alexei Tchesunov, Christian Bussau, Valentina Galtsova, Pedro Martinez Arbizu (2016) | Nematode communities inhabiting the soft deep-sea sediment in polymetallic nodule fields: do they differ from those in the nodule-free abyssal areas? | Marine Biology,12, 4: 345–359
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Ravail Singh, Baban Ingole and Sabyasachi Sautya (2019)
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Ferromanganese Nodule Associated Meiofauna with special reference to nematodes from the Central Indian Ocean. | Deep Sea Research -Topical Studies in Oceanography, 161, 16-28. |
Ravail Singh and Yengkhom Sophiarani (2020) | 1. A report on DNA sequence determinants in gene expression.
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Bioinformat,16(5): 422-431 |
Ravail Singh and B.S.Ingole (2011)
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Life history of nematode Daptonema normandicum (DeMan, 1890) reared in laboratory. | Journal of Environment Biology, 32: 147-152. |
Ravail Singh, B.S.Ingole, Nanajkar Mandar (2009). | Life Cycle of Free Living Marine Nematode Innocuonema tentabunda. | Nematology, 37: 235-238.
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Ravail Singh, Suruchi Gupta, Indranil Mukherjee, Pritam S. Hulle, Mohd Hassan (2020) | Life History of Cletocamptus goenchim (Gómez et al., 2013), (Harpacticoida: | Marine Biology Research |
Ingole Baban, Ravail Singh, Sabyasachi Sautya, Igor Dovgal and Tapas Chatterjee (2009). | Report of epibiont on two free living marine nematodes Desmodora sphaerica and D. puntica from Andaman Sea. | Journal of Marine Biological Association UK,1-4. |
Ingole, B.S and Ravail Singh (2010). | Biodiversity and community structure of free living marine nematodes from the Larsemann Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. | Current science, 99: 1413-1419. |
Awards and Honours
- DAAD fellowship awarded for Doctoral study in German University for 3+1 years
- COMARGE, CoML fellowship awarded in 2010 for one month to deal with polymetallic nodule deep Sea nematode taxonomy from Central Indian Ocean in Senckenberg Institute of Biodiversity, Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
- CeDAMar fellowship awarded for attending conference on “Benthic Biodiversity from Southern Ocean” Wilhelmshaven, Germany in 2010.
- Member of the International team of Deep Sea Biologist
- Member of International Network for Scientific Investigations of Deep-Sea Ecosystems
- Member of Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative
- Other recognitions
- Reviewing for prestigious international journals such as Proceeding B, Deep Sea Research, Frontier in Marine Science, Plos One etc.
- Member of the International team of Deep Sea Biologist
Students
Photo | Name | Area of Interest | Position |
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Waqas Ahmed | To understand the structural and functional role of benthic invertebrates in the aquatic ecosystem | |
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Jyoti Chandan |
To understand the mechanism involved in the functional relationship of the nematode community associated with medicinal plants |
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Mohd Hassan |
Soil invertebrate community and their potential role in ecosystem functioning. |