Dr. Yash Pal completed his B.Sc. (2012) in Microbiology from Delhi University and M.Sc. (2014) in Biotechnology from Goa University. Dr. Pal completed his Ph.D. (2019) from CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India, in Microbiology and Microbial taxonomy. He also worked for a short duration (2019-2020) at Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank, IMTECH, Chandigarh. Further, he went to Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, Uppsala, Sweden (2021-2022) for his post-doctoral training to investigate the alterations in rumen microbial communities and regulation of associated genes when regular feed in lactating dairy cow is substituted with forest by-products. Simultaneously, he also worked on the association of microbial communities in cheese production at SLU, Umea, Sweden. He joined NIAB in September 2022.

Honors, Awards and Fellowships:
1) Post-doctoral fellowship, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, (2021-2022)
2) CSIR-UGC-JRF (NET) examination (2014), University Grants Commission-SRF (2016)
3) DBT fellowship, M.Sc. (2012)
4) GATE, examination, Life sciences (2012)

List of Selected Publications
1. Pal, Y., Mayilraj, S., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2022). Uncovering the structure and function of specialist bacterial lineages in environments routinely exposed to explosives. Letters in applied microbiology, 10.1111/lam.13810. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/lam.13810

2. Pal, Y., Torsten, E., Horacio, G., & Bengt-Ove, R. (2022). Metagenomics analysis suggests disparity in rumen microbiome profiles of dairy cows fed with forest by-products. Nordic feed science conference, Uppsala, Sweden.

3. Pal, Y., Mayilraj, S., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2022). Exploring the Distinct Distribution of Archaeal Communities in Sites Contaminated with Explosives. Biomolecules, 12(4), 489. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12040489

4. Pal, Y., Mayilraj, S., Paul, M., Schumann, P., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2019). Indiicoccus explosivorum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an explosives waste contaminated site. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 69(8), 2555–2564. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003541.

5. Yadav, P., Das, J., Verma, A., Pal, Y. and Krishnamurthi, S. (2021). Tamilnaduibacter . In Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (eds M.E. Trujillo, S. Dedysh, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund, P. Kämpfer, F.A. Rainey and W.B. Whitman). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01980.

6. Verma, A*., Pal, Y*., Kumar, P., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2020). Halocatena pleomorpha gen. nov. sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon of family Halobacteriaceae isolated from saltpan soil. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 70(6), 3693–3700. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004222. (*Equal contribution)

7. Verma, A., Pal, Y*., Ojha, A. K., Kumari, M., Khatri, I., Rameshkumar, N., Schumann, P., Dastager, S. G., Mayilraj, S., Subramanian, S., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2019). Taxonomic insights into the phylogeny of Bacillus badius and proposal for its reclassification to the genus Pseudobacillus as Pseudobacillus badius comb. nov. and reclassification of Bacillus wudalianchiensis Liu et al., 2017 as Pseudobacillus wudalianchiensis comb. nov. Systematic and applied microbiology, 42(3), 360–372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2019.03.003. (*Equal contribution)

8. Verma, A., Ojha, A. K., Pal, Y., Kumari, P., Schumann, P., Gruber-Vodicka, H., Dastager, S. G., Natarajan, R. K., Mayilraj, S., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2017). An investigation into the taxonomy of “Bacillus aminovorans” and its reclassification to the genus Domibacillus as Domibacillus aminovorans sp. nov. Systematic and applied microbiology, 40(7), 458–467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2017.07.003.

9. Verma, A., Pal, Y., Khatri, I., Ojha, A. K., Gruber-Vodicka, H., Schumann, P., Dastager, S., Subramanian, S., Mayilraj, S., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2017). Examination into the taxonomic position of Bacillus thermotolerans Yang et al., 2013, proposal for its reclassification into a new genus and species Quasibacillus thermotolerans gen. nov., comb. nov. and reclassification of B. encimensis Dastager et al., 2015 as a later heterotypic synonym of B. badius. Systematic and applied microbiology, 40(7), 411–422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2017.07.010.

10. Ojha, A. K., Verma, A., Pal, Y., Bhatt, D., Mayilraj, S., & Krishnamurthi, S. (2017). Marinomonas epiphytica sp. nov., isolated from a marine intertidal macroalga. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 67(8), 2746–2751. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002014.