Ms. Kavita Verma

Environmental pollutants are of great important concern worldwide due to serious health impact in organisms. Among the various pollutants present polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) draws attention due to persistent, ubiquitous, toxic and carcinogenic impact. Her research focuses on in depth study of impact of PAH on animal-plant-microbes interactions. This study would therefore provides complete understanding of ecological, morphological and physiological impact of PAH on environment including different trophic levels. 

1. Currently pursuing Ph.D. from University of Delhi and Research fellow in Animal Plant Interaction lab, Dept of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi since 2019. 
2. M.Sc. (Zoology) Maharishi Dayanand University (Rohtak)  (2018)
3. B.Sc. (Zoology) Maharishi Dayanand University (Rohtak)  (2016)

1. Verma, K., Agarwal, S., Sharma, G., Singhal, A., Mullick, R., & Mathur, V.* (2025). Growth-Promoting Endophytes as Immunity Booster for Brassica juncea against Insect Attack. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 51(2), 32. 
2. Verma, K., Sharma, G., Sinha, P.G., Nishu & Mathur, V.* (2024). Identifying Bacteria from Urban Soil for Degrading Soil Organic Contaminants of Emerging Concern. Water Air & Soil Pollution 235, 797. 
3. Verma, K., Gokhale Sinha, P., Chetan, & Mathur, V. (2024). Temporal Impact of Elevated CO2 and Temperature on Solanum Lycopersicum L.: Insights into Growth, Phenology, Ultrastructure, Nutritional Quality and Metabolite Profile. Journal of Crop Health, 1-16.
4. Verma, K., Sinha, P. G., Sharma, G., Agarwal, S., Verma A. and Mathur, V.*(2023) Rhizosphere–plant–microbial system under polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-induced stress. Current Science, 125(8). doi: 10.18520/cs/v125/i8/837-845
5.  Sharma, G., Sinha, P. G., Verma, K., Walia, D., Lahiri, M., & Mathur, V*. (2023). Isolation and characterization of phenanthrene-degrading bacteria from urban soil. Bioremediation Journal, 1-14.
6. Sharma, G., Agarwal, S., Verma, K., Bhardwaj, R., & Mathur, V*. (2023). Therapeutic compounds from medicinal plant endophytes: molecular and metabolic adaptations. Journal of Applied Microbiology, lxad074. (IF:4.05)
7. Agarwal, S., Sharma, G., Verma, K., Latha, N., & Mathur, V*. (2022). Pharmacological potential of ants and their symbionts–a review. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 170(12), 1032-1048. (IF: 2.4).
8. Pasricha, S., Mathur, V., Garg, A., Lenka, S., Verma, K., & Agarwal, S. (2021). Molecular mechanisms underlying heavy metal uptake, translocation and tolerance in hyperaccumulators-an analysis: Heavy metal tolerance in hyperaccumulators. Environmental Challenges, 100197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100197 

1. Verma, K., & Mathur, V.* (2022). Microbial Remediation Approaches for PAH Degradation. In El-Gendy, N.S. (ed.) Sustainable Solutions for Environmental Pollution: Air, Water and Soil Reclamation,Scrivener Publishing LLC Pp. 355-399. Print ISBN:9781119827511; Online ISBN:9781119827665; doi:10.1002/9781119827665
2. Verma K. and Mathur V.* (2020). Effect of Air Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Food Chain: Direct and Indirect exposure. Proceedings of International Workshop on International conference on “Air Pollution and Public Health: Challenges and Intervention”.

1. Oral  Presentation entitled “ Deciphering the impact of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in altering the rhizosphere’s properties and microbial profile ” at the 8th International Conference of Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research (INSCR-2024) on ‘Exploring the Microbial World from Human Health to Environmental Sustainability’ and 4th International Symposium on Ciliate Biology (ISCB-2024), organised by INSCR and Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi (UoD) from April 03-05, 2024 at Conference Centre, UoD, Delhi, India.
2. Oral Presentation on “Nutritional Status of Tomato grown under Elevated CO2 and Temperature” in the International Conference on Climate Resilient Agriculture for Food Security and Sustainability held at CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana) INDIA on 17-19 February 2024.
3.  Kavita Verma and Vartika Mathur. Oral talk on "Seeing the unseen: changing climate affecting microbes and their ecological services" at International virtual conference on “Earth’s Changing Climate: Past, Present & Future” organized by the Society of Earth Scientists on 15-17 Oct 2020.
4. Kavita Verma and Vartika Mathur. Oral talk on "Effect of Air Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Food Chain: Direct and Indirect exposure" at International conference on “Air Pollution and Public Health: Challenges and Intervention” organized by the NAM S&T Centre and Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India in February, 2020.

1. Attended 35-lectures of “Add-on course on Basic Biostatistics” organised by Department of Zoology, Hindu College under the aegis of IQAC from 17th July to 3rd October, 2023.

2.  Presented research work on 'Effect of phenanthrene and fluoranthene on insect-plant- microbial interactions' in Research conclave held in Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi on 14thFebruary, 2022.

3.  Participated in 5 Days National Workshop, entitled “Flow cytometry and qPCR-based Blood Analyses” from October 20-24, 2021 organized by Department of Biomedical Science, Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi (under the aegis of DBT - STAR College Scheme and IQAC) in collaboration with Flowcytometry Solutions Pvt Ltd.

4. Participated in webinar on topic “A new look at energy and sustainability” organized by ARSD College, Dhaula kuan, New Delhi held on 18th August, 2020.

5. Attended webinar on Intellectual Property Rights organized by Sri Venkateswara College on 29 August 2020. 

6. Participated in 3 day workshop on computational biology for Meta Genomics Analysis in February, 2020 at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.

7. Participated in the webinar on “Shodh Shuddhi -Web based plagiarism detection software URKUND” organized by Dr B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in Association With INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar & eGalactic in May, 2020.

8. Participated in the webinar on Air Pollution and CoVID-19: Gearing up for future in June, 2020.

9. Participated In webinar on "How to read scientific literature" and "Introduction to MANAV-the human atlas initiative" coordinated by Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College under the aegis of DBT Star Scheme and MHRD-IIC Chapter on 9thJune, 2020.

10. Participated in the One Week Online Faculty Development Programme on “RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: TOOLS & TECHNIQUES” under Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Training Scheme of MHRD, Govt. of India held from 5 th-11th June, 2020 at ARSD College, University of Delhi.

11. Participated in online workshop on “Prominence of Animals in Research” organized by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar on 10th July, 2020.

12. Participated in webinar on topic “MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR CONTROL” organized by ARSD College, Dhaula kuan, New Delhi held on 10th July, 2020.  

Qualified CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) for Junior research fellowship (JRF), June 2019.