Dr. Jaswinder Singh is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Canada. Dr. Singh received his PhD from the University of Sydney and CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra Australia and did his postdoctoral studies at the University of California Berkeley, U.S.A. His research focuses on the enhancement of quality traits, stress tolerance and bioenergy capability of crop plants using modern genomic, molecular breeding and biotechnological tools. Dr. Singh is an internationally recognized innovator in the use of transposon tagging in cereal crops. His findings have shown for the first time the reversal of epigenetic silencing in plants. Recently, his laboratory discovered a key gene that acts as a switch to determine how a particular plant responds to high humidity and excess rainfall. The research opens up a new epigenetic-based direction for exploration of seed dormancy and Pre Harvest Sprouting (PHS). He has delivered numerous talks in international meetings and prestigious institutes. He has published over 40 research articles in high impact peer reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. Additionally, he is actively involved in teaching plant breeding, plant biotechnology, plant biology courses, training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and lab assistants.  To date, he has trained over 40 researchers, which include undergraduate, technicians, graduate students and PDFs. He is also performing his duties as an editor for two international journals (Canadian Journal of Plant Science, PLOS ONE) and a reviewer for numerous granting agencies. 

 My long-term research goal is to integrate molecular and genomic tools with plant biology to develop enhanced crop plants.