Dr. Jyotsna has international research and teaching experience. She joined the lab of Professor and Chair, Dr.
Patricia Kiley, Department of Biomolecular. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America.
The project was funded by Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center which is one of the four US Department of Energy
Bioenergy centers. She attended the Annual Science Meeting every year learning about the work of everyone in the
center and the invited speakers. She has also taught capstone biochemistry course to undergraduate students at
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America.
Research Area
- Biochemistry of Iron-Sulfur Enzymes
- Synthetic Biology
- Metabolic Engineering
Awards
- Awarded PhD Fellowships from Integrated Program in Biochemistry (IPiB), USA (availed), Darwin Trust of Edinburgh PhD Fellowship, United Kingdom (not availed), and INSPIRE Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (not availed) in April 2017
- Awarded Gold Medal by the Honorable Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Honorable Vice President of India for securing first rank in Integrated B.Tech + M.Tech (5-year dual degree) at Gautam Buddha University (CGPA: 9.26/10, Batch 2011–2016)
- Qualified GATE 2016 (Biotechnology, General Category), conducted by Government of India
- Awarded the prestigious Khorana Fellowship 2015 for summer research internship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA (May 2015)
- Qualified GRE and IELTS examinations
Research Detail
- Misra, J., Mettert, E., & Kiley, P. (2024). Functional analysis of the methylerythritol phosphate pathway
terminal enzymes IspG and IspH from Zymomonas mobilis. Microbiology Spectrum.
- Kumar, R., Maji, S., Tiwari, S., Misra, J., Gupta, J., Kumar, N., Gupta, R., & Jha, N. K. (2025). Precision
vaccine design targeting the prefusion state of viral glycoproteins: advances in structural vaccinology.
Biochemical Pharmacology.
- Mishra, S., Kumar, V., Misra, J., Amritha, K. P., Sah, B., & Lal, P. B. (2025). Genetic tools for engineering
Zymomonas mobilis, Cereibacter sphaeroides, and Novosphingobium aromaticivorans for
improving bioenergy compound production. Microbial Cell Factories.
Total Number of Publications : 03
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