Dr Seema Garcha joined in the present position in April 2014. Previosuly, she worked as Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Punjabi University Patiala from Feb 2004 to March 2014. She has had teaching assignments in Central Governmnet institute, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Sangrur and Punjab Technical University affiliated engineering college and research fellowshop in World Bank funded National Agricultural Technology Project (NATP) in the Department of Entomology, PAU Ludhiana from 2000 to 2002.She has successfully completed UGC funded major research project and Directorate of Research PAU funded seed money project. She was awarded International Travel Grant to present her work in USA and China by central agencies DBT, DST, CSIR and UGC in 2010 and 2012 ,respectively. She has one patent to her credit 423627, granted by Indian Patent office in March 2023. She is serving on departmental and college level committees. She has over 55 publications and 8 chapters in books. She is life member of AMI, BRSI , ISCA and MBSI.

Professional Accomplishments

• Indian patent number 423627

• Best oral paper presented award- 8th International Conference on Current Innovations and Technological Advances in Agriculture and Allied Sciences (ICAATAS) held in Bathinda, Punjab, India, August 2024.

• Brevibacillus parabrevis MTCC 13666 and Brevibacillus parabrevis MTCC 13667 accepted for General Deposit by Microbial Type Culture Collection-CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39, Chandigarh.

• 16S rRNA data of bacterial strains Bacillus cereus, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis with accession number PP794656, PP794657 and PP794658, respectively

• Rhizospheric microbial community metagenomics data submitted to NCBI- SRA data PRJNF1139961 Untargetted metabolic profiling data submitted to submitted to www.ebi.ac.uk/metabolights with accession number REQ20250224208843.

• Pseudomonas sp PR 121 and Pseudomonas sp PR 122 accepted for General Deposit and assigned TB 4051 and TB 4052 accession numbers, respectively, by National Agriculturally Important Microbial Culture Collection, ICAR-NBAIM, Maunath Bhanjan, UP.

Awards and recognitions 

• Merit Certificate in MSc
• PAU fellowship holder in PhD
• Government of Punjab fellowship BSc (Biology)

Research projects

State funded Research and development of Biofertilizers

Revolving Fund for production of biofertilizers

Research publications

1. Garcha S, Garg S and Srivastava P (2025). Untargetted metabolomics of root exudates of wheat varieties cultivated under phosphorus stress in the Indo-Gangetic plains of India. Plant and Soil (Preprint on Research Square)
2. Garcha S (2024). Biofertilizers- helping sustainable food production. Curr Sci 127: 395-397.
3. Garcha S (2024). Biofertilizer production using biogas digestate. In: Springer Nature Proceedings of 4th International Conference in Recent Advances in Bio-Energy research ICRABR 2023 organized by SSS- NIBE, Kapurthala.
4. Garcha S and Samredhi (2024). Futuristic approaches with biofertilizers. In: Metabolomics, Proteomes and Gene Editing Approaches in Biofertilizer Industry Vol 2, Kaur S, Dwibedi V, Sahu PK (eds), Springer Nature, Singapore, pp 1-14.
5. Garcha S (2023). Microbes from Wild Plants. In: Futuristic Approaches in Biofertilizer Industry through Metabolomics, Proteomes and Gene Editing, Kaur S, Dwibedi V, Sahu PK and Kocher GS (eds), Springer Nature, India, pp -173-187.
6. Garcha S (2023). Present Scenario- Status of Biofertilizer Industry in India. In: Futuristic Approaches in Biofertilizer Industry through Metabolomics, Proteomes and Gene Editing, Kaur S, Dwibedi V, Sahu PK and Kocher GS (eds), Springer Nature, India, pp21-36.
7. Maan PK and Garcha S (2021). Production technology, properties and quality management. In: Biofertilizers- Advances in Bio-inoculants, Volume 1, Rakshit A, Meena VS, Parihar M, Singh HB and Singh AK (eds), Woodhead Publishing Series, Oxford, UK, pp 31-41
8. Maan PK, Garcha S, Sharma S and Walia GS (2021). Nodule occupancy behavior of bacteriocinogenic Rhizobium spp in Mungbean (Vigna radiata). Leg Res (44):1097-1103.
9. Garcha S, Kansal R and Gosal SK (2019). Molasses growth medium for production of Rhizobium based biofertilizer. Ind J Biochem Biophys 56:378-383.