Ms. Monika Pandita, Researcher, School of Biotechnology at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, has been declared qualified for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).The candidate has worked on “Investigation into the Genetic interactions of Glyoxylate Pathway related F-Box motif encoding gene UCC1 with certain Genome Stability regulators in Saccharomyces cerevisiae” under the supervision of Dr. Narendra K Bairwa, Assistant Professor, and co-supervision of Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, SMVDU. Ms. Pandita presented her research work at the international conferences and published her research findings in the SCIE journals. The candidate expressed her gratitude to the School of Biotechnology and SMVD University for providing all facilities and necessary support for carrying out the research work and support from DBT, DST GOI funding agency. Prof. R.K. Sinha, Vice-Chancellor, SMVDU, and committee members congratulated the candidate and wished her a bright future ahead.