I did my Masters in Life Sciences from the Institute of Life Sciences at Kanpur. After this I was a graduate student   and conducted research in   the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Later I did my    Ph. D. in   Immunology from Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Subsequently, I worked as a lecturer in the Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Life Sciences, Kanpur and was also involved in teaching and program development in the departments of Biotechnology, Microbiology and Environmental Sciences.

               Presently, I am working as Assistant Professor at the Center of Biotechnology, Biological Sciences Group, BITS, Pilani. I am involved in teaching various courses and guiding many laboratory based, study oriented and research related projects to under and post graduate students of the Department.

Teaching:

I have been involved in teaching various courses at the first degree and higher degree level in capacity of Instructor-in- charge/ Instructors. I have been involved in the course planning and development of many of these.

 Courses taught / teaching:

• General Biology (BIO C111)

• General Physiology (BIO C342)

• Cell and Tissue Culture Technology (BIO C352)

• Cell and Tissue Culture Technology (BIO G641)

• Measurement Techniques I (BIO G641)

• Instrumental Methods of Analysis (BIO C391)

• Immunology (BIO C416)

• Ecology (BIO C322)

• Laboratory (BIO C411)

Publication:

Shukla,  U.,  Singh, V. K. , Biswas, S., Yadav, V.S.,  and S. S.  Agarwal,1998. Effect  of elevated temperatures on natural killer cell activity   and antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity. Animal Biology, 7: 119-124.

Agarwal, S. S.  Shukla, U., Mandal, A., Pandey, S., and V. K.Singh , 1991.Effect  of elevated temperature on natural killer cell activity.  XVIII  Annual conference of Indian Immunological Society, New Delhi.

Singh, V.K., Biswas, S., Shukla, U., and S. S.  Agarwal.1993. Effect of elevated temperature on cytotoxic effector functions, XIX Annual conference of Indian Immunological Society, Banglore

 Communicated:

Dubey, U.S., and B. Dubey, 2007. A mathematical model for the effect of toxicant on the immune system. Journal of Biological systems, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.