Trilochan Mohapatra was born on 20 April 1962 and is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, former government secretary of the Department of Agricultural Research and Education and former director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.
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Trilochan Mohapatra was born on 20 April 1962 at Kharibil village in Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha.
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Trilochan Mohapatra started his career in 1992 as a senior scientist at the National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, a centre of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute for advanced research in the fields of molecular biology and biotechnology in crop plants where he worked until 2012, serving as a principal scientist from 2005.
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Trilochan Mohapatra is married and the family resides at National Agriculture Science Centre Complex along Dev Prakash Shastri Marg in New Delhi.
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Trilochan Mohapatra's studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 182 of them.
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Trilochan Mohapatra has guided several students in their doctoral and master's studies and has imparted training on molecular breeding to over 25 scientists.
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Trilochan Mohapatra served as an expert on Germplasm Characterization at the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Korea, having received an invitation from the National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, in 2004.
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Trilochan Mohapatra is a life member of the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding and the Society of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
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Trilochan Mohapatra is a former associate editor of BMC Genetics and the Journal of Genetics.
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Trilochan Mohapatra received two awards from the Indian National Science Academy in 1994, namely INSA Young Scientist Medal and Professor LSS Kumar Memorial Award.
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Trilochan Mohapatra was selected for the NAAS-Tata Young Scientist Award of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2001; he received two other honors from NAAS, the elected fellowship in 2006 and the Recognition Award in 2016.
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Trilochan Mohapatra is a recipient of the Bioved Agri-Innovation Award of 2015 and the Om Prakash Bhasin Award and the IMS Diamond Jubilee Memorial Award, both in 2016.