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Kalika earned his B. Sc. from University of Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) and M. Sc. from M. S. University Baroda (Gujarat) and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (Karnataka). During his training in plant molecular genetics as graduate student in Usha Vijayraghavan laboratory he visited several laboratories in US, UK and Singapore. Kalika also visited Massey University (Barbara Ambrose laboratory, New Zealand). Subsequently he joined the Ben Scheres laboratory (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) as EMBO fellow where he explored the area of organ positioning and regeneration in plants.