Postdoc
Laboratoire Ampère
Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Université de Lyon
36 avenue Guy de Collongue
69134 Ecully cedex
France
rakshita.govind@ec-lyon.fr
Research Interests
My area of research is to determine the prevalence of pathogenic viruses and bacteria in waste and surface water and their risk assessment, specifically,
- Identification and monitoring of the occurrence and fate of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (ARB) and Antibiotic Resistant Gene (ARG) in aquatic environments.
- Identification of ARG in plasmids and determination of the dissemination potential of ARG by conjugation.
- Evaluation of the prevalence of key ARG in non-bacterial fractions from the water environment -extracellular DNA and bacteriophages- and assessment of potential for Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) by transformation and transduction.
- Determination of the impact of climate and extreme weather events on the occurrence and dissemination of antibiotic resistance
In addition, I am interested in plant pathology also. During my PhD I worked on protection of wheat and rice plant from their pathogen using synthetic analogs of peptaibols, produced by Trichoderma longibrachiatum, and their morphological and transcriptomic effect on rice blast pathogen.
Curriculum Vitae
2022-Present: Postdoctoral Research, Ecole Centrale de Lyon
Education
PhD (2021) in Crop Science from University of Padova, Italy
M.Sc. (2016) in Biotechnology from Birla Institute of Technology, India
B.Sc. (2014) in Microbiology from Patna Women’s College, India
Publications
Sella L, Govind R, Caracciolo R, Quarantin A, Vu VV, Tundo S, Nguyen HM, Favaron F, Musetti R, De Zotti M. Transcriptomic and Ultrastructural Analyses of Pyricularia Oryzae Treated With Fungicidal Peptaibol Analogs of Trichoderma Trichogin. Front Microbiol. 2021 Oct 14;12:753202. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.753202. PMID: 34721357; PMCID: PMC8551967.
Rakshita Govind, Santosh Kumar Jha and Hare Ram Singh. (2016); Isolation of oleaginous endophytes from natural sources. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Jun). 1678-1682] (ISSN 2320-5407).
Govind R, Shubham S, Philip J (2014): Isolation, biochemical characterization and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates from heritage sites.
Conference Presentations
A. Quarantin, S. Tundo, R. Govind, T.-T. Nguyen, C. Castiglioni, F. Favaron, M. H. Nguyen, L. Sella (2019). Deletion of genes encoding relevant Pyricularia oryzae polysaccharide degrading enzymes by CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and characterization of mutants to identify new virulence factors. XXV National Congress Italian Phytopathological Society (SIPaV). Milano (Italy), 16-18 September 2019. (Poster)
Sella L., Quarantin A., Castiglioni C., Bolzonello A., De Zotti M., Favaron F., Picco A.M., Govind R., Tundo S., Odorizzi S., Le T.D., Vu V.V., Nguyen M.H. (2018). Looking for novel control measures against the rice fungal pathogen Pyricularia oryzae. XXIV National Meeting of the Italian Society for Plant Pathology (SIPAV). Ancona, 5-7 settembre 2018. (Poster)
De Zotti M., Sella L., Quarantin A., Castiglioni C., Bolzonello A., Favaron F., Picco A.M., Govind R., Tundo S., Odorizzi S., Le T.D., Vu V.V., Nguyen M.H. (2018). Novel peptide-based control measures against the rice fungal pathogen Pyricularia oryzae. Meeting Abstract: P178. Journal of Peptide Science, 24: S144. (Poster)
De Zotti M., Sella L., Quarantin A., Castiglioni C., Bolzonello A., Favaron F., Picco A.M., Govind R., Tundo S., Odorizzi S., Le T.D., Vu V.V., Nguyen M.H. (2018). Novel peptide-based control measures against the rice fungal pathogen Pyricularia oryzae. Proceedings of the 35th European Peptide Symposium, 26-31 august 2018, Dublin (Irland). DOI: 10.17952/35EPS.2018.248. (Poster)