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Curriculum Vitae

Hemant Jagatrao Patil

PBC Post-doctoral fellow

Agricultural Research Organization

Volcani Center, Israel

Mob. No. +91 9423934907 (India)

+972 58 421 3471 (Israel)

E-mail : [email protected]

Academic qualification:

Level University/

Institute

Year of

Passing Advisor/Mentor

Division/

status Title/study

B.Sc.

(Microbiology) NMU, India 2004 NA First (68%) NA

M.Sc.

(Microbiology) NMU, India 2006

Prof. S. B.

Chincholkar First (63%)

Studies on IAA and Phosphate

Solubilization by Siderophorogenic

Plant Growth Promoters

Ph.D.

(Microbiology)

NMU and

NBAIM,

India

2012 Dr. Bhushan L.

Chaudhari Awarded

Exploring Antagonistic

Actinomycetes Against Rhizoctonia

solani

Post-doctoral

Research

(Microbiology)

ARO, Israel 2015-

2017

Dr. Eddie Cytryn

and

Dr. Dror Minz

Ongoing

Studies on Impact of Antibiotic Use

in Aquaculture, on Antibiotic

Resistance and Microbial

Community Dynamics

NMU: North Maharashtra University; NBAIM: National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms; ARO:

Agricultural Research Organization

Research/ Teaching experience:

Jan 2015 to present

Postdoctoral research fellow, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel: “Determining

impact of antibiotics used in aquaculture on antibiotic resistance development in the bacterial community

and its spread to other bacteria in the fish pond through mobile genetic elements”.

Jul 2012 to Nov 2014 (29 Months)

Assistant Professor (Microbiology) and then Head Academic Affairs, Rai University, Ahmedabad,

Gujrat, India, which brought experience of teaching microbiology and related subjects as well as being

head, lead the group of around 80 faculty members.

Feb 2012 to Jun 2012 (05 Months)


Research Associate, Sardar Patel Renewable Energy Research Institute, Anand, Gujrat, India: “Developing

an Integrated Process Technology for Conversion of Crop Residues into Ethanol and Methane for use as

Transport Fuels”.

Aug 2006- Aug 2010 (4 Yrs)

Senior Research Fellow (during doctoral studies), ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) funded

Research project “Application of Microorganisms in Agricultural and Allied Sectors (AMAAS)”

– Biocontrol management and plant growth enhancement using rhizospheric actinomycetes in tomato crop,

at National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM), Mau, UP, India.

Research Methods and Scientific techniques (proficient in)

Microbial Isolation and Characterization

Bioinformatics including BLAST (command line), QIIME, MOTHUR, MEGAN and MEGA platforms

Compound and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

RT-PCR

Plasmid Extraction and Cloning

HPLC and LCMSMS

Honor/Awards

PBC Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel

(2015-17)

ICAR-Senior Research Fellowship (project) at National Bureau of Agriculturally Important

Microorganisms, India (2006-2010)

National Training

“Molecular and Serological Detection of Plant Viruses” at NBAIM (Mar 2008)

“Microbial Chemical Taxonomy and Polyphasic Approaches” at (Sep 2008)

“Molecular Approaches for Identification and Characterization of Actinomycetes” at NBAIM (Dec

2009)

Membership of Professional Societies

Life member of Biotechnological Research Society of India (BRSI)

Life member of “Society of Agriculturally Important Microbial Genetic Resources (SAIMGR)”, India

Annual member of “American Society of Microbiology (ASM)” 2010, ID: 56486418, Div. ‘J’

Annual member of “Israel Society of Microbiology (ISM)” for the year 2016-2017


List of Publications

Research articles:

1. Patil, H.J., Benet, A., Naor, A., Smirnov, M., Ofek, T., Nasser, A., Minz, D. And Cytryn, E., 2016.

Evidence of increased antibiotic resistance in phylogenetically-diverse Aeromonas isolates from semi-

intensive fish ponds treated with antibiotics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:1875 (DOI:

10.3389/fmicb.2016. 01875)

2. Patil, H.J., Srivastava, A.K., Singh, D.P., Chaudhari, B.L., Arora, D.K., 2011. Actinomycetes mediated

biochemical responses in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) enhances bioprotection against Rhizoctonia

solani. Crop protection. 30: 1269-1273

3. Ahire, J.J., Mokashe, N.U., Patil, H.J., Chaudhari, B.L., 2011. Antioxidative potential of folate

producing probiotic Lactobacillus helveticus CD6. J. Food Sci. Technol. 50:26–34

4. Patil, H.J., Srivastava, A.K., Kumar, S., Chaudhari, B.L., Arora, D.K., 2010. Selective isolation,

evaluation and characterization of antagonistic actinomycetes against Rhizoctonia solani. World J.

Microbiol. Biotechnol. 26: 2163-2170

5. Patil, H.J., Marman, S., Ashhab, A., Sela, N., Sher, D., Green, S., Minz, D. And Cytryn, E.

(Communicated) Temporal Shifts in Microbial Community Dynamics in Prophylactically Fed Intensive

Freshwater Aquaculture System. (Journal name will be disclosed after confirmed acceptance; IF: ~5)

6. Two articles are in the pipeline (one each as first and contributory author)

Book chapters:

1. Patil H.J., and Solanki M.K. (2016) Microbial inoculant: modern era of fertilizers and pesticides. In

“Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity”. Springer India. ISBN 978-81-322-

2645-1, p. 319–43.

2. Patil, H.J., and Solanki, M.K. (2016). Molecular Prospecting: Advancement in Diagnosis and Control

of Rhizoctonia solani Diseases in Plants. In “Current Trends in Plant Disease Diagnostics and

Management Practices”. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-27310-5 (Vol. 1) p. 165-

85.

3. Singh, D.P., Patil, H.J., Prabha, R. and Yandigeri, M.S. (2016). Actinomycetes as potential plant

growth promoting microbial communities. In “Crop Improvement through Microbial Biotechnology”.

Elsevier, USA. (In press).

4. Patil, H.J. and Chaudhari, B.L. (2012). Agricultural Implications of Actinomycetes. In “Environment

and Biotechnology”. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. ISBN 978-3-659-15457-7, p. 60-88.

Symposia/abstract:

1. Patil H.J. and Cytryn E. “Antibiotic resistance across phylogenetically-diverse Aeromonas isolates

from an extensive aquaculture ecosystem”. Paper presented in annual meeting of Israel Society of

Microbiology held at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2016).

2. Patil H.J. and Cytryn E. “Antibiotic resistance dynamics in freshwater aquaculture microbiomes”.

Paper presented in “International Conference of Microbial Eco-genomics in Agriculture: BARD

workshop” held at Israel (2015).


3. Patil H.J., Srivastava, A.K., Singh, D.P., Chaudhari, B.L. “Determining biochemical changes following

antagonistic Streptomyces treatments in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and detection of biosynthetic

gene sequences”. Paper presented in National Conference on Biotechnology for All (NCBFA) held at

NMU, India (2010).

Research work Summary

Post doctoral research:

Presently I am conducting postdoctoral research at the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research

Organization (Israel). My research aims to determine the impact of antibiotic use in aquaculture, on

antibiotic resistance and microbial community composition in the freshwater aquaculture systems, and

assess dissemination of antibiotic resistance through mobile genetic elements such as plasmids and

integrons. I developed an empirical approach to determine qualitative as well as quantitative estimation

antibiotic concentrations in the water column using LC-MS/MS, and applied assays for qualitative and

quantitative estimation of antibiotic resistance genes using RT-qPCR.

Currently, I am working on determining the microbiomes and metagenomes of aquaculture samples

using advanced NGS-tools coupled to bioinformatic analyses using QIIME, mothur and MEGAN

pipelines. Furthermore, I am assessing the mobilome of Aeromonas isolates to ascertain the potential of

antibiotic resistance plasmids to transfer to related and unrelated bacteria.. To date, the results of this

study demonstrate the direct correlation between antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in bacteria

(Patil et al., 2016).

Doctoral research:

During my doctoral research at the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms, India,

I developed the multi-potential microbial consortia having biocontrol, PGP as well as plant defense

inducing attributes against Rhizoctonia solani. I have performed the field assays in greenhouse

conditions with promising strains and confirmed their role in disease suppression, plant growth

promotion as well as plant defense induction in the tomato crop.

In this study, I have isolated actinomycetes strains from the rhizospheric soil of highly fertile Indo-

Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India using bating bag technique, where dead fungal mycelia was used as bait

(Patil et al., 2010). The plant defense induction potential of actinomycetes strains was observed

synergistically beneficial to reduce disease symptoms in tomato crop (Patil, et al., 2011), which assures

a promising alternate for commercially available plant disease control agent.

Post graduate research:

In my master’s dissertation at North Maharashtra University (India), I worked with siderophorogenic

bacteria isolated from rhizospheric soil, in view of screening for other plant growth enhancing

attributes. For this, I considered phosphate solubilization and indoleacetic acid (IAA) producing

potential, which can synergistically enhance plant growth along with siderophorogenic potential.

Further, potential isolates were explored at pot experiment under hydroponic conditions. This study has

resulted potential bacterial strains having multiple plant growth promoting potential, determined at

hydroponic pot experiment and can be tested further at field level.


Referees:

Dr. Eddie Cytryn (Post-doc mentor)

Scientist, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Ministry of Agriculture

Israel

Phone No. : +972-(0)3-968-3767

Fax. No. : +972-(0)3-960-4017

E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Anil Kumar Saxena

Director, National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (ICAR)

Mau – 275 101 (U.P.), India

Phone No. : +91-547-2530388

Fax. No. : +91-547-2530358


Dr. Dhananjay Pratap Singh

Senior Scientist (NAAS associate)

National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (ICAR)

Mau – 275 101 (U.P.), India

Phone No. : +91-547-2530388

Fax. No. : +91-547-2530358


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