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Dr. Dixit Jyotsana P.

M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Faculty name: Dr. Dixit Jyotsana P.

Designation: Assistant Professor

Qualification: M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

No. of years’ experience: 10 years (academic & research)

Academic qualification: M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Responsibilities/ College committees: Teaching and Research

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ORCID: 0000-0001-9498-3682
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zXCeJEcAAAAJ&hl=en
SCOPUS: 59076253900

Institutional email- id: not yet applied/received

  1. Qualified Maharashtra State Eligibility Test (SET) for lectureship
  2. Qualified GATE- 2010 with 90.2 Percentile
  3. Recipient of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - SRF Fellowship
  4. Recipient of ISRO- JRF and ISRO-SRF Fellowship
  5. Recipient of International travel grant (USA) by DST-SERB
  6. Recipient of International travel grant (Russia) by BCUD, S P Pune University
  7. Associate Member of Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) since 2012
  8. Life member of Indian Women Scientist Association (IWSA) since 2023

Ph.D. Topic Research Area No. of research project handled
Effect of altered gravity on growth physiology and photosynthesis in plant and bacteria Microbiology, Gravitational Biology, Biophysics, Stress physiology Ongoing (major) -1

INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS (Peer-reviewed)

  1. Sagar Jagtap, Ajay Kumar, Bhoopesh Mahale, Jyotsana Dixit, Ashok Kalange, Rajesh Kanawade, Shashikala Gangal & Pandit Vidyasagar. Response of Cardiac Pulse Parameters in Humans at Various Inclinations via 360º rotating platform for simulated microgravity perspective, npj microgravity, 2023, Jul 18;9(1): 54
  2. Jyotsana Dixit, Sagar S. Jagtap, Shailendra M. Kamble, Pandit Vidyasagar. B. Shortterm hypergravity induced changes in growth, photosynthesis parameters and assessment of threshold values in wheat. Gravitational and Space Research, 2022, 10 (1): 10-17
  3. Jyotsana Dixit, Sagar Jagtap, Shailendra M. Kamble, Pandit. B. Vidyasagar. Effects of Short- term Hypergravity Exposure are Reversible in Triticum aestivum L. caryopses. Microgravity Science and Technology, 2017, 29: 343 350
  4. Rebecca Thombre, Vinaya Shinde, Jyotsana Dixit, Sagar Jagtap, Pandit. B Vidyasagar. Response of extreme haloarchaeon Haloarcula argentinensis RR10 to simulated microgravity in clinorotation. 3 Biotech , 2017, 7:30
  5. P.B Vidyasagar, S.S. Jagtap, Jyotsana Dixit, S.M Kamble & Aarti Dhepe. Effect of short-interval high “g” exposure on seed germination, growth and photosynthesis in wheat. Microgravity- Science and Technology. 2014, 26(6): 375-384
  6. Santosh Bhaskaran, Rohan Dudhale, Jyotsana Dixit, Ajit Sahasrabuddhe and Pandit B. Vidyasagar. Growth of bioluminescent bacteria under modelled gravity of different astronomical bodies in the Solar system. 2011 - arxiv.org (Achieved)

NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Jagtap S. S, Kamble S. M, Dixit J, Vidyasagar P. B. Comparative Studies on Effects of Simulated Microgravity on Growth and Photosynthetic Parameters in Rice and Mungbean. Curr Agri Res 2024; 12(1). doi : http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CARJ.12.

BOOK CHAPTERS- INTERNATIONAL

  1. R.S. Thombre, K. Kaur, S.S. Jagtap, J. Dixit, P.V. Vaishampayan. Microbial life in space.Editor(s): Rebecca Thombre, Parag Vaishampayan, New Frontiers in Astrobiology, Elsevier, 2022, Pages 135-166, ISBN 9780128241622, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0- 12-824162-2.00013-0.
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