Dr. Nivedita Mishra

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Nivedita Mishra, is associated with Department of Biotechnology, JIIT as visiting faculty from April 2023 to Dec 2023 and as Assistant Professor, from Jan 2024. She did her Masters in Botany from University of Allahabad and PhD from JIIT, Noida in the area of Biotechnology.  In addition, she accumulated over six years of administrative expertise while serving as an Administrative Officer at the National Cadet Corps, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, where she achieved notable milestones. She also held the role of Project Officer at DU.

In previous roles, she served as JRF-CSIR at the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, and as JRF-DBT at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Additionally, she worked as a Scientific Writer for the Current Science news article series 'Science Last Fortnight' and as Teaching Faculty for Botany at Rao’s IAS Academy."

Her research interests involve study of role of microbes and related mechanisms in various fields including environment, agriculture and medical. During her Doctorate, she worked upon developing microbial consortia for providing holistic plant growth support and developed formulations having long shelf life. Expanding her interest in role of microbes in diverse fields, she worked as scientist at National Institute for Cancer Preventation and Research (NICPR-ICMR), NOIDA. There as PI of DHR-Project, she worked to explore the role and impact of microbes in reducing the toxicity of Smokeless Tobacco Products.

She has many publications in peer reviewed national and international journals and Book Chapters with reputed publishers to her credit. She has many diploma in various courses including Diploma in French from University of Allahabad and diploma in Ecology and Environment, IIEE, New Delhi. She also has many publications/presentations to her credit in national /international conference proceedings and attended various workshops/programmes time to time to improve her knowledge and skill sets.

PUBLICATIONS

• Shaheen S, Mishra N and Sundari S K (2022), “Assessment of Pseudomonas spp. for growth promotion, Biocontrol and Stress Tolerance applicability towards organic and inorganic pollutants” Eco Env & Cons, vol. 28 (May Suppl Issue), pp. S316-S329. ISSN 0971-765X
• Mishra N and Sundari S K (2017), “A ‘Six-Step-Strategy’ to evaluate competence of plant growth promoting microbial consortia” Current Science, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 63-70. doi: 10.18520/cs/v113/i01/63-70
• Mishra N, Khan S S and Sundari S K* (2016), “Native isolate Trichoderma harzianum – a biocontrol agent with unique abiotic stress tolerance properties” World J Microbiol Biotechnol, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 130.  doi: 10.1007/s11274-016-2086-4
• Mishra N and Sundari S K* (2016), “Designing low cost SSF strategy for mass production of bioinoculant Trichoderma harzianum KSNM with longer shelf life” Asian J Microbiol Biotechnol Environ Sci, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 447-458.
• Mishra N and Sundari S K* (2015), “Native PGPM consortium: A beneficial solution to support plant growth in the presence of phytopathogens and residual organophosphate pesticides”. J Bioprocess Biotech, vol. 5, pp. 202. doi:10.4172/2155-9821.1000202
• Mishra N and Sundari S K* (2013), “Native PGPMs as bioinoculants to promote plant growth: Response to PGPM inoculation in principal grain and pulse crops”.  Intl J Agric Food Sci Technol, vol. 4, no. 10, pp. 1055-1064. ISSN: 2249-3050
• Kumar M, Mishra N and Upreti R K* (2003), “A novel membrane glycoprotein of Escherichia coli.” J Basic Microbiol, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 28-35. doi: 10.1002/jobm.200390001

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Kumar RS, Mishra N and Kumar A (2022),”Characterization of Tobacco Microbiome by Metagenomics Approach”. In: Deep G. (eds) Cancer Biomarkers. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2413. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1896-7_22
• Sundari S K and Mishra N (2013), “Contribution of plant growth promoting microorganisms for sustainable agricultural and forestry management practice”. In M. Miransari, ed. Soil Microbiology and Biotechnology, Chapter 12. Houston, Texas: Studium Press LLC, ISBN: 1-626990-14-X

Gen bank SUBMISSION:

• GenBank accession no.: KP122935.1
• Title: Trichoderma harzianum strain KSNM T103 internal transcribed spacer 1, partial sequence; 5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence; and internal transcribed spacer 2, partial sequence
• Type: Direct submission

PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES:

• Mishra N, Sundari S K, “Native PGPMs as bioinoculants to promote plant growth: Response to PGPM inoculation in principal grain and pulse crops” Inter Conf on Chemical, Environ Bioprocess Engineering, India, Dec 21-23, 2013.
• Mishra N, Shaheen S, Sundari S K, “Plant growth promoting properties of bacteria isolated from agricultural fields of northern India” Proc National Conf on Energy, Environ Biotechnol Res, India, pp. 315, Oct, 2013.
• Mishra N, Sundari S K, “Study of a new solid substrate combination for mass production of consortia for plant growth promoting microbes” Proc National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Biotechnol Res, India, pp. 199, Oct 28, 2012.
• Mishra N and Upreti R K, “Studies of rat gut microflora under chromium stressed condition” in 27th Annual Conference of Environmental Mutagen Society,  Lucknow, India, 2002.
• Mishra N and Upreti R K, “In vitro reduction of hexavalent chromium by rat cells” in 70th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists, Hyderabad, India, 2001.

WORKSHOPS/ SEMINARS ORGANIZED:    

• Four-day workshop on “Basic Molecular Biology Techniques Relevant to Cancer Research”, Funded by Department of Health Research (DHR), Nov/Dec- 2022.      
• Seminar on Women’s day and Hybrid capture machine for cervical cancer screening, Funded by NICPR, NOIDA, March 2022.

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:

• Inter Conf on Chemical, Environ Bioprocess Engineering, India, Dec 2013.
• National Conf on Energy, Environ Biotechnol Res, India, Oct, 2013.
• National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Biotechnol Res, India, Oct 2012.
• 27th Annual Conference of Environmental Mutagen Society, Lucknow, India, March 2002.
• 70th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists, Hyderabad, India, Dec 2001.
• Workshop on Basic Molecular Biology Techniques Relevant to Cancer Research, NCDIR, Bengaluru, Sep 2019.
• An update on Research Ethics and Good Clinical Practice, NICPR, NOIDA and NCDIR, Bengaluru, Sep 2019.
• World Cancer Research Day workshop on "Different perspective, One Goal", NICPR, NOIDA Sep, 2019.
• The TNQ Distinguished Lecture by Nobel Laureate Dr Venki Ramakrishnan "My Adventures in the Ribosome", AIIMS, New Delhi, Jan 2020.
• Workshop on Basic Molecular Biology Techniques relevent to Cancar Research organized by DHR, Jan 2020.
• Workshop on Taming the unknown: pragmatic multi-omics approaches in cancer epidemiology, Feb 2020.
• Online Workshop on Elementary Bioinformatics, IMS, Ghaziabad, Jun/Jul 2020.
• International webinar on Genomic Data Analysis and Tools, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Jun, 2020.
• Virtual classroom training on Fundamentals of HPLC, IMS, Ghaziabad, June, 2021.
• Workshop on “Computational Structure based Screening and Explicit Molecular Dynamics” by Schrodinger Inc. at NICPR, NOIDA, March, 2021.