Jitendra Gaikwad

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Academic History

  1. Currently, doing my PhD at Macquarie University in Bioinformatics (Biodiversity informatics).
  2. Attended Advance diploma in bioinformatics course from University of Pune in 2003.
  3. Master of Science in Environmental Botany (Plant Ecology) from Mumbai University in 2002.
  4. Bachelor of Science in Botany from Mumbai University in 2000.

Skills

COMPUTER SKILLS

Platforms: Windows and Linux.
Software: ArcGIS 9.2, DIVA-GIS, GARP, Maxent, MSOffice 2000/2003, and Paint Shop Pro 7.
Database: Oracle, MySQL
Webserver: Apache Tomcat & Apache

RESEARCH SKILLS

  1. Competency in biological data management using relational database management systems.
  2. Taxonomic, ecosystems and indigenous traditional knowledge specific database designing and development.
  3. Networking with institutions and individuals for biodiversity and ethnobotanical information collation.
  4. Ecological modeling using DIVA, GARP and Maxent along with GIS based mapping using Mapserver, ArcGIS 9.
  5. Collation, curation and validation of biodiversity, biogeographical, ethnobotanical and phytochemical data.
  6. Strong ability to understand, integrate and analyse complex and varied biodiversity data.

Publications

  1. Gaikwad J, Wilson K, Kohen J, Vemulpad S, Jamie J, Ranganathan S: Combining Ethnobotany and Informatics to Discover Knowledge from Data. In: Ethnomedicinal Plants: Revitalization of Traditional Knowledge of Herbs. Edited by Rai M, Acharya D, Rios JL. New Hampshire, USA: Science Publishers; In Press.
  2. Gaikwad J, Khanna V, Vemulpad S, Jamie J, Kohen J, Ranganathan S: CMKb: a web-based prototype for integrating Australian Aboriginal customary medicinal plant knowledge. BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9(Suppl 12):S25. [1]
  3. J Gaikwad and V Chavan (2005), Open access and biodiversity conservation: Challenges and potentials for developing world. Data Science journal, Volume 5, 05 June 2006. [2]
  4. Watve, A. V., J. Gaikwad, and Vishwas Chavan (2004), Accessing biological collections data of Indian origin, Current Science, 86(1): 8. [3]

Professional Experience

2006
Project Coordinator in Macquarie University, Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, NSW, Australia.
2003 to 2006
Project Assistant, Information Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India.

Seminars and Posters

  1. e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics held in London, United Kingdom from 1-3 June 2009. Presented a poster in this conference titled “Combating medicinal plant extinction and indigenous culture loss- an Australian model”
  2. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Annual Conference 2008 held in Fremantle (Perth), Australia from 19th-25th October 2008. Presented a talk in this conference titled “CMKB- integrating Australian customary medicinal plant knowledge with the framework of Atlas of Living Australia”
  3. International Conference on Chemoinformatics held in National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India from 22nd to 24th January 2007.
  4. National Workshop on Marine biodiversity data management and digitization of museum specimens, held at National Institute of Oceanography, Goa. India from 15th to 16th January 2007.
  5. GBIF’s International Ecological Niche Modeling workshop held in Bangalore, India from 13th to 17th November 2006.
  6. ComBio 2006 conference held at Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia from 24 to 28 September 2006. Presented a poster at this conference titled “CMKB- an integrated resource for customary medicinal knowledge”.

Links

  1. Atlas of living Australia (ALA) http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/program/hb/index.html
  2. Australian Virtual Herbarium http://www.anbg.gov.au/avh/
  3. Australian Biological Resources Study Fauna Online http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/index.html
  4. Barcode of life database (BOLD) http://www.barcodinglife.org/views/login.php
  5. Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org
  6. Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase http://biolinfo.org/cmkb
  7. DiaMedBase http://www.progenebio.in/DMP/DMP.htm
  8. Encyclopedia of Indian Medicinal Plants http://www.frlht.org.in/meta/
  9. Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) http://www.eol.org/home.html
  10. Global invasive species database (GISD) http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/
  11. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) http://www.gbif.org
  12. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) http://www.itis.gov/
  13. iSpecies http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies/index.php
  14. IndFauna http://www.ncbi.org.in
  15. LifeWatch http://www.lifewatch.eu/index.php?id=411
  16. Natural History Museum (UK) http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/index.html
  17. Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) http://www.iobis.org
  18. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh http://www.rbge.org.uk/rbge/web/index.jsp
  19. Species2000 http://www.sp2000.org/
  20. SpeciesBase http://www.speciesbase.org/
  21. Tree of Life http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
  22. TreeBASE http://www.treebase.org/treebase/index.html
  23. uBio http://www.ubio.org

Contact Details

F7B, R.No 120,
Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences,
Macquarie, University, North Ryde,
Sydney, NSW 2109
Australia
Ph +61 2 9850 8276
Fax +61 2 9850 8313

Email: jgaikwad (@)science.mq.edu.au

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