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Aishwarya Santosh Deshpande
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Aishwarya Santosh Deshpande is a postdoctoral research associate in the Biogeochemical Transformations Integrated Research Platform at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL).

At EMSL, her research is focused on sequencing platforms for protein analysis, microbial community phenotyping using synthetic soil aggregates, and experimental approaches for studying microbial evolution.

Research Interests

  • Environmental microbiology 
  • Antibiotic resistance 
  • Nextgeneration sequencing 
  • Bioinformatics 

Education

  • PhD in microbial biology, Rutgers University 2023 
  • BTech in Biotechnology, VIT University 2018 

Publications

2023 

  • Deshpande, A.S. and Fahrenfeld, N.L., 2023. Influence of DNA From Non-viable Sources on the Riverine Water and Biofilm Microbiome, Resistome, Mobilome, and Resistance Gene Host Assignments. Journal of Hazardous Materials, p.130743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130743  

2022 

  • Dillon, K.P., Krumins, V., Deshpande, A., Kerkhof, L.J., Mainelis, G. and Fennell, D.E., 2022. Characterization and DNA Stable-Isotope Probing of Methanotrophic Bioaerosols. Microbiology Spectrum, 10(6), pp.e03421-22. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.03421-22  
  • Fahrenfeld, N.L., Morales Medina, W.R., D’Elia, S., Deshpande, A.S. and Ehasz, G., Year‐long wastewater monitoring for SARS‐CoV‐2 signals in combined and separate sanitary sewers. Water Environment Research, p.e10768. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.10768  
  • Deshpande, A.S. and Fahrenfeld, N.L., 2022. Abundance, diversity, and host assignment of total, intracellular, and extracellular antibiotic resistance genes in riverbed sediments. Water Research, p.118363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118363  

2018 

  • Deshpande, A.S., Kumari, R. and Prem Rajan, A., 2018. A delve into the exploration of potential bacterial extremophiles used for metal recovery. Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management, 4(3), pp.373-386. https://doi.org/10.22034/GJESM.2018.03.010