JINESH D PATEL

Meticulous and analytical Researcher with [Number] years of educational and hands-on experience in [Area of expertise]. Adaptive team player with in-depth knowledge of data collection, confidential document control and problem-solving.

• Field and Greenhouse experience
• Experience with designing and management of field and green house experiment for cotton, soybean, peanut, and finger millet
• Screening different weed population for herbicide resistance
• Assisted in planting, breeding, agronomical practices, data collection and post-harvest data collection in bi-parental populations and diversity panel of different agronomical crops
• Developing Back Cross, reciprocal NILs (Near Isogenic Lines) and NAM (Nested Association Mapping) population in soybean, cotton, and peanut
• Selection of germplasm for research purpose and developing hybrids and inbreds using different breeding techniques to reach the end product (molecular and traditional)
• Wet Lab Experience
• DNA and RNA extraction
• Designing markers and primers for PCR
• Population screening using SSR and SNP markers
• PCR, multiplex PCR, and qPCR
• Preparing samples for sanger sequencing
• Preparing library for Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS), AMPseq, RNAseq, methyl-seq, and genome sequencing
• Handling MiSeq sequencing system
• Probe designing and BAC (Bacterial Artificial Chromosome) screening
• BAC sequencing and assembling
• DNA sequencing, alignment, and comparison
• Designing functional assay using E
• Coli
• Designing and executing VIGS (Virus Induce Gene Silencing) experiment
• Using microscopy techniques for anatomical and cytogenetic studies
• Computational and Bioinformatics Skills
• Data analysis using SAS, JMP pro and R
• Analyzing GBS data using TASSEL 5.0
• RNAseq data analysis and Genome assembly
• Use of Mapping and QTL identification software like OneMap, Mapmaker, R/qtl and QTL cartographer

• AWARDS & CERTIFICATES , Awarded partial Travel Grants from Graduate School, UGA, Athens, 2017. Awarded partial Travel Grants from Department of Crop and Soil science, UGA, Athens, 2012. Awarded Graduate Research Assistant (2009-2017). Awarded to attend NSF workshop “Mathematical Biology and Numerical Analysis.” (2009) Certificate in Global Leadership
• to AAES PAR grant program (not funded) Determining the relationship between seed test weight and environmentally affected physiological parameters (2020). Requested amount: $131,535.00 to Southern Soybean Research Program (not funded) Leveraging advanced genomic technologies for rapid identification of weedy plant threats (2020). Requested amount: $499,994.00 to USDA - NIFA-National Institute of Food & Agriculture (not funded) Environmental Management and Ecological Research for Greenspace Enhancement (EMERGE): A Turfgrass Weed Science Project (2023). Requested amount for Auburn University: $781,712.00 to USDA NIFA SCRI (not funded) Contributed by providing figures, tables, paragraphs, and constructive reviews Deploying desirable fiber quality mutants in the gene pool of Upland cotton (2018). Submitted to USDA - NIFA-National Institute of Food & Agriculture. (Awarded) Grant # 2018-67013-27617. SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Teaching Experience Guest lecturer for course CSES7160 (Genetic Data Analysis); Instructor
• Dr. Charle Chen Year: 2020 Topic: A tutorial on conducting genome‐wide association studies Lecture length: one lecture of two hours. Guest lecturer for course CSES7160 (Genetic Data Analysis); Instructor: Dr. Charle Chen
• 2022 Topic: A tutorial on conducting genome‐wide association studies Lecture length: one lecture of two hours. Guest lecture for course HORT7070 (Plant Biotechnology); Instructor: Dr. Sushan Ru
• :2023 Topic: LAB tour and make students aware about latest molecular equipment used in agro-genomics lab at CASIC in Auburn, AL Lecture length: one lecture of 50 mintues. Guest lecture for course CSES8180 (Weed Biology and Ecology); Instructor: Dr. Aniruddha Maity Year:2024 Topic: Molecular detection of herbicide resistance with practical training. Lecture length: three lectures of 50 minutes. Served in graduate committee for two Master student in Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences at Auburn University. USDA Grant review role Served as a chair for USDA-ARS (Agricultural Research Service) grant reviewing panel (2022) Served in committee to review five USDA-ARS (Agricultural Research Service) projects related Plant Genetic Resources Genomics & Genetic Improvement (2018) Serving in Editorial role Frontiers in Genetics (Guest Editor) Plants MDPI (Guest Editor) Frontiers in Plant Science (Reviewer Editor) List of journals from which research papers were reviewed BMC plant biology Theoretical and Applied Genetics Euphytica Agronomy Journal Journal of Agricultural Studies Advances in Agriculture, Horticulture and Entomology The Crop Journal Weed Science Functional & Integrative Genomics Frontiers in Plant Science Plants (MDPI) Agronomy (MDPI) International Journal of Molecular Sciences (MDPI) Seed (MDPI) Number of reviews completed: more than 40 (including second round of review for major revision paper)