Dr Rakesh David

Postdoctoral Fellow

School of Agriculture, Food and Wine

Faculty of Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Crop Transport information, Physiology and Signalling database (CropTiPS) http://www.croptips.org: Development of a biological database of proteins involved in membrane transport from four important agronomic crop species: rice, wheat, barley and maize. The project is based in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (CoE PEB) in collaboration with the University of Adelaide Library and the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). The aim of the project is provide a comprehensive knowledgebase of crop transport proteins to the international plant research community through an online portal that will be hosted on the University of Adelaide web server.
Epitranscriptome modifications: Molecular functions of post-transcriptional RNA modifications, specifically 5-methylcytosine (m5C), in regulating gene expression and responses to the environment.
Systemic RNA signalling: Investigate the role of mobile RNA transcripts that are transported between plant tissues in response to stress using grafting techniques in combination with high-throughput RNA sequencing.

Date	Position	Institution name
2016	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2013 - 2015	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2012 - 2013	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	The Australian National University

Postgraduate Training

Date Title Institution Country
— PhD The Australian National University Australia
— Masters of Biotechnology The University of Queensland Australia

Date	Title	Institution	Country
—	PhD	The Australian National University	Australia
—	Masters of Biotechnology	The University of Queensland	Australia

Year	Citation
2018	Wang, D., Gu, J., David, R., Wang, Z., Yang, S., Searle, I., . . . Timmis, J. (2018). Experimental reconstruction of double-stranded break repair-mediated plastid DNA insertion into the tobacco nucleus. The Plant Journal, 93(2), 227-234. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2017	David, R., Burgess, A., Parker, B., Li, J., Pulsford, K., Sibbritt, T., . . . Searle, I. (2017). Transcriptome-wide Mapping of RNA 5-Methylcytosine in Arabidopsis mRNAs and non-coding RNAs. The Plant cell, 29(3), 16.00751-1-16.0075-30. DOI Scopus14 WoS14 Europe PMC6
2016	Burgess, A., David, R., & Searle, I. (2016). Deciphering the epitranscriptome: a green perspective. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 58(10), 822-835. DOI Scopus8 WoS9 Europe PMC2
2015	Burgess, A., David, R., & Searle, I. (2015). Conservation of tRNA and rRNA 5-methylcytosine in the kingdom Plantae. BMC Plant Biology, 15(1), 199-1-199-17. DOI Scopus23 WoS23 Europe PMC15
2007	Keys, J. R., Tallack, M. R., Hodge, D. J., Cridland, S. O., David, R., & Perkins, A. C. (2007). Genornic organisation and regulation of murine alpha haemoglobin stabilising protein by erythroid Kruppel-like factor. BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY, 136(1), 150-157. DOI WoS23 Europe PMC17

Year	Citation
2018	Li, J., Wu, X., Do, T., Nguyen, V., Zhao, J., QinNg, P., . . . Searle, I. R. (2018). Quantitative and single nucleotide resolution profiling of RNA 5-methylcytosine.. In R. Gupta, & N. Wajapeyee (Eds.), Epitranscriptomics: Methods and Protocols.

Year	Citation
2017	Burgess, A., David, R., Sibbritt, T., Jones, A., Preiss, T., Searle, I. R., & David, R. (2017). RNA 5-methylcytosine is required for oxidative stress tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Poster session presented at the meeting of COMBIO.
2015	David, R., Lim, H. M., & Searle, I. R. (2015). Identification of pla/ubp14, an Arabidopsis mutant that displays lengthened plastochron and larger organs. Poster session presented at the meeting of Annual Genetics Society of Australasia conference.
—	David, R. (n.d.). CropTiPS database information poster presented at ComBio2017 (Adelaide). Poster session presented at the meeting of Unknown Conference. DOI

Year	Citation
—	Sai, N., Rodriguez Lopez, C. M., Bogias, K., Pederson, S., Burgess, A., Breen, J., . . . David, R. (n.d.). Bioinformatic pipeline to detect di-cistronic RNA transcripts from RNA-sequencing data [Computer Software].
—	David, R., Hooper, C. M., Castleden, I. R., Gilliham, M., & Tyerman, S. (n.d.). CropTiPS database (Crop Transport information, Physiology and Signalling) - www.croptips.org [Computer Software].

Design and implementation of practical component for GENETICS3211 – Plant Transgene Expression and RNA Modifications (Undergraduate, Year 3, University of Adelaide, 2015)
Practical demonstrating experience: BOTN3006 - Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Undergraduate, Year 3 – University of Queensland, 2004), BIOT7011 - DNA and Protein Technology (Postgraduate, University of Queensland, 2005), BIOC7009 – Emerging Biotechnologies II (Postgraduate, University of Queensland, 2005)

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2018	Co-Supervisor	Decoding The Unique Terroir of Australian Wines Using Multi-Omics Approach	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Pastor Jullian Fabres

Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
2015 - 2018	Co-Supervisor	Identification and Functional Characterization of Long Noncoding RNAs Involved in Endosperm Development of Arabidopsis thaliana	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Quang Trung Do
2014 - 2016	Co-Supervisor	Conservation and Function of RNA 5-methylcytosine in Plants	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Alice Louise Burgess

Memberships

Date Role Membership Country
2015 - ongoing Member Epigenetics Consortium of South Australia Australia
2010 - ongoing Member Australian Society of Plant Scientists Australia

Date	Role	Membership	Country
2015 - ongoing	Member	Epigenetics Consortium of South Australia	Australia
2010 - ongoing	Member	Australian Society of Plant Scientists	Australia