Dr. Neha Rai
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Geneva, Sciences III
30 Quai E. Ansermet
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-22-379-3653
Email: neha.rai@unige.ch
Born in 1989 in Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality: Indian
2020 -
Postdoc, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva
2014 - 2020
PhD, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland. Thesis: "Perception of solar UV radiation and blue light by plants: photoreceptors, transcriptome and environmental acclimation" (Supervisor: Dr. Pedro J. Aphalo)
2013 - 2014
International Training Course fellowship project (Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary). Project title: "The role of light harvesting complex in the macro-assembly and regulatory functions of photosystem II enriched membranes" (Supervisor: Dr. László Kovács)
2013
MSc in Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. MSc project title: "Retardation of salt-induced changes in photosynthetic apparatus from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rajagopal Subramanyam)
2011
BSc in Botany Honours, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, India
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Rai, N., Neugart, S., Schröter, D., Lindfors, A.V., and Aphalo, P.J. (2023) Responses of flavonoids to solar UV radiation and gradual soil drying in two Medicago truncatula accessions. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., doi.org/10.1007/s43630-023-00404-6.
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Rai, N., Morales, L.O., and Aphalo, P.J. (2021) Perception of solar UV radiation by plants: photoreceptors and mechanisms. Plant Physiol. 186: 1382-1396.
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Rai, N., O'Hara, A., Farkas, D., Safronov, O., Ratanasopa, K., Wang, F., Lindfors, A.V., Jenkins, G.I., Lehto, T., Salojärvi, J., Brosché, M., Strid, Å., Aphalo, P.J., and Morales, L.O. (2020) The photoreceptor UVR8 mediates the perception of both UV-B and UV-A wavelengths up to 350 nm of sunlight with responsivity moderated by cryptochromes. Plant Cell Environ. 43: 1513-1527.
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Rai, N., Neugart, S., Yan, Y., Wang, F., Siipola, S.M., Lindfors, A.V., Winkler, J.B., Albert, A., Brosché, M., Lehto, T., Morales, L.O., and Aphalo, P.J. (2019) How do cryptochromes and UVR8 interact in natural and simulated sunlight?. J. Exp. Bot. 70: 4975-4990.
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Robson, T.M., Aphalo, P.J., Banaś, A.K., Barnes, P.W., Brelsford, C.C., Jenkins, G.I., Kotilainen, T.K., Łabuz, J., Martínez-Abaigar, J., Morales, L.O., Neugart, S., Pieristè, M., Rai, N., Vandenbussche, F., and Jansen, M.A.K. (2019) A perspective on ecologically relevant plant-UV research and its practical application. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 18: 970-988.
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Tóth, T.N., Rai, N., Solymosi, K., Zsiros, O., Schröder, W.P., Garab, G., van Amerongen, H., Horton, P., and Kovács, L. (2016) Fingerprinting the macro-organisation of pigment-protein complexes in plant thylakoid membranes in vivo by circular-dichroism spectroscopy. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1857: 1479-1489.
