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Akshita Jain

Project Officer, Biosecurity Planning

Akshita joins PHA’s Preparedness team in the role of Biosecurity Planning Project Officer. Her PhD research focuses on cyst nematode genomics and diagnostics, contributing to Australian biosecurity. She holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Delhi and a postgraduate degree from La Trobe University, where she researched the red leather leaf of oat. Her PhD involves taxonomic surveying, developing bioinformatic pipeline to sequence, assemble, and annotate cyst nematode genomes, and using them for diagnostic assay development. Akshita has experience as a technical assistant at Agriculture Victoria Research and as a casual academic at La Trobe University. She is passionate about safeguarding Australia’s plant industries through collaboration and innovation in plant health.

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