Govindan Dayanithi, Ph.D
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Affiliation(s):
Molecular Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases Laboratory; University of Montpellier; EPHE; Inserm; UMR-S1198
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Areas of Interest:
Cellular Physiology, Cellular and Molecular Biology-Alzheimer's disease, Cell Calcium, Stem Cell Signaling
Biography & Research:
Govindan Dayanithi, born 1st July 1956, French Citizen, former citizen of India and holding Overseas Citizen of India ID, was educated in India (The University of Madras; 1972-1983) as a Biologist, Zoologist, Parasitologist, Comparative Anatomy & Physiologist and Crustacean Endocrinologist with PhD Degree in Zoology. He was trained by the Ministry of Defence-India at NCC: 10 TNBN-Tamil Nadu and was promoted as "Senior Under Officer in 1976". He came to Europe in 1983 as a French Ministry of Education Post-Doctoral Fellow, followed by a fellow of French Medical Foundation (FRM 1985) and as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany, 1989-1990). In addition, he was appointed as “Chargé de Recherche” at the Faculty of Medicine (Centre de Neurochimie, 1987)-University of Strasbourg and Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Anatomy-University of Oxford (1987-1989) before being permanently employed by the French Ministry of Research (CNRS) as “Chargé de Recherche” (1990) and then as “Directeur de Recherche” (since 1998). In the following years, he was awarded the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship-JSPS (2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014) as well as a visiting scientist to conduct research and teaching activities in several Japanese universities and research institutions (UOEH School of Medicine-Kitakyushu; Jichi Medical School; School of Vet.Medicine-Tottori University). Simultaneously, he has been collaborating with British (Oxford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester, Brimingham) and US research institutions (Worster Foundation, UMASS Medical School, NIH. He has been teaching at the university of Madras and continuing to dedicate to his major commitments to fulfill his Ph.D program (1978-1982); and followed his teaching and research activities in several institutions in the Europe (Oxford, Ulm, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Marseille, Rouen, Strasbourg, Praha, Hradec Kralove, Usti nad Labum, Plzen). He is a multilingual person (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, French, German, Polish, Czech..) who lived personally and scientifically in India, France, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, UK, USA and Japan. He was then appointed as ‘Charge de Mission Europeennes et Internationales’ at the CNRS Delegation office in Montpellier (1998-2002) followed by a long-term scientific mission at the European Commission (Brussels; 2002-2006), and then was authorized to leave on scientific mission (‘mise-a-disposition’) at the Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, an EU Centre of Excellence in Prague (2008-2011). He was then permitted to continue his collaborative research and teaching activities between France and Czech Republic with an appointment as the Head of the Department of Molecular Neurophysiology-AS CR. In consequence, he appertains to the duties and privileges of the Academy of the Sciences of the Czech Republic and was awarded , for the First time the Medal in November 2016 for his Scientific contributions. Further, he is currently serving as an Editorial Board member/associate Editor of the Cell Calcium, International Journal of Cell Biology, The Scientific World Journal, The IIOAB Journal and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology/Stem Cell Research. He is a consistent and constant expert reviewer for many journals and is a multi-disciplinary expert in various EU research programs who has published more than 140 papers in various peer-reviewed journals. He prepared two Special Issues as principal Editor for CELL CALCIUM in 2012 and 2016. He published two Books (one with PhD student, 2012; and other as Co-Editor on "Neurosecretion: Secretory Mechanisms-publisher: Springer Nature in April 2020). Since April 2012, he has been affiliated with INSERM Unit 710 & 1198, University of Montpellier and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes-Sorbonne-Paris and developing a new research line on the ‘Cerebral Aging & Neurodegenerative Diseases’. His major research focuses on i) the physiology of calcium signalling in excitable and non-excitable cells ii) stimulus-secretion-coupling at the level of neurohypophysial system, iii) physiopathology of central and peripheral vasopressin and oxytocin; iii) exocytosis, iv) calcium signalling mechanisms/homeostasis in central and peripheral nervous system tissues and v) signalling mechanisms in human embryonic stem cells of different origin and, vi)) pathophysiology of calcium signalling in stem cells (sk-DMSC & bone marrow) from non-human primate animal model (Microcebus murinus) for aging, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson disease. Recently (1 Dec 2019) he has been appointed as Professor at Research & Development Wing at the "Sri Bajlaji Medical College and Hospital to establish a Research Center of Excellence. Further, since January 2020, he is actively establishing a "Center of Neuroscience" at the SRM University of Science & Technology, Chennai-India.
