enroll Disha Tandon into OTN member registry; related to #274

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+layout: member
+id: disha-tandon
+name: Disha Tandon
+email: [email protected]
+homepage: https://micro-bites.org/home-2/people/disha-tandon/
+lat: 46.5197
+long: 6.6323
+affiliation: Institut de Biologie, Université de Neuchâtel
+github: mdrishti
+orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5515-1230
+wikidata: 
+scholia: 
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+Disha is a postdoc based in Lausanne, Switzerland
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+## Collaboration statement
+In my current role, I am associated with Digital Botanical Gardens Initiative (DBGI, https://www.dbgi.org/). I am curating data on plant biodiversity, connecting their traits (TRY-db), interactions (GLOBI) and metabolites (ENPKG). I have used Ontop (https://ontop-vkg.org/) to build a virtual knowledge graph with this data. Subsequently, with DBGI contributors, I will create a big knowledge graph incorporating this data, thus making it my prospective open trait dataset. 
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+Besides plant biodiversity, I am curating data on microbes and their evolution, across various biotic and abiotic hosts. I plan to contribute this data to OTN in the future. I have also built tools for quantifying microbial composition through short- and long-read technologies.  
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+I can offer expertise in workflows for cleaning and combining plant biodiversity data. I can also help in creating virtual knowledge graphs using Ontop. I love communicating science and will be glad to write blogs for OTN on a variety of topics (e.g: general topics related to OTN, specific topics like importance of chemodiversity, etc.).
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