Name of the Department: Veterinary Microbiology

Brief Information about the Department: Department of Veterinary Microbiology established during 1999 and is involved with teaching, research and extension activities in animal husbandry sector. Department involved in BVSc&AH, MVSc and PhD teaching and research activities. Faculty and students in this department is undertaking research on bacterial and viral pathogen characterization, screening of anti-microbial resistance associated with bacteria isolated from animal, human and environment. Research conducted on molecular epidemiology, vaccine efficacy studies as well as research on in-ovo approach for immunization and epigenetic study in birds were conducted. Laboratory facilities were created for microbiological studies on bacteriology, virology and immunology in the department.

List of Faculty:

1.      Dr. Parimal Roychoudhury, Prof. and Head

2.      Dr.Tapan Kumar Dutta, Prof.

3.      Dr. Prasant Kumar Subudhi, Asst. Prof. (SS) 

 

List of Non-Teaching Staff: 

1.      One Master Rolled contractual worker

Year of Starting MVSc Programme: 2011

Year of Starting PhD Programme: 2015

No. of Passed out Students: MVSc: 27

                                               PhD: 6

Facilities Available: 

Department has been equipped with basic and advance research on microbiology and molecular biology work.

1.      Biosafety level-II laboratory.

2.      Three cell culture laboratory with CO2 incubator and inverted trinocular research microscope with photo micrographic attachment and fluorescent microscopy.

3.      Two bacteriology laboratory equipped with three bacteriological incubator, 2 BOD incubator, Shaking incubator.

4.      Molecular biology laboratory, equipped with 4 PCR thermocycler, one Realtime PCR, gel electrophoresis, electroporator, semi dry blotter, ultra sonicator, Horizontal & Vertical Gel electrophoresis(PAGE)

5.      Microplate reader with nano drop detector, 8 Vertical laminar flow with biosafety cabine(Class II B2), one class 3 cabinet.

6.      Four Clinical research microscope (trinocular) and one trinocular research microscope with fluorescent adapter., -80°C deepfreezer(3 nos.),one -40°C and three -20°C freezer

Ongoing Projects: 

1.	Surveillance of Foodborne pathogens from North-East India(Phase-II)	ICMR, Govt. of India	119.93L	ongoing
2.	Prevalence, Characterization and Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterial Infections in free ranging Kashmir Stag (Hangul) and captive Double-humped Camel, Mithun and Yak of Eastern and Western Himalayas	DBT, Govt of India	25.57L	Ongoing
3.	Serosurveillance and molecular epidemiology studies of selected infectious diseases of the livestock in Himalayan region	DBT, Govt of India	23.82 L	Ongoing
4.	Establishment of a consortium for One Health to address zoonotic and transboundary diseases in India, including the North East region.	DBT, Govt of India	384.0672L	Ongoing
5.	Prevalence, Characterization and Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterial Infections in free ranging Kashmir Stag (Hangul) and captive Double-humped Camel, Mithun and Yak of Eastern and Western Himalayas	DBT, Govt of India	25.57 L	Ongoing