Dr. Vinay Tharabenahalli Nagaraju

After obtaining Masters in Fish Genetics and Biotechnology from ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai in 2008 and PhD in Aqualife Medicine from Chonnam National University, South Korea in 2013. I worked as a Postdoc fellow in Medical Research Centre of Chosun University, South Korea. After entering Agricultural Research Service, I started working in ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology from 2015 and at present, I am working in ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture since 2017. I currently work in Crustacean Culture Division in CIBA and have contributed in studying the population genetics of Penaeus indicus and in identifying the cryptic species Penaeus Japonicus Form II from Indian coasts. Currently my research area is focused on studying the microbiota employing high throughput sequencing approach, estimation of genetic parameters for economically important traits in crustaceans and cryopreservation of crustacean nauplii.

• Breeding of shellfish (Crustaceans)
• Molecular physiology of shellfish
• Population genetics, Molecular taxonomy
• Genomics

• Recipient of Early Career Research Award (Science and Engineering Research Board, India)
• Recipient of Global scholarship to study abroad (South Korea)
• Recipient of Dr. Hiralal Choudary Gold medal (Fish Genetics and Biotechnology) 

• Vinay, T.N., Ray, A.K., Avunje, S., Sathish Kumar, T., Halesha, K., Visvanathan, B., Reddy, M.A., Vijayan, K.K., Patil, P.K., 2019. Vibrio harveyi biofilm as immunostimulant candidate for high-health pacific white shrimp, Penaeus vannamei farming. Fish Shellfish Immunol. 95, 498-505.
• Vinay, T.N., Shreelatha, B., Tanmoy, G.C., Anutosh, P., Jung, M.H., Girisha, S.K., Jung, S.J., 2017. Recent advances in application of nanoparticle-based fish vaccine delivery. Rev. Fish. Sci. Aquacult. 1, 29-41.
• Vinay, T.N., Park, C.S., Kim, H.Y., Jung, S.J., 2014. Toxicity and dose determination of quillaja saponin, aluminum hydroxide and squalene in olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 158, 73-85.
• Vinay, T.N., Kim, Y.J., Jung, M.H., Kim, W.S., Kim, D.H., Jung, S.J., 2013. Inactivated vaccine against viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) emulsified with squalene and aluminum hydroxide adjuvant provides long term protection in olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus). Vaccine. 31, 4603-4610.
• Patil, P.K., Baskaran, V., Vinay, T.N., Avunje, S., Leo, A.M., Shekhar, M.S., Alavandi, S.V., Vijayan, K.K., 2021. Abundance, community structure and diversity of nitrifying bacterial enrichments from low and high saline brackishwater environments. Let. Appl. Microbiol. https://doi.org/10.1111/lam.13480

• Panigrahi, A., Esakiraj, P., Saranya, C., Das, R.R., Vinay, T.N., Otta, S.K., Shekhar, M.S., 2021. Bioaugmentation of biofloc system with enzymatic bacterial strains for high health and production performance of Penaeus indicus. Sci. Rep. 11, 13633.
• Baskaran, V., Patil, P.K., Antony, M.L., Avunje, S., Vinay, T.N., Ghate, S.D., Nathamuni, S., Dineshkumar, N., Alavandi, S.V., Vijayan, K.K., 2020. Microbial community profiling of ammonia and nitrite oxidizing bacterial enrichments from brackishwater ecosystems for mitigating nitrogen species. Sci. Rep. 10, 5201.
• Girisha, S.K., Puneeth, T.G., Nithin, M.S., Naveen Kumar, B.T., Ajay, S.K., Vinay, T.N., Suresh, T., Venugopal, M.N., Ramesh, K.S., 2019. Red sea bream iridovirus disease (RSIVD) outbreak in Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) cultured in open estuarine cages along the west coast of India: First report. Aquaculture. 734712.