Dr. Subhendu Kumar Otta

After getting Ph.D. in Fishery Microbiology from College of Fisheries, Mangalore, India and post-doctoral experience during 2003 to 2009 from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, I have been working at CIBA, Chennai, India since January 2010 on Aquatic Animal Health related aspects. I have worked on disease monitoring, virus and host protein interaction, defense mechanism of shrimps and RNAi therapy. I have handed five external funded projects as PI and equal numbers as Co-PI apart from regular institute projects. I have interests in determining virulence status and pattern of spread of several aquatic pathogens, developing treatment strategy and antimicrobial resistance.

• Molecular biology of shrimp and fish
• Disease diagnosis of shrimp and fish
• Shrimp and fish Microbiology

• Invited speaker to “Seminar on Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS) in shrimp II”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during the year 2014
• Awarded Pran Vohra Award by Indian Science Congress Association, India in the year 2001
• Recipient of Young Scientist Award by the Association of Microbiologists of India, in the year 1999
• Received Biotechnology fellowship by UNESCO, Paris in the year 1999
• Recipient of Young Scientist Award, by the Association of Food Scientist & Technologists of India, India in the year 1999
• Received Young Scientist Award by National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India in the year 1999
• Recipient of Young Scientist project Award, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.in the year 1998
• Recipient of University Gold Medal for 1^st position in PhD in the year 1997
• Received Young Scientist Travel Award, IUMS, Israel, Jerusalem in the year 1996
• Invited Speaker, in the International Symposium on Fish Vaccinology held at Oslo, Norway during 1996
• University Gold Medal for securing first position in B.F.Sc.in the year 1990

• Joseph B, Otta, S.K., Karunasagar I and Karunasagar I., (2001). Biofilm formation by Salmonella Spp. on food contact surfaces and their sensitivity to sanitizers. Int. J. food Microbiol., 64: 367-372.
• Godhe A., Otta, S. K., Rehnstam-Holm, A.S., Karunasagar I and Karunasagar I., (2001). Polymerase chain reaction in detection of Gymnodinium mikimotoi and Alexandrium minutum in field samples from south west India.  Biotechnol., 3: 152-162.
• Gopal, S., Otta, S.K., Kumar, H.S., Karunasagar, I., Nishibuchi , M and Karunasagar, I. (2005). The occurrence of Vibrio species in tropical shrimp culture environments; impact on food safety. J. food Microbiol., 102:151-159
• Otta, S.K., Shubha, G., Joseph, B., Chakraborty, A., Karunasagar, I. and Karunasagar, I. (1999). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in cultured and wild crustaceans in India. Aquat.Org., 38: 67-70
• Otta, S.K., Karunasagar I. and Karunasagar I., (2003). Detection of Monodon Baculovirus (MBV) and White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in apparently healthy Penaeus monodon post larvae from India by polymerase chain reaction. Aquaculture, 220: 59 -67.

• Kulkarni, A., Krishnan, S., Anand, D., Uthaman, S.K., Otta, S.K., Karunasagar, I. and Rajendran, K.V., (2021). Immune responses and immunoprotection in crustaceans with special reference to shrimp. Aquac., 13:431–459. https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12482
• Alavandi, S.V., Muralidhar, M., Syama Dayal, J., Rajan, J.S, Ezhil Praveena, P, Bhuvaneswari, T, Saraswathy, R., Chitra, V., Vijayan, K.K. and Otta, S.K., (2019). Investigation on the infectious nature of Running Mortality Syndrome (RMS) of farmed Pacific white leg shrimp, Penaeus vannameiin shrimp farms of India. Aquaculture, 500:278-289
• Panigrahi, A., Sundaram, M., Saranya, C., Rajasekharan, S.K., Syama Dayal, J., Saraswathy, R., Otta, S. K., Anand, P.S. , Nila Rekha, P. and Gopal C., (2019). Influence of differential protein levels of feed on production performance and immune response of pacific white leg shrimp in a biofloc–based system. Aquaculture, 503:118-127