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| Designation | Senior Scientist |
| Discipline | Veterinary Microbiology |
| Division | Aquatic Animal Health and Environment Division |
| Specialization | Aquatic Microbiology, Microbial Genomics, Disease Diagnosis, Vaccinology |
| Phone | +91 044-24610565 Ext: 107 |
| sujeet.kumar @icar.gov.in; sujeetmicrobiol@gmail.com | |
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- Brief Profile
- Research areas
- Current Research Projects
- Recognition (National & International)
- Best 5 Publications during the Career
- Best 3 Publications during last 3 years
I am working in AAHED since 2008 at this institute. I completed MVSc and Ph.D. in Veterinary Microbiology from ICAR-IVRI. I have been working on pathogenomics of Vibrio spp for understanding their virulence and developing diagnostics for their differentiation and quantification. Developed phage therapy for controlling luminescent vibriosis in shrimp hatcheries, a recombinant vaccine against betanodavirus in Asian seabass, and PlanktonPlus to convert fish waste into a plankton booster along with other members. Established an eco-friendly biofloc and periphyton-based shrimp culture technology for enhanced production. Currently, my research focus is on the new generation of diagnostics and therapeutics for bacterial pathogens, understanding pathogenomics of Vibrio spp, and eliciting the etiological factors of shrimp diseases such as white fecal syndrome. I have 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
- Understanding pathogenomics and virulence behavior of Vibrio pathogenic to aquaculture
- Development of diagnostics and therapeutics against Vibrio spp
- Understanding role of microbial pathogen in white fecal syndrome
| No | Title | Funded By |
| 1 | Investigation of existing/emerging diseases in candidate brackishwater species and development of preventive/treatment strategies for effective management | ICAR |
| 2 | Development of diagnostics and vaccines for sustainable aquaculture | ICAR |
| 3 | National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases | ICAR |
- Received best oral presentation award for the paper - Development of inactivated oral NNV vaccine for Asian seabass, Lates Calcarifer by Makesh M., Aathithya R., Satyanarayana N., Sujeet Kumar, P. K. Patil, K. P. Jithendran, R. Subburaj, G. Thiagarajan, M. Kailasam, K. K. Vijayan during World Brackishwater Aquaculture Conference 2019 (BRAQCON 2019) at ICAR-CIBA.
- Received best poster presentation award for the poster periphyton based shrimp culture – An ecofriendly shrimp farming in Sunderban by Shyne Anand PS, Sujeet Kumar, Ghoshal TK, Gopal C, Debasis De and AD Deo in 12th Agricultural Science Congress 2015 held at NDRI, Karnal during 3-6 February, 2015.
- Received best paper presentation award for the paper - A comparative study of environmental parameters in different aqua-farming system in coastal degraded area of West Bengal. In National Hindi Seminar on Traditional Aqua farming system: Prospects and challenges, by Sujeet Kumar, Das, S., Ghoshal, T. K., De, D., Deo, A. D., Sundaray, J. K., Anand, P. S. S., Chakraborty, J., Pradhan, J. K., Raja, R. A., Panigrahi, A., Kumaran, M. at Kakdwip Research Centre of CIBA, Kakdwip, 11-12 December 2012.
- Received outstanding reviewer award from Elsevier Journal Aquaculture in 2018.
- Reviewer for journals such as Aquaculture, Aquaculture Research, Aquaculture international
- Awarded ICAR Junior Research Fellowship for the period (2004-06)
- Ashok Kumar, J., Vinaya Kumar, K., Avunje, S., Akhil, V., Ashok, S., Sujeet Kumar, Sivamani, B., Grover, M., Rai, A., Alavandi, S.V. and Vijayan, K.K., (2020). Phylogenetic relationship among brackishwater Vibrio Evol Bioinform., 16: p.1176934320903288.
- Sujeet Kumar, Shyne Anand PS, De D, Deo AD, Ghoshal TK, Sundaray JK, Ponniah AG, Jithendran KP, Ananda Raja R, Biswas G, Lalitha N. (2017). Effects of biofloc under different carbon sources and protein levels on water quality, growth performance and immune responses in black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon (Fabricius, 1978). Aquac Res., (DOI: 10.1111/are.12958).
- Sujeet Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Akhil V., Vidya Rajendran, Katneni V.K., Rajan J.J.S., Grover M., Viswas K,N., Alavandi S.V., and Vijayan K.K. (2017). Draft Genome sequence of the luminescent strain Vibrio campbellii LB102, isolated from black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) broodstock rearing system. Genome Announc., 5 (20) e00342-17.
- Sujeet Kumar, Mashooq, M., Gandham, R.K., Alavandi, S.V. and Nagaleekar, V.K., (2018). Characterization of quorum sensing system in Clostridium chauvoei. Anaerobe, 52: 92-99.
- Sujeet Kumar, Shyne Anand, P., De, D, Sundaray, J. K., Raja, R. A., Biswas, G., Ponniah, A.G., Ghoshal, T.K., Deo, A.D., Panigrahi, A. and Muralidhar, M. (2014). Effects of carbohydrate supplementation on water quality, microbial dynamics and growth performance of giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon). Aquac Int., 22: 901-912. (DOI 10.1007/s10499-013-9715-9)
- Sujeet Kumar, Kumar, C.B. Vidya R., Abishaw, N. Anand, P. S. S. Kannapan, S. Viswas K. Nagaleekar, Vijayan. K. K. and Alavandi, S.V. (2021). Delineating virulence of Vibrio campbellii: a predominant luminescent bacterial pathogen in Indian shrimp hatcheries. Rep., 41598, Article No: 94961. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94961-4
- De, D., Sandeep, K. P., Sujeet Kumar, Raja, R. A., Mahalakshmi, P., Sivaramakrishnan, T., Ambasankar, K. and Vijayan, K. K. (2020). Effect of fish waste hydrolysate on growth, survival, health of Penaeus vannamei and plankton diversity in culture systems. Aquaculture, 524:735240.
- Sujeet Kumar, Shyne Anand, P.S., De, D., Ghoshal, T.K., Alavandi, S.V. and Vijayan, K.K., (2019). Integration of substrate in biofloc based system: Effects on growth performance, water quality and immune responses in black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodonAquac Res., 50: 2986-2999.