Dr. Amod Kumar has held several significant positions in the field of animal research and virology in India. Since November 2019, he has been serving as a Scientist at the ICAR-National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources in Karnal, Haryana, India. Prior to this role, from October 2018 to November 2019, he worked as a Scientist at the ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. His expertise also includes a position as a Research Scientist-II at the Regional Virology Lab, All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, from November 2016 to June 2018. Dr. Kumar began his career as a Research Associate at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand, India, where he worked from September 2015 to October 2016. ๐งช๐ฌ๐
Achievements ๐:
In 2023, Dr. Amod Kumar received the Best Poster presentation award for his work on โGenome-wide Runs of Homozygosity Reveals Selection Signatures and Inbreeding in Indian Milch Cattle Breedsโ at the National Conference organized by ISAGB and ICAR-NBAGR, Karnal. He also won the Best Poster presentation award for his research on โDeciphering the Role of Shutdown Chicken Pulmonary miRNA during Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) Infectionโ at the same event. Earlier, in 2019, he was honored with the Best Oral presentation award for his work on โDifferential miRNA Expression Profiling of HPAIV H5N1 Infected Chicken Lungs Reveals Critical Biological Pathways Involved in the Molecular Pathogenesisโ at a National Conference organized by ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut, India. Additionally, his research on โmiRNA Profiling of Categorized Frieswal Crossbred Bull Spermatozoaโ earned him the Best Poster presentation award at another National Conference organized by ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cattle, Meerut. In 2016, he received the Best Paper Award at a Global Symposium organized by IAVMI for his work on โTranscriptome Analysis of Host and Bacterial Genes in Pasteurella Multocida Infected Mice Modelโ. During the same year, he was honored with the Dr. S.S. Prabhu Award for Best PhD Thesis during the IX Convocation held at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. Kumar’s academic pursuits were supported by an Institutional fellowship from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute during his PhD (2012-2015) and a Junior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research during his M.V.Sc. (2010-2012).
Professional Memberships:
- Life member, Society for Conservation of Domestic Animal Biodiversity, India
- Life member, Veterinary Council of India
- Life member, Indian Society of Animal Genetics and Breeding
Publications:
The mRNA expression of immune-related genes in crossbred and Tharparkar cattle in response to in vitro infection with Theileria annulata
P Dewangan, M Panigrahi, A Kumar, BC Saravanan, S Ghosh, VNM Asaf, …
Molecular biology reports 42, 1247-1255 (2015) ๐
Global gene expression profile of peripheral blood mononuclear cells challenged with Theileria annulata in crossbred and indigenous cattle
A Kumar, GK Gaur, RK Gandham, M Panigrahi, S Ghosh, BC Saravanan, …
Infection, Genetics and Evolution 47, 9-18 (2017) ๐
An overview of single nucleotide polymorphism studies in mastitis research
VNM Asaf, A Kumar, A Rahim, R Sebastian, V Mohan, P Dewangan, …
Vet World 7 (6), 416-421 (2014) ๐
Genotyping of major histocompatibility complex Class II DRB gene in Rohilkhandi goats by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism and DNA sequencing
K Shrivastava, P Kumar, NR Sahoo, A Kumar, MF Khan, A Kumar, …
Veterinary world 8 (10), 1183 (2015) ๐งฌ
Genome-wide host gene expression analysis in mice experimentally infected with Pasteurella multocida
GB Priya, VK Nagaleekar, AAP Milton, M Saminathan, A Kumar, …
PLoS One 12 (7), e0179420 (2017) ๐ญ
Identification of chicken pulmonary miRNAs targeting PB1, PB1-F2, and N40 genes of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 in silico
A Kumar, AVN Muhasin, AA Raut, R Sood, A Mishra
Bioinformatics and Biology insights 8, BBI. S14631 (2014) ๐
Study on genetic variation of short tandem repeats (STR) markers and their association with somatic cell scores (SCS) in crossbred cows
JP Gupta, B Bhushan, M Panigrahi, S Ranjan, VN Asaf, A Kumar, …
Indian Journal of Animal Research 50 (4), 450-454 (2016) ๐งฌ๐
Association study of genetic variants at single nucleotide polymorphism rs109231409 of mannose-binding lectins 1 gene with mastitis susceptibility in Vrindavani crossbred cattle
VNM Asaf, B Bhushan, M Panigrahi, P Dewangan, A Kumar, P Kumar, …
Veterinary World 7 (10) (2014) ๐งฌ๐
No change in mRNA expression of immune-related genes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells challenged with Theileria annulata in Murrah buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
M Panigrahi, A Kumar, B Bhushan, S Ghosh, BC Saravanan, S Sulabh, …
Ticks and tick-borne diseases 7 (5), 754-758 (2016) ๐
In-silico search of virus-specific host microRNAs regulating avian influenza virus NS1 expression
VN Muhasin Asaf, A Kumar, AA Raut, S Bhatia, A Mishra
Theory in Biosciences 134, 65-73 (2015) ๐