Veterinary Science & Technology

 Bhoj R Singh

Biography

He is a microbiologist, graduated in Veterinary Sciences and earned Ph.D. in Microbiology and Public Health is working as molecular epidemiologist having with more than 25 years of teaching and research experience.He has guided nine students for their dissertations for Master in Veterinary Sciences (Microbiology, Bacteriology, Epidemiology) and three students for Ph.D. (Bacteriology), presently three students are working with him, one for MVSc. and two for Ph.D. He published three books on different aspects of Microbiology, about 170 research papers and 9 reviews in journals of international repute. His major contributions in recent past are on culturomes (cultivable microbial diversity) studies in foods and animals of North Eastern India and proved vertical transfer of microbes in house lizards. He also developed disease models for understanding host pathogen interaction including germinating seed model for Salmonellacytotoxins, mouse model for edwardsiellosis and guinea pig model for equine salmonellosis. Besides, he headed the projects for development of genetically defined vaccine for control of salmonellosis in equids, toxoid vaccines for control of salmonellosis and klebsiellosis, genus specific ELISA for diagnosis of salmonellosis and klebsiellosis. He contributed for monitoring and control of veterinary vaccine quality in India. He also established diagnostic facilities for edwardsiellosis, bordetellosis, glanders, and tuberculosis at IVRI, Izatnagar and diagnosis of Canine Parvo virus infections at GB Pant University of Agric. &Technology, Pantnagar.

Research Interest

 Microbiology, Biotechnology,  Veterinary Sciences