Faculty of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry

• Designation: Assistant Professor
• Address: Department of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry,
  College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, NDVSU, Rewa - 486001 (M.P.)
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Fields of Specialization:

Majoring Field: Animal Biochemistry

Specializing field: Genome recoding and Molecular microbiology

Current Projects:

Completed Projects:

Recent Research Publications:

• Nikhil, K. C., Noatia, L., Priyadarshini, S., Pashupathi, M., Gali, J. M., Ali, M. A., ... & Behera, P. (2022). Recoding anaerobic regulator fnr of Salmonella Typhimurium attenuates it's pathogenicity. Microbial Pathogenesis, 105591., ISSN 0882-4010, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105591.
• Behera, P1., Nikhil, K. C1., Kumar, A1., Gali, J. M., De, A., Mohanty, A. K., ... & Sharma, B. (2020). Comparative proteomic analysis of Salmonella Typhimurium wild type and its isogenic fnr null mutant during anaerobiosis reveals new insight into bacterial metabolism and virulence. Microbial pathogenesis, 140, 103936.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2022.103936. (1Equal contribution to the first author)
• Nikhil, K. C., Priyadarsini, S., Pashupathi, M., Ratta, B., Saxena, M., Ramakrishnan, S. & Kumar, A. (2021). Regulatory role of fnr gene in growth and TolA gene expression in Salmonella Typhimurium. Indian Journal of Animal Research, 55(7), 774-779..
• Nikhil, K. C., Pruthviraj, D. R., Aderao, G. N., & Kumar, K. P. H. (2020). CRISPR-Cas9: a promising genome editing tool. Journal of Experimental Zoology, India, 23(1), 1-12.
• Swagatika, P., Nikhil, K. C., Barkha, R., Pashupathi, M., Parthasarathi, B., & Ajay, K. (2019). Effect of mutation resulted from error prone PCR on the strength of promoter activity. Journal of Experimental Zoology, India, 22(2), 981-986.
• Ratta, B., Priyadarsini, S., Channabasappa, N. K., Mani, P., Saxena, M., Saravanan, R., & Kumar, A. (2020). Optimization of recombinant glycoprotein D (gD) based indirect ELISA for detection of antibodies against bovine herpesvirus-1. Adv. Anim. Vet. Sci, 8(8), 853-860.
• Harish Kumar K P, Dechamma H J, Nikhil K.C, S.Chandrasekar, Soumya Kumar and Suryanarayana VVS 2020. Molecular Cloning, Expression And Characterization Of Bovine Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor Of Indian Cattle (Bos Indicus). Tropical Animal Health and Production (Under review)

Honours & Awards:

• Recipient of “CAAST (Centre for Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology)- ACLH (Advanced Centre for Livestock Health) overseas training program” fellowship funded by World bank-ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research).
• Recipient of “ICMR-SRF (2019)” by Indian Council of Medical Research, India.
• Recipient of “ICMR-JRF (2017)” by Indian Council of Medical Research, India.
• Recipient of “ICAR-JRF (2015)” by Indian Council of Agriculture Research, India.
• Recipient of “IVRI-Deemed University, Institutional Fellowship (2015)” by ICAR-IVRI, Deemed University, Bareilly, India.
• Recipient of MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) fellowship by the government of India (2010-2015).
• Recipient of Karnataka Veterinary, Animal science and Fisheries University merit scholarship (2010, 2012).
• Recipient of Vidyasiri Scholarship funded by the government of Karnataka.
• Achieved 2nd rank in the All India postgraduate entrance examination (ICAR-AIEEPG) conducted by ICAR.
• 1st rank in All India Ph.D. entrance examination conducted by ICAR-IVRI and ICAR-NDRI.
• Best Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation (1st) in National symposium on recent trends in bioinformatics strategy for disease mechanism and biomedicine.
• Best Oral Presentation presented in technical session on Biochemical interventions and Metabolomics during the 4th National seminar and Annual convention of SVBBI on Current Research in Veterinary Biochemistry and Biotechnology in the improvement of Animal Health and Production held on 4-5th Feb, 2020 at SVVU, Tirupati.