Research Areas: Cell culture

Current Research Projects:

• Cytogenetic characterisation of selected fishes of commercial importance and endangered fish species
• Genotoxic studies in fishes using comet assay, micronuclei test and chromosomal aberrations
• Molecular cytogenetic studies viz. restriction endonuclease banding and Fluorescent in situ hybridization in fishes
• Fish genomics and molecular biology studies
• Fish cell culture, cell line development and NRFC maintenance

1. Pande A, Thakuria D, Kushwaha B, et al. 2024. A cell line derived from heart of rainbow trout is refractory to Tilapia lake virus. Cell Biology International. 48 (3), 347-357
2. Kushwaha, B., Srivastava, N., Kumar, M.S. and Kumar, R., 2023. Protein-protein networks analysis of differentially expressed genes unveils the key phenomenon of biological process with respect to reproduction in endangered catfish, C. Magur. Gene, 860, p.147235.
3. Kushwaha, B., Nagpure, N.S., Srivastava, S., Pandey, M., Kumar, R., Raizada, S., Agarwal, S., Singh, M., Basheer, V.S., Kumar, R.G. and Das, P., Sofia P Das, Siddhi Patnaik, Amrita Bit, Satish Kumar Srivastava, Achchhe L Vishwakarma, Chaitanya G Joshi, Dinesh Kumar, Joy K Jena, 2023. Genome size estimation and its associations with body length, chromosome number and evolution in teleost fishes. Gene, p.147294
4. Mohindra, V., Chowdhury, L.M., Chauhan, N., Paul, A., Singh, R.K., Kushwaha, B., Maurya, R.K., Lal, K.K. and Jena, J.K., 2023. Transcriptome Analysis Revealed Osmoregulation Related Regulatory Networks and Hub Genes in the Gills of Hilsa shad, Tenualosa ilisha, during the Migratory Osmotic Stress. Marine Biotechnology, pp.1-13.
5. Vishwamitra Singh Baisvar, Basdeo Kushwaha, Ravindra Kumar, Murali Sanjeev Kumar, Mahender Singh, Anil Rai, Uttam Kumar Sarkar 2022. BAC-FISH Based Physical Map of Endangered Catfish Clarias magur for Chromosome Cataloguing and Gene Isolation through Positional Cloning. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23 (24) 15958
6. Rastogi, A., Yadav, M.K., Joaquin, M.P.C., Verma, D.K., Swaminathan, T.R., Kushwaha, B., Paria, A., Pradhan, P.K. and Sood, N., 2022. Development of cell lines from brain, spleen and heart of ornamental blood parrot cichlid and their susceptibility to Tilapia tilapine virus. Aquaculture, 561: p. 738711.
7. Kushwaha, B., Pandey, M., Das, P., Joshi, C.G., Nagpure, N.S., Kumar, R., Kumar, D., Agarwal, S., Srivastava, S., Singh, M. and Sahoo, L., 2021. The genome of walking catfish Clarias magur (Hamilton, 1822) unveils the genetic basis that may have facilitated the development of environmental and terrestrial adaptation systems in air-breathing catfishes. DNA Research, 28(1), p.dsaa031