Research Areas: Disease Surveillance, Fish Virology, Fish Immunology

Current Research Projects:

• National Surveillance Programme for Aquatic Animal Diseases Phase II
• All India Network Project on Fish Health
• CRP Vaccines and Diagnostics: Development of point-of-care diagnostic kit and vaccine against Tilapia Lake Virus
• Development of monoclonal antibody-based assay for detecting Edwardsiella ictaluri infection in fish

1. Rajendran, K.V., Sood, N., Rao, B.M., Valsalam, A., Bedekar, M.K., Jeena, K., Pradhan, P.K., Paria, A., Swaminathan, T.R., Verma, D.K., Sood, N.K. 2024. Widespread occurrence of Tilapia parvovirus in farmed Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus from India. Journal of Fish Diseases, 1-11.
2. Sood, N., Verma, D.K., Paria, A., Yadav, S.C., Yadav, M.K., Bedekar, M.K., Kumar, S., Swaminathan, T.R., Mohan, C.V., Rajendran, K.V., Pradhan, P.K. 2021. Transcriptome analysis of liver elucidates key immune-related pathways in Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus following infection with tilapia lake virus. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 111, 208-219.
3. Sood, N., Pradhan, P.K., Verma, D.K., Yadav, M.K., Ravindra, Dev, A.K., Swaminathan, T.R., Sood N.K. 2017. Candidatus Actinochlamydia pangasiae sp. nov. (Chlamydiales, Actinochlamydiaceae), a bacterium associated with epitheliocystis in Pangasianodon hypophthalmus. Journal of Fish Diseases 41(2), 281-290.
4. Behera, B.K., Pradhan, P.K., Swaminathan, T.R., Sood, N., Paria, P., Das, A., Verma, D.K., Kumar, R., Yadav, M.K., Dev, A.K., Parida, P.K., Das, B.K., Lal, K.K., Jena, J.K. 2018. Emergence of Tilapia Lake Virus associated with mortalities of farmed Nile Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus 1758) in India. Aquaculture 484, 168-174.
5. Pradhan, P.K., Verma, D.K., Peruzza, L., Gupta, S., Haq, S. A., Shubin, S. V., Morgan, K.L., Trusch, F., Mohindra, V., Hauton, C., van West, P., Sood, N. 2020. Molecular insights into the mechanisms of susceptibility of Labeo rohita against oomycete Aphanomyces invadans. Scientific Reports 10(1), 19531.

For complete list of publications, link to Google scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XowpT0kAAAAJ&hl=en

• National Award for e-governance 2024 (Silver) for NSPAAD- Establishment of e-Governance in aquatic animal disease management system under category IV (Research on Citizen Centric Services by Academic/Research Institutions).
• Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Award for the Best Indian Fisheries Scientist for 2013
• DBT Crest Awards 2011-12 on ‘Cellular and Molecular Analysis of Immune Responses in Fish’ at DIBAF, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy from October 2012 to September 2013
• Best Scientist Award of the Institute for 2014-15 and 2017-18
• Best Research Group Award of the Institute for 2014-15
• Team Excellence Award of the Institute in 2018-19