Employee Profile

Scientific staff profile and professional achievements

Scientist
Basic Information
  • Name: Ravindra Kumar
  • Designation : Principal Scientist Head (Acting)
  • Department : GCR
Educational Qualification
  • B.Sc. (1989, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, GB Pant Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar)
  • M.Sc. (1992, Animal Genetics and Breeding, ICAR-NDRI, Karnal)
  • Ph.D. (2000, Animal Breeding, GB Pant Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar)
Professional Experience:
  • Scientist: February 13, 1995- February 12, 2004
  • Senior Scientist: February 13, 2004- February12, 2010
  • Principal Scientist: February 13, 2010- till date
  • Head: December 06, 2015- December 31, 2022 and June, 2025- till date
  • Director (Acting): 28 April- 25 August, 2016
Research Focus
  • Genomics, Bioinformatics, Cell culture

Current Research Projects:

  • Sub-project: Understanding genomic factors for growth performance in Clarias magur under Network Project of Agricultural Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ICAR Plan)
  • Mining and characterization of bioactive compounds for insights into sea anemone ecological adaptation (ICAR-NBFGR)
  • Development of fish cell lines from prioritized fish species for conservation and in vitro applications (ICAR-NBFGR)
Publications
  • Daoud Ali, Nagpure NS, Kumar S, Kumar R, Kushwaha B (2008). Genotoxicity assessment of acute exposure of chlorpyrifos to freshwater fish Channa punctatus (Bloch) using micronucleus assay and alkaline single-cell gel electrophoresis. Chemosphere, 71: 1823-1831.
  • Singh, Ravindra Kumar*, NS Nagpure, B Kushwaha, Indra Mani, WS Lakra (2009). Extensive NOR site polymorphism in geographically isolated populations of Golden mahseer, Tor putitora. Genome 52(9): 783-789
  • Iliyas Rashid, Naresh Sahebrao Nagpure, Prachi Srivastava, Ravindra Kumar, Ajey Kumar Pathak, Mahender Singh, Basdeo Kushwaha (2017). HRGFish: A database of hypoxia responsive genes in fishes. Scientific Reports, 7(13 February): 42346
  • Manmohan Pandey, Ravindra Kumar, Prachi Srivastava, Suyash Agarwal, Shreya Srivastava, Naresh S Nagpure, Joy K Jena, and Basdeo Kushwaha (2017). WGSSAT: A high-throughput computational pipeline for mining and annotation of SSR markers from whole genomes. Journal of Heredity, 109(3): 339-343
  • Basdeo Kushwaha Manmohan Pandey, P Das, CG Joshi, NS Nagpure, Ravindra Kumar, D Kumar et al. (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): 1-16.
*Corresponding author

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Awards & Fellowships
  • Fellow of Academy of Environmental Biology (FAEB), Lucknow (2016)
  • Dr. V R P Sinha Medal for Outstanding Research and Academic Contribution in the field of Fish and Fisheries by Zoological Society of India, Gaya (February, 2018)