Employee Profile

Scientific staff profile and professional achievements

Scientist
Basic Information
  • Name: Neeraj Sood
  • Designation : Principal Scientist
  • Department : EAAH
Educational Qualification
  • B.V.Sc. & A.H., Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
  • M.V.Sc., Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
  • Ph.D., Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab
Professional Experience:
  • Scientist: 1997-2006
  • Senior Scientist: 2006-2012
  • Principal Scientist: 2012 onwards
Research Focus
  • 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
Publications
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
*Corresponding author

For complete list of publications, link to Google scholar profile

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XowpT0kAAAAJ&hl=en
Awards & Fellowships
  • 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