Employee Profile

Scientific staff profile and professional achievements

Scientist
Basic Information
  • Name: V.S. Basheer
  • Designation : Principal Scientist
  • Department : PAGR
Educational Qualification
  • B.Sc. (1985, University of Calicut)
  • M.Sc. (1987, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)
  • D. Stat (1988, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)
Professional Experience:
  • Scientist: July 05, 1996 to July 04, 2001
  • Scientist (Senior Scale): July 05, 2001 to July 04, 2006
  • Senior Scientist: July 05, 2006 to July 04, 2012
  • Principal Scientist: July 05 2012 to till date
  • Scientist-in-Charge, PMFGR : Aug 01 2010 to Feb 28, 2019
Research Focus
  • Exploration of fishes from natural water bodies
  • Exotic fish impact and evaluation
  • Genetic characterization of fishes

Current Research Projects:

  • Exploration of the Tributaries of Cauvery River for fish species diversity and detailed studies on Mahseer in Cauvery.
  • Network project on Ornamental fish breeding and Culture (NPOFBC)
  • Assessment of exotic fishes’ prevalence and their impacts on indigenous fish diversity
Publications
  • Basheer, V. S. , N. Vineesh, K. K. Bineesh, Rahul G. Kumar, C. Mohitha, S. Venu, A. Kathirvelpandian, A. Gopalakrishnan and J. K. Jena (2016). Mitochondrial signatures for identification of grouper species from Indian waters. Mitochondrial DNA, Early Online: 1–12
  • Basheer VS, Mohitha C, Vineesh N, PR Divya, Gopalakrishnan A and Jena JK, (2016). 'Molecular Phylogenetics of three species of the genus Rastrilliger using mitochondrial DNA markers' Molecular biology reports, 42(4):873-879.
  • Bain PA, Basheer V.S, Gregg A, Jena JK, Kumar A. (2016) In vitro nuclear receptor activity and in vivo gene expression analysis in Murray-Darling rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) after short-term exposure to fluoxetine. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol. 2016 Oct;188:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2016.05.007.
  • Swaminathan, T.R., V. S. Basheer, A. Gopalakrishnan, Gaurav Rathore, Dharmendra K. Chaudhary, Raj Kumar and J. K. Jena. 2013. Establishment of caudal fin cell lines from tropical ornamental fishes Puntius fasciatus and Pristolepis fasciata endemic to the Western Ghats of India. Acta Tropica, 128: 536-541.
  • Vargheese, S., Sajikumar, K. K., & Basheer, V. S. (2022). Integrated taxonomic approach for identification of Octopus species from the southwest coast of India. Malacologia, 64(2), 287-299..
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Awards & Fellowships
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award in the Indo-Australian Project “Water for Future” in CSIRO, Adelaide, Australia in 2014 for 2 months study.
  • Best Oral paper presentation award on “Managing illegally introduced exotic fishes for achieving SDG goals: Where do we stand?” in 13th Indian Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum, held in Kolkata from February 23-25, 2024
  • Best Scientific Team Award for Disease surveillance Project, along with NBFGR scientific team in 2022.