Bhoj R Singh

Biography:

After doing BVSc & AH in 1985 (Mathura Veterinary College), I completed a master's degree in Veterinary Public health in 1990 (ICAR-IVRI) and Ph.D. in 1997 (GBPUA&T, Pantnagar). I pursued a year of PDF at IAH Compton, UK and a P.G. Diploma in IPR (IGNOU, Delhi) in 2007. Joined as a scientist in 1991 and progressed as senior scientist (2000), Principal Scientist (2005) and Head of the Division in 2007 in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and worked at different institutions of the Council. I have published 19 Review articles, 6 books and more than 200 research papers in internationally reputed journals besides contributing 17 book chapters, and 33 technical reports, and drafted the Veterinary vaccines and vaccination policy of India. I guided 7 PhD and 12 MVSc Students. My important contributions are development of a genetically defined oral vaccine for the control of salmonellosis in equids, a toxoid vaccine for the control of klebsiellosis in fur animals,  a toxoid vaccine for control of salmonellosis in poultry birds, a synthetic milk detection kit, a pen-side test for detection of canine parvovirus infection, an ELISA for diagnosis of salmonellosis and germinating seeds model, mouse paw oedema model for toxicity assays and guinea pig model for salmonellosis abortions. My work on the kinetics of zoonotic Salmonella in vegetables and feed and fodder crops, carriage and spread of zoonotic Salmonella by cockroaches, the microbiome of ethnic foods of Nagaland, India (Axone) to identify the probiotic strains, the microbiome of house geckos reproductive tract to understand the vertical transfer of microbes, the microbiome of apparently healthy Mithun and pig reproductive tract to identify potentially pathogenic bacteria carried by them, the microbiome of Azadirachta indica and Ocimum sanctum to establish a relationship with environmental contamination and pathogens residing on plants, genetic regulation of herbal antimicrobial resistance in bacteria and emergence of herbal antimicrobial resistance are the most cited works. I have a long experience as a scientist and administrator while working as scientist, senior scientist and principal scientist in ICAR, director of the National Institute for Animal Health, Baghpat (DAHD) meant for vaccine quality control and quality analysis, in-charge of the National Salmonella Centre, Head Division of Epidemiology, chairman of the Board of Studies of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology at ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Head of the Department of Animal Sciences at ICAR Port Blair, Act. Joint Director, at ICAR Research Complex Jharnapani Centre, Nagaland, and Chief Bacteriologist NRC on Equine, Hissar. I am a visiting professor of Veterinary Microbiology at GADVASU, Ludhiana, visiting faculty at Times PG Institute, Dehradun, Uttrakhand, and international faculty on Enteric Diseases at the University of Sassari, Italy. My recent work is on the synergy between antibiotics and herbal antimicrobials and the epidemiology of the emergence of antimicrobial drug resistance. I am the most read Veterinary Scientists in India and one of the Topmost e-health Influencers in the world.