User:Omprakash.svc

Date & Time : 28, August 2024      

 About Me I am Dr. Om Prakash Assistant Professor in Zoology in SV college, University of Delhi. I am teaching in the undergraduate college since 2005. My teaching carrier started from Hindu College. Teaching in Hindu College was a big learning experience for me as I was given topics like Biochemistry for II year and III year honours courses in zoology. Then I got an apportunity to teach in Zakir Hussain for a short duration of about $$2^1/2$$ months. Thereafter now I am permanently teaching in Sri Venkateswara College since 2006. Sri Venkateswara college is one of the most prestegious college in the University of Delhi. I am proud to be a part of this college of which I am an Alumni as well.

 '''My Interests I am passionate about Research work.Love to spend time doing wet lab experiments. My research work is focussed on the Fish Endocrinology.I love to play outdoor games like Apart from these interests I am a keen observer of the Nature. The beauty of nature is always there to admire and I am a big admirer of Nature.
 * ''Cricket
 * Volley ball
 * Basket ball
 * Badminton''.

 '''My Research Activities :Fish is an important and rich source source of nutrition. It is a sole source of income for fish farmers in states like Calcutta, Orissa, Bihar etc. Most of the fish agriculture suffers a great set back because of great losses because of fish diseases. This has inspired me to work on some of the aspects related to Fish Immunity and Fish Diseases
 * Fish are so diverse, the intensity of effort in analyzing the immune function has been focused upon fairly few species, primarily salmonids (Oncorhynchus and Salmo), catfish (Ictalurus) and carp (Cyprinus). Immunity is an important physiological defence mechanism to protect against infection and maintain internal homeostasis. Very little is known about the non-specific defence activities of the three Indian major carp species. In the last two decades, several substances have been found to be useful in fish culture because of their properties to enhance disease resistance by stimulating the immune system. In India majority of the studies are focused on the bacterial and virus induced immunity in fish. The basic studies on the structure and purification are limited.

 ''' I am currently working on the UGC Major Reasearch Project which is focussed on some aspects of Fish Immunity. An aquatic environment often constitutes a terminal sink for many pollutants used	 and produced in various industrial processes and toxic immunosuppressive drugs used in clinical medicine or as medical wastes and hospital sewage, which has been accelerated in recent years and in turn further elevates the stressful environment for fish. Fishes exposed to these types of immunosuppressive agents and poor physiological environment become highly susceptible to infection or outbreak of infection.


 * The water bodies in India are not very clean and thus Indian fishes are exposed to lots of pathogens which induce an immune response in these fishes Detailed knowledge of the an¬tibody response in fish, that is an economi¬cally significant component of aquaculture in our country, will be essential for further immunological studies in the field of virology and vaccinology.


 * Fishes are of great economic importance; however numerous pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites affect the species, causing various infectious diseases and thereby leading to heavy losses in aquaculture. To sustain the aquaculture industry, appropriate health management measures involving development of diagnostics and vaccines are necessary.

=Research Interest= My Research Activities Publications/Conferences/Symposiums/Workshops

=Technical Skills=


 * 1) Production of polyclonal antibodies
 * 2) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
 * 3) Western blotting [[Image:microPipette.jpg|thumb|right]]
 * 4) Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
 * 5) Protein purification employing
 * 6) size exclusion and ion-exchange column chromatography
 * 7) Fast protein liquid Chromatography (FPLC)
 * 8) Protein estimation
 * 9) Histology and Immuno-cytochemistry
 * 10) Genomic/Plasmic DNA isolation
 * 11) Bacterial transformation

 '''Membership of Scientific Bodies

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 * Member of “The Indian Society for Comparative Endocrinology” [[Image:Community.jpg|thumb|right|http://www.cartoontraining.co.uk/cartoon-group.jpg]]
 * Member of “ International Federation of Comparative Endocrine Societies”

=My Wiki Friends=

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Zoology Department, Sri Venkateswara College

Nature Photographs By OP