Dr S.V.Rama Rao, M.V.Sc, Ph.D, Principal Scientist (Nutrition)

Dr. Rama Rao obtained his doctoral degree in Poultry Science from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University. His area of interest is mineral nutrition specifically to enhance phytate phosphorus utilization through nutritional approaches, nutritional modulation for better performance and immune competence in chicken. He also worked to find out alternate feed ingredients for maize and soybean in chicken diet. He got several recognitions from various organizations like ICAR Young Scientist Award, ICAR Award for Team Research, CLFMA Award, gold medals in University etc. Team lead by Dr Rao bagged best research abstract and research paper from National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Indian Poultry Science Association.

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Dr. M.V.L.N. Raju, M.V.Sc., Ph.D, Principal Scientist (Nutrition)

Dr Raju obtained his doctoral degree in Poultry Science from University of Agri. Sciences, Bangalore, India. His research interests include mycotoxins and other feed toxins, broiler breeder nutrition and feed additives for enhancing performance of chicken. Dr Raju received best poster award in World’s Poultry Congress 1996, New Delhi; IPSA Kerala chapter award for poultry nutrition (2003, 2004, 2005), Dabur Ayurvet Award (2005) and University Gold Medals.

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Dr. B.L.N. Reddy, M.V.Sc., Ph.D, Principal Scientist (Genetics and Breeding)

Dr Reddy obtained his doctoral degree in Poultry Science from IVRI, Izatnagar, India. His research interests include breeding and genetic improvement of broiler and naked neck and dwarf gene lines and immunogenetics for disease resistance.

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Dr. Anand Laxmi, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Physiology)

She obtained Post Graduate degree in Life Sciences  from University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad, India (1985) . Later on doctorate degree in 1990 from the same university with specialization in Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology. Throughout her educational career she obtained First Class. She joined as scientist at National Dairy Research Institute , Karnal, Haryana, India, affiliated to Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India, in 1993. In the initial stages she worked on production and purification of second antibody which was widely used in the institutes for enzyme immunoassay studies. She also assisted in standardization of hormones by Elisa technique in cattle and buffaloes. Technique was used to measure the level of reproductive hormones during reproductive cycle of buffaloes and also to know the problems associated with the reproduction. She was awarded P G Nair award. She has authored two manuals on Laboratory techniques for PG students, also three books in hindi on reproduction aspects in buffaloes and beneficial effect of probiotics.  She was also Project investigator of the external funded project funded by Department of Biotechnology. At this institute she guided several Msc and Ph D. students. Later on in December 2015, she joined Directorate of Poultry Research, as a Principal scientist. She worked on effect of heat stress in native and improved variety of chicken and its amelioration by supplementation of fermented yeast culture. Now at present she is working on differential level of hormones at different phases of laying cycle and their modulation by trace mineral organic selenium in native chickens of India. She received awards for best oral and poster presentations.

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Dr. Shyam Sundar Paul, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Nutrition)  

Dr. Paul obtained his doctoral degree in Animal Nutrition from Indian Veterinary Research Institute. His research interests include deep profiling of chicken gut microbiome and modulation of gut microbiota of chicken for improving productivity and gut health. Dr. Paul received Jawaharlal Nehru Award, Dr. K Pradhan Young Scientist Award, best oral paper awards and DBT CREST Award.

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Dr. M.R.Reddy, M.V.Sc., Ph.D, MACVS, Principal Scientist (Avian Diseases)

Dr Reddy obtained his Ph.D. in avian health from Melbourne University, Australia. He is a member of Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in Avian Health (poultry). His research interests include avian disease diagnosis and control, avian tumour viruses, immunomodulation and immunosuppressive diseases.

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Dr. M. Niranjan, M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Poultry Breeding)

Dr Niranjan obtained his doctoral degree in Poultry Science from IVRI, Izatnagar, India. His research interests include development of germplasm for rural poultry production and semen biology and artificial insemination in poultry.

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 Dr. U. Rajkumar, M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Genetics & Breeding)

Dr. U. Rajkumar obtained his doctoral degree in Molecular genetics from CDFD in collaboration with SVVU, Hyderabad. His research areas are Molecular characterization of chicken and marker-trait associate studies with growth and Improvement of rural poultry germplasm for backyard poultry.

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Dr. Ramakrishna Mahapatra, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Physiology)

Dr. Mahapatra obtained his doctoral degree in Animal Physiology from National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal. His research area is semen bioilogy in poultry.  

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Dr. D. Suchitra Sena, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Veterinary Medicine)

Dr. D. Suchitra Sena obtained her Ph.D. degree in Veterinary Medicine from IVRI, Izatnagar. She got gold medal in M.V.Sc. for obtaining highest OGPA. She received Smt. Ava Roy Gold Medal for outstanding contribution to profession of Veterinary Medicine. She received Best Women Scientist Award, received four best oral presentation and one best poster presentation awards. She formulated 3 phytogenic products and evaluated herbal formulations as alternatives to AGP’s in broilers. Her research interests include involvement in avian herbal medicine, poultry gut metagenomics, and survey on AMR in food production animals. Her clinical interests include avian health management and herbal medicine.  

Dr. Santosh Haunshi, M.V.S.C., Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Genetics & Breeding)

Dr. Santosh Haunshi obtained his Ph.D. in Poultry science from Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar. His research interests include avian immunogenetics and molecular genetics. He won two best poster presentation awards (IPSACON-2003 and 2007) and received Professor P.K. Pani research award (2004) in the field of poultry genetics and breeding besides receiving best poster award as a co author in IPSACON (2008).

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Dr. L. Leslie Leo Prince, M.V.Sc., Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Genetics & Breeding)

Dr. L. Leslie Leo Prince obtained his Ph.D. in Animal Genetics from ICAR-IVRI, Izatnagar. His research interests include genetic improvement by selection,  marker assisted selection and GWAS. Currently involved in genetic improvement of broiler female line, Kadaknath, naked neck and dwarf gene lines.  He got two best oral presentation awards (SOCDAB 2016 and 2017) and one best poster award (1st International Agrobiodiversity Congress). 

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 Dr. S.P. Yadav, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Biotechnology)

 Dr SP Yadav obtained his doctoral degree in Animal Biotechnology from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, India. His research area is molecular characterization and improvement of poultry germplasm.

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Dr. Kannan Alagarsamy, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Nutrition)

Dr. A.Kannan obtained his Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition from ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar. His research interest includes improving the performance of poultry through various dietary approaches, nutrient requirements, alternate feed resources for poultry, production of designer eggs and meat and replacing antibiotic growth promoters with natural feed additives. He has guided four MVSc students. He got two best oral presentation awards and four best poster awards in various national and international conferences.

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Dr. B. Prakash, M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Principal Scientist (Nutrition)

Dr. Bhukya Prakash obtained his doctoral degree in Animal Nutrition from ICAR-IVRI, Bareilly, India. His area of interest is mineral nutrition specifically to enhance the mineral retention through various approaches for enhancing the performance of chicken and reducing the environmental contamination. Dr Prakash received Dr S.K. Ranjhan Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Global Animal Nutrition Conference 2014, Bangalore, India.

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Dr. M. Shanmugam, M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Senior Scientist (Physiology)

Dr. Shanmugham obtained his doctoral degree in Animal Physiology from NDRI, Karnal, India. His area of research are Semen biology and artificial insemination in poultry.

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Dr. T.R. Kannaki, M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Senior Scientist (Health)

Dr. T. R. Kannaki obtained her Master and Ph. D degree in Veterinary immunology from IVRI, Bareilly. She had been awarded 31 gold medals by TANUVAS for securing top OGPA in different subjects in 2003. Her research interests include innate immunity, TLRs, disease resistance, disease diagnosis, vaccines and diagnostics etc. She won Avitech young scientist award (IPSACON -2010), IPSA young scientist award (IPSACON-2013), one best poster award (ISAGB-2012) and three best oral presentation awards (IPSACON-2015, 2016; AAHP-2016). She also presented research papers in different International conferences (EPC, France-2010 and APPC Taiwan -2011). She received DBT-CREST award (2014)

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Dr. K.S. Raja Ravindra, M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Sr. Scientist (Animal Genetics & Breeding)

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Dr. S. Jayakumar, Senior Scientist (Poultry Genetics & Breeding)

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Dr. Vijay Kumar,  M.V.Sc, Ph.D., Senior Scientist (Veterinary Extension)

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SENIOR LEVEL TECHNICAL STAFF  

Dr S.K. Bhanja, M.V.Sc., Ph.D., Chief Technical Officer (Farm Manager)

Dr Bhanja obtained his masters degree in avian production and management from ANGRAU, Hyderabad and PhD from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has been taking care of the management of all the chicken populations maintained at the Directorate.

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Sri V. Venkata Rao, Chief Technical Officer

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Smt T.R. Vijaya Laxmi, Asst. Admn. Officer

Smt T.R. Vijaya Laxmi looks after the matters related to Administration.

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