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Date & Time : 28, November 2009 02:32

Dr. Om Prakash
Employer:	Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
Occupation:	Assistant Professor, Zoology
Nationality:	Indian Email: opsvc@svcollege.net omprakash_fishbio@rediffmail.com opchanna@gmail.com
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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 2¹ / 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

• Cricket
  
• Volley ball
  
• Basket ball
  
• Badminton.
  

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.

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.

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.

/My Research Activities Publications/Conferences/Symposiums/Workshops

Technical Skills

1. Production of polyclonal antibodies
2. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
3. Western blotting
   

   
4. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)
5. Protein purification employing
   1. size exclusion and ion-exchange column chromatography
   2. Fast protein liquid Chromatography (FPLC)
6. Protein estimation
7. Histology and Immuno-cytochemistry
8. Genomic/Plasmic DNA isolation
9. Bacterial transformation
   

Membership of Scientific Bodies

• Member of “The Indian Society for Comparative Endocrinology”
  

  

  
• Member of “ International Federation of Comparative Endocrine Societies”

My Wiki Friends

Dinesh Kr Gautam IndraKant Kaveri Anita Nair

This is a long term work in progress. Expect changes to these pages.

Important Browzing Sites

Google
Yahoo
Rediffmail
Indiatimes.com]
Color_Codes Color Codes
NCBI
Science Direct
High wire

Latex Tutorials Link

My Notes

Freshwater Fish Reproduction

My Pictures

Zoology Department, Sri Venkateswara College

Nature Photographs By OP

Gallery

Flowers are life	Even throns are beautiful	Love the freshness of flowers	Bouquet of life
Feel the essence of Flowers	Color of Life	Bouquet of life	Flowers mark D beginning of Journey of Life

Acknowledgements

I am thankful to the organizers: University of Delhi and Achariya Narendra Dev College for giving me an opportunity to learn about the open Education Learning. The 5 days were really fruitful as well very interesting where each session was a new learning experience. I would also like to thank the co-ordinators of the work shop Dr. Savitri Singh, Dr Sanjeev Singh, Dr. Sarita Kumar, Dr. Neeti Misra, Dr. Arijit Chaudhary and Dr. Subhash for their all help throughout the workshop.