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HOD (Vector Biology & Control)
Email: vijay_rmri@sify.com
Ph.: +91-612-2636651
Fax: +91-612-2634379
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| Dr. Vijay kumar |
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A view of Vactor Biology Lab. |
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| The Scientific Team |
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| The Students Team |
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Qualification |
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| Mr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia |
M.Sc. (Remote Sensing & GIS) |
Senior Research Fellow |
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| Facilities & Services: |
- Insectorium for Sandfly rearing and its colony maintenance.
- Insecticide Resistance test.
- Bio-assay test to assess residual effect of insecticide.
- dot-ELISA, SDS - PAGE, Western Blot.
- Molecular tool for detection of natural infection in Sandfly.
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| Major Achievements |
- Techno-ecological method for Vector Control.
- Malathion as an alternative insecticide for Vector Control.
- Application of Remote Sensing as a Kala-azar epidemic predictor tool.
- Devlopment of Toolkit in collabration with WHO for the M&E of IRS.
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| Ongoing Studies |
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Application of remote sensing in identifying and mapping sandfly distribution in endemic and non-endemic Kala-azar foci in Bihar. (An ICMR task force project in collaboration with RRSSC (ISRO), Kharagpur.
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Cost-effective Integrated Vector Management as a Contribution to the Visceral Leishmaniasis Elimination Initiative on the Indian Sub-Continent: a Multi-centre Study (WHO Phase V).
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Longitudinal studies on sand fly in the three endemic states of Kala-azar of India(World bank supported project).
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User friendliness, efficiency and spray quality of conventional stirrup pumps versus hand compression pumps for indoor residual spraying in the Visceral leishmaniasis elimination programme in India (WHO supported project)
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Blood meal analysis and study on behavioral changes in sand fly.
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Identification of sand fly in the larval stages.
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Detection of natural infection in sand fly by different molecular tools.
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Control of sandfly using different insecticides including synthetic parathyroid.
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