Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan

Assistant Professor

Email: vinodkumar.chauhan@visva-bharati.ac.in

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About the Faculty

Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan joined in the department in the year 2021. He has obtained his masters degree from University of Mysore(2011) and doctoral degree from University of Hyderabad (2018). Before joining the department he worked as a post doctorial research associate at University of Hyderabad (2018-20). His research area of interest is insect molecular biology and physiology, insect pathology and integrated pest-management.

Awards and Professional Recognition

Participated as Resource personnel (Molecular Biology) in DST –SERB School in Insect Biology held at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (2015), Punjabi University, Patiala (2016), St. Joseph's College Devagiri, Calicut University (2017)
Travel Grant Award from Society for Experimental Biology (SEB), London, UK for oral presentation at CEIP 2015, Trivandrum, Kerala (2015).
Louis Pasteur Research Award For the year 2007-08 for excellence in Microbiology Research from Nizam College, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 2008.

Life Memberships

Indian Society for Comparative Endocrinology (ISCE)

Current Research Activities

Our laboratory at Visva-Bharati is primarily focusing on early diagnosis of diseases in Bombyx mori, Host-plant induced alterations in gut digestive proteases and metagenomic profile of the polyphagous pest Spodoptera litura, thermoplastic degradation using stored grain pest Corcyra cephalonica and elucidation of development in insect resistance towards Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins in Achaea Janata.

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Titles

Year

Duration

Sanctioned Amount
(In Lakhs)

PI/Co-PI

Status

DHR-GIA Scheme "Identification and Characterization of thermoplastic-degrading enzymes from the stored grain pest, Corcyra cephalonica"

2023

3 Years

45 PI: Dr. R. Krishna Chaitanya, Central University of Karnataka

Co-PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan; Dr. Debarshi Sarkar

Ongoing

SERB funded start-up grant "Identification and characterization of molecular marker(s) for early detection of pebrine disease in Bombyx mori "

2021

2 Years

28.6 PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan (PI)

Completed

Research Publications

Mollah, J. H., Hatimuria, A., & Chauhan, V. K. (2024). Transcriptomic analysis of Bombyx mori in its early larval stage (2nd instar) of development upon Nosema bombycis transovarial infection. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 108157. DOI:10.1016/j.jip.2024.108157
Vinod K. Chauhan, Narender K. Dhania, Vadthya Lokya, Bhoopal Bhuvana chandra, Kollipara Padmasree, Aparna Dutta-Gupta (2021). Midgut aminopeptidase N expression profile in castor semilooper (Achaea janata) during sublethal Cry toxin exposure. Journal of Biosciences, 46:29. DOI: 10.1007/s12038-021-00148-4 (Impact factor: 2.795)
Gurmeet Bali, Sanjay Singh, Vinod Chauhan, Neha Joshi, Firdous Bhat, Waseem Malla, Boman Ramanujam, Richa Varshney, Manpreet Bali, and Radhkrishnan Pandit (2022). An insight in proteome profiling of Tuta absoluta larvae after entomopathogenic fungal infection. Scientific Data (#SDATA-21-01250C) *Accepted for publication
Vinod K. Chauhan, Narender K. Dhania, Vadthya Lokya, Bhoopal Bhuvana chandra, Kollipara Padmasree, Aparna Dutta-Gupta (2021). Midgut aminopeptidase N expression profile in castor semilooper (Achaea janata) during sublethal Cry toxin exposure. Journal of Biosciences, 46:29, DOI: 10.1007/s12038-021-00148-4 (Impact factor: 1.827)
Narender K. Dhania, Vinod K. Chauhan, Dasari Abhilash, Vivek Thakur, R.K. Chaitanya, Shourya Dutta-Gupta Aparna Dutta-Gupta (2021). Gut-specific arylphorin mediates midgut regenerative response against Cry-induced damage in Achaea janata. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 255(1):110600 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2021.110600. (Impact factor: 2.231)
Narender K. Dhania, Vinod K. Chauhan, R.K. Chaitanya and Aparna DuttaGupta (2019). RNA-Seq analysis and de novo transcriptome assembly of Cry toxin susceptible and tolerant Achaea janata larvae. Scientific Data, 22;6(1):159. DOI: 10.1038/s41597- 019-0160-0. (Impact factor: 6.444)
Narender K. Dhania, Vinod K. Chauhan, R.K. Chaitanya and Aparna DuttaGupta (2019). Midgut de novo transcriptome analysis and gene expression profiling of Achaea janata larvae exposed with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)- based biopesticide formulation.Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Proteomics and Genomics, 30(10) DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2019.02.005. (Impact factor: 2.231.)
Vantaku, Venkatrao, Vinod K. Chauhan, Narender K. Dhania, Balasubramanian Senthilkumaran, and Aparna Dutta-Gupta (2019). Validation of reference gene(s) for quantitative gene expression profiling using rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica as a model. Gene Reports, 2019, 14,25-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.genrep.2018.10.007. (Impact factor: 0.72)
Vinod K. Chauhan, Narender K. Dhania, R. K. Chaitanya, Balasubramanian Senthilkumaran and Aparna Dutta-Gupta (2017). Larval midgut responses to sub- lethal dose of Cry toxin in lepidopteran pest Achaea janata. Frontiers in Physiology, 8: 662/ DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00662. (Impact factor: 4.566)
Vinod K. Chauhan, Narender K. Dhania, Pavani Ayinampudi, Chaitanya, R.K, Aparna Dutta-Gupta (2017). Fat body remodelling in Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) during post embryonic development. Entomon, 42(4), 259-268.
Ningshen, Thuirei J., Vinod K. Chauhan, Narender K. Dhania, and Aparna Dutta- Gupta (2017). Insecticidal effects of hemocoelic delivery of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins in Achaea janata larvae. Frontiers in Physiology, 2017, 8:289, DOI:10.3389/fphys.2017.00289. (Impact factor: 4.566)
Ayinampudi Pavani, R.K. Chaitanya, Vinod K. Chauhan, Anwesha Dasgupta, Aparna Dutta Gupta (2015). Differential oxidative stress responses in castor semilooper, Achaea Janata. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 132, 157- 164. DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2015.10.002. (Impact factor: 2.841)

Book Chapters

Jahid Hossian Mollah and Vinod Kumar Chauhan (2023), "Insect resistance towards Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins", Recent Trends in Insect Pest Management (Volume - 10), AkiNik Publications, ISBN:978-5570-909-7
Swarnava Dutta and Vinod Kumar Chauhan (2023), "Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Toxin and their mode of action in agricultural pest as a potential biopesticides", Advances in Agricultural Entomology (Volume - 23)", AkiNik Publications, ISBN: 978-93-5570-711-6

Zoology

Department of

Visva-Bharati
Santiniketan

Titles

Year

Duration

Sanctioned Amount
(In Lakhs)

PI/Co-PI

Status

DHR-GIA Scheme "Identification and Characterization of thermoplastic-degrading enzymes from the stored grain pest, Corcyra cephalonica"

2023

3 Years

45

PI: Dr. R. Krishna Chaitanya, Central University of Karnataka

Co-PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan; Dr. Debarshi Sarkar

Ongoing

SERB funded start-up grant "Identification and characterization of molecular marker(s) for early detection of pebrine disease in Bombyx mori "

2021

2 Years

28.6

PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan (PI)

Completed

Research Publications

Mollah, J. H., Hatimuria, A., & Chauhan, V. K. (2024). Transcriptomic analysis of Bombyx mori in its early larval stage (2nd instar) of development upon Nosema bombycis transovarial infection. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 108157. DOI:10.1016/j.jip.2024.108157

Book Chapters

Jahid Hossian Mollah and Vinod Kumar Chauhan (2023), "Insect resistance towards Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins", Recent Trends in Insect Pest Management (Volume - 10), AkiNik Publications, ISBN:978-5570-909-7

Swarnava Dutta and Vinod Kumar Chauhan (2023), "Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Toxin and their mode of action in agricultural pest as a potential biopesticides", Advances in Agricultural Entomology (Volume - 23)", AkiNik Publications, ISBN: 978-93-5570-711-6

Zoology

Department of

Visva-Bharati Santiniketan

Titles

Year

Duration

Sanctioned Amount (In Lakhs)

PI/Co-PI

Status

DHR-GIA Scheme "Identification and Characterization of thermoplastic-degrading enzymes from the stored grain pest, Corcyra cephalonica"

2023

3 Years

45

PI: Dr. R. Krishna Chaitanya, Central University of Karnataka Co-PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan; Dr. Debarshi Sarkar

Ongoing

SERB funded start-up grant "Identification and characterization of molecular marker(s) for early detection of pebrine disease in Bombyx mori "

2021

2 Years

28.6

PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan (PI)

Completed

Visva-Bharati
Santiniketan

Sanctioned Amount
(In Lakhs)

PI: Dr. R. Krishna Chaitanya, Central University of Karnataka

Co-PI: Dr. Vinod Kumar Chauhan; Dr. Debarshi Sarkar