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Dr. Jai Sunder

Head and I/c PME Cell

Discipline Veterinary Mircobiology
Area of Specialization:  Microbiology, antibiotic resistance, Herbal immunomodulators, goat production, animal health
Research Experienced (in years): Joined ICAR-CIARI in 2000
e-mail Id: jai.sunder@icar.gov.in
Mobile No +91 9434281840
Ongoing(Institute funded)
Studies on the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria of zoonotic importance in food chain and environment
Ongoing(External funded)
AICRP on goat improvement (Funded by ICAR-CIRG)
All India Network project on antimicrobial resistance (Funded by ICAR-NBFGR)
National animal disease epidemiology network (Funded by ICAR-NIVEDI)
State Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemiology Network (Funded by ICAR-NIFMD)
Nicobari Pig (Acc No : India_Pig_3300_Nicobari_09005)
Teressa Goat (Acc. No: India_Goat_3300_Teressa_06025)
Andamani goat: Accession No- INDIA_GOAT_3300_ANDAMANI_06039
Andamani pig: Accession No- INDIA_PIG_3300_ANDAMANI_09015
Andamani duck: Accession No- INDIA_GOAT_3300_ANDAMANI_11003
National Award
ICAR award for outstanding multi-disciplinary team research in Animal Science for the biennium 2001-02.
ICAR award: Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed award for outstanding research in tribal areas for the year 2011.
Breed registration certificate awarded for Registration of Teressa goat and Nicobari pig
Breed conservation award for conservation of Nicobari fowl given by CAR-NBAGR on 2017.
Society Award
Dr. A.K. Bandyopdhayay outstanding scientist award of the Andaman Science Association in recognition and sincere appreciation of his outstanding contribution to various spheres of Animal Science and biodiversity conservation on 8th December 2016 at ICCB- 2016, Port Blair. By Andaman Science Associaiton.
Fellow of Veterinary and Animal Science (FVASc) – 2020. Awarded by Veterinary & Animal Science Research Foundation (VASREF)
Fellow of Andaman Science Association – 2016.
Fellow of Indian Association of Advancement of Veterinary Research – 2023
Honorary Fellow of Pragati International Scientific Research Foundation - 2023
Felicitation award by ZSI during Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate 2022 in recognition of contribution in the field of Animal Science in the A & N Islands for more than 20 years.
Society awards for best Poster/paper/oral presentation award: 32 nos
Published 152 (research articles), abstracts (150), Books/Book chapters (30) Technical manuals (13), Extension folders (38)
Policy papers :
Strategies for development of agriculture and allied sectors in A & N & Lakshadweep group of islands. ICAR-CIARI/Policy Brief/2019/03. A Kundu, S.K. Zamir Ahmed, Jai Sunder, B. Gangaiah, B.A. Jerard, R.Kirubasankar, S.Dam Roy, R.K. Gautam, P.K. Singh, D. Bhattacharya, T.Janakiram & W.S.Dhillon
Livestock and poultry production policy for A & N Islands- A Scientific perspective. A. Kundu, Jai Sunder, S. Jeyakumar, S.K. Verma, M.S Kundu, A.K. De, R.C. Srivastava ( 2010)
Research papers (Important)
Bhowmick, S., Pal, S., Sunder, J., Sujatha, T., De, A.K., Mondal, T., Singh, A.D., Joardar, S.N., Batabyal, K., Dutta, T.K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Tiwari, A. & Samanta, I. (2023) Exploring broilers and native fowls of Andaman and Nicobar Islands as a source of b-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae even with limited anthropogenic activities and docking-based identification of catalytic domains in novel b-lactamase variants. Frontier in Veterinary Science, 9:1075133. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2022.1075133.
Sunder, J., Alyethodi, R.R., Sujatha, T., Perumal, P., De, A.K., Adamala, S., Bhattac harya, D. and Chakurkar, E.B. (2024). Seroprevalence of Leptospira in Cattle and Goats from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Indian Journal of Animal Research. DOI: 10.18805/IJAR.B-5173
Ahlawat, S.P.S., Sunder, J., Kundu, A., Chatterjee, R.N., Rai, R.B., Kumar, B.,Senani, S., Saha, S.K. and Yadav, S.P. 2004. Use of RAPD-PCR for genetic analysis of Nicobari fowl of Andamans. British Poultry Science. 45 (2): 191-200.
Ahlawat, S.P.S., Sunder, J., Kundu, A., Chatterjee, R.N., Rai, R.B., Kumar, B.,Senani, S., Saha, S.K. and Yadav, S.P. 2004. Use of RAPD-PCR for genetic analysis of Nicobari fowl of Andamans. British Poultry Science. 45 (2): 191-200.
Sunder, J., Rai, R.B., Kundu, A., Chatterjee, R.N., Senani, S.and Jeyakumar, S. 2005. Incidence and prevalence of livestock diseases of A&N Islands. Indian Journal of Animal Science, 75 (9) : 1041-1043
Sunder, J., Chatterjee, R.N., Rai, R.B., Kundu, A., Senani, S., Singh, A.K. and Jeyakumar, S. 2005. Production performance of indigenous and crossbred poultry germplasm of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 75 (11): 1326-1328.
Sunder, J., Jeyakumar, S., Ahlawat, S.P.S., Rai, R.B., Kundu, A., Senani, S. Chatterjee, R.N., Saha S.K, Yadav S. P. 2006. Antibiotic resistance pattern of bacterial isolates from fishes of A &N Islands. Indian Journal of Fisheries 53 (2): 231235.
Sunder, J., Rai, R.B., Kundu, A.and Jeyakumar, S. 2007. Detection of antibodies to IBDV in poultry of Andaman and Nicobar islands. Indian Journal of Animal Science ., 77 ( 9) : 857-858.
Sunder, J., Rai, R.B., Kundu, A., and Jeyakumar, S. 2007. Mineral status of infertile cattle of Andaman. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 77 (11): 1135.
Sunder, J., Rai, R.B.,Yasmeen,J., Kundu, A. and Jeyakumar, S. 2007. Mineral profile in soil, grass, water and cattle blood of South Andman. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 77 (11) : 1103-1107
Sunder, J., Rai, R.B.,Yasmeen,J., Kundu, A. and Jeyakumar, S. 2007. Immunomodualtor effect of Morinda citrifoila in poultry. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 77 (11) : 1126-1128.
Sunder,J., Kundu, A., Singh, D.R., Jeyakumar, S. & Srivastava, R.C. 2011. Effect of feeding of Morinda citrifolia fruit juice on growth, production and immune response in Nicobari fowl. Indian Journal of Animal Science, 81 (12): 68–71
Sunder, J., De, A.K., Jeyakumar, S. & Kundu, A. 2013. Effect of feeding of Morinda citrifolia fruit juice on the biophysical parameters of healthy as well as mastitis-affected cow milk. Journal of Applied Animal Research, 41(1) : 29-33
Jeyakumar,S., De, A.K., Kundu, A., Roy, K., Sunder, J., Kundu, M.S., Balakrishnan, M., Chand,S.C., Ahmed, S.K.Z. 2013. Sonographic characteristics of goat testis on water bath based ultrasonography. Livestock Science, 152: 79-87.
Sunder, J., Jeyakumar, S., Sujatha, T. & Kundu, A 2014. Grommune : Morinda citrifolia based herbal tonic for growth and immunity for commercial broilers. Journal of Applied Animal Research. June 2014. DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2014.928628
De, A. K., Jeyakumar, S., Kundu, M.S. , Kundu, A., Sunder, J. & Ramachandran, M. 2014. Farming practices and genetic characterization of Nicobari pig, an indigenous pig germplasm of Nicobar group of islands,India. Tropical Animal Health & Production. 46 ( 4) : 655-661
Anbalagan Anantharaj, Sakthivel Jeyakumar, M.M. Sathya &Jai Sunder. 2016. Biochemical and Antioxidant effects in crossbred calves fed with Morinda citrifolia. Journal of Applied Animal Research, DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2016.1151794 Online 21 march 2016.
Sunder, J., Sujatha, T., Kundu, A. & Kundu, M.S. 2018. Carrier status and sero-prevalence of leptospirosis in cattle of South Andaman. Indian Journal of Animal Research, 52(1) : 140-143
Sunder, J., Sujatha, T., De, A.K., Bhattacharya, D., Bhowmick, S., Ponraj, P. & Kundu, A. 2018. First report of contagious ecthyma (orf) outbreak in goats of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indian Journal of Animal Research. Online ISSN:0976-0555
Sunder, J., De, A.K., Bhattacharya, D., Sujatha, T., Khulape, S.A. and Kundu, A. 2019. Reemergence of Foot and Mouth Disease in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Journal of Animal Research: 9 (2) : 363-367 DOI: 10.30954/2277-940X.02.2019.23
De, A.K. , Muthiyan, R., George, Z., Ponraj, P., Malakar, D., Kundu, A., Sunder, J. & Bhattacharya, D. 2019. Complete mitochondrial genome of Trinket cattle, a Danish colonial leftover. Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 4:1, 2053-2054, DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1618208.
Balamurugan, V., Varghese, B. , Muthuchelvan, D., Kumar, S.S., Kumar, K.V., Suresh, K.P., Govindaraj, G., Sunder, J., Hemadri, D. & Roy, P. 2019. Cross-sectional seroprevalence study of peste des petits ruminants in goats inAndaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Small Ruminant Research, Doi.org/10.1016/ j.smallrumres.2019.08.013
Ain, K.U., Biswas, S.K., Inbaraj, S., Chand, K., Saxena, A., Ramakrishnan, M.A., Sunder, J., Kundu, A. and Pandey, A.B. 2020. Deciphering type-specific neutralizing antibodies to bluetongue virus in goats of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 52(5):2715-2719
Alyethodi, R.R., Karthik, S., Muniswamy, K., Ravi, S.K. Perumal, P., Bhattacharya, D., Bala, P. A., De, A.K., Sujatha, T., Jai Sunder and Kundu, A. 2020. Assessment of protein profiles of RNAlater stored and fresh PBMC cells using different protein extraction buffers. Protein Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10930-020-09888-y.
De, A. K., George, Z., Mondal, S., Perumal, P., Muniswamy, K., Kundu, A., Jai Sunder, Muthiyan, R., Zamir Ahmed, S. K., Chakraborty, G., Sujatha, T. and Bhattacharya, D. 2020. Tracing the genetic root of Trinket cattle: an endangered cattle population of a small isolated island of Nicobar group of islands. Journal of Genetics. 99(4): 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-020-1178-y.
De, A.K., Muthiyan, M., Perumal, P., Sunder, J., Kundu, A., Malakar, D. and Bhattacharya, D. 2019. Complete mitogenome sequencing of Andaman buffalo, an endangered germplasm of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Journal of Genetics. 98(4): 97.
De, A.K., Muthiyan, R., George, Z., Perumal, P., Sunder, J., Kundu, A., Malakar, D., Bhattacharya, D., Kundu, M.S. and Muniswamy, K. 2019. Mitochondrial landscape of indigenous pig germplasm of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources.4(2): 2808-2810
De, A.K., Sawhney, S., Bhattacharya, D., Sujatha, T., Sunder, J., Ponraj, P., Ravi, S.K., Mondal, S., Malakar, D. and Kundu, A. 2021. Origin, genetic diversity and evolution of Andaman Local Duck, a native duck germplasm of an insular region of India. PLoS ONE 16(2): e0245138. https://doi.org/10.1371 /journal.pone.0245138
Inbaraj, S., Chand, K., Biswas, S.K., Kundu, A. and Sunder, J. 2019. Emerging orbiviral infections in Animals in the climate change scenario: evidence of bluetongue virus antibodies and antigens in small ruminants of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. National Academay Science Letters. DOI 10.1007/s40009-019-0787-6. (NAAS ID: N011: 6.33)
Inbaraj, S., Kundu, A., De, A.K., Sunder, J. and Sejian, V. 2018. Seasonal changes in blood biochemical and endocrine responses of different indigenous goat breeds of tropical island agro-ecological environment. Biological Rhythm Research. 49(3): 412-421. (NAAS ID: B089: 6.77)
Jeyakumar, S., Sunder, J., Yadav, S.P., De, A.K., Kundu, A., Kundu, M.S. and Sujatha T (2020). Estimation of genetic diversity among Teressa goat population of A and N Islands by using microsatellite markers. Indian Journal of Animal Research. 54(12): 1465-1469. (NAAS ID: I037: 6.44)
Sunder, J., Sujatha, T., Bhowmick, S., Mayuri, S.C., De, A.K., Bhattacharya, D., Perumal, P. & Kundu, A. (2021). Distribution of TET, AAC and CTX-M genes among antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli isolated from poultry under various farming system of A and N Islands. Indian Journal of Animal Research,55(6);689-696(NAASRating: 6.44)
Sunder, J., Bhattacharya, D., Sujatha, T., De, A.K., Chakraborty, G., Mayuri, S.C., Perumal, P., Bhowmick, S., Alyethodi, R.R. & Chakurkar, E.B. (2022). Use of FAMACHA to Detect Anaemia and Control of Gastrointestinal Parasite in Goats of A and N Islands, India. Indian Journal of Animal Research,DOI:10.18805/IJAR.B-4754. (NAAS Rating: 6.44)
Products Developed
Dweep tickure :herbal acaricide for control of tick infestation in livestock
Grommune®: Developed Morinda citrifolia based herbal tonic for livestock and poultry as growth promoter and immnomodulator
Morical®Developed Morinda citrifolia based herbal feed supplement for poultry to improve the egg production and egg shell quality
Herbal eye drop for control of bacterial infection in eye
Commercialization
Dweep tickure: Herbal based product for control of ecto-parasite infestation in livestock. Commercialized to Shri. Vijay Vishwasrao Patil, C/o Natural Agro Products Pvt Ltd., Cofebaghicha, Sippighat, South Andaman
Low cost technology for prevention and treatment of sub-clinical and clinical mastitis in bovines. Commercialized to Company: Sandoor Biogenic, Hyderabad & M/S. Allwin Industries, Indore
Sex determination kit for non-ratite birds: commercialized to GCC biotech Private Ltd.
Technologies
Disease map that assisted in forecasting module on incidence of livestock diseases in A&N islands.
Standardization of diagnostic tool for identification of Salmonella, E. coli, klebsiella, Infectious bursal disease, Orf etc and other disease in livestock and poultry.
Inactivated formalized vaccine for control of Infectious bursal disease in poultry
Standardization of Faffa Malan Chart (FAMACHA) as diagnostic tool for identification of anaemic status in goats and correlation with gastrointestinal parasitic load.
Probiotic (Standardized from local isolate of Latobacillus sp.) for enhancement of productivity and protection against diseases in poultry
Development of rural poultry production technology for unemployed youths for rearing Nicobari fowl.
Development of technology for identification of broad spectrum antimicrobial and antifungal compounds from the solvent extracts of leaves, fruits, seeds and stem bark of Morinda citrifolia.
Standardization of feeding technology using Morinda citrifolia fruit extract as growth promoter, immunomodulator and egg production enhancer in Nicobari fowl and Japanese quails
Development of feeding technology using Morinda citrifolia fruit extract to lower serum cholesterol level in Nicobari fowl and Japanese quails
Development of feeding technology using Morinda citrifolia fruit as antioxidant
Development of feeding technology using Morinda citrifolia fruit juice as quality enhancer of milk in mastitis infected dairy animals
Mini incubator cum hatcher technology for rural poultry production
Development of alternate poultry production technology: The germplasm of turkey and guinea fowl were evaluated for their adaptability to A&N climatic condition and package of practices for backyard poultry farming.
Azolla cultivation technology: Azolla was evaluated under island climatic condition and recommended as a feed supplement in livestock and poultry at backyard level.
Development of breeding technology using CIDR to improve reproductive performance of infertile cattle and goats.
Kit developed for sex identification in non-ratite birds
Patent granted: Novel acaricide composition for veterinary topical application and the method of preparation thereof. Date of grant: 29.09.2023. Patent no: Patent No: 455756
Patent granted: Design patent “Parasite Egg Concentrator”. Date of grant: 17.10.2023. Patent no: 393724-001
Patent granted: Method of determining the sex of non-ratite birds. Approved; awaiting certificate on 21st February, 2024. Patent no 513241
granted: AN ACARICIDE FORMULATION FOR THE CONTROL OF TICKS IN FARM ANIMALS” on 10th June, 2024. Patent no 541296
A new and safe method of blood collection from farm pigs. Date of grant: 12.07.2024. Patent no: Patent No: 544874
Life member of ARS Scientists Forum
Life member of Andaman Science Association, Port Blair.
Life member of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Association of India, Anand
Life member of Indian Society of Spices, Kozhikode
Life member of Indian Society of Plantation Crops, Kasaragod
Life member of Society for Promotion of Horticulture, Bengaluru
Life member of National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai
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