Biography
Name: Dr Bidhan Chandra Bera
Designation: Scientist (S.S.)
Phone: 09728240060
Email: bcbpatent@gmail.com
Department : Veterinary Type Culture Collection
Name of the Institute : ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines
Dr Bidhan Chandra Bera is a Scientist (S.S.) at Veterinary Type Culture Collection, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines. He is specialised in Molecular diagnostics & epidemiology; Genome sequencing; Recombinant protein production in E.coli, insect cell and yeast; ORFeome of equine influenza & buffalo pox virus; protein-protein interaction studies using Yeast-Two-Hybrid system. He is associated with diagnosis of several viral diseases of animals including equine influenza, swine respiratory viruses {Swine Influenza Type A Virus (SIV), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV-2), porcine respiratory coronavirus (PRCV) etc.}, poxvirus infections (buffalopox, camelpox, goatpox & swinepox), equine herpesviruses, bovine corona virus, parapox virus, bovine papiloma virus etc. He is awarded with Young Scientist Award by Indian Virological Society, VIROCON-2011 and by Indian Association for Veterinary Pathology, 2015