Deepak Kumar

About

I have the expertise and interdisciplinary research skills to perform the proposed research. The core interest of my research has been the use of functional genomics tools to characterize the functional role of tick antioxidant machinery in hematophagy and vector competence. To dissect the mechanism of tick hematophagy and vector competence, we are using different approaches including RNA interference, microbiome, microRNA etc. As part of my work in this field, I have published several manuscripts in this field and I am highly qualified to carry out the proposed research. I am well versed in bench as well as computational work including RNA interference, pathogen/endosymbiont quantification, oxidative stress estimation, multiplexing of several DNA libraries for 16S rRNA sequencing, microbiome transplantation, QIIME2 analysis, microRNA analysis, and Shotgun metagenomic sequencing analysis.

Employment

• University of Southern Mississippi Postdoctoral Researcher
  2018 - Present
• Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2017 - 2018
• University of Mississippi Medical Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  2017 - 2017

Education

• University of Southern Mississippi PhD
  2010 - 2016
• Michigan Technological University MS (Plant sciences)
  2008 - 2010
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee M.Sc.
  2003 - 2005
• Indira Gandhi National Open University B.Sc. (Major in Chemistry)
  1997 - 2001

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Identification of microRNAs in the Lyme Disease Vector Ixodes scapularis.
  International journal of molecular sciences 2022 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105565
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• Recently Evolved Francisella-Like Endosymbiont Outcompetes an Ancient and Evolutionarily Associated Coxiella-Like Endosymbiont in the Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Linked to the Alpha-Gal Syndrome.
  Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.787209
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• An Insight Into the microRNA Profile of the Ectoparasitic Mite Varroa destructor (Acari: Varroidae), the Primary Vector of Honey Bee Deformed Wing Virus.
  Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.847000
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• An Exploratory Study on the Microbiome of Northern and Southern Populations of Ixodes scapularis Ticks Predicts Changes and Unique Bacterial Interactions.
  Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 2022 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens11020130
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• Recent advances in understanding tick and rickettsiae interactions.
  Parasite immunology 2021 DOI: 10.1111/pim.12830
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• The sialotranscriptome of the gopher-tortoise tick, Amblyomma tuberculatum.
  Ticks and tick-borne diseases 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101560
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• Tick-Borne Pathogens Shape the Native Microbiome Within Tick Vectors.
  Microorganisms 2020 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8091299
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• Is selenoprotein K required for Borrelia burgdorferi infection within the tick vector Ixodes scapularis?
  Parasites & vectors 2019 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-019-3548-y
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• The tick endosymbiont Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and selenoproteins are essential for the growth of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast tick vector.
  Microbiome 2018 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-018-0524-2
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• Catalase is a determinant of the colonization and transovarial transmission of Rickettsia parkeri in the Gulf Coast tick Amblyomma maculatum.
  Insect molecular biology 2017 DOI: 10.1111/imb.12304
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