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Swati Dahiya

Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Kurukshetra University, Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes

ORCID iD 0000-0003-0991-1372
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Dr. Swati Dahiya, serving as Co-ordinator Research, LUVAS, has a vast experience of more than 23 years of working on important viral infections of livestock and poultry involving the genomic diversity and diagnostics of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, bluetongue virus, rotavirus, adenovirus and bacteriophages.

She did B.V.Sc. & A.H., M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. in Veterinary Microbiology from CCS HAU, Hisar. After working as JRF in the project ‘Taxonomy of Viruses’ and RA in ICAR ‘Network Project on Bluetongue disease’, she joined Kurukshetra University as Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor & In-charge, Dept. of Biotech. Engg., UIET. She has also worked as Senior Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar.

She has guided ten Master’s students and two Ph.D. One patent No. 430061 on ‘Tunable LED based Electrophoresis coupled Gel Documentation System’ was granted on 26.04.2023. Got one Copyright (SW-18808/2024; 24.05.2024) for an innovative software “LUVAS FMD E-Loss Calculator” available of Google Play Store. She has organized many trainings and workshops under ICAR-Niche Area of Excellence (NAE) project, ICAR-Centre of Advanced Faculty Training on different aspects of disease diagnostics in Veterinary Microbiology, National Conference and DST sponsored Entrepreneurship Development Programme.

She is handling externally funded research projects including ICAR-AICRP on FMD; National Animal Disease Control Programme for FMD launched by hon’ble PM of India; Livestock Health and Disease Control Programme (LHDCP) to control FMD; ICAR-Niche Area of Excellence project on Phage Display Techniques for Production of Veterinary Immunobiologicals without Sacrificing Animals; Implementation of FMD+HS dual vaccine in Haryana; Production and Characterization of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus specific Nanobodies for Application as Diagnostic Reagents funded by HSCSIT as PI/ Co-PI.

Recently ICAR-Directorate of FMD awarded Appreciation certificate and "A" grade to RRC on FMD, LUVAS, Hisar for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to FMD surveillance and monitoring in the state of Haryana. She has been conferred with Young Scientist Award by AMI; Silver Jubilee Gold Medal for Women for best Doctoral thesis; Dr. V. D. Kashyap Memorial Gold Medal for best Ph.D. research worker; Ms. Manju Mutreja Memorial Gold Medal for best Ph.D. research work in CCS HAU, Hisar; J. V. Bhat Memorial Award for best research paper published in Indian Journal of Microbiology; prize at National level ‘Anveshan’ organized by TISS, Mumbai and AIUA for designing and fabricating a patentable working model of ‘E-Gel Doc’ instrument.

She is a member of Rapid Action Group for Disease Outbreak Investigations of LUVAS and serving as Executive member of LUVAS Teacher’s Association. She was the member of Editorial Board for publication of Self Study Report for Accreditation of LUVAS by ICAR. She is a life member of Indian Virological Society, Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI), Haryana Veterinary Council, Indian Society for Buffalo Development and Society for Microvita Research and Integrated Medicine.

She has delivered more than 25 invited lectures. There are more than 35 research/ review papers/ conference proceedings as full papers, 24 DNA sequences in International GenBank database, 11 editor/ coauthor of book/ manuals/ Annual Reports, 02 chapters to volumes by International Publishers, 21 chapters in e-book/ manual/ compendium, 08 popular articles, 07 educational TV/ radio talks, 25 papers presented in International & National conferences/ workshops to her credit.

Employment

  • Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Senior Scientist & In-charge, Regional Research Centre on Foot and Mouth Disease
    2021 - Present
  • Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Scientist
    2013 - 2021
  • Kurukshetra University Associate Professor
    2011 - 2013
  • Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes Senior Scientist
    2011 - 2011
  • Kurukshetra University Associate Professor
    2010 - 2011
  • Kurukshetra University Assistant Professor
    2007 - 2010
  • Kurukshetra University Lecturer
    2006 - 2007

Education

  • Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Ph.D.
    2001 - 2003

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Publications (41)