Faculty

• S.S.L.C
• Pre-degree
• B.V.Sc & A.H
• M.Sc.
• Ph. D Animal Biotechnology

• Professor
• Associate Professor
• Assistant Professor
• Junior Assistant Professor

• Rajib Goyal Prize for Young Scientist – 2001 in Veterinary Sciences – for outstanding contributions in the field of Veterinary Sciences instituted by the Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. The award comprised of a cash prize of Rs. 50.000/-, a silver medal and citation.
• Certificate of Appreciation by Kerala Agricultural University for securing External funded projects for the period from 19-08-2000 to 31-12-2004.
• Appreciation by the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, for the good work done by the PI under the DBT funded project ‘Molecular Genetic Characterisation and Genetic Improvement of Malabari Goat’ in July 2003.
• Honoured by the Vice–Chancellor and General Council of the Kerala Agricultural University for the outstanding research achievements on 26th July, 2003.
• First position for the Poster in the National Conference on New Horizons in Animal Breeding Technologies for Accelerating Livestock production and Health- January 20-21, 2011 at IVRI Izethnagar, organized by the Indian Society of Animal Genetics & Breeding.
• Appreciation by Indian Veterinary Association, Kerala chapter for handling CRASH Course for candidates of Public Service Commission examination in 2013.
• First Prize –Oral presentation- at XXXII Annual Conference and National Symposium of Indian Poultry Science Association (IPSACON 2015) ,19th to 21st November 2015.
• Appreciation by the Director, Academic Staff College, KVASU for the informative lecture delivered in the Orientation programme, 11th Feb-9th March, 2016.
• Appreciation by Hon.ble Vice Chancellor, KVASU for effective implementation of the EFC project (Funded by ICAR) “Establishment of School of Applied Animal Production and Biotechnology” as its implementation Officer.
• Appreciation by Director of Academics and Research, KVASU for effective implementation of EFC project (Funded by ICAR) “Establishment of School of Applied Animal Production and Biotechnology” as its implementation Officer.
• Appreciation by Registrar, KVASU for effective conduct of National seminar on “Food adequacy...Food production.” Conducted by Association of Meat Science and Technology. 3-4 November, 2017.
• Appreciation by Hon’ble VC, KVASU, for successful conduct of second convocation on 1-1-20182.
• Appreciation by Director, ASC, KVASU, for informative lecture delivered during Orientation Programme conducted from 3rd to 30th January 2018
• Appreciation by Dean, CVAS, Mannuthy and organizing secretary ISVPT, for endless hours of service dedicated during National symposium and XIX Annual conference, 18-20, 2019.
• Best paper Award: Tina Sadan; Aravindakshan, T.V. et. al. Paper entitled :”Evaluation of rumen metagenome and methane emission levels between Vechur and Crossbred cattle of Kerala” 31st Kerala Science Congress. 2-3 February 2019, Kollam.
• Second best paper” published in Indian. Journal of Dairy Science in the year 1998.
• Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR) for undergoing Ph.D programme in Animal Biotechnology in the year 1995. (Did not utilize the fellowship).
• Senior Research Fellowship (ICAR) for undergoing PhD programme in the subject of Animal Biotechnology in the year 1994.
• Second Rank in M.Sc. (Animal Biotechnology) from National Dairy Research Institute (Deemed University), Karnal in the year 1992.
• “ICAR Junior Fellowship” in the discipline of Animal Breeding & Genetics in the year 1990 for undergoing M.V.Sc. programme (Did not utilize the fellowship).
• “Junior NDRI Fellowship” for undergoing M.Sc. (Animal Biotechnology) programme at NDRI, Karnal, India for the period 1990- 1992.
• Kerala Veterinary College Alumni Association Gold Medal in 1987 for securing first rank in B.V.Sc. & A.H degree programme.
• First rank in B.V.Sc. & A.H from Kerala Agricultural University in 1987
• “K.S. Nair Memorial Prize” for the year 1986 for securing highest GPA in the group of courses in Animal Management, Animal Nutrition, Animal Breeding & Genetics and Dairy Science of B.V.Sc. & A.H.
• “Trivandrum Livestock Improvement Association Prize” in the year 1986 for securing highest GPA in B.V.Sc. & A.H course.
• “Inauguration Souvenir Prize” in the year 1986 for securing highest grade point average in group of courses in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology of B.V.Sc. & A.H.
• “T.V. Kochuvareed Memorial Prize” in the year 1986 for securing the highest grade point average (GPA) in B.V.Sc. A.H.
• “M.O. Thomakutty Memorial prize” in the year 1986 for securing highest GPA in the group of courses in Physiology and Biochemistry of B.V.Sc. & A.H degree programme.
• Mrs. Devaky Nair Endowment Prize” for the year 1984 for his having excelled himself in social service activities in the B.V. Sc. & A.H. degree programme.
• National merit Scholarship based on the marks (494/600) in SSLC examination which was utilized in Pre-degree and B.V. Sc. & A.H programmes.
• Upper Secondary School (USS) Merit Scholarship, which was awarded in 8th, 9th and 10th Standards.
• Lower Secondary School (LSS) Merit Scholarship, which was awarded in 5th, 6th and 7th Standards.

• Exploitation of Biomolecules of Pathogens. 16-6-1997 to 6-7-1997
• Management Strategies for Cost Efficient Livestock Production in Rural Sector. 11th to 31st May 1999.
• Access to Biotechnology Information-Tools and sources. 18th to 20th October, 2000
• Bioinformatics: The Hand-Maiden of Future Biology. Feb 25 to March 10, 2001.
• Workshop on Recombinant DNA Technology. 12-10-2002 to 19-10-2002
• Safety Aspects in the Research Applications of Ionising Radiation. March 22-30, 2004
• Refresher course in Bioinformatics. 17-01-2006 to 07-02-2006
• Implications of WTO agreements on Indian Agriculture. 4th to 24th October, 2005.
• Developing Winning Research proposals in Agricultural Research. 22-27 April, 2010.
• “Molecular Techniques in Gene Isolation and Characterization.8-28th November, 2010
• Computational Genome Analysis using ANVAYA. 22-24 June 2011.
• Academic Leadership for Excellence –Management Development programme. 09-11, August, 2011
• Advanced Molecular Biology Tools used in Animal Disease Diagnosis and Development of New Generation Vaccines. 3rd to 23rd October 2011.
• ‘Importance of student counseling programme’. CoVAS, Mannuthy on 26th July 2011
• Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Knowledge Management. 3-17, October, 2012.
• Training on Bioinformatics tools and techniques for gene and protein analysis. 7-11th January 2013.
• Metagenomics-Role of next generation sequencing and bioinformatics. 15-24th October, 2013
• Optimizing fertility in the livestock of hill ecosystem applying modern approaches. 22-31 August 2016
• Basic and Advanced Proteomics Approaches- “Omics Technologies for Life Sciences” . 23rd Sept. to 4th Oct. 2019
• Current Concepts in Biomethodolgy and PhytopharmacologyNov 20th to Dec 3rd, 2020

• Aravindakshan T.V. et. al (2013). Current Status and Research Priorities in Native Livestock Species for Combating Climate Change Varied Climates. In. Global Food Safety and Future Livestock Farms in Varied climate. GSLHVP Rao et. al. (eds). Published by KVASU.
• Aravindakshan T.V. (2013). Advanced Biotechnological Tools with Potential Applications in Climate Change Studies in Farm Animals. In: Fundamentals of Livestock Meteorology. Vol-II. GSLHVP Rao et. al. (eds). Published by KVASU.
• Reshma, R.S; Aravindakshan, T V., Radhika, G., Naicy, T; and Raji, K. (2020). Exome wide variant discovery by next generation DNA sequencing in Vechur cattle of Kerala. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 51 (2): 107.
• Karthikeyan, A; Radhika, G. and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2020). Expression of L-Selectin in Peripheral Blood Leukocytes of Crossbred Cows Affected with Subclinical Mastitis. Journal of Animal Research 10 (2):1-4.
• Anjana, A; Raji, K; Bhuvana, P. and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2020). Isolation of Theca cells from goat ovarian follicles and expression of CYP19 gene in the isolated cells. EC Clinical and Experimental Biology. 3.9 :10-19.
• Karthikeyan, A; Radhika, G. and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2020). Characterization and in silico analysis of Osteopontin gene in Vechur cattle of Kerala. Journal of Entomology and Zoology studies 8 (2):262-266.
• Rajagopal, A; Sabu, L; Radhika, R; Devada, K. and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2020). High prevalence of the E198A polymorphism in isotype-1 β-tubulin gene of Haemonchus contortus populations in organized goat farms in Kerala, South India. Small ruminant research, 188: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smallrumres. 2020.106110

Full articles in Conference Proceedings

• Desai, A.G; Naicy T; Muhasin, V.N.A., Aravindakshan, T.V and Bindu, L. (2019). Relative Abundance of Fatty acid synthase (FASN) mRNA in placental tissue of Malabari goats associated with kid survival. Proc. 7th Pan Commonwealth Veterinary Conference.
• Desai, A.G; Naicy T. and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2019). Differential placental expression of Early Growth Response 2 (EGR2) gene in Malabari goats associated with early kid .survivability. Proc. 7th Pan Commonwealth Veterinary Conference.
• Silpa, M.V; Naicy, T; Radhika, G. and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2019). Detection of a Novel SNP in SIRT3 gene and its associated with production traits in goats. Proc. 7th Pan Commonwealth Veterinary Conference.
• Naicy Thomas, R.T. Venkatachalapathy and T.V Aravindakshan 2016. Tissue Expression profile, molecular cloning and SNP analysis of caprine IGF-1 gene. 28th Kerala Science Congress.
• Naicy Thomas, R.T. Venkatachalapathy and T.V Aravindakshan 2015. Expression profile and genetic variability analysis of caprine nerve growth factor gene. 27th Kerala Science Congress.
• Sethumadhavan, T.P and Aravindakshan, T.V. (2000). Mrugangalie Cloning (Malayalam). Karshakan (Annual Issue) 26-29.
• Aravindakshan T.V. Molecular Diagnostics Applicable to Wild and Captive Animals. Compendium of the ICAR Winter school on Wild and Captive Animals. 224-227.
• Aravindakshan T.V. (1996) Cloning Animals –The exciting scientific development. Agricultural Hand book. 85-86.
• Aravindakshan T.V. (2003). Advanced biotechnological tools with potential applications in climate change studies. Winter school on Climate Change Adaptation, KVASU.
• Aravindakshan T.V. (2016) How to write winning research proposals? In Compendium of the Orientation Programme, Academic Staff College , KVASU.
• Aravindakshan T.V. (2018) Genome Editing and its application in medicine and biotechnology. Compendium of Lectures Vol. 2. Academic Staff College , KVASU.
• Aravindakshan T.V. (2018). Next Generation Sequencing and its applications. Compendium of Lectures Vol. 2. Academic Staff College , KVASU.