Dr. Ajay Kumar Upadhyay

Research Areas / Areas of Interest

• Epidemiology, Environmental Hygiene, Food Safety, Disease Surveillance

Research Projects

• Principal Investigator of ICAR funded project “All India Network Programme on ‘One Health Approach to Zoonotic Diseases’ (AINP-OH)” — ongoing project from 2024.
• Principal Investigator of Agriculture and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India) funded project “Export Standards, Guidelines and Promotion for Natural Agriculture Products” from 21-11-2023 to 2025.
• Principal Investigator of ICAR funded project “Dairy Microbes under the scheme entitled Veterinary Type Culture in XI Five Year Plans” from 2011 till 2020.
• Principal Investigator of ICAR funded project “Outreach Programme on Zoonotic Diseases in XI and XII Five Year Plans” from 2011 till 2020.
• Principal Investigator of WHO funded project “Monitoring the Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of Bacterial Food Borne Pathogens in Humans, Food Animals and Retail Meat in India” from 2013 till 2019.

Publications

• Review articles: 12
• Research Papers: 160
• Books: 11
• Book Chapters: 17
• Popular articles: 119

Selected Research Publications

1. Nagpal, A., Maansi and Upadhyay, A. K. (2024). Antibiotic resistance genes characterization of nontyphoidal Salmonella serovars of layers. International Journal of Advanced Biochemistry Research 8(7): 391-395.
2. Aastha, N., Maansi, Upadhyay, A. K. and Sharma, H. (2024). Prevalence of Virulence Genes in Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Isolates from Layers in Pantnagar, India. Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology 27(8): 124-32.
3. Rautela, R., Maansi, Rawool, D. B., Upadhyay, A. K., Kumar, D., Singh, D. K., Tewari, A. K., Rautela, A. and Parmar, T. (2024). Detection of drug-resistant Salmonella serovars and absence of Listeria in the associated organic farm environment. Indian Journal of Animal Sciences 94(9): 764–769.
4. Maurya, S. and Upadhyay, A. K. (2024). Microbial contamination in panipuri ingredients and utensils. Pantnagar Jour. Res. 22(3): 647-650.
5. Ansari, I., Maansi, Kamboj, A., and Upadhyay, A. K. (2025). Isolation and Characterization of Campylobacter and Salmonella Species from Water Sources in Uttarakhand, India: Assessing Colistin Resistance in the Isolates. Veterinaria Italiana, 61(1).
6. Ansari, I., Shukla, M., Upadhyay, A.K., Sanower and Kamboj, A. (2025). Assessment of Thermophilic Campylobacter Load in Surface Water Bodies of Uttarakhand Province of India Through Real-time qPCR Assay. Indian Journal of Animal Research. 1-8.
7. Yadav, A., Maurya, S., Maanshi and Upadhyay, A. K. (2025). Brucellosis surveillance and reproductive performance in an organized dairy herd of Uttarakhand: A seven-year retrospective analysis (2018–2024). Pantnagar Jour. Res. 23(2): 227-229.
8. Singh, N. K., Upadhyay, A. K. and Kamboj, A. (2026). Bovine mastitis: An economically important dairy problem: A review. International Journal of Advanced Biochemistry Research 10(1): 104-113.
9. Singh, N. K., Upadhyay, A. K., Shukla, M., Kamboj, A., Sharma, H. and Kumar, A. (2026). Evaluation of Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Campylobacters Isolated from Wild Animals and Birds. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 31(1): 934-942.
10. Upadhyay, A. K., Deb, C. K., Marwaha, S., Haque, M. A., Das, M., Ray, M., Saravanakumar, R., Arora, A., Bharadwaj, A., Pal, C., Marwaha, P., Sukumar, K., Tiwari, R., Kumar, A., Kumar, B., & Bal, M. S. (2026). CanNet-VCD: A hybrid framework integrating supervised autoencoders and SVM for explainable image-based decision support in canine disease diagnosis. SSRN.

Awards and Honours

1. Commonwealth Youth Silver Medal 2007-08 for the project on “Conservation of Mountain Eco-System Under Planet Earth Programme”.
2. Fellow of Academy of Sciences for Animal Welfare.
3. Fellow of ISACP.