Arvind Kumar, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Phone: 212.342.9051
Fax: 212.342.9044
Email: ak3754@columbia.edu

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India, BSc (Biology), 2001
Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India, MSc (Applied Microbiology), 2006
King George’s Medical University, Lucknow India, PhD (Virology) 2013
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow India, RA, 2014

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Development of new diagnostics methods for early detection of emerging and variant viruses.
Study of the virome in multiple transfusion patients by a next-generation sequencing approach
Pathogenesis of newly identified viruses

PUBLICATIONS

• Arvind Kumar, Deepti Shukla, Rashmi Kumar, Mohammad Z Idris, Prashant Jauhari, Shalini Srivastava, and Tapan N Dhole. Molecular identification of enteroviruses associated with aseptic meningitis in children from India. Archive of Virology. 2013; 158 (1):211-215.
• Arvind Kumar, Deepti Shukla, Shalini Srivastava, Mohammad Z Idris, and Tapan N Dhole. High frequency of enterovirus serotypes circulation in densely populated area of India. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 2013; 7 (6):475-483.
• Deepti Shukla, Arvind Kumar, Shalini Srivastava, Mohammad Z Idris, and Tapan N Dhole. Environmental surveillance of enterovirus in northern India using an integrated shell vial culture with semi nested RT PCR and partial sequencing of VP1 gene. Journal of Medical Virology. 2013; 85 (3):505-11.
• Deepti Shukla, Arvind Kumar, Shalini Srivastava and Tapan N Dhole. Molecular identification and phylogenetic study of Coxsackievirus A24 variant isolated from an outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis in India, 2010. Archive of Virology. 2013; 158 (3):679-84. 
• Arvind Kumar, Deepti Shukla, Rashmi Kumar, Mohammad Z Idris, Usha K Misra, and Tapan N Dhole. Molecular epidemiological study of enteroviruses associated with encephalitis in children from India. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 2012; 50 (11): 3509-12.
• Arvind Kumar, Deepti Shukla, Rashmi Kumar, Mohammad Z Idris, Usha K Misra, and Tapan N Dhole. An epidemic of encephalitis associated with human enterovirus B in Uttar Pradesh, India 2008. Journal of Clinical Virology. 2011; 51(2):142-145.