Dr. Baldev R. Gulati, born on April 5, 1966, did his BVSc & AH in 1988
from College of Veterinary Sciences, Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar
with distinction. He was awarded two gold medals for his academic excellence
during BVSC& AH. He subsequently completed MVSc (1991) and PhD (1997)
in Veterinary Microbiology from the same college. He joined as Assistant
Professor in Veterinary Microbiology, HAU, Hisar in 1993. He did post-doctoral
fellowship from University of Minnesota, USA between 2000 and 2002. He joined
National Research Centre on Equines in April 2003 as Senior Scientist.
Dr. Gulati has worked in the areas of diagnostics and vaccinology against
various infectious diseases. He developed highly sensitive and specific
ELISAs for avian pneumovirus using recombinantly expressed matrix and nucleocapsid
proteins (Gulati et al. 2000. J. Clinical Microbiology 38:4010-14; Gulati
et al. 2001. J. Clinical Microbiology 39:2967-70). These assay systems have
been filed for US patent. He also developed various effective attenuated
vaccines against avian pneumovirus (Gulati et al. Avian Diseases 45:593-97;
Patnayak et al.2002 Avian Pathology). He also worked on the etiopathology
of hydropericardium syndrome in poultry and proved that HPS is caused by
fowl adenovirus serotype 4 alone (Dahiya et al. 2002 Avian Diseases 46:230-33).
He has also worked on characterization of rotaviruses from diarrhoeic calves
in India. He serotyped rotaviruses circulating in calves in India for the
first time (Gulati et al. 1999. J Clin. Microbiol.37:2074-2076) and established
the predominance of a unique serotype in bovines (G10P11) which has also
been reported from human population in India. He also developed monoclonal
antibodies-based ELISA for rotavirus detection in diarrheic stools (Gulati
et al. 1998 ICAR News 1998.4(4):1-2). He worked on virulence determinants
of diarrhoeic Escherichia coli from calves and reported the prevalence of
K99, F41, 987P and f17 fimbriae in enterotoxigenic E. coli (Gulati et al.
1992. Vet. Record 131:348-49). The plasmids associated with genes for fimbriae
and enterotoxins in E. coli were identified and characterized by conjugation
and transformation studies (Gulati et al. 1993. Indian J. Microbiology 33:201-205).
Dr. Gulati (in collaboration with Dr. B.K. Singh) reported antigenic and
genetic variations in different Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) isolates. DNA
fingerprinting indicated the existence of variations in five different EHV-1
isolates from India, which was further confirmed by demonstration of antigenic
variations using a panel of monoclonal antibodies.
AT NRCE, he has initiated a project on prevalence of various etiological
agents of foal diarrhea i.e. rotavirus, Clostridium, Salmonella and Cryptosporidium.
This project involves development of improved diagnostics and characterization
of diarrheal pathogens.
