Associate Professor & Ex-Head
Dr. Uttam Sarkar
Animal geneticist, educator, and researcher advancing livestock productivity, conservation, and health through evidence-led breeding science.
Department of Animal Genetics & Breeding
Faculty of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, WBUAFS
At a glance
Research, teaching and academic service
A career spanning university teaching, public veterinary practice, research leadership, and postgraduate mentorship.
Academic focus
Improving animal populations with genetics, data and field knowledge.
Dr. Sarkar specialises in Animal Genetics & Breeding. His work connects indigenous animal genetic resources, genomic and transcriptomic investigation, production traits, and livestock-based livelihoods.
View research portfolioEvidence for breeding decisions in livestock populations.
Host response and susceptibility research in cattle tuberculosis.
Conservation and characterisation of local breeds.
Livestock, poultry and fishery-linked rural development.
Recent scholarship
Selected publications
Recent work includes transcriptomic and immune-response studies in cattle, alongside livestock production research.
Transcriptome profiling in an in vitro PBMC Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection model
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 306, 1-13.
A bovine pulmosphere model and multiomics reveal early host response signature in tuberculosis
Communications Biology, 8, 559.
IFN-gamma and IL-10 cytokines in resistant and susceptible Garole sheep
Experimental Parasitology, 274, 108970.
Teaching
Class notes
UG and PG teaching material for animal genetics, animal breeding and biostatistics.
Resources
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Practical manuals and future academic resources are organised in one place.
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