Babu Nath

Dr Babu Nath

Research Fellow in Veterinary Epidemiology, Biosecurity and Surveillance, Charles Sturt Centre for Biosecurity, Gulbali Institute

Gulbali Institute

Biography

Dr. Babu Nath has been awarded his Ph.D. from Charles Sturt University for researching on molecular and structural virology of circoviruses. This is followed by his post-doctoral research supporting by the Charles Sturt University Centre for Biosecurity under Gulbali Institute for developing innovative solutions in biosecurity prediction, detection, risk evaluation, and translational products including diagnostics, anti-viral, and vaccines.

Before joining Charles Sturt as a HDR student in 2018 with Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (AGRTP), Babu worked as a full time academic in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FVM) at Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh. Currently, he is working as a research fellow under the Gulbali Institute of Charles Sturt and involved with Jade Forwood lab focusing on protein expression, purification and crystallography. Besides, he is working with veterinary pathology team of Charles Sturt university and involved with Veterinary diagnostic laboratory concentrating on molecular diagnosis and genotyping of veterinary pathogens.

Babu’s main research themes include epidemiology of infectious diseases, molecular biology, viral evolution and structural virology. His primary research interest is linking genomics and structural biology techniques for determining viral evolution, discovering novel viruses of veterinary importance and expressing recombinant protein macromolecules as vaccine candidates.

Research
  • Epidemiology of infectious diseases
  • Viral genomics
  • Viral evolution
  • Structural characterisation of essential viral proteins.
  • Evolutionary and Structural Biology of Circoviruses
  • Molecular diagnosis and genotyping of veterinary pathogens
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Barua, S. R., Das, T., Rakib, T. M., Nath, B. K., Gupta, S. D., Sarker, S., Chowdhury, S., Raidal, S. R., & Das, S. (2024). Complete genome constellation of a dominant Bovine rotavirus genotype circulating in Bangladesh reveals NSP4 intragenic recombination with human strains. Virology, 598, 110195. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2024.110195
  • Neef, A., Nath, B. K., Das, T., Luque, D., Forwood, J. K., Raidal, S. R., & Das, S. (2024). Recombinantly expressed virus-like particles (VLPs) of canine circovirus for development of an indirect ELISA. Veterinary Research Communications. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11259-023-10290-z
  • Athukorala​, A., Donnelly​, C.M., Pavan, S., Nematollahzadeh, S., Atalie Djossou​, V, Nath​, B., Helbig1​, K.J., Di Iorio​, E., McSharry​, B.P., Alvisi​, G., Forwood​, J.K., Sarker, S.  (2024). Structural and functional characterization of siadenovirus core protein VII nuclear localization demonstrates the existence of multiple nuclear transport pathways. Journal of General Virology, 105(1). https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001928
  • Nath, B., Das, T., Peters, A., Gupta, S., Sarker, S., Forwood, J., Raidal, S., & Das, S. (2023). Australasian Pigeon Circoviruses Demonstrate Natural Spillover Infection. Viruses, 15(10), Article 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15102025
  • Nath, B. K., Das, S., Tidd, N., Das, T., Forwood, J. K., & Raidal, S. R. (2023). Lesions and viral loads in racing pigeons naturally coinfected with pigeon circovirus and columbid alphaherpesvirus 1 in Australia. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 10406387231156839. https://doi.org/10.1177/10406387231156839