Kallaya Sritunyalucksana

Dr
Kallaya
Sritunyalucksana

Principle Researcher
National Science and Technology Development Agency
Biography
Dr. Kallaya Sritunyalucksana has finshed her Ph.D. with the topic to molecular characterize Penaeid shrimp immune defense system from Uppsala University in Sweden in 2001 and from Mahidol University in Thailand in 2002. She has performed her post-doctoral research with National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology or BIOTEC of the National Science and Technology Development Agency or NSTDA, Thailand. Until now, she is a research fellow and principle researcher of NSTDA. Her research interest is on shrimp-pathogen interaction and application of the acheived information to control disease outbreak in the farms. She has published 93 publications and her H-index is 34 in Scopus database. Her research networks are at both national, regional and international levels.
Research interests
My main research interest is to establish a scientific understanding of shrimp-pathogen interaction, a virulence mechanism of shrimp pathogen and shrimp defense response to pathogen, which will be applied to sustainable strategies to prevention and control disease outbreak in the shrimp hatchery and grow-out pond. My team and I are part of the national shrimp genetic improvement program for the black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon, which belongs to BIOTEC/NSTDA to perform the selective breeding program for high growth and disease resistance. My recent project is focused on exploitation of viral accommodation mechanism to control viral diseases in shrimp by development of shrimp vaccination and improvement of viral tolerance in shrimp breeding stock.
Projects you're working on
1. Exploitation of viral accommodation mechansim to control viral diseases in shrimp. National Research Council of Thailand 2.Development of a digital database of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) and novel viruses to improve PCR detection methods for controlling the spread of crustacean viral diseases via international trade and screening of markers for viral-resistant breeding stocks. Chinese Academy of Science and Thailand National Science and Technology Development Agency 3. Essential knowledge to support importation and exportation of commodity shrimp of Thailand: impact of viable viruses in the imported frozen shrimp and effect of temperature on virus inactivation in the exported cooked shrimp. Agricultural Research Development Agency, Thailand 4. Establishing fundamental knowledge and modern technology for the sustainability of Thailand's aquaculture industry. Thailand Science Research and Innovation
Host species
Fish
Pathogen
Bacteria Viruses
Stage of vaccine development
Antigen discovery and immunogen design Clinical trials