Atanu Kumar Pati is an Indian zoologist, served as the Vice-Chancellor Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur, Odisha from 2017 till 2020.

Early life and education

Pati did his B.Sc. from

Utkal University Utkal University (UU) is a public university in Bhubaneswar, Khordha, Odisha, and is the oldest university in the state, and the 17th-oldest university in India. The university was established in 1943 and was operating from Ravenshaw College ...

and M.Sc. (1977) and Ph.D. (1982) in Zoology from

Banaras Hindu University Banaras Hindu University (BHU), formerly Benares Hindu University, is a collegiate, central, and research university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College, ...

. He has also received the UGC Research Award in 2002. He has also been elected as Fellow of the

National Academy of Sciences, India The National Academy of Sciences, India, also known as NASI, was established in 1930 and is the oldest science academy of India. It is located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Prof. Meghnad Saha was the founder president. Fellows * Suddhasatwa Bas ...

(FNASc) in 2003. He presided the Indian Society for Chronobiology as its president from 2008 till 2017. He served the International Society of Subterranean Biology ociété Internationale de Biospéologie

as its Council Member, from 2004 to 2010. He is also Professor, Head, Dean, School of Life Sciences Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University (on lien).

Career

BSc (1975) - Utkal University; MSc (1977) - Banaras Hindu University; PhD (1982) - Banaras Hindu University; Cours de Chronobiologie (1986) - L’Université V, Paris. Post-doctoral research at Hôpital Paul Brousse, Villejuif (L’Université V, Paris). Faculty — School of Life Sciences - (1983- Present). Council Member, World Federation of Societies of Chronobiology, 2002–2006. Recipient of UGC Research Award, 2002. Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), India, 2003. Council Member, International Society of Subterranean Biology, 2004–2010. Member, International Scientific Board, 1st, 2nd, 3rd International Congress of Applied Chronobiology and Chronomedicine. Editor-in-Chief, Newsletter, Indian Society for Chronobiology, 1995–1997, 2000–2009. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Ravishankar University, Part B (Science) from 2009–present. President, Indian Society for Chronobiology, from 2009–presen

Research work

The main focus of his research involves study of circadian clocks in shift workers, cancer patients and cave fish. In addition, he studies cognitive abilities, with reference to short-interval judgment, in human subjects. He also studied cognitive abilities involving case construction behavior in a species of bagworm moth. He demonstrated alteration in temporal organization in human subjects, who carry out rotational shift duties. He reported disruption of circadian rhythm in cognitive judgment of short-time intervals in shift workers. He proposed a model for optimization of human shift work. He reported that shift work might reduce human longevity. He reported disruption of circadian clock in cancer patients and suggested implementation of patient-specific chronotherapeutic protocol. He demonstrated functional circadian oscillators in cave fish and reinterpreted findings of others to rule out the hypothesis of clock regression in hypogean fish. He reported rhythmic pattern in case architecture of bagworm moth. He proposed a model illustrating the ability of this moth to process thorn length and distance signals hierarchically during case construction through toggling its preference between thorns and cut-twig

Representative publications

* Pati AK (2008). Circadian rhythms in hypogean fish: with special reference to the cave loach, ''Nemacheilus'' ''evezardi''. In: ''Fish Life in Special Environments'', P. Sébert, D.W. Onyango and B.G. Kapoor (eds.), pp. 83–130. Science Publishers, New Hampshire, USA. * Pati AK, Parganiha A, Kar A, Soni R, Roy S and Choudhary V (2007). Alterations of the characteristics of the circadian rest-activity rhythm of cancer in-patients. ''Chronobiol. Int.'' 24, 1179–1197. * Pati AK and Parganiha A (2005). Shift work: Circadian rhythm disruption and beyond. ''Proc. Indian Natn.'' Sci. Acad. (PINSA)'' B71, 229-255.'' Pati AK and Agrawal A (2000). Hierarchical perception of stimuli during case construction in the bagworm moth ''Eumeta crameri''. ''J. Insect Behavior'' 13, 667–677. * Pati AK, Florentin I, Chung V, De Sousa M, Lévi F and Mathé G (1987). Circannual rhythm in natural killer cell activity and mitogen responsiveness of murine splenocytes. ''Cellular Immunology'' 108, 227–234. * Atanu Kumar Pati, Arti Chandrawanshi and Alain Reinberg (2001) Shift work: Consequences and management

References

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