Asit Pattnaik

Asit Pattnaik serves as a Professor in the Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, conducting research on RNA virus molecular biology and vaccine development.

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia (1984)
• M.S. in Life Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (1978)
• B.S. in Physics from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha, India (1976)

Dr. Pattnaik's research spans Virology, Molecular Virology, and Immunology with emphasis on viral replication mechanisms, host-pathogen interactions, and vaccine design. His laboratory investigates vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), and Zika virus (ZIKV) using infectious molecular clones to dissect genomic elements, protein functions in virulence, and immune responses for developing attenuated vaccines and protein nanoparticle subunit vaccines.

Scientific awards: No awards mentioned in source text.

Advising and grants: Source text provides no details on graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, or research funding sources.

The Pattnaik laboratory operates from the Morrison Life Sciences Research Center (MOLR 109) at UNL, focusing on viral pathogenesis and translational vaccine development against economically significant and emerging RNA viruses.