Sagar Nayak, PhD.
Job Position: Postdoc - Laboratory of Fish Protistology
Phone:
+420 38 777 5423
E-mail:
sagar.nayak@paru.cas.cz
Room:
113
Sagar Nayak
email: sagar.nayak@paru.cas.cz
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-137X
Education and Research Career
2022 - present Postdoctoral researcher, Biology Centre CAS, Czech Republic
2015 - 2022 Postdoctoral fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2008 - 2013 Ph.D. Marine Biology, CSIR National Institute of Oceanography, India
2004 - 2006 M. Sc. Biotechnology, Berhampur University, India
2001 - 2003 B.Sc. Biology, Berhampur University, India
Publications in International Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Novichkova E, Nayak S, Boussiba S, Gopas J, Zilberg D, Khozin-Goldberg I. Dietary Application of the Microalga Lobosphaera incisa P127 Reduces Severity of Intestinal Inflammation, Modulates Gut-Associated Gene Expression, and Microbiome in the Zebrafish Model of IBD. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2023 Mar;67(6):e2200253.
- Nayak S, Yogev U, Kpordzaxor Y, Zhu Z, Gur N, Gross A, et al. From fish excretions to high-protein dietary ingredient: Feeding intensively cultured barramundi (Lates calcarifer) a diet containing microbial biomass (biofloc) from effluent of an aquaculture system. Aquaculture 2023; 562: 738780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738780
- Nayak S, Al Ashhab A, Zilberg D, Khozin-Goldberg I. Dietary Supplementation with Omega-6 LC-PUFA-Rich Microalgae Regulates Mucosal Immune Response and Promotes Microbial Diversity in the Zebrafish Gut. Biology 2020; 9: 119. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9060119
- Lazado CC, Nayak S, Khozin-Goldberg I, Zilberg D. The gut mucosal barrier of zebrafish (Danio rerio) responds to the time-restricted delivery of Lobosphaera incisa-enriched diets. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 2019; 89: 368-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2019.04.012
- Nayak S, Khozin-Goldberg I, Cohen G, Zilberg D. Dietary Supplementation With ω6 LC-PUFA-Rich Algae Modulates Zebrafish Immune Function and Improves Resistance to Streptococcal Infection. Frontiers in Immunology 2018; 9. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01960
- Nayak S, Koven W, Meiri I, Khozin-Goldberg I, Isakov N, Zibdeh M, et al. Dietary arachidonic acid affects immune function and fatty acid composition in cultured rabbitfish Siganus rivulatus. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 2017; 68: 46-53 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2017.07.003
- Nayak S, Portugal I, Zilberg D. Analyzing complement activity in the serum and body homogenates of different fish species, using rabbit and sheep red blood cells. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 2018; 199: 39-42 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vetimm.2018.03.008
- Nayak S, Singh SK, Ramaiah N, Sreepada RA. Identification of upregulated immune-related genes in Vibrio harveyi challenged Penaeus monodon postlarvae. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 2010; 29: 544-549
- Nayak S, Ajay KM, Ramaiah N, Meena RM, Sreepada RA. Profiling of a few immune responsive genes expressed in postlarvae of Fenneropenaeus indicus challenged with Vibrio harveyi D3. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 2011; 107: 168-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2011.04.001
- Nayak S, Ramaiah N, Meena RM, Sreepada RA. Full-length cloning and phylogenetic analyses of translationally controlled tumour protein and ferritin genes from the Indian white prawn, Fenneropenaeus indicus (H. Milne Edwards). Journal of Fish Diseases 2014; 37: 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfd.12040
- Nayak S, Porob S, Fernandes A, Meena RM, Ramaiah N. PCR detection of ansA from marine bacteria and its sequence characteristics from Bacillus tequilensis NIOS4. Journal of Basic Microbiology 2014; 54: 162-168 https://doi.org/10.1002/jobm.201200355
- Porob S, Nayak S, Fernandes A, Padmanabhan P, Patil B A, Meena R M, Ramaiah N. PCR screening for surfactin (sfp) gene in marine Bacillus strains and its molecular characterization from Bacillus tequilensis NIOS11. Turkish Journal of Biology. 2013, 37, 212-221.
