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Current Position
Assistant Researcher March 2021-Present,
One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine,
University of California Davis.
Lecturer September 2021- Present,
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine,
University of California Davis.
Applied Vet Population Statistics (MPM 204/VEM 298)
Principles of Epidemiology (EPI 205/MPM 205)
Education
- Ph.D. Infectious Disease Modelling, 2015
École Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l’Alimentation, Nantes, ONIRIS/ French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA), France
Thesis: Regional spread and control of Q fever in dairy cattle herds: a multiscale modelling approach. - M.P.V.M., 2012
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, USA
Thesis: Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India. - B.V.Sc. & A.H., 2010
Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Science University, India
Publications
Sanchez, J. N., Munk, B. A., Colby, J., Torres, S. G., Gonzales, B. J., DeForge, J. R., ... & Johnson, C. K. (2022). Pathogen surveillance and epidemiology in endangered peninsular bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni). Conservation Science and Practice, 4(11), e12820.
Pandit, P. S., Anthony, S. J., Goldstein, T., Olival, K. J., Doyle, M. M., Gardner, N. R., ... & Johnson, C. K. (2022). Predicting the potential for zoonotic transmission and host associations for novel viruses. Communications biology, 5(1), 844.
Galvin, A., Pandit, P., English, S., Quock, R., Bandivadekar, R., Colwell, R., Robinson, B., Ernest, H., Brown, M., Sehgal, R., and Tell, L., 2022. Evaluation of minimally invasive sampling methods for detecting avipoxvirus: Hummingbirds as a case example. Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
Pandit, Pranav, Simon Anthony, Tracey Goldstein, Kevin Olival, Megan Doyle, Nicole Gardner, Brian Bird et al. 2022. Predicting the potential for zoonotic transmission and host associations for novel viruses. Accepted in Communications Biololgy.
Singh, J., Pandit, P., McArthur, A.G., Banerjee, A. and Mossman, K., 2021. Evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants. Virology journal, 18(1), pp.1-21.
Pandit PS, Williams DR, Rossitto P, Adaska JM, Pereira R, Lehenbauer TW, Byrne BA, Li X, Atwill ER, Aly SS. 2021. Dairy management practices associated with multi-drug resistant fecal commensals and Salmonella in cull cows: a machine learning approach. PeerJ 9:e11732 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11732
Kelly, T.R., Pandit, P.S., Carion, N., Dombrowski, D.F., Rogers, K.H., McMillin, S.C., Clifford, D.L., Riberi, A., Ziccardi, M.H., Donnelly-Greenan, E.L. and Johnson, C.K., 2021. Early detection of wildlife morbidity and mortality through an event-based surveillance system. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1954), p.20210974.
Pandit PS, Bandivadekar RR, Johnson CK, Mikoni N, Mah M, Purdin G, Ibarra E, Tom D, Daugherty A, Lipman MW, Woo K. Retrospective study on admission trends of Californian hummingbirds found in urban habitats (1991–2016). PeerJ. 2021 Apr 13;9:e11131.
Wolking, D., Karmacharya, D., Bista, M., Shrestha, R., Pandit, P., Sharma, A., Manandhar, S., Shrestha, B., Bajracharya, S., Bhatta, T. and Dulal, S., 2020. Vulnerabilities for Exposure to Emerging Infectious Disease at Urban Settlements in Nepal. EcoHealth, 17(3), pp.345-358.
Johnson, C.K., Hitchens, P.L., Pandit, P.S., Rushmore, J., Evans, T.S., Young, C.C. and Doyle, M.M., 2020. Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1924), p.20192736.
Pranav Pandit, Megan Doyle, Katrina Smart, Cristin Young, Gaylen Drape, and Christine Johnson. "Predicting wildlife reservoirs and global vulnerability to zoonotic Flaviviruses" Nature Communications, 9.
Ruta Bandivadekar, Pranav Pandit, Rahel Sollmann, Michael Thomas, Scott Logan, Jennifer Brown, A.P. Klimley, Lisa Tell. "Use of RFID technology to characterize feeder visitations and contact network of hummingbirds in urban habitats" PLOS ONE, 13, no.12, (2018), e0208057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208057
Pranav Pandit, Thierry Hoch, Pauline Ezanno, François Beaudeau, and Elisabeta Vergu. "Spread of Coxiella burnetii between dairy cattle herds in an enzootic region: modelling contributions of airborne transmission and trade." Veterinary Research. 47, no. 1 (2016): 1
Pranav Pandit, David Bunn, Satish Pande, and Sharif Aly. "Modeling highly pathogenic avian influenza transmission in wild birds and poultry in West Bengal, India." Scientific reports 3 (2013).
Pande, Satish, Anand Padhye, Aditya Ponkshe, Pranav Pandit, Amit Pawashe, Shivkumar Pednekar, Rohan Pandit, and Pramod Deshpande. "Avian collision threat assessment at ‘Bhambarwadi Wind Farm Plateau’in northern Western Ghats, India." Journal of Threatened Taxa 5, no. 1 (2013): 3504-3515.
Pranav Pandit, Ruta Bandivdekar, Geevarghese Geevarghese, Satish Pande, and Omkar Mandke. "Tick infestation on wild snakes in northern part of Western Ghats of India." Journal of Medical Entomology 48, no. 3 (2011): 504-507.
Pande, Satish, Pandit Pranav, Ponkshe Aditya, Mone Ram, Pawar Shailesh, and Mishra Akhilesh. "Behavioural and virological studies on a rescued Oriental white-backed vulture Gyps bengalensis from western Maharashtra, India." Journal of Threatened Taxa 3, no. 1 (2011): 1490-1492.
Pawar, Shailesh., Satish Pande, Aniruddha Jamgaonkar, S. S. Koratkar, Bishwajoy Pal, Satish Raut, Madhuri Nanaware., Koninika Ray, Alok Chakrabarti, Sadhana Kode, Vishal Thite, Madhukar Khude, Satish Randive, Atanu Basu, Amit Pawashe, Aditya Ponkshe, Pranav Pandit and Pramod Deshpande "Avian influenza surveillance in wild migratory, resident, domestic birds and in poultry in Maharashtra and Manipur, India, during avian migratory season 2006–2007." Curr. Sci 97 (2009): 550-554
Fellowships & Awards
Scotland’s Rural College Award (SRUC Price, SVEPM 2015, Ghent Belgium), 2015
Best oral presentation award for early career scientists, awarded in annual conference of Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine 2015
Narotam Sekhsaria Fellowship, 2011
Competitive higher education scholarship awarded by Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, India for the education in University of California Davis
Ravi Shankaran Fellowship by Inlaks Foundation, India, 2010
Scholarship awarded for the externship in Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital
Kishor Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellow, 2007-2010
A prestigious national fellowship program by the Department of Science and Technology Govt. of India for development of young promising scientists.
Research Experience
Research Scientist & Postdoctoral fellow, March 2016-present
EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics,
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis,
Postdoctoral fellow with USAID funded PREDICT project,
Working under multiple grants and collaborations of the EpiCenter for disease dynamics
ERDF MIHMES Project, 2012-2015
National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France
Funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Multi-scale modelling, from animal intra-host to metapopulation, of mechanisms of pathogen spread, to evaluate control strategies
Avian Influenza surveillance in migratory birds, 2008-2011
National Institute of Virology, India and Ela Foundation, India
Large scale surveillance of migratory waterfowl in India
Talks & Poster Presentations
March 26, 2014
Poster Presentation at Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM), Dublin, Ireland
March 26, 2015
Conference proceedings talk at 2015 Annual meeting of the Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (SVEPM 2015), Ghent, Belgium
November 11, 2016
Talk at International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance, Vienna, Austria
March 14, 2017
Talk at Workshop On Zoonotic Disease Pandemic Preparedness For South Asia, Using One Health Platform, Kathmandu, Nepal
Teaching
Additional Training
Modelling of Infectious Diseases 2013-14
Epidemiology and Public Health teaching department, CNAM School of Public Health Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Module 299 (ISB A) Modeling of infectious diseases 2012-13
Ecole des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP), Paris, France
Workshop on molecular tracing of viral pathogens in Aquaculture 27-29 January 2015
University of Montpellier
References
Christine Kreuder Johnson, VMD, PhD
Professor of Ecosystem Health and Epidemiology
EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics, One Health Institute
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California
Davis, CA
ckjohnson@ucdavis.edu
Francois Beaudeau, DVM, PhD
Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology
Oniris la Chantrerie, Nantes, France
francois.beaudeau@oniris-nantes.fr
Pauline Ezanno, PhD
Research Director, INRA
Oniris la Chantrerie, Nantes, France
pauline.ezanno@oniris-nantes.fr
Sharif S. Aly, BVSc, MPVM, PhD
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center,
Dept. of Population Health and Reproduction, SVM, UC Davis
saly@ucdavis.edu