Dr. Haseena Bhaskar
Professor and PI, AINP on Agricultural Acarology
Attached Department:
Department of Agricultural Entomology
College of Agriculture, Vellanikkara
Mobile Phone No:
9447783401
Address (Residence):
India
Land Phone No (Residence):
0487-2438337
Profile:
Profile:
More than 25 years of experience in teaching, research and extension activities in the field of Agricultural Entomology
Area of research:
- Insect Taxonomy
- Biological control
- Pest Management
- Agricultural Acarology
Courses offered:
- Immature stages of insects; Advanced Insect Systematics (Ph. D)
- Insect Morphology; Insect Systematics; General Acarology, (PG)
- Fundamentals of Entomology; Pests of Crops and their management II; Management of Beneficial insects and non insect pests (UG)
Research projects handled:
- Completed 3 research projects as Principal Investigator
- Completed 3 research projects as Co- Investigator
- Principal Investigator of All India Network Project on Agricultural Acarology (ongoing)
- Principal Investigator of a SERB (DST) funded research project (ongoing)
Research guidance:
- Guided 13 M.Sc. (Ag) and two Ph.D students as Major Advisor
- Four Ph.D and two Masters research programme are being guided now
Publications:
- 43 research articles in journals
- 50 Conference proceedings
- 11 popular articles
- Book “Emerging mite Pests of Kerala”
- Two book chapters
- One practical manual
- One booklet
International training programme attended: 2
- ‘Summer Acarology program’ at Ohio State University, USA during June- July, 2017
- ‘Molecular techniques for characterizing mite and tick communities: applied aspects’ at Montpellier, France during July, 2019
National level advanced training programmes attended: 11
Specialized short term trainings/ workshops attended: 12
International seminars/symposia/conference attended: 6
National seminars/symposia/conferences attended: 12
Professional Recognition/ Award/ Prize/ Certificate/ Fellowship received:
- Acarology Development Foundation fellowship (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, 2017)
- Best research paper (International Conference on Biocontrol and Sustainable Insect Pest Management. AC&RI, Killikulam, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 2018)
- Best research paper (Ist International Conference on Biological Control Approaches and Applications, Bengaluru, 2018)
- Best Teacher Award (Kerala Agricultural University, 2018)
- Fellow Entomological society of India, 2021
- Member, Mite Specialist Group of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)