1. MSc
2. PhD

1. Lecturer in Zoology, Vijaya first Grade College, Bangalore (1993-94).
   
2. 15 years experience as a faculty member (Lecturer, Sr. Lecturer, Sel. Grade Lecturer & Reader, Associate Professor) in the Department of Zoology & Research Centre, Mary Matha Arts & Science College, (affiliated to Kannur University and accredited by NAAC with A grade) Mananthavady, Wayanad district, Kerala. (1996 to 2008; 25th Jan. 2012 to 16th Dec. 2015).
   
3. On deputation as Course Director, Department of Zoology, Kannur University, Mananthavady Campus- to set up a Department in Zoology in the Kannur University and to launch MSc Programme in Applied Zoology and PhD Programme in Zoology (from 9th July 2008 to 24th January 2012).
   
4. Head, Department of Zoology, Kannur University, Mananthavady Campus (Since 17th December 2015)
   

Ongoing Major Research Project:

Title: ‘Trematode parasites of Frogs of Western Ghats, Wayanad Region”                  

Funding Agency: KSCSTE

Total duration: 3 years

Principal Investigator: Dr. P K Prasadan

Co Investigator: Prof (Dr) K P Janardanan

Total Amount: Rs. 20,06,991/-

Minor Research Projects Ongoing/Completed:

a)    Title: Studies on the Diversity of Freshwater Gastropods of Wayanad and their

Role as Vectors of Trematode Parasites.

Funding Agency: UGC

Total duration: 2 years (April 2005 to March 2007)

Principal Investigator: Dr. P K Prasadan.

Total Amount: Rs. 85,000/-

b)    Title: Use of Agricultural Pesticides & Its Impact on Human Health-   A Study in   

Wayanad District

Funding Agency: UGC

Total duration: 2 years

Principal Investigator: Dr. P K Prasadan

Total Amount: Rs. 75,000/-

c) Title: “Histopathology of two edible freshwater fishes infected with trematode parasites”

Funding Agency: Kannur University

Duration 1 year

PI: Dr PK PRASADAN

Total Amount: Rs.1,00,000/-

d) Title: “Helminth parasites infecting edible freshwater fishes of Western Ghats, Wayanad Region”

Funding Agency: Planning Board, Govt. of Kerala

Duration 2 years

PI: Dr PK PRASADAN

Total Amount: Rs.4,00,000/-

Research Papers Published:

1. K. Arusha and P. K. Prasadan. A parapleurolophocercous cercaria and a furcocercous cercaria from the freshwater gastropods of the Western Ghats. Journal of Parasitic Diseases (Springer). 2019. Pp 1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s12639-019-01114-6
2. P. K. Asalatha and P. K. Prasadan. Two new records of genus Eriovixia Archer, 1951 (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. Serket, The Arachnological Bulletin of the Middle East and North Africa (2019) vol. 16(4):166-169.
3. Shinad Keloth and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Digenean parasites of the water skipper Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of the South Western Ghats, India. Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2018, v. 5, No. 11, p. 747-756. doi.org/10.21472/bjbs.051112
4. Arusha K and P K Prasadan. Two new species of furcocercous cercariae from freshwater gastropods of Western Ghats. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-018-1045-4. 9 pages.
5. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Prevalence, intensity and mean abundance of digenean parasites of the water skipper, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Anura, Dicroglossidae) of the South Western Ghats". International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2018 Vol. 6, Issue 6, Part D. Pages: 278-284NAAS rating: 3.99.
6. Asalatha P K, Dhruba Chandra Dhali, Prasadan P K. Hamataliwa manca Tang & Li 2012 (Araneae: Oxyopidae), A Spider New to Indian Fauna.  Indian Journal of Entomology. 80(4): 1696-1697 (2018) DoI No.: 10.5958/0974-8172.2018.00314.0
7. Jithila P J and P K Prasadan. Carbon Storage and Sequestration by Trees - A Study in Western Ghats Wayanad Region. Indian Journal of Ecology, 2018. 45(3): 479-482
8. Jithila P J and P K Prasadan. Prevalence, Intensity, Mean Abundance and Description of Phyllodistomum Punctati n. sp.(Digenea: Gorgoderidae) from the Urinary Bladder of Channa Punctata (Bloch) from the Western Ghats, India. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2018. 6(5):1-5.
9. Jithila P J and Prasadan P K Description of Tetracotyle wayanadensis n. sp. (Digenea: Strigeidae) metacercaria infecting six species of freshwater fishes from Western Ghats, India. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12639-018-0988-9. (SCI Journal Rank:0.356)
10. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. "First record of Encyclometra colubrimurorum (Rudolphi, 1819) Dollfus, 1929 (Digenea: Plagiorchiidae) metacercariae from a tadpole and an adult frog of the Western Ghats, India". International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2018 6(2): 135-139.
11. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Two New Species of Pleurogenoides (Luhe, 1901) Travassos, 1921 (Digenea: Pleurogenidae) Infecting Two Species of Frogs of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. January 2018. 1-7. doi.org/10.1007/s12639-018-0978-y. (SCI Journal Rank:0.356).
12. KM Aarif, P.K Prasadan SV Abdul Hameed & Rahul Ravindran. Avian fauna of Kadalundi-Vallikkunnnu Community Reserve, West Coast of India. Stilt (Australian Wader Study Group). 2017. 71: 25-32.
13. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Description of Pleurogenoides cyanophlycti n. Sp. (digenea: pleurogenidae) infecting Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis from the western ghats, india.  . Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2017. 1-5. DOI 10.1007/s12639-017-0971-x doi:10.1007/s12639-017-0971-x (SCI Journal Rank:0.356).
14. Shinad K and Prasadan P K. Description of Diplodiscus cyanophlycti n.sp. (Digenea: Paramphistomidae) and prevalence and intensity of two other digeneans in Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis  (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Western Ghats, India. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2017. 5(6): 259-263.
15. Asalatha PK, Dhruba Chandra Dhali, Prasadan P K and Sureshan PM. New record of the jumping spider genus Pristobaeus simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from  India. Indian Journal of Arachnology. 2017.
16. K. M. Aarif1, Aymen Nefla, S. B. Muzaffar, K. K. Musammilu and P. K. Prasadan. Traditional fishing activities enhance the abundance of selected water bird species in a wetland in India. Avian Research-Springer (Impact Factor: 0.853). (NAAS Rating: 6.53). (2017) 8:16-25. doi 10.1186/s40657-017-0073-6
17. Aarif K M and Prasadan P K. Conservation Issues of KVCR, the Wintering Ground and Stop-over Site of Migrant Shorebirds in South West Coast of India. Biosystematica, 8 (1&2): 51-57; 2015.
18. Aarif K M and Prasadan P K Population trend of wintering gulls in the Kadalundi-Vallikkunnnu Community Reserve, Southern India. Journal of Environmental Biology (Impact Factor: 0.697). (NAAS Rating: 6.53). 36(3):597-600. 2015.
19. Aarif K M, Muzaffar S B, Babu S and P K Prasadan.  Shorebird assemblages respond to  anthropogenic stress by altering habitat us9e in a wetland in India. Biodiversity and Conservation-Springer (Impact Factor: 2.828). (NAAS Rating: 7.7). 23(3):727-740; 03/2014. doi 10.1007/s10531-014-0630-9
20. Aarif K M and Prasadan P K, Injured migratory shorebirds and gulls in the kadalundi- vallikkunnu community reserve, 2014, Journal of Environmental Biology. (Impact Factor: 0.684). (NAAS Rating: 7.1). 05/2014; 35(1):243-246. 2013
21. Priyanka M, Jayakumar C and Prasadan P K. Status of usage of non cultivated leafy vegetables with emphasis on traditional knowledge. Proceedings of the Kerala Environment Congress. 448-455. 2012.
22. Dileep Kumar A D, Jayakumar C, Shybu Jacob and Prasadan P K. Studies on traditional and other methods of pest management in paddy fields of Panamaram Pachayat in Wayanad District. Proceedings of the Kerala Environment Congress. 403-410. 2012.
23. Aarif K M, P K Prasadan and S Babu, Conservation significance of the Kadalundi–Vallikkunnu community Reserve,  Current Science, 101 (6): 717-718, 2011. (Impact Factor: 0.905; NAAS Rating: 7.4).
24. P K Prasadan and A R Sudha Devi,  Yellow grub disease in the freshwater guppy, Poecilia reticulate, Journal of Experimental Zoology, India. Vol 10(2), 2007. (NAAS Rating: 3.7).
25. Sudha Devi A R and Prasadan P K, Occurrence of Insect/Bird eating  Tiger Spider, Poecilotheria regalis Pocock at Wayanad District, Kerala, India, Insect Environment. Vol 12 (3): 110. (India), 2006. (NAAS Rating: 2.9).
26. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Two new species of cephaline gregarines (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from commercial marine prawns in Kerala. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology (India),  26(2): 175-179, 2006. (NAAS Rating: 3.3).
27. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Three new species of gregarines (Apicomplexa: Sporozoea: Porosporida) in the estuarine crabs from Kerala, India, Acta Protozoologica (Poland). 40: 303-309, 2001. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).
28. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Nematopsis idella sp. n. and Uradiophora cuenoti Mercier: Two cephaline gregarines from freshwater prawns in Kerala, Acta Protozoologica (Poland). 35: 239-243, 1996. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).
29. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan, Morphology and life cycles of two species of Stenoductus Ramachandran, 1976 (Apicomplexa: Sporozoea) from the millipede Chondromorpha kelaarti (Humbert) in Kerala, India, Acta Societes,  Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae (Chzechoslovakia). 57 (3-4): 197-201, 1995. (Impact Factor 0.923).
30. P K Prasadan and K P Janardanan. Biosystematics of two new septate gregarines from spirostreptid millipedes of Kerala, India,  Acta Protozoologica (Poland),  34: 311-317, 1995.  (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).
31. P.K. Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, On a new species of Actinocephalid gregarine (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from the dragonfly, Neurothemis fluvia (Drury) of Kerala, India.  Fraseria (India). 1(1): 7-10, 1994.
32. P.K. Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, Two new septate gregarines (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) Gregarina myllocerusi sp. n. and Hirmocystis curvicornis (Fabricius).  Indian Journal of Parasitology (India). (Renamed: Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer) 17 (2): 173-178, 1993. (NAAS Rating: 4.3).
33. P.K. Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, Stenophora tamulini sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from the centipede, Tamulinus ceylanicus (Attems) of Kerala, India.  Acta Protozoologica (Poland). 30: 197-200, 1992. (Impact Factor 1.491). (NAAS Rating: 7.5).
34. K.P. Janardanan and P.K Prasadan, Studies on the life cycle of Pleurogenoides ovatus Rao, 1971 (Tematoda:  Pleurogenetinae).  Journal of Helminthology (London).  65: 43-50, 1991. (Impact Factor 1.38). (NAAS Rating: 7.5). doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X00010427
35. K R Shanavas, P K Prasadan and K.P. Janardanan, Nematopsis rosenbergii n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Cephalina) from the brackishwater prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (DE MAN).  Arch. Protistenkd. (Germany), (Renamed Protist), 137: 161-164, 1989. (Impact Factor 3.329).

Accepted for Publication:

1. Jithila P J and Prasadan P K. Histopathology and other aspects of the Clinostomum complanatum infection in the freshwater fish, Pseudosphromenus cupanus from the South Western Ghats. Pakistan Journal of Parasitology (2019).
2. PK Prasadan* and Sherin Chacko. A new species of Clinostomum (Digenea, Clinostomidae) metacercaria infecting the freshwater fish, Pseudophromenus cupanus from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. (2019).

Communicated for Publication:

1. Shinad Keloth and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Digenean parasites of the water skipper, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Anura, Dicroglossidae) of the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. Brazilian Journal of  Biological Science. 2019.
2. K. Arusha and P. K. Prasadan. Two new species of furcocercous cercariae from freshwater gastropods of Western Ghats. Journal of Parasitic Diseases-Springer. 2018.
3. P. J. Jithila and P. K. Prasadan Two species of digenetic trematode metacercariae infecting eyes of the freshwater fish Haludaria fasciata from the South Western Ghats. Inland Water Biology (Springer).
4. Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth, Shinad Keloth and Sherin Chacko. Metacercariasis alter host morphology – making prey more vulnerable to predation for successful parasite transmission?. Acta Parasitologica. 2019.
5. Shinad Keloth and Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth. Digenean parasites of the water skipper, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Anura, Dicroglossidae) of the South Western Ghats. Brazilian Journal of  Biological Science. 2019
6. Anshu Chaudhary,  Shinad Keloth,  Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth and  Hridaya Shanker Singh. Phylogenetic Position of Pleurogenoides species (Plagiorchiida: Pleurogenidae) from the duodenum of Indian skipper frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Amphibia: Dicroglossidae) inhabiting the Western Ghats, India. Acta Parasitologica (Springer). 2019