Pothuraju Judson

P. Judson is an Indian entomologist,Gordon W. King, Seed Falling on Good Soil: Rooting Our Lives in the Parables of Jesus, Cascade books, Eugene, 2016, p.83. who researched much on Dysdercus cingulatus in the 1970s. In the successive decades, he took to teaching of ZoologyK. Moshi Raju, K. Rudrama Devi and P. Minny Jael, Garlic extract prevents chromium induced cytogenetic damage in somatic cells of mice, Journal of Research in Environmental Science and Toxicology, Volume 1(6), July 2012, pp. 131-136. at Osmania University, Secunderabad, a State-run University u/s 2 (f)University Grants Commission, List of Universities under Section 2(f) and Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956. of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. He contributed much to the discipline of Entomology through scholarly articles in scientific journals (see section on writings). He was also a member of the Indian Society for Comparative Animal Physiology.Indian Journal of Comparative Animal Physiology, Volumes 8-11, 1990, p.68.

Judson was Lecturer, Reader,Commonwealth Universities Yearbook, Volume 2, 1993, p.1464 then Professor and HeadNational Symposium on implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health, August 2009. and Chairperson of Board of StudiesA brief report on the two-day lecture workshop on "current trends" in animal biology and biotechnology, February, 2010. of Department of ZoologyM. Moshe Raju and K. Rudrama Devi, Modulating Effects of Curcumin on Chromium Induced Chromosomal Aberrations in Somatic Cells of Mice in Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, Volume 9, Number 4, 2010, pp.813-817. at Osmania University,Indian Science Abstracts, Volume 17, 1981, p.894 Secunderabad. Earlier in 1997,University College of Science, Saifabad, Principal's message he became PrincipalP. Ramachandra Reddy, P. Padma Rao, A survey of plant crude drugs in folklore from Ranga Reddy district, Andhra Pradesh, India in Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, Volume 1(1), October 2002, pp.20-25. of the University College of Science,Ethnobotany: Journal of Society of Ethnobotanists, Volumes 9-12, 1997, p.108. Saifabad.Masanori Abe, Yohtaro Yamazaki (Compiled), Ferrites: proceedings of ICF 8; main conference, Sept. 18-Sept.21, 2000, Kyoto, Japan; satellite conference, Sept. 25-Sept.27, 2000, Tokyo, Japan, 2000, p.234. During his tenure, a full-fledged vocational course in Dryland farming leading to B. Sc. (Dryland farming) was launched in 2001 with the cooperation of three external stakeholders, namely, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) and Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU).The Hindu, OU to introduce new course in dryland farming , Monday, 23 April 2001.

Much like an Old Testament Scholar contributing to the German academic journal Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW), Judson and others, contributed a research article in 1978 to the Leipzig-based academic journal, Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung.P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao, S. S. Thakur, B. Julius Divakar, Histological changes in the ovaries of Dysdercus cingulatus (F.) caused by the "paper factor" in Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung, Volume 92, Issue 3, 1978, pp.541-546.

Few co-authored Writings

Judson's articles co-authored with others appeared in major scientific journals. One of Judson's research articles published in 1978 with B. Kishen Rao, S. S. Thakur and B. Juilus Divakar entitled The effects of a juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera) appeared in the scientific journal Experientia (now Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences),P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao, S. S. Thakur and B. Juilus Divakar, The effects of a juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera) in Experientia, Volume 34, Issue 6, 1978, pp.817-818..

He was much active among the academic fraternity in Hyderabad, India. In 2007, he co-organized a National Conference on Biodiversity Conversation and Human Wellbeing, which was conducted jointly by the Department of Zoology (OU) and Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History.Annual Report 2006-2007, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, 2007. In 2008, he co-edited a compendium titled Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being.B. Raghavendra Rao, S.N. Prasad, C. Srinivasulu and P. Judson (Edited), Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being, Department of Zoology, OU, Hyderabad, 2008. In 2009, Judson convened a national symposium on the theme Implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health at Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Parasitology.

His co-authored writings comprise,

Other initiatives Judson is a communicant member of Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches (STBC) and attached to the STBC-Baptist Church, Lallaguda, Secunderabad. He is also associatedTraining in Evangelism Needs and Technology, Board with Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology (TENT), a brain child of the Geologist, B. E. Vijayam,Kay Marshall Strom, In the presence of the poor: Changing the face of India, Authentic, Hyderabad, 2008. who set up such facility to promote means of livelihood with the inspiration being attributed to Bishop Bunyan Joseph of the Church of South India, a rural Evangelist, Canon (priest) and later Bishop.

Inter-faith dialogue Judson was also involved in other initiatives relating to Interfaith dialogueHMI Newsletter, Volume 31, Number 2, July - December 2010 and Community development. He was on the CouncilHMI Newsletter, Volume 32, Number 1, January-June 2011 of the Henry Martyn Institute, Shivarampally for overHMI Annual Report 2013-2014 a decade.HMI Annual Report 2012-2013 Judson was on the Committee and later on the Council, which was led by Theologians comprising C. L. Furtado, P. Surya Prakash and others.HMI Newsletter, Volume 31, Number 1, January-June 2010 Judson came up on the Committee, especially at a crucial juncture, when the institute relocated to its new campus in Shivarampally from its earlier localityAl-Basheer, Volumes 1-2, 1972, p.27 in Abids.Dinesh K. Agarwal, Great Struggle: Bishop's Story, Patridge India, New Delhi, 2016.

Community development Judson is also on the Advisory Board of Genesis Urban and Rural DevelopmentGenesis Urban and Rural Development, Advisory Board under whose aegis a National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology was held in 2016.National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology, GUARD Society, 2016.

Efforts by the members of the STBC-Baptist Church, Lallaguda resulted in creation of a social action initiative which was named Burden and Love for Economically and Socially Suppressed (BLESS)Baptist Church, Lallaguda, BLESS Committee in which Judson has been active and presently holds the position of Secretary. Through the Church, he has been actively involved in promotingBethel Church, Stuttgart, Germany. food securityLois Mitchell, The Fishermen and the Sea: Net Profits at what cost?, CBM Newsletter, 2017. among those marginalized dry land farmers of Telangana through System of Rice IntensificationCut to the Chaise, Seeing is believing, 2012 in a few mandals of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district and Medchal-Malkajgiri district.

During the 2010s, he took up social action initiatives in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha through the Canadian Baptist Ministries2013 Year Book of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, 2013, p.F-2. in which he was a Field Staff and Team member. Judson is the present India representativeEuropäische Baptistische Mission, EBM Schweiz, 2015 of European Baptist Mission International overseeing social action programmesEbm magazin, Vol. 3 (13), 17 December 2013 together with 16 partners in the country.Matthias Dichristin, Stories from the Missionfield - Encounters in a Fishing Village, February 2019.

Pothuraju Judson

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