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Pothuraju Judson

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Pothuraju Judson
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P. Judson is an Indian entomologist,[8] who researched much on Dysdercus cingulatus in the 1970s. In the successive decades,[2] he took to teaching of Zoology[9] at Osmania University, Secunderabad, a State-run University u/s 2 (f)[10] of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956. He contributed much to the discipline of Entomology[1] through scholarly articles in scientific journals (see section on writings). He was also a member of the Indian Society for Comparative Animal Physiology.[11]

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Judson was Lecturer, Reader,[12] then Professor[2] and Head[13] and Chairperson of Board of Studies[14] of Department of Zoology[15] at Osmania University,[16] Secunderabad. Earlier in 1997,[17] he became Principal[18] of the University College of Science,[19] Saifabad.[20] During his tenure, a full-fledged vocational course in Dryland farming leading to B. Sc. (Dryland farming)[21] was launched in 2001[21] 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).[21]

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[22] to the Leipzig-based academic journal, Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung.[22]

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Few co-authored Writings

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Dysdercus cingulatus of Pyrrhocoridae family on which Judson researched much in the 1970s.

Judson's articles co-authored with others appeared in major scientific journals. One of Judson's research articles published in 1978[23] 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),[23]

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.[24] In 2008, he co-edited a compendium titled Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being.[25] In 2009,[13] Judson convened a national symposium on the theme Implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health[13] at Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Parasitology.[13]

His co-authored writings comprise,

  • Judson P, Julius Divakar B, Kishen Rao B (December 1976). "The effect of "Paper factor" on the fecundity and hatchability in Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)". Current Science. 45 (24): 867–868. ISSN 0011-3891. JSTOR 24081409.
  • Judson P, Julius Divakar B, Kishen Rao B (December 1977). "Transfer of Juvenoids and Inhibition of Embryogenesis in Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera)". Current Science. 46 (2): 44. ISSN 0011-3891. JSTOR 24080234.
  • Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Julius Divakar B (1978). "Histological changes in the ovaries of Dysdercus cingulatus (F.) caused by the "paper factor"". Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung. 92 (3): 541–546. ISSN 0044-3107. PMID 751342.
  • Maruthi Ram G, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Judson P (1978). "Juvenile hormone-like activity of the Pygidial secretion of Anthia sexguttata (F.) (Carabidae: Coleoptera)". Journal of Animal Morphology and Physiology. 25: 93–100. ISSN 0021-8804.
  • Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Julius Divakar B (1978). "The effects of a Juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera)". Experientia. 34 (6): 817–818. doi:10.1007/BF01947347. ISSN 1420-9071. S2CID 10799244.
  • Ashok S, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Judson P, Samuel Raj N, Maruthi Ram G (1978). "Defensive secretion of the soap-nut bug Tessaratoma javanica (Thunberg) (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) as a juvenile hormone mimic". Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für allgemeine Zoologie und Physiologie der Tiere. 82 (4): 383–394. ISSN 0044-5185.
  • Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Revathy D (1979). "Effect of Precocene II on Reproduction of the Bug Dysdercus similis (F.) (Heteroptera)". Indian Journal of Experimental Biology. 17 (2): 947. ISSN 0975-1009.
  • Judson P, Rao VS (1989). "Biology of the Dysdercus koenigii in relation with the mortality and sex ratio (Pyrrhocoridae: Heteroptera)". Pestology. 13 (11): 8–11. ISSN 0970-3012.
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Other initiatives

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Judson is a communicant member[26] of Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches (STBC) and attached to the STBC-Baptist Church, Lallaguda,[26] Secunderabad.[27] He is also associated[28] with Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology (TENT), a brain child of the Geologist, B. E. Vijayam,[29] who set up such facility to promote means of livelihood with the inspiration being attributed[29] to Bishop Bunyan Joseph of the Church of South India, a rural Evangelist, Canon (priest) and later Bishop.[citation needed]

Inter-faith dialogue

Judson was also involved in other initiatives relating to Interfaith dialogue[30] and Community development. He was on the Council[31] of the Henry Martyn Institute, Shivarampally for over[32] a decade.[33] Judson was on the Committee and later on the Council, which was led by Theologians comprising C. L. Furtado, P. Surya Prakash and others.[34] Judson came up on the Committee, especially at a crucial juncture, when the institute relocated to its new campus in Shivarampally from its earlier locality[35] in Abids.[36]

Community development

Judson is also on the Advisory Board of Genesis Urban and Rural Development[37] under whose aegis a National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology was held in 2016.[38]

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)[26] in which Judson has been active and presently holds the position of Secretary.[26] Through the Church, he has been actively involved in promoting[39] food security[40] among those marginalized[8] dry land farmers of Telangana through System of Rice Intensification[27] in a few[27] 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 Ministries[41] in which he was a Field Staff[27] and Team member.[41] Judson is the present India representative[42] of European Baptist Mission International overseeing social action programmes[43] together with 16 partners in the country.[44]

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