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{{Short description|Indian entomologist (born 1950)}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[Professor]]<ref name="CW">[https://books.google.com/books?id=vE4lAQAAIAAJ&q=p.judson+osmania ''Commonwealth Universities Handbook'', Parts 3-4, 1986, p.1939]</ref>
| name = P. Judson<ref name="UH">''Universities Handbook'', Volume 2, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi, 2006, p.931.[https://books.google.com/books?id=o10lAQAAIAAJ&q=judson]</ref>
| honorific_suffix = [[Ph.D.]]<ref name="CW"/> ([[Osmania University|Osmania]])
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| caption = Professor Judson in early 2019
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|07|28|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mycorporateinfo.com/director/pothuraju-judson-2830021 | title=Pothuraju Judson - 2830021 Director Info }}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Hyderabad State (1948–1956)]]
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| citizenship = Indian
| fields = [[Entomology]]
| workplaces = University College of Science, [[Saifabad]], Department of Zoology,<ref>C. Srinivasulu and Bhargavi, ''CCINSA Bat Lovers Club, Hyderabad/Secunderabad'' in ''Bat Net Newsletter'', Volume 6, Number 1, January 2005, pp.24-25.[https://www.zoosprint.zooreach.org/ZoosPrintNewsLetter/bat%20newsletter%20jan%2005.pdf]</ref> Osmania University,<ref>''Universities Handbook: India'', Inter University Board of India, New Delhi, 2010, p.1066.[https://books.google.com/books?id=n-Xn7TS79eYC&q=judson]</ref> Secunderabad
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| education = [[Bachelor of Science|B. Sc.]], [[Master of Science|M. Sc.]],<ref name="CW"/> Ph. D.
| alma_mater = [[Osmania University]],<ref>[http://www.osmania.ac.in/ou/Alumni/AlumniMain/191.htm Alumni Association of Osmania University, ''Members Profile'']</ref> [[Secunderabad]]
| thesis1_title = The effect of [[exogenous]] [[juvenile hormone]] on the reproductive system of bug [[Dysdercus]] similes Freeman (1980)<ref>P. Judson, ''The effect of [[exogenous]] [[juvenile hormone]] on the reproductive system of bug [[Dysdercus]] similes Freeman'', Unpublished Ph. D. thesis, Osmania University, Secunderabad, 1980. Cited in [[Shodhganga]].[http://www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/48067/9/reference.pdf]</ref>
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| known_for = Research in [[Entomology]]
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'''P. Judson''' is an Indian [[entomologist]],<ref name="Gordon">Gordon W. King, ''Seed Falling on Good Soil: Rooting Our Lives in the Parables of Jesus'', Cascade books, Eugene, 2016, p.83.[https://books.google.com/books?id=BARKDAAAQBAJ&dq=pothuraju+judson&pg=PA83]</ref> who researched much on [[Dysdercus cingulatus]] in the 1970s. In the successive decades,<ref name="UH"/> he took to teaching of [[Zoology]]<ref>K. 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20190308054111/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e363/e3de40d8da6c872957a58740e384c66f7748.pdf]</ref> at [[Osmania University]], [[Secunderabad]], a [[Constituent state|State]]-run University u/s 2 (f)<ref>University Grants Commission, ''List of Universities under Section 2(f) and Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956''.[http://www.mewaruniversity.org/uploads/files/ugcuniversity.pdf]</ref> of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission Act, 1956]]. He contributed much to the discipline of [[Entomology]]<ref name="CW"/> through scholarly articles in scientific journals ''(see section on writings)''. He was also a member of the Indian Society for Comparative Animal Physiology.<ref name="IJCAP">''Indian Journal of Comparative Animal Physiology'', Volumes 8-11, 1990, p.68.[https://books.google.com/books?id=0Z9KAAAAYAAJ&q=p.judson+zoology]</ref>

Judson was [[Lecturer]], [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DSZJAAAAYAAJ&q=judson ''Commonwealth Universities Yearbook'', Volume 2, 1993, p.1464]</ref> then [[Professor]]<ref name="UH"/> and Head<ref name="NS">''National Symposium on implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health'', August 2009.[http://www.osmania.ac.in/srrip/SRRIP_OU_Symposium_Brochure.pdf]</ref> and Chairperson of Board of Studies<ref>''A brief report on the two-day lecture workshop on "current trends" in animal biology and biotechnology'', February, 2010.[https://web-japps.ias.ac.in:8443/SEP/Reports/report_lw/150_20.pdf]</ref> of Department of Zoology<ref>M. 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.[http://www.neptjournal.com/upload-images/NL-20-27-(27)B-1606.pdf]</ref> at Osmania University,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DRMgAQAAMAAJ&q=p.judson+head+osmania ''Indian Science Abstracts'', Volume 17, 1981, p.894]</ref> Secunderabad. Earlier in 1997,<ref name="ucssou.ac.in">[http://www.ucssou.ac.in/Principals-Message.html University College of Science, Saifabad, ''Principal's message'']</ref> he became Principal<ref>P. 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.[http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/19373/1/IJTK%201(1)%2020-25.pdf]</ref> of the University College of Science,<ref>''Ethnobotany: Journal of Society of Ethnobotanists'', Volumes 9-12, 1997, p.108.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi49AAAAYAAJ&q=judson,+p.+saifabad]</ref> [[Saifabad]].<ref>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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=q83zAAAAMAAJ&q=p.judson+head+osmania]</ref> During his tenure, a full-fledged vocational course in [[Dryland farming]] leading to B. Sc. (Dryland farming)<ref name="Dry"/> was launched in 2001<ref name="Dry"/> 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).<ref name="Dry">''[[The Hindu]]'', ''OU to introduce new course in dryland farming '', Monday, 23 April 2001.[https://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/23/stories/0423201c.htm]{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

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<ref name="ZMAF"/> to the [[Leipzig]]-based academic journal, ''Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung''.<ref name="ZMAF">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.[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/751342]</ref>

==Few co-authored Writings==
[[File:Dysdercus Cingulatus-Fabricius - Red cotton stainer bug.jpg|thumb|[[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<ref name="EXP"/> 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 ''[[Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences|Experientia]] (now [[Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences]])'',<ref name="EXP">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 ''[[Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences|Experientia]]'', Volume 34, Issue 6, 1978, pp.817-818.[https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01947347].</ref>

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]].<ref>''Annual Report 2006-2007'', [[Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History]], Coimbatore, 2007.[https://www.sacon.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Annual-Report-2006-07.pdf]</ref> In 2008, he co-edited a compendium titled ''Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being''.<ref>B. Raghavendra Rao, S.N. Prasad, C. Srinivasulu and P. Judson (Edited), ''Biodiversity Conservation and Human Well-Being'', Department of Zoology, OU, Hyderabad, 2008.[http://www.osmaniawildlife.org/home/chelmala-srinivasulu]</ref> In 2009,<ref name="NS"/> Judson convened a national symposium on the theme ''Implications of climate change on mosquito-borne diseases and its impact on public health''<ref name="NS"/> at [[Sir Ronald Ross Institute of Parasitology]].<ref name="NS"/>

His co-authored writings comprise,
* {{Cite journal |jstor=24081409|issn=0011-3891|title=The effect of "Paper factor" on the fecundity and hatchability in Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae)|vauthors=Judson P, Julius Divakar B, Kishen Rao B|journal=[[Current Science]]|volume=45|issue=24|pages=867–868|date=December 1976}}
* {{Cite journal |jstor=24080234 |issn=0011-3891|title=Transfer of Juvenoids and Inhibition of Embryogenesis in Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera) |vauthors=Judson P, Julius Divakar B, Kishen Rao B|journal=[[Current Science]]|volume=46|issue=2|pages=44|date=December 1977}}
* {{Cite journal |issn=0044-3107|title=Histological changes in the ovaries of Dysdercus cingulatus (F.) caused by the "paper factor"|vauthors=Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Julius Divakar B|journal=Zeitschrift für mikroskopisch-anatomische Forschung|volume=92|issue=3|pages=541–546|year=1978|pmid=751342}}
* {{Cite journal |issn=0021-8804|title=Juvenile hormone-like activity of the Pygidial secretion of Anthia sexguttata (F.) (Carabidae: Coleoptera)|vauthors=Maruthi Ram G, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Judson P|journal=Journal of Animal Morphology and Physiology|volume=25|pages=93–100|year=1978}}
* {{Cite journal |issn=1420-9071|title=The effects of a Juvenile hormone analogue on the male reproductive organs of the red cotton bug, Dysdercus cingulatus (Heteroptera)|vauthors=Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Julius Divakar B|journal=[[Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences|Experientia]]|volume=34|issue=6|pages=817–818|year=1978|doi=10.1007/BF01947347|s2cid=10799244 }}
* {{Cite journal |issn=0044-5185|title=Defensive secretion of the soap-nut bug Tessaratoma javanica (Thunberg) (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) as a juvenile hormone mimic|vauthors=Ashok S, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Judson P, Samuel Raj N, Maruthi Ram G|journal=Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für allgemeine Zoologie und Physiologie der Tiere|volume=82|issue=4|pages=383–394|year=1978}}
* {{Cite journal |issn=0975-1009|title=Effect of Precocene II on Reproduction of the Bug Dysdercus similis (F.) (Heteroptera)|vauthors=Judson P, Kishen Rao B, Thakur SS, Revathy D|journal=Indian Journal of Experimental Biology|volume=17|issue=2|pages=947|year=1979}}
* {{Cite journal |issn=0970-3012|title=Biology of the Dysdercus koenigii in relation with the mortality and sex ratio (Pyrrhocoridae: Heteroptera)|vauthors=Judson P, Rao VS|journal=Pestology|volume=13|issue=11|pages=8–11|year=1989}}

==Other initiatives==
Judson is a communicant member<ref name="BLESS"/> of [[Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches]] (STBC) and attached to the [[Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches|STBC]]-Baptist Church, [[Lallaguda]],<ref name="BLESS"/> Secunderabad.<ref name="Chaise"/> He is also associated<ref>[https://tentindia.org/about-us/board/ Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology, ''Board'']</ref> with ''Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology (TENT)'', a brain child of the [[Geologist]], [[B. E. Vijayam]],<ref name="KMS">Kay Marshall Strom, ''In the presence of the poor: Changing the face of India'', Authentic, Hyderabad, 2008.[https://books.google.com/books?id=npTDRlP12dsC&dq=b.e.vijayam&pg=PP5]</ref> who set up such facility to promote means of livelihood with the inspiration being attributed<ref name="KMS"/> to [[Bishop]] [[Bunyan Joseph]] of the [[Church of South India]], a rural Evangelist, [[Canon (priest)]] and later [[Bishop]].{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

===Inter-faith dialogue===
Judson was also involved in other initiatives relating to [[Interfaith dialogue]]<ref>[http://hmiindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Interaction_July-Dec_2010.pdf ''HMI Newsletter'', Volume 31, Number 2, July - December 2010]</ref> and [[Community development]]. He was on the Council<ref>[http://hmiindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jan_June_2011.pdf ''HMI Newsletter'', Volume 32, Number 1, January-June 2011]</ref> of the [[Henry Martyn|Henry Martyn Institute]], [[Shivarampally]] for over<ref>[http://hmiindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Annual-Report-2013-2014.pdf ''HMI Annual Report 2013-2014'']</ref> a decade.<ref>[http://hmiindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Full-Annual-Report-2012-2013-with-audit-report.pdf ''HMI Annual Report 2012-2013'']</ref> Judson was on the Committee and later on the Council, which was led by Theologians comprising [[C. L. Furtado]], [[P. Surya Prakash]] and others.<ref>[http://hmiindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Interaction-2010.pdf ''HMI Newsletter'', Volume 31, Number 1, January-June 2010]</ref> 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<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=k-Q8AAAAIAAJ&q=HMI+nampally ''Al-Basheer'', Volumes 1-2, 1972, p.27]</ref> in [[Abids]].<ref>Dinesh K. Agarwal, ''Great Struggle: Bishop's Story'', Patridge India, New Delhi, 2016.[https://books.google.com/books?id=I2TjCwAAQBAJ&q=henry+martyn&pg=PT14]</ref>

===Community development===
Judson is also on the Advisory Board of Genesis Urban and Rural Development<ref>[http://guardsociety.org/Board_of_Members.html Genesis Urban and Rural Development, ''Advisory Board'']</ref> under whose aegis a ''National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology'' was held in 2016.<ref>''National Conference on emerging challenges and opportunities in Agriculture, Social, Plant, Environment, Cooperatives and Technology'', GUARD Society, 2016.[http://guardsociety.org/DOWNLOADS.html#]</ref>

Efforts by the members of the [[Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches|STBC]]-Baptist Church, [[Lallaguda]] resulted in creation of a social action initiative which was named ''Burden and Love for Economically and Socially Suppressed (BLESS)''<ref name="BLESS">[http://baptistchurchlgd.org/about-us/ Baptist Church, Lallaguda, ''BLESS Committee'']</ref> in which Judson has been active and presently holds the position of Secretary.<ref name="BLESS"/> Through the Church, he has been actively involved in promoting<ref>Bethel Church, [[Stuttgart, Germany]].[https://www.bethelkirche.de/ueber-uns/bless/107-bless-lalaguda-baptist-church]</ref> food security<ref>Lois Mitchell, ''The Fishermen and the Sea: Net Profits at what cost?'', CBM Newsletter, 2017.[https://www.cbmin.org/the-fishermen-and-the-sea/]</ref> among those marginalized<ref name="Gordon"/> dry land farmers of [[Telangana]] through [[System of Rice Intensification]]<ref name="Chaise">[https://cbminorg.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/seeing-is-believing/ Cut to the Chaise, ''Seeing is believing'', 2012]</ref> in a few<ref name="Chaise"/> 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]]<ref name="Atlantic">''2013 Year Book of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches'', 2013, p.F-2.[https://baptist-atlantic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2013-Year-Book-Final.pdf]</ref> in which he was a Field Staff<ref name="Chaise"/> and Team member.<ref name="Atlantic"/> Judson is the present India representative<ref>[http://ebm.baptisten.ch/medien/documents/2015%20Jahresbericht.pdf Europäische Baptistische Mission, ''EBM Schweiz'', 2015]{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> of European Baptist Mission International overseeing social action programmes<ref>[https://issuu.com/cbpsb/docs/ebm-magazin_3-13_portugiesisch ''Ebm magazin'', Vol. 3 (13), 17 December 2013]</ref> together with 16 partners in the country.<ref>Matthias Dichristin, ''Stories from the Missionfield - Encounters in a Fishing Village'', February 2019.[https://www.ebm-international.org/en/2019/02/06/geschichten-vom-missionsfeld-india-2-2019/]</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|Entomology}}
* Prof. Dr. [[M. Abel]], Ph. D. ([[University of California|California]]),
* Prof. Dr. [[T. D. J. Nagabhushanam]], Ph. D. ([[Indian Agricultural Research Institute|IARI]]),
* Prof. Dr. [[P. A. James]], Ph. D. (Osmania)
* Dr. [[J. A. Oliver]], Ph. D. ([[Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University|ANGRAU]]),
* Prof. Dr. [[B. E. Vijayam]], Ph. D. (Osmania),

==Further reading==
* {{cite book
| author=Gordon W. King
| title=Seed Falling on Good Soil: Rooting Our Lives in the Parables of Jesus
| year=2016
| publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers
| isbn=9781498279369| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BARKDAAAQBAJ&dq=pothuraju+judson&pg=PR4
}}

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