Feed Additives and Supplements for Ruminants

About

Dr. M.S. Mahesh is an Assistant Professor (Livestock Farm Complex) at the Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences of Banaras Hindu University Mirzapur India. He has graduated in Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry from Veterinary College Bengaluru and earned masters and Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition from ICARNational Dairy Research Institute Karnal India. He was awarded with university gold medals for academic excellence during under-graduation and afterwards with Junior- and Senior Research fellowships. His areas of specialization include use of novel feed ingredients in ruminants feed characterization on-farm diet formulation and optimization designing species-specific micronutrient premixes troubleshooting nutritional issues and rationalizing feed additive applications for an augmented performance of dairy cattle and buffaloes. His previous association with animal feed industry helped him gain a broad-spectrum of hands-on experience on the diverse facets ofpractical dairy nutrition. He has published over 25 research/review papers in journals of national and international repute with a few other technical articles. He served as the former member of editorial board of Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition and currently associated as reviewer for many international journals on animal science and multidisciplinary areas. He is a life member of professional societies such as Animal Nutrition Society of India Animal Nutrition Association and Karnataka Veterinary Council. In his present role he teaches students and researchers on topics related to animal nutrition. Dr. Vinod Kumar Yata is currently serving as the Research Director and Principal Scientist at the Research Centre of KBK Multi-Specialty Hospitals in Hyderabad India. He is also serving as  a Visiting faculty at Centre for Biotechnology Institute of Science and Technology Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Institute Hyderabad India India. Prior to thisrole he worked as a Research Scientist at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa Florida USA. He also held the position of Research Associate at the National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal India. Previously he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Biotechnology Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar Punjab India. He received his Ph.D. in biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He specializes in interdisciplinary research which includes Nanotechnology Microfluidics Animal Biotechnology Cancer biology and Bioinformatics. He has developed a microfluidic device for the separation of live and motile spermatozoa from cattle semen samples. His research interests are focused on the development of nanocarriers understanding prodrug enzyme therapy and targeted drug delivery. He elucidated the structural features and binding interactions of several biomoleculesby in silico methods. He has published several research articles in peer reviewed international journals and presented papers in several international conferences.