Microbiome of Finfish and Shellfish

About

Dr A D Diwan is former Assistant Director General (ADG) in the Fisheries Division of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Ministry of Agriculture Govt. of India New Delhi. Before assuming this position he was a Professor and Head of the Fish Genetics & Biotechnology Division and also a Dean (Faculty of Fishery Science) at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) a Deemed University in Mumbai. He started his career as an Associate Professor in the Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Mariculture an ICAR/UNDP project of the Government of India at the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) Kochi. He specializes in animal physiology and neurosciences with a vast background and experience in marine and oceanic fisheries and mariculture and published more than 140 research papers of both national and international repute. He has also edited and authored several books on physiology biotechnology and fisheries. He has guided several Ph.D. students and two of them have been honored with the ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award for excellent Post-Graduate Agricultural Research and Education. He is also a recipient of the Bharat Ratna Dr. C. Subramaniam Best Teacher National Award of ICAR Govt. of India New Delhi. He has served as a member of boards of many national and international committees. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Environmental Biology the National Academy of Nature Conservator and the Bioved Research Society. He worked as UGC Emeritus Professor at the Mahatma Gandhi Mission (MGM) University of Health Sciences Aurangabad Maharashtra. Under the Ministry of Science & Technology Govt. of India he was selected as a scientist expert for writing a specialized reference book on shrimp biotechnology. Presently he is continuing as an emeritus professor at the MGM University of Health Sciences in the Department of Biotechnology Aurangabad Maharashtra India.    Dr. S N Hark is the founder and Director of the Institute of Biosciences and Technology under Mahatma Gandhi Mission University Aurangabad Maharashtra India. He is specialized in the field of biotechnology biochemistry molecular biology gene technology synthetic biology and computational biology. He has vast experience of teaching UG and PG courses in different disciplines of biotechnology and computational biology. He has published several research papers and edited a few books and presently he is working on various research projects in the area of fungal-host cell interaction synthetic biology and aging. Dr. Archana N Panche presently is working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Copenhagen Denmark and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biosciences and Technology under Mahatma Gandhi Mission University Aurangabad Maharashtra India. She is specialized in Bioinformatics and computational biology. She has more than 10 years of experience of teaching UG and PG courses in different disciplines of biotechnology bioinformatics and computational biology. She has published a number of research papers in journals of national and international repute.