Microbiome of Finfish and Shellfish (PDF)

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.



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