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and international conferences. He is a recipient of number of prestigious awards including Mahendra Pal Zoonoses Award, Sir. F.M. Burnett Memorial Award, Dr. C.M. Singh National Award of Excellence, Young Researcher Award, etc. Currently, he is studying rodent- and foodborne zoonoses, and developing diagnostics for important foodborne pathogens.

Dr Sandeep Ghatak, is currently serving as Principal Scientist (Veterinary Public Health) in the Division of Animal and Fisheries Sciences, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Umiam, Meghalaya under Indian council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). He is experienced in research on zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance. Dr. Ghatak has published over 40 scientific research articles in the field of zoonoses, food microbiology, antimicrobial resistance and epidemiology of important animal diseases in various peer-reviewed, international and national journals. He has also published 6 book chapters in books published by reputed publishers like Springer, Taylor and Francis, etc. He has also presented various research papers and invited lectures in national and international conferences. He received post-doctoral training in United States Department of Agriculture. Currently he is involved in research on genomic epidemiology of animal and foodborne diseases and antimicrobial resistance.



Dr Souvik Ghosh, BVSc & AH (Gold Medalist), MVSc, PhD, is a professor of infectious diseases, director of the One Health Center for Zoonoses and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, and course director of DVM Virology at the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine (RUSVM), an AVMA accredited vet school in St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Dr Ghosh's research focuses on molecular epidemiology, genetic diversity, and interspecies transmission of animal and human viruses. He has published 99 research papers and review articles in peer-reviewed biomedical journals with over 2400 citations so far. Dr Ghosh serves as the section editor of Archives of Medical Science and Frontiers in Microbiology, review editor of Frontiers in Veterinary Sciences, and in editorial board of Pathogens (MDPI) and Epidemiologia (MDPI). He is a member of the ICTV Picobirnaviridae study group, distinguished member of the World Society for Virology, and fellow of Indian Virological Society. He was involved in research capacity building and training in tropical countries. Because of his contributions to teaching, he received twice the CARE award from RUSVM.