About the Author: Dr. A D Diwan is the former Assistant Director General (ADG) in the Fisheries Division of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi. Before assuming this position, he was a Professor and Head of the Fish Genetics and Biotechnology Division and also a Dean (Faculty of Fishery Science) at the Central Institute of Fisheries Education (CIFE) a Deemed University, 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 is specialized in animal physiology and neurosciences with vast background and experience in marine and oceanic fisheries, mariculture, and aquaculture 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 PhD students and two of them have been honored with 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 Award of ICAR, 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, Aurangabad, Maharashtra. Under the Science and Engineering Research Board of the Ministry of Science & Technology, he served as a Fellow Scientist to write a book on shrimp Biotechnology. Presently, he is continuing as an emeritus professor at the same university, the Institute of Biosciences and Technology and working on national projects on fish and shellfish biotechnology and other related aspects.
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.
