Biography :
Dr. Shyamapada Mandal is Professor and Head of the Department of Zoology, and Dean (Science), University of Gour Banga, India. He is interested on infectious diseases, probiotics, genomics, and bioinformatics research. He did pre-PhD, Ph.D., and post-PhD research under the guidance of Professor Nishith Kumar Pal at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India. He has published 118 articles with eight book chapters. He is a life member of IAMM and IASR, India, and a fellow member of SASS, India. Eight national academic and research awards have been conferred to him. He has guided 52 postgraduate students; supervised three MPhil and three Ph.D. students, and supervised 6 Ph.D. and one MPhil students. Professor Mandal is among the world’s top 2% scientists as per the survey of Stanford University.