Dr. Shyamapada Mandal is Professor and Head of the Department of Zoology, and Dean(Science), University of Gour Banga, India. He is working on infectious diseases, probiotics, andgenomics and bioinformatics research. He did pre-PhD, PhD, and post-PhD research under theguidance of Professor Nishith Kumar Pal at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India. Hehas published 130 articles with eight book chapters. He is life member of IAMM and IASR,India, and fellow member of SASS, India. Eight national academic and research awards havebeen conferred to him. He has guided 58 post graduate students; supervised four MPhil and six PhD students, and supervising four PhD students. Professor Mandal is among the world’s top 2% scientists as per the survey of the Stanford University, published in PLOS (Public Library of Science) Biology (October, 2020). He is featured in the top 2% world scientists list for second,
third and fourth consecutive times as published by the Stanford University-Elsevier BV (October, 2021, October, 2022 and October, 2023).