Zakaria Zaky has completed his PhD at the age of 36 years from Assiut University and postdoctoral studies from Assiut University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Egypt. He is the Vice Dean of Faculty of Veterinary Medicine for Education and Student Affair. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member of repute.

His research interest mainly deals with benefits obtained by consumption of goat milk and nutrients derived from the same.

Venkitanarayanan received his Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Master of Veterinary Science degrees from Kerala Agricultural University and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, respectively, after which he practiced as a veterinarian for a year. In the US, He obtained his M.S. in Food Science (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ph.D. in Animal Science (University of Connecticut). He later worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Food Safety, University of Georgia. He has published 80 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, 10 book chapters and characterized five new bacterial genes. Having successful in garnering more than 5 million dollars as funding for his research, Dr. Venkitanarayanan serves on the editorial board of multiple international journals, and is currently supervising one post-doctoral scientist, five Ph.D. candidates, and five MS students.

Human diseases linked to direct or indirect contact with domestic and wild animals

Ashraf Abu-Seida is a full Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology & Radiology at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University. He was born in Fayoum (Egypt) on June, 9 1971 and received his veterinary medical degree at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University in 1994, Master (1998) and Ph.D. (2002) in veterinary sciences. He was appointed to Assistant Professor in 2007 and Professorship in 2012 in the same university. He has authored or coauthored > 33 peer reviewed articles. He has the memberships with many scientific veterinary associations. He presented numerous presentations and lectures in the fields of Veterinary Surgery, Radiology & Anesthesiology. He has supervised > 30 Master and PhD Theses. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of > 10 reputed journals. Dr. Ashraf Abu-Seida has been bestowed by various national awards for excellence in research.

Veterinary Medicine

Sarnarinder Randhawa has completed his Ph.D at the age of 38 years from C.S.A. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, India. He is the Director of Research cum Dean, Postgraduate Studies of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, since 2010 a premier veterinary university of India. He has published more than 220 original research papers in referred international and national journals; visited U.S.A., Canada, Brazil, Italy and France for presentation of research papers in the past and to learn animal health programmes. He is fellow of five National Academies and Scientific Societies and has a professional experience of more than 30 years in veterinary sciences. He has won many National/International awards from institutes of high repute.

Animal Health

Dr. N. N. Zade is currently Director of Extension and training at MAFSU. He has received his MVSc in Microbiology and PhD in Vet. Public Health & Epidemiology. He has more than 20 year’s research experience. To his credit he has 37 research publications, 83 Research articles Presented / Published in symposium/ conferences, 9 Technical articles published, 10 Radio broadcast, life member of 8 professional associations and Contributed three chapters for book titled as “Universal Meat Hygiene Practices” edited by Dr. Vijendra Singh. Also he was appointed as Chairman of the High Court Committee constituted by Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court to solve slaughter house related issues and is Vice President of Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists. Also he received best teachers award of MAFSU in the year 2009.

Veterinary Public Health

Neelesh Sharma has graduated in Veterinary and post-graduated in Veterinary Medicine from College of Veterinary Science, Anjora, Durg (I.G.K.V.V., Raipur), Chhattisgarh, India. He has more than 8 years experience in teaching, research and extension. He started his professional career as Research Fellow at Faculty of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Jammu and later he joined as Assistant Professor in September, 2005, in the same faculty. He is an “ICAR-International Fellow”. He is recipient of various National and International awards and has worked as collaborating scientist National and International (Angila Ruskin University, Cambridge, England, Jeju National Univeristy, South Korea) research projects. He has published more than 85 publications in journals of national and international repute. He has authored a laboratory practical manual of Veterinary Clinical Medicine-II and four books in veterinary science, and contributed 09 chapters in books. His recent books are on “Production diseases of dairy animals” and another on “Bovine Mastitis” by Neelesh Sharma et al., published by Satish Serial Publication House, Delhi. He is a life member of various scientific societies. He had been a reviewer and technical editor of more than 6-7 journals. He is working as Assistant Professor, Division of Veterinary Clinical Medicine & Jurisprudence, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry, SKUAST-J, R.S. Pura-181 102, Jammu (J&K) India. Presently he is working on stem cell research at Jeju National University, Republic of Korea

His current research is on the application of stem cell research in veterinary science.

Dr. Rajib Deb, working as a Scientist under Indian council of agricultural Research, India. Presently he is working on cellular thermo tolerance genes of cattle and their implication for selecting genetically thermo resistant breeds. Besides these he is also involved in identification of biomarkers associated with improved male fertility traits in cattle.

His main research interest is in cattle breeding and their genetics.

Tripathi did his Doctorate in Animal Nutrition and Biochemistry (PhD) from Govindballabh Pant University of agriculture and Technology in 1999. Main experise in Gut Microbiology, Nutrition and Health, Animal Experimentation.

Improvement of production and functionality of goat milk; Enhancement of nutrient use efficiency for energy and protein from agro-industrial by-products; Methane mitigation; Rumen microbiology; Feed economization

Charles M. Mulei is a professor of Veterinary Internal Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nairobi. He has been in academia for the last 34 years rising from an assistant lecturer in 1979 to a full professor in 2003. He is an academic member of staff in the Department of Clinical Studies, where he teaches Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Animal Health Management (Herd Health) and Veterinary Clinical Pathology and Chemistry. He has demonstrable professional skills in field veterinary work, teaching of both undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University, scientific publications and extension services. He has a great deal of experience in teaching and supervision of both undergraduate and postgraduate student’s research projects. He has supervised and examined many Master and PhD theses of both local and international students. He has also been an external examiner in various universities in the region; Makerere University (Uganda), Sokoine University of Agriculture (Tanzania) and University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe).

His main research interest is in Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Animal Health Management (Herd Health) and Veterinary Clinical Pathology and Chemistry. He has demonstrable professional skills in field veterinary work, teaching of both undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University, scientific publications and extension services.