Next-Gen Phytobiotics for Aquaculture

Dr. Shivendra Kumar is a Former Professor and Head at the Department of Aquaculture, College of Fisheries, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Bihar, India. He is involved in research, research-based extension activities and teaching of graduate, postgraduate and doctorate students. Dr. Kumar pursued M.F.Sc and Ph.D in fish nutrition and biochemistry from ICAR – Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, India. His doctoral research was mainly focused on nutritional requirements and metabolic utilization of nutrients and physiology of temperature regulation by fish. Dr. Kumar received post-doctoral research fellowship at HAKI, Szarvas, Hungary, financed by European Commission. Dr. Kumar's extensive work in aquaculture has made significant advancements in the field, particularly in the areas of low-cost fish feed, production efficiency and sustainable practices.

Dr. Archana Sinha is currently working as Head and Principal Scientist at Aquatic Environmental Biotechnology Division of ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CIFRI), Kolkata, India. She has working experience of more than 35 years in the field of aquaculture research, education and extension. She completed several research projects and developed technology for fisheries and aquaculture, especially in ornamental fish breeding and culture, fish feed technology, open water fish culture etc. She published more than 100 research papers, four books, and several technical and training manuals. 

Dr. Kavita Kumari did her masters in the discipline of fish genetics and biotechnology and PhD in fish biotechnology from ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, India. She is presently working as a scientist at the Division of Aquatic Environment Biotechnology at ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries 

Research Institute, Kolkata, India. Her area of research is application of molecular biology tools for assessment of physiological changes in fish, phylogeographic variation in fish diversity and impact of climatic variability on microbes. 

Dr. Zsuzsanna J. Sándor is a scientific advisor and head of the Fish Nutrition Research Group at the Research Center for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary. Her research interests include the study of nutritional and metabolic processes in freshwater fish, the quality of fish meat as a function of feeding and environmental factors, and the accumulation of xenobiotics (e.g., heavy metals, pharmaceutical residues) in aquatic organisms, as well as monitoring various pollutants in the environment. Dr. Sándor has also served as a national and institutional project leader in an EU research project (ARRAINA) and was a consortium leader in national operative programs. She is well published in her field.