Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu.

Dr. Shanmugam Kathiresan earned his B.Sc degree in Agriculture at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore and his Master’s Degree in Agriculture specializing in Plant Pathology at the University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore. He earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), Mysore.