Gopinath Balakrish Nair
Microbiology
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Gopinath Balakrish Nair obtained his Masters (Marine Biology) (1977), and Doctoral (Marine Microbiology) (1982) from Annamalai University under the supervision of Professor R Natarajan. He worked at the Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata from 1981 to 2000; Director of Laboratory Sciences Division (2000-07), International Center for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh and Director (2007- ), NICED. He also had postdoctoral training (1987-88) on heat-stable enterotoxins of Vibrio cholerae with Dr Tae Takeda in the Department of Infectious Diseases Research, National Children's Medical Research Center, Tokyo, Japan and was on sabbatical (1994-95) for doing research on molecular epidemiology of V. cholerae in the Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University, Japan with Professor Yoshifumi Takeda. He was also Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, Canada (1985) and at the Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA (1992).
Research Interest
Medical and Molecular Microbiology
