Curriculum Vitae

B JOHN ANTONY 193 B/242 Joshua Street Florence Illam Nagercoil- 629001 , Mobile +91 8754324951 Professional Experience 1. Currently working as a field supervisor in ‘The Marine Products Export Development Authority’ (MPEDA), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India from 06-01-2011 till date. Office Address: Regional Centre (Aqua) No.1, Cook’s Road Nagapattinam, Tamil nadu Job Nature • Involved as Incharge for various level of projects like shrimp farming, cage culture of seabass fishes, mud crab farming, Tilapia farming. • Conducting training programmes, abuse at antibiotics campaigns, farmer’s meet, awareness programmes on aquaculture to create awareness among the farmers. • Providing technical assistance to shrimp farms in all aspects from seed selection, Pre harvesting techniques, harvesting methodologies, Icing. • Providing technical assistance to hatcheries. • Inspecting shrimp farms and hatcheries for abuse of antibiotics, issues related to farms and to give solution. • Travel all over the state to identify new farm and to help among farmers to suggest ideal species to culture.

2. Worked as Biological trainee from 01-03-2010 to 05-01-2011.

Official address: Saliyamangalam district Tamil nadu Job nature • In charge for cage culture of seabass (Lates calcarifer). • As a single person managed throughout the culture of seabass like water quality parameter analysis, feeding, cage fabrication, cage cleaning, cage installation, platform construction, grading, FCR calculation, Biomass calculation.

3. Worked as Technician from 01-07-2009 to 28-02-2010.

Official address: Matha Aqua farm Kattumavadi Pudukottai District Tamil nadu

4. Worked as a technician in a shrimp farm for one successful crop of P.monodon culture.

5. Worked from the start to end at the culture and involved various level of works in the shrimp farm from site selection to harvest.

Educational Qualification

M.Sc (Marine Biotechnology Specialised in Aquaculture) :

Department of Marine Biotechnology, NFMC, Bharathidasan University, Trichy.

B.Sc (Biotechnology)

Trainings attended

• A short term training programme on Best Husbandry Practices for Asian Seabass Aquaculture from 1st to 5th march conducted by RGCA, MPEDA, Sirkali. • Workshop on Basic shrimp pathology from 14th -15th November 2011 conducted by aquaculture pathology lab, University of Arizona, USA. • Aquaculture food safety prevention program from 19th -20th April 2011 conducted by U.S.F.D.A and MPEDA. • Short term international training on L. Vannami Breeding and farming operations conducted from 5th to 8th October 2011 by m/s vannami-101, Phuket Thailand. • Training course on remote sensing and GIS applications for applications for aquaculture from 25th April 2011 to 6th May 2011 by National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, India. • International seminar – Workshop on mud crab Aquaculture and fisheries management from April 10th -12th 2013 conducted by aquaculture department, South East Asian fisheries Development Centre (Philippines) • JIFSAN train the trainees course on god aquaculture practices (GAJP) from January 17th to 21st 2012 conducted by CAA, Thanjavur and JIFSAN, Maryland, USA. Papers Published

Manuscript entilled "Exploration and Identification of Bioactive Compound from Sponge Associated Bacteria by Utilizing Biological Database” on March 2015 in International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science & Software Engineering (ISSN no: 2277 128X).

Papers Presented

Exploration and Identification of Bioactive Compound from Sponge Associated Bacteria by Utilizing Biological Database, during “International Interdisciplinary Conference on E- Technologies in Anthropology” (ICETA- 2015) jointly organised by the P.G. Department of Biotechnology, Computer departments and Department of Hospital Administration.

Identification & Purification of Bioactive compound from Marine seaweeds against Human Bacterial Pathogens, during National Seminar on “Ensuring the Sustainability of Coastal Environment” (2010), conducted by St. Mary’s College (Autonomous) Thoothukudi.

Exploration of bioactive compounds from Sinularia sp, during International Seminar “Recent Trends in Biotechnology” 2010, conducted by Holy Cross College, Nagercoil, India.

Personal information th Date of Birth : 28 April 1985 Sex : Male Marital Status : Married Age : 30 Nationality : Indian Languages Known : English & Tamil

References 2. Dr. S. Kandan Deputy Director

1. C. Wilson MPEDA RC (Aqua) Deputy Director Vijayawada, AP MPEDA RC (Aqua) Phone: 0091 9444539549 Panvel, Mumbai. Email: Phone: 0091 – 9443832446 [email protected] Email : [email protected]

3. Dr.S.Vijayakumar Deputy Director MPEDA RC (Aqua) Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu Phhone: 0091-9428823045 email: [email protected]

(B.John Antony)