Dr. Vivek Vinayak Kulkarni is a Veterinarian and Ph.D in Livestock Products Technology (Meat Science). He has 30 years of professional experience and has worked in six states in various capacities. Dr.Kulkarni recently retired as Professor and Head of LTP dept in Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal (TANUVAS). Dr. Girish Patil, S., M.V.Sc., Ph.D., MBA is working as Principal Scientist at ICAR ¿ National Research Centre on Meat, Hyderabad. The frontier areas in which he initiated research for the first time in India are meat species identification, meat traceability, application of information technology for safe meat production, organic meat production and lab grown meat production. Dr. Sukhadeo B Barbuddhe, M.V.Sc., Ph.D., Director, ICAR-National Research Centre on Meat, Hyderabad has completed B.V.Sc. and A.H. from Nagpur Veterinary College, Nagpur in 1991. Subsequently, he joined Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar for higher studies and completed M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He has been working on Listeria monocytogenes since last two decades. Dr. Naveena B. Maheswarappa, M.V.Sc., Ph.D. is working as Principal Scientist at ICAR ¿ National Research Centre on Meat, Hyderabad. He has established the proteomics laboratory at ICAR-NRC on Meat and contributed significantly in the area of high-throughput proteomic tools for understanding muscle food quality, lipid-protein interaction and identified the protein biomarkers for meat colour and texture. Dr. M. Muthukumar, M.V.Sc., Ph.D. is working as Principal Scientist at ICAR - National Research Centre on Meat, Hyderabad. He has 2 years of experience in integrated meat processing plants and 15 years of research, extension and teaching experience in meat science and technology. He has worked on 9 extramural projects sponsored by MoSPI, MoFPI, DBT, DADH, FSSAI, APEDA and ICAR and 22 institute projects.
