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Dr. Ravinder Nagpal, is Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at the Florida State University. He received his MS in Microbiology from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India, in 2004, and was selected for ICAR-fellowship for PhD in Dairy Microbiology from National Dairy Research Institute, India, from 2004 to 2008. He has executed a five-years postdoctoral training at Probiotics Research Laboratory, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan where he studied the ontogenesis of early-life gut microbiome and factors affecting this pioneering microbiota spectrum. Subsequently, he executed another three-year post-doctorate tenure at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, NC, USA, where he investigated the role of gut microbiome in diabetes, obesity and metabolic diseases. As a researcher, he has published more than 75 papers, with over 6,000 total citations, in his areas of research i.e. gut microbiome, probiotics, prebiotics, and rumen, food & dairy microbiology in internationally recognized journals, besides editing one book on beneficial microbes and numerous book chapters, popular articles and online lectures. He has received several prestigious awards such as Young Investigator Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Best Paper Awards from European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology & Nutrition (ESPGHAN), and Indian Dairy Federation (IDF); Young Researcher award from Yakult India Science Foundation; and Junior Researcher Scholarship from National University of Singapore.

Microbiome, Nutrition, Probiotics, Prebiotics, Metabolic diseases, Gut-Brain axis, Aging, Intestine Flora, Ruminococcaceae, Microorganisms, Gut microbiome, Gut dysbiosis, Neurodegenerative disorders