Committee Work
Dr. Nair is an elected member of the Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Vibrionaceae, International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology from 1986. In August 1996 at the Jerusalem IUMS Congress, he was elected as the Secretary of this subcommittee. He was elected to the position of Member-at-Large of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) at the Executive Board Meeting held on July 7, 1994 at Prague, Czech Republic and held this position until August, 1999; he is the first Indian Microbiologist to be on the executive board of the IUMS. He was elected as the Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc) in 1995, as Member of Guha Research Council (GRC) in 1997 and as Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Sciences (FNA) in 2002. On April 30, 2002, Dr. Nair was elected as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA and on November 26, 2004, he was elected as a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy, now renamed as the Academy of Sciences for the Developing Nations, in November 2004.
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