Invitations roles by faculty

1. Committees –

• Dr. S.Sithanantham invited as on expert in the Task Force on Biological agent under DBT from Feb 2013.
• Dr. S.Sithanantham serving as a adviser World Noni Research Foundations from 2008 onwards.
• Dr. J. Kannaiyan serving as external expert in biofertilizers and biopesticides for biotech consortium New Delhi.
• Dr. S. Sithanantham invited member of Centre Research Advisory Committee of ICAR-National Centre
• or Sorghum Research (2009-11).
• Dr. S. Sithanantham invited as external expert for annual research meeting of Indian Cardamom Research Institute in 2009 and 2012.
• Dr. S. Sithanantham invited for – Endowment lecture at the faculty of Agriculture Annamalai University 2012

2. Journal editing/Scientific Papers Editing –

• Dr. S. Sithanantham was invited to evaluate grant proposals submitted for R & D to Department of Biotechnology (DBT) 2010 & 2011.
• Dr. S.S was nominated as Chief Editor for the journal Hexapoda during 2012-2013. Dr. S. Sithanantham also offered as editorial referee for two scientific papers from Journal of Biological Control (2010-2011).
• Dr. S. Sithanantham (along with 3 more scientists from ICAR) co edited a book Biological control of Insect Pests using Egg Parasitoids which is accepted by Springer for publication in 2013.

3. Charing of Scientific session –

4. Roles in Scientific Societies –

• Dr. S. Sithanantham serving as president SASA Pheromone Technology since 2011
• Dr. S. Sithanantham serving as vice president Entomology Academy of India since 2011
• Dr. S. Sithanantham and J. Kannaiyan serving as life member in SISSTA and also in Plant protection Association of India, Hyderabad.
• Dr. S. Sithanantham also serving on the Executive Committee of International Society for Noni Research (ISNS).