Appa Rao Podile, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad (UoH) has been unanimously elected as the president of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI).
He was the Council member of the AMI for the past six years.
AMI is one of the oldest and reputed scientific organisations of India established in 1938.
AMI also publishes a journal Indian Journal of Microbiology in collaboration with Springer.