Dr. H C Dube did his M.Sc. from Gorakhpur University, D.Phil. from Allahabad, under Prof. K.S. Bilgrami, and Post-doctoral from University of Madras with Padmabhushan Prof. T.S. Sadasivan. He also worked at Colorado State University (USA), with Prof Ralf Baker and was a Senior Dade Fellow at Hannover (Germany) with Prof Schonbeck. Dr. Dube served as Prof. and head of the Dept. of Life Sciences at Bhavnagar University for 17 years before his retirement in 2002. Earlier he was reader at Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, (Gujarat) and lecturer at University of Udaipur (now Mohan Lal Sukhadia University). During this period, he published over 200 research papers and produced 36 Ph.Ds on modern integrated areas in biology. He has published three books and edited four multi-author volumes, published in India and USA. Prof. Dube was elected FNASc in 1989, President of Mycological Society of India in 2001 and received the “Outstanding Teacher Award” of Indian Socieity of Mycology and Plant Pathology in 2006. Dr. Dube was Director of UNESCO-sponsored project on water management at Alang and Sosia ship-breaking yard at Bhavnagar, and Research Coordinator of Ocean Science and Technology Cell of the Dept. of Ocean Development, Govt. of India, to plan and promote research on Marine Ecology of West Coast of India.