VADODARA: An M S University teacher has been nominated as delegation leader for the Indian team to the 27th International Biology Olympiad that will be held at Hanoi, Vietnam between July 17 and July 24.Dr Dharmendra Shah, assistant professor at MSU’s Department of Botany has been nominated by the national steering committee for science and astronomy Olympiads of Government of India to be the delegation leader.The national steering committee is based at TIFR, Mumbai. The Indian delegation consists of eight persons includes two faculty, four students and two scientific observers. The four students which are part of the Indian team are Lajja Patel from Gujarat, Vidushi Varshney from Rajasthan, Spandan Roy from West Bengal and Tanish Modi from Haryana.They have been selected from more than 12,000 students through a series of tests and selection camps. Dr Shah has been involved with the biology olympiad movement in India since 2011 and this is the third occasion in which he is a part of the Indian team.He had been part of the Indian delegation to International Biology Olympiads in 2012 at Singapore and at Bali, Indonesia in 2014.