Associate editor
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Professor, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. (Sc), Burdwan University
M.Sc. Botany, Burdwan University.
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION:
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Microbial production and degradation of polyhydroxyalkanoic acids & antifungal antibiotics.
Diversity of metallophiles, metal-microbe interaction for bioremediation and metal prospecting.
Exploitation of halophiles for production of extracellular and intracellular polymers.
Bacterial endophytes: diversity and assessment of functional metabolites.
AWARDS:
Honorary Fellow (FIMS), Indian Mycological Society, Kolkata.
Grand Award Judge in Microbiology, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF 2011, Los Angeles, USA.
PUBLICATIONS:
Research papers: 114 (International and National), Book chapters: 11; Book: 01.
