Hormone and Biofilm Interplay: Mechanisms and Applications

Rina Rani Ray, Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, is currently acting as Head of, the Department of Life Science in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology. She obtained her post-graduate degree from the University of Calcutta in Zoology with a specialization in Endocrinology. She did her PhD in Microbiology from Bose Institute, Kolkata. She has thirty-three years of research experience and her topic of research is microbial biotechnology, which includes microbial enzymology, bioremediation, biofilm research and nanobiotechnology. She has published more than one hundred fifty-odd research papers in different international journals with high impact factors and has edited a few books from renowned publishing houses. She has conducted several extramural research projects successfully and guided several post-graduate projects. A good number of scholars are being guided by her, out of which several students have been awarded PhD under her sole supervision. She regularly acts as a resource person and chairperson in various conferences, acting as an editorial board member in various reputed international journals and as a reviewer of various journals of repute. She is a regular reviewer of various international research project proposals and adjudicator of a number of doctoral theses. Dr. Ray is a fellow member of various scientific associations and keen to step into the multidisciplinary arena of Life Sciences.