Dr. Shahina Akter is working as a Principal Scientific Officer, at Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR), Dhaka, Bangladesh. She obtained her Ph.D degree from Department of Microbiology, University of Dhaka under the supervision of Professor Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan, Ph.D. Her Ph.D. title was “ Development of an Edible Vaccine against Pneumococcal disease using Transgenic plant”. She had the opportunity to work under the supervision of Dr. Gowda Ramanjini, Professor of Plant Biotechnology at UAS Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She has attended on many training program national and internationally. She got a training program on “Bioinformatics Training Course” at Senate Building, University of London, UK. She attended a training program on Molecular Biotechnology, jointly organized by University of Texas at Austin and the City University of New York, USA and Department of Botany, University of Dhaka. She has achieved RTFDCS fellowship, given by CCSTDS, Chennai, India and Bangabandhu Fellowship on Science and Technology. Dr. Shahina has more than 19 years research experience on Biotechnology, Genomics and Bioinformatics (Human Whole Genome, Metagenomics, Covid 19 whole genome sequencing), Microbiology, Molecular Biology, and Cytogenetics. She has supervised 8 Masters thesis research and she has published 50 scientific articles in many national and international journal of repute.