Dr. Gholamreza Ahmadian is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology at the National Institute of Genetics Engineering and Biotechnology of Iran. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbiology from Tehran University, and a Ph.D. in the field of virology and molecular Biology from Warwick University in England. His research focuses on the following areas: developing various GRAS bacterial surface display systems that will finally be applied in vaccine development and biosorbents, studying the regulation of bacterial Operons and developing novel expression systems for industrial enzymes.