Dr. George Thomas joined at Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences during 2001 and currently serving as Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering. He has been awarded Master of Science in Botany in 1987 and conferred the Doctor of Philosophy in 1994 from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He has been awarded the Post-doctoral fellowship in Biotechnology during 1997 by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and successfully completed his two-year’s Post-doctoral research in Biotechnology from NRCPB, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Dr. Thomas is an expert researcher in the area of DNA fingerprinting, Molecular marker analysis, gene tagging and teacher in different subjects in the field of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Genomics. He is currently teaching and guiding several Postgraduate and Doctoral students in their course work as well as in the thesis work. He has published several research papers in peer reviewed journals; published book chapter and co-edited a book. He has also participated in many National and International conferences. Currently he is the Executive editor of a reputed national journal, reviewer in many national and international journals and also the life member in professional societies.