Dr. Anirban Bhar perused (2009-2015) his doctoral research as a CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt of India) ad-hoc fellow on Plant-Microbe interaction dynamics from Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata and obtained Ph.D in Biotechnology from University of Calcutta (2017). After completion of doctoral research had continued his post doctoral research on transcriptomics (RNA Seq) of Chickpea-Fusarium oxysporum interaction biology in Bose institute, Kolkata (2017-2018). Dr. Bhar then moved to Europe and worked as a post doctoral visiting scientist in Natural Resources Institute (LUKE), Finland and Faculty of Agriculture, University of Helsinki, Finland (2018-2020). This project was funded by Academy of Finland (Suomen Akatemia). Dr. Anirban Bhar is presently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Botany (Post Graduate), Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College (Autonomous), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.