Goutam Banerjee was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. He received his B.Sc. in Life Science, M.Sc. in Zoology, and Ph.D. in Zoology, all from Visva-Bharati University, India. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Calcutta. His expertise includes the gut microbial community and nutrition, food microbiology and food safety, probiotics, bioinformatics, the microbial community and diversity, global resistome analysis, big data analysis, transcriptomics and the stress response, metagenome assembled genome construction and functional genomics.