Praveena Bhatt is a microbiologist working in the area of Food and Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology. She completed her master's in microbiology from Bangalore University, India, and her Ph.D. in Microbiology from the CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nagpur, India. She joined the CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), India, in 2009 and is presently a Senior Scientist there. Her team is working towards developing biosensors for the ultrasensitive detection of food contaminants and toxicants using enzymes, aptamers, antibodies, affimers, etc. The biosensing format integrates nanotechnology-based approaches for increasing the selectivity and sensitivity of detection.