I did my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, PhD. from Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha. Worked as DBT sponsored Post Doctoral Fellow in NRC on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi and worked as Visiting Scientist in IIT-Technion, Israel with DBT fellowship. Worked on DNA fingerprinting, Marker Assisted Selection, Genomics and proteomics of host pathogen interactions, Molecular diagnostics of plant diseases and plant disease epidemiology. I have published so far 131 research articles in national and international journals of repute, guided 12 M.Sc. Biotech students and 14 Ph.D. students. Members of editorial board of numbers of international journals and worked as reviewers of numbers of international and national journals. For Details of publications please see https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=hJET4REAAAAJ&hl=en