Rina Rani RayRina Rani Ray is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal. Her research interest focuses on the diverse field of microbial biotechnology. She has been in academics and research for more than 25 years and worked in several institutes of repute. She started her research career in the field of microbial enzyme technology. She successfully completed a number of research projects funded by different sponsoring agencies like UGC, DST and DRDO and is working a project sponsored by DBT, WB. She has published around 80 research papers in various peer reviewed national and international journals and is on the editorial board and a regular reviewer of many journals. At present, her research group is working on the positive and negative aspects of biofilm. She is the member of various scientific associations and was nominated fellows of Zoological Society, India and Academy for Environment and Life Sciences, India. Read More Read Less