Meet The Research Team

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Dr. Rina Rani Ray joined the Department of Biotechnology as Associate Professor in 2017. She has done her doctoral research in the Department of Microbiology, Bose Institute, Kolkata and was awarded Ph.D. degree from University of Calcutta in 1996. Since then, she is working on different branches of Microbiology including enzyme biotechnology, metal bioremediation and fungal biotechnology. She has successfully completed three minor and three major research projects funded by different sponsoring agencies like UGC, DST and DRDO and is working on one ongoing project sponsored by DBT, WB. She has published more than 100 research papers in various national and international journals. She has edited a book on Biofilm and has published a patent on antibiofilm activity of phytocompound. Two students are awarded, four have been registered and two are enrolled for Ph.D under her sole supervision. She is in the editorial board of many reputed journals. Dr. Ray has served in various reputed post graduate colleges under West Bengal Education Service including Presidency College and Bethune College for last twenty years, where she also acted as convenor and Chairperson, PGEC respectively. She is the member of various scientific associations and was nominated fellows of Zoological Society, India and Academy for Environment and Life Sciences, India

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