Ishani Chakrabartty, PhD, is now working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya (USTM), India. She has specialization in biotechnology, particularly in natural products, microbiology, and nanotechnology. She has been teaching graduate and postgraduate students for the past several years. She has published over ten publications in international journals (all Scopus- and WOS-indexed) as well as several chapters with national and international publishers like Springer, Elsevier, Taylor and Francis, Frontiers, and others. She was appointed as the Head of the Department in P.A. First Grade College, Mangalore University, India, where she served for a year. She has a number of national awards to her credit and holds life memberships in several organizations, including the Biotech Research Society, ECPFO, Indian Science Congress, etc. She was awarded Best Science Story in 2018 by AWSAR-DST, Govt. of India. Currently,
