Pranab Roy
HaldiaInst of Technology, India
Biography
Pranab Roy has completed his Post-Doctoral Research from Yale University School of Medicine and University of Connecticut Health Centre, USA working onadvanced Molecular Biology. He has joined as Lecturer in Bose Institute where he characterized a novel repetitive DNA sequence by molecular cloning and
sequencing when these techniques were just being introduced in India in mid-80’s. He also joined industrial R&D to set up the Genetic Engineering Unit at
Hindustan Lever Research Centre, Mumbai. He is currently working at Haldia Institute of Technology, where his research interest was with plant growth promotingrhizobacteria from root nodules from Fenugreek (Methi), a leguminous plant