Dr. Srijata Mitra grew up at Burdwan, India. She received her PhD and MSc in Biotechnology from Burdwan University, Burdwan India in 2012 & 2005 respectively. Her PhD Thesis title is “Isolation and characterization of gene involved in Trichloroethylene degradation by Bacillus cereus”. She is member of following scientific societies, Fellow member of Indian Society of Microbiology, Fellow member of Indian Science congress. Her experience includes, Saralabala Mondal Endowment Senior Research Fellow along with teaching assignment at Biotechnology Department, Research Associate in DST Project at Department of Biotechnology and Associated with University Science Instrumentation Centre in Burdwan University. Her achievement includes, Associate Editor of International Journal of Current Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Technical Editor of Current Research in Bacteriology, Technical Editor of Microbiology Journal, Peer reviewer of Microbiology Insight. Her awards and honors include, Trophy & Cash in 16th Science & Technological Congress for presentation of best paper in Molecular Biology, Panchu Bala Mondal-Biswas Silver Medal in M.Sc. Dr. Srijata Mitra attended number of seminars, training workshops and conferences. She published (9) research articles in scientific journals, (3) book chapters, and (1) book and (2) review articles as author/reviewer.