Dr. Madhumita Barooah holds a position of Associate Professor at Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India. She has completed her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from University of Exeter, UK and Post Doctoral training from University of Reading, UK, and Penn State University, USA. Dr. Madhumita received honors includes DBT Overseas Associateship, Norman Borlaug Fellowship for Post-doctoral studies, USA, and CSIR fellowship for postgraduate study. She has supervised 12 MSc students. She is also serving as reviewer for various journals. She has completed 5 research projects as principal investigator, and member scientist. She has published 43 research articles in journals, 3 book chapters, 9 training manuals and 14 GenBank submission contributed as author/co-author. She is also serving as external examiner for Dibrugarh University, Assam University, Central Agricultural University, and North Bengal University. She also attended number of conferences and seminars and performed presentations.