Ranjana Jaiwal

Ranjana Jaiwal is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, India. She earned her MSc and MPhil in Zoology from the CCS University, Meerut, and PhD from the Banaras Hindu Universit, Varanasi, India. She was a CSIR pool scientist for five years before joining Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak as an Assistant Professor. She has more than 20 years of teaching and 30 years of research experience. She has guided four students toward their PhD, and four more are pursuing PhD under her guidance. She has published more than 47 research papers in peer-reviewed journals with good impact factors, contributed several book chapters, and edited one book.. She has delivered invited talks and presented research papers at national and international conferences. Her current research interests are in antimicrobials and edible vaccine production in plants and the management of insects by RNAi technology.