Suman LakhanpaulSuman Lakhanpaul is Senior Professor and presently Head, Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. She did her doctoral work from Delhi University in 1989 on Genome organization and Evolution in Asiatic Vigna and post- doctorate at Corell University. She served ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India during 1987-2002 prior to joining Delhi University. She has worked on molecular basis of genetic diversity using modern approaches with a special focus on crops and their allied taxa. In addition, she is passionate about studying mechanisms underlying multi-partner trans-kingdom interactions in nature such as host plant-lac insect-microbe and phytoplasma-host taxa-insect vector interactions. She has over 100 publications in journals of reputed national and international journals and books. She is a regular reviewer of several scientific journals. She has guided 13 Ph.D. and 9M.Phil students and has been actively teaching Masters students for three decades. She has handled several research projects from prestigious funding agencies including world Bank. Professor Lakhanpaul has widely travelled and has been a visiting scientist to USDA research institutes and delivered lectures in international conferences in Australia, Austria, USA etc. Currently, her research interest is Phytoplasma Biology that included identifying new hosts of Phytoplasma and unraveling the mechanism underlying Phytoplasma associated developmental alterations in host taxa using genomic approaches. Read More Read Less