Dr. Anupama Ghosh is Associate Professor in the Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata. Her primary research interests include virulence mechanisms of different phytopathogens and defense responses from the respective host plants. Her research group at Bose Institute is engaged in understanding the role of various molecular players from a biotrophic plant pathogenic fungus, Ustilago maydis, which are involved in the invasion and colonization of the host plant Zea mays.

Dr. Ghosh earned her bachelor’s in microbiology, and master’s and Ph.D. in biotechnology from the University of Calcutta. For her postdoctoral studies, she joined the Department of Organismic Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, where she contributed significantly to studies involving functional characterization of secreted effector proteins from Ustilago maydis. She received the DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and the Early Career Research Award from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India for carrying out her research in plant-microbe interactions. Ongoing research projects at her laboratory are funded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India and SERB.

During her Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence fellowship, Dr. Ghosh is studying the role of extracellular vesicles in Zea mays in the defense response of maize towards Ustilago maydis infection.