Hormone and Biofilm Interplay: Mechanisms and Applications
暫譯: 荷爾蒙與生物膜的相互作用：機制與應用

本書探討了荷爾蒙與生物膜之間的複雜互動，揭示了荷爾蒙信號如何影響微生物群落和生物膜的形成。它提供了有關生物膜形成背後的調控因素及荷爾蒙藥物的影響的見解。本書適合微生物學和生物技術領域的研究人員。

Rina Rani Ray, Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, is currently acting as Head of, the Department of Life Science in Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology. She obtained her post-graduate degree from the University of Calcutta in Zoology with a specialization in Endocrinology. She did her PhD in Microbiology from Bose Institute, Kolkata. She has thirty-three years of research experience and her topic of research is microbial biotechnology, which includes microbial enzymology, bioremediation, biofilm research and nanobiotechnology. She has published more than one hundred fifty-odd research papers in different international journals with high impact factors and has edited a few books from renowned publishing houses. She has conducted several extramural research projects successfully and guided several post-graduate projects. A good number of scholars are being guided by her, out of which several students have been awarded PhD under her sole supervision. She regularly acts as a resource person and chairperson in various conferences, acting as an editorial board member in various reputed international journals and as a reviewer of various journals of repute. She is a regular reviewer of various international research project proposals and adjudicator of a number of doctoral theses. Dr. Ray is a fellow member of various scientific associations and keen to step into the multidisciplinary arena of Life Sciences.

Rina Rani Ray，生物技術系的副教授，目前擔任馬烏蘭阿布卡拉姆阿扎德科技大學（前稱西孟加拉科技大學）生命科學系的系主任。她在加爾各答大學獲得了動物學碩士學位，專攻內分泌學。她在加爾各答的博斯研究所獲得微生物學博士學位。她擁有三十三年的研究經驗，研究主題為微生物生物技術，包括微生物酶學、生物修復、生物膜研究和奈米生物技術。她在不同的國際期刊上發表了超過一百五十篇高影響力的研究論文，並編輯了幾本知名出版社的書籍。她成功地執行了多個校外研究項目，並指導了多個碩士專案。許多學者在她的指導下進行研究，其中幾位學生在她的獨立指導下獲得了博士學位。她定期擔任各種會議的資源人員和主席，並擔任多個知名國際期刊的編輯委員會成員及多個期刊的審稿人。她也是多個國際研究計畫提案的常規審稿人，並擔任多篇博士論文的評審。Ray博士是多個科學協會的會員，並熱衷於進入生命科學的多學科領域。