Regina Sharmila Dass specializes in Fungal Genetics, Food Microbiology, and Mycology and has twenty-four years of teaching and research experience. She is a recognized Mycologist of India, with a publication track record of 60 research articles. She and her research team are pioneers in Selenium nanobiotechnology and seed-borne Aspergilli. She has completed three research projects, twenty-five research consultancy projects, and served in several research, programme, and administrative committees. She is actively involved in SDGs across India and the world. She represented India at the Livelihood Network Camp (LNC), at Vishakhapatnam, funded by Livelihoods Funds (France) and organised by Naandi Foundation, which was attended by experts from over a hundred and twenty countries. She has presented her research at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi, on ‘National Agricultural Policy on Soils’ funded by the Central Government of India. Also, she has travelled, presented her work, and shared her expertise at the Goetheanum (Switzerland), Lake George (New York), Lome (West Africa), the Philippines, and Bali (Indonesia).  She has delivered thirty-five invited lectures on nanobiotechnology, fungal barcoding, microbial dynamics, food safety, soil microbial communities, functional and metabolic roles of VAM fungi, in India and abroad. She is also known for her public speaking skills. She was an ex-member of the Academic Council (AC) of Pondicherry University and currently serves as the warden and deputy chief warden (messes) of the girls’ hostels.

Molecular Genetics (Fungal) and Mycotoxicology, Mycology, Myconanotechnology, Food Microbiology, Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology