Dr. Soumalee Basu received her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology which involved investigation of the dynamics of different cyclic autocatalytic reaction networks and pictorial representation of protein sequences. During postdoctoral studies in the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Dr. Basu worked on a model of olfactory cortex, a part of the brain responsible for identifying different odours. Later in the University of Calcutta, she carried out quantum chemical calculations in collaboration with Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics on the different nucleic acid bases and their rare tautomeric forms in order to find out the energetics of spontaneous mutation. In West Bengal University of Technology, besides pursuing computational neuroscience and quantum chemistry, Dr. Basu has started working on sequence analysis of a plant specific family of receptor like kinase proteins and on heavy metal transporters in plant hyperaccumulators.