Dr. Sarika Gupta is currently working as Senior Assistant Professor at the Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali, Rajasthan, India. She is serving as a fellow in Association of Indian Science Congress Association and Association of Microbiologists of India. She is currently in charge of ongoing scholarly project from DST-SERB, Government of India. Form last 16 years she is actively engaged in teaching, training and research. Her research interests are in the area of medical microbiology, molecular biology and plant biotechnology. Dr. Gupta is also coordinating as an integral part of organizing team of various biotechnology program in collaboration with various Government funding agencies as DST, DBT, ISCA, MSME, RMOL etc. She has various publications in journals of national and international repute. She has presented paper at various national and international platforms. She has completed her Ph.D. in Seed Technology and Microbiology from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. She is serving as a fellow in Association of Indian Science Congress Association and Association of Microbiologists of India. She is currently in charge of ongoing scholarly project from DST-SERB, Government of India. She is also actively involves execution of a wide range of laboratory investigations for Pharmaceutical Biology, Molecular Biology, Medical Microbiology, Food Microbiology with aim to collaborate with Researchers, Academicians, Clinicians & Industrialists.

Dr. Sarika Gupta research focuses on working with microbial communities for industrial implications through bioaccumulation and bioaugmentation approaches for the mitigation of hydrocarbon/dyes in the ecosystem. She is also engaged in exploring the unexplored potentials of plants possessing enormous capabilities for being used against fungal keratitis, dermatitis, dental caries and enteric infections. Determining the mechanism of action of the potent herbal conjugates is an interesting domain to elucidate the presence of some specific functionally active clusters.