Dr. Rohit Ghai completed a PhD in Natural Sciences at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany, working on transcriptional responses of macrophages to listeriolysin. In his post-doctoral work in Miguel-Hernandez University in Alicante, Spain he started to examine aquatic environments using metagenomics. Currently he is a Group Leader at the Biology Centre CAS in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.