Dr. Basudev Ghoshal is a Research Scientist at the Summerland Research and Development Centre of the Government of Canada. He has extensive research experience in the field of plant-virus interaction, plant epigenetics and epigenome editing. Dr. Ghoshal acquired his Master’s degree in Botany and gained initial research experience in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Calcutta. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, studying plant-virus interaction in the laboratory of Dr. Hélène Sanfaçon. After completing his Ph.D., Dr. Ghoshal continued his research on plant-virus interaction as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia for a short period in Dr. D’Ann Rochon’s laboratory. He then joined Prof. Steven E. Jacobsen’s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles in the USA, to pursue another postdoctoral research at the interface of gene regulation, epigenetics, and pathogen interactions. There, he developed expertise in CRISPR-Cas9 technology, transcriptomics, bioinformatics, and next-generation sequencing. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Jacobsen laboratory, Dr. Ghoshal was involved in developing tools for epigenome editing. He has also advanced the use of plant RNA viruses to deliver guide RNAs for epigenome editing. He has published several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Ghoshal’s long-standing research interest is to generate foundational knowledge and use this knowledge for translational research in the field of plant virology.