Anjali Roy

[1] Roy's initial post-doctoral research, on the Coriolellus, was conducted in Canada where she was mentored by Mildred K. Nobles.

Returning to India, she began work as a medical mycologist in the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine.

[2] Roy developed a lasting interest in wood-rotting polypores, and devoted herself to the taxonomy of the group of fungi, characterizing them based on morphology, anatomy, characteristics in cultures, chemical responses, the type of rot they induced and their sexuality.

[2] Roy's research culminated in a monograph titled Polyporaceae of India in 1996, a collaboration with her student Asit Baran De.

[1] The monograph summarized 114 Polyporaceae species, based mainly on the authors' own material collected over a forty-year period from across India.