Dr. Keshani is working as Extension Scientist (Microbiology) at College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. She received her graduation, post-graduation and doctorate degree from CSK HPKV, Palampur. She is a gold medalist in her bachelors and masters programme and a DST-INSPIRE fellow in her doctorate. She qualified ARS-NET in Agricultural Microbiology. She has more than five years teaching and research experience and has guided and trained many undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of microbiology. She has authored more than 25 papers in national, international journals, magazines, books, and attended number of seminars and conferences. She has handled one Bio-CARe DBT project as PI and twelve, industry sponsored testing projects. For her noteworthy contribution in education and research, she has been conferred Young Microbiologist Award by AEDS and Young Scientist Award by MSI. She is a member of various societies working in life sciences including AMI, MSI, AEDS and ISC etc.