Born on 7th November, 1966 in Jalandhar, Dr Manmeet Brar Bhullar obtained her B Sc from Panjab University, Chandigarh in the year 1986 and M Sc and PhD from PAU, Ludhiana in 1989 and 1994, respectively. Dr Bhullar joined as Assistant Acarologist in the year 1996 and held the position till 2004. Later, she held the position of Senior Acarologist (2004-2010) and Principal Acarologist (2010 onwards).

Dr Bhullar has vast research experience and specialisation in Agricultural Acarology. Her research interest areas are bio-ecological studies on mites, management of mite pests of horticultural crops under field and protected cultivation, resistance monitoring studies in mites to acaricides, genetic variability studies on family Tetranychidae and taxonomic studies on family Phytoseiidae and Prostigmatid predatory mites. She has been involved in development of 9 technologies for integrated management of mites on vegetable and fruit crops, besides being associated with varietal screening of vegetable crops for mites. She is currently managing All India Network Project on Agricultural Acarology, ICAR, New Delhi as Principal Investigator and Biosystematic studies of phytoseiid mites on fruit crops from Trans Gangetic plain and North Western Himalaya, SERB-DST, New Delhi as co-PI. She organised Vth” and IXth Group Meeting of All India Network Project on Agricultural Acarology” from 6-7 November, 1996 and from 11-12 April, 2005 respectively at PAU Ludhiana, India.

She has published 69 peer reviewed research papers, 8 books/bulletins, 7 extension bulletins, 1 review chapter, 8 book chapters and 12 popular articles. She has presented 30 papers in conferences/symposiums/seminars at national and international level. She delivered 25 invited lectures in various summer/winter schools in Acarology and Systematics. She is involved in Post-graduate courses viz. M.Sc (Insect Morphology and Systematics; Principles of Insect Classification, Insect Taxonomy and General Acarology) and PhD (Advanced Insect Systematics). She has guided 6 MSc students and 3 PhD, as major advisor on different aspects of basic and applied aspects of plant associated mites.

She is the recipient of CSIR Fellowship – Bio-ecological studies on parasitic Copepoda and Branchiura of fishes from North India in 1990 and Jay A. Yoder Fellowship by the Acarology Development Foundation, Michigan, USA in 2011 for attending the Summer Acarology programme at Ohio State University, Ohio (USA).