i) 8 papers cited in Blackman, R. L. and Eastop, V. F., 1994. APHIDS ON THE WORLD’S TREES AN IDENTIFICATION AND INFORMATION GUIDE. CAB International, UK, 986 pp. (ISBN 0 85198 877 6)

ii) 11 papers cited in Remaudiere, G. and Remaudiere, M., 1997. CATALOGUE OF THE WORLD’S APHIDIDAE HOMOPTERA APHIDOIDEA. INRA, Paris, 473 pp. (ISBN 2 – 7380 – 0714 – 7)

iii) 14 papers cited in Holman, J., 2009. HOST PLANT CATALOG OF APHIDS PALAEARCTIC REGION. SPRINGER, 1216 pp.(ISBN 978 – 1 - 4020 – 8285 – 6)

9. Field experiences: Stayed at high altitude field station at Joshimath (Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India) and performed many field trips in Western Himalaya (Garhwal Himalaya and Kumaon Himalaya, India) as well as in Northwestern Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh, India) on 1982-1985 and on 1990 in connection with research work on aphids.

10. Teaching Experiences :

a) Total : 35 years in college; about 7 years and 7 months in University of Kalyani.

b) Fulltime position : Lecturer (May 02, 1987 to May 01, 1992);

Senior Lecturer (May 02, 1992 to July 26, 1998), and Reader, presently Associate Professor (July 27, 1998 till todate) in B.Sc. (Honours & General) at Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118, India.

c) Part-time teacher & Guest Lecturer : About 7 years and 7 months (From

September 5, 1992 upto 2000-2001 session

with some gaps) in Postgraduate and

Graduate classes in University of Kalyani,

Kalyani – 741 235, India.

11. Fellowships Held :

a) Junior Research Fellow, D.S.T. (Govt. of India); from September 1, 1982 to August 31, 1984; at University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741 235, India; Senior Research Fellow of the same from September 1, 1984 to December 31, 1985.

b) University Research Fellow, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741 235, India; from January 1, 1986 to June 30, 1986.

c) Senior Research Fellow, C.S.I.R. (Govt. of India); from January 2, 1987 to May 1, 1987; at University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741 235, India.

Resigned from the fellowship to join the college as Lecturer in Zoology on May 2, 1987.

12. Workshop / Course / Programme Participated :

a) Workshop (Sponsored by D.S.T., Govt. of India) on “Insect-Plant Interactions”; from January 22, 1990 to February 7, 1990; at Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Madras – 600 034, India; Organised by Prof. T. N. Ananthakrishnan.

b) Workshop on “Reorientation of Graduation Level Zoology Syllabus”, Phase I, of Calcutta University; on September 11-12, 1990.

c) 5^th Orientation Programme (Sponsored by U.G.C., Govt. of India); on March 4-31, 1992; at Academic Stafff College, University of Burdwan, Burdwan – 713 104, India.

d) First Refresher Course (Sponsored by U.G.C., Govt. of India); Course Topic : Zoology in Modern Times; on January 1-20, 1996; under Acedemic Staff College, at Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700 019, India.

e) Refresher Course (Sponsored by U.G.C., Govt. of India); Course Topic : Trends in Zoology; on January 17 to February 8, 2000; under Academic Staff College, at Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700 019, India.

13. Symposium / Seminar / Conference Participated :

i) National Symposium on “Modern Trends in Environmental Biology” and Seminar on “Environment and Animal Life”; on February 6-8, 1989; at Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118, India.

ii) 10^th National Zoological Conference; on May 28-30, 1996; at Department of Zoology, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi – 6205, Bangladesh.

iii) Sixth National Symposium of Aphidological Society of India on Recent Advances in Aphidological Research; on October 28-31, 1996; at Department of Zoology, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur – 273 009, India.

iv) National Seminar on Ecology and Diversity of Aphids and Aphidophagous complex; on May 4-5, 2002; at Department of Life Sciences, Tripura University, Suryamanigar, Tripura, India.

v) National Conference on Zoology; on December 21-23, 2003; at Vivekananda College, Agastheeswaram, Kanyakumari – 629 701, India.

vi) National Symposium on Aphids in Agriculture and Forestry; on November 24-25, 2004; at Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741 235, India.

vii) 7^th International Symposium on Aphids; on October 02-07, 2005; at Fremantle, AUSTRALIA.

h) 9^th National Symposium on Recent Advances in Aphidology; on November 27-29, 2006; at Department of Entomology & Agril. Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 221 005.

i) UGC-sponsored Seminar on “Faunal Diversity Assessment : Designing Field Studies”; on September 09, 2011; at Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700118; in collaboration with Department of Zoology, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore.

j) Seminar on “Frontiers of Zoology”; on January 12, 2013; on occasion of celebration of Golden Jubilee of our College and 150^th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

k) National-level Seminar on “Swami Vivekananda, Youth and Education”; on September 02 & 03, 2013; organized by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College in collaboration with Department of Bengali and Department of Philosophy, Bhairab Ganguly College; jointly funded by UGC and ICHR (Indian Council of Historical Research).

l) UGC-sponsored National-level Seminar on “Cutting Edge Technologies Frontier Areas of Research in Zoology”. On September 07, 2013; organized by Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118 in collaboration with Department of Zoology, Panihati Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata; on occasion of celebration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda and Golden Jubilee of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara.

m) One-Day International Seminar on “Cell Therapy : Partial Success, Failure and Future Challenges”; on January 03, 2015; Organized by Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118; Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Government of Biotechnology.

n) One-Day International Seminar on “Youth and Swami Vivekananda”; on January 13, 2015; organized by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118 in collaboration with and funded by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.

o) National Seminar on “Future India and Biodiversity”; on April 11, 2015; organized by Department of Zoology and IQAC, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

p) National Seminar on “Biotechnology and its Future Prospects”; on May 28, 2015; organized by Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

q) International Seminar on “Scope of Microbial Biotechnology in Clean Biofuel Ethanol Production”; on June 09, 2015; organized by P.G. Department of Botany, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

r) National Seminar on “Plagiarism and Related Aspects”, on August 18, 2015; organized by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara and The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.

s) Science Academies’ Lecture Workshop in Biological Sciences on Cross Talks In Biological Sciences – From Concepts to Applications”; on January 05 & 06, 2016; organized by Department of Zoology and Botany, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

t) International Seminar on “Swami Vivekananda and His Universal Ideas”, on January 12, 2016; organized by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara and International Society for Intercultural Studies and Research, Kolkata,

u) International Seminar for celebration of World Environment Day (WED)- 2016; on June 29, 2016; organized by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, NSS Unit.

v) One-Day UGC-sponsored National Level Seminar on “From Molecules to Ecosystem – A Zoological Perspective”; on September 22, 2016; organized by Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

w) One-Day NAAC(Bangalore)-sponsored National Level Seminar on “Innovations in Teaching-Learning Process for the Present-Day Scenario in India”; on November 17, 2016; organized by Ramakrishna MissionVivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

x) One-Day college seminar on “CBCS system in B.Sc. courses according to UGC regulation”; on May 03, 2017; organized by IQAC of Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

y) One-Day college seminar on “Climate Change”; on 31^st August, 2017; Speaker Prof. Ronald G. Prinn, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA; organized by Ramakrishna MissionVivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118.

z) Teachers’ Day Programme : on “Recent Advancement in Biodiversity and Conservation”; Speaker : Dr. Kailash Chandra, Scientist G & Director, Zoological Survey of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India; on September 05, 2017.

aa) One-Day college seminar on “Science advancement & IITs role”; Speaker :Prof. Indranil Manna, Director, IIT Kanpur; on 7^th September, 2017.

bb) One-Day college seminar on “Chemistry in Everyday Life”; Speaker : Prof. Man Mohan Sharma, Padmabhushan, Padmavibhushan, FRS; on 14^th September, 2017.

cc) NSS Orientation Programme on “AIDS, Thallassemmia , Vector Borne Diseases”; Doctors of Sagar Dutta Medical College; on 16^th September, 2017.

dd) One-Day college seminar on “Epigenetics”; Speaker : Dr. Krishnendu Mukherjee; on 30^th October, 2017.

ee) One-Day college seminar on “Psychrophilic adaptation and microbial diversity of Antarctica”; Speaker : Dr. Malay K Ray, Former Chief Scientist & currently Honorary Visiting Scientist CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad; on 31^st October, 2017.

ff) One-Day college seminar on “Sister Nivedita : Facts & Facets”; Speakers : Swami Purnatmananda

gg) One-Day Seminar under DBT Star College Scheme; Speaker : Dr. Manas Pratim Das, Programme Executive, All India Radio, Kolkata; on “The Art of Science Communication”; on February 12, 2022; organized by Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College.

hh) One-Day Seminar under DBT Star College Programme; Speaker : Dr. Goutam Panda, CDRI; on “Chiron Amino Acids Derived Heterocycles and Natural Products : Isolation, Design, Synthesis and Biological Activity”; on March 08, 2022; organized by Department of Zoology.

ii) One-Day Workshop under DBT Star College Programme Speaker : Mr. Krishnapada Biswas,; on “Vermicompost Preparation and Sustainable Farming”; on March 28, 2022; organized by Department of Zoology in collaboration with Swami Vivekananda Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Basic Sciences and Social Sciences.

Webinars attended :

i) Speaker : Dr. Krishnendu Ghosh, Mr. Shraman Bohra; on May 07-08, 2022; a two-day free online Astrobiology Workshop; Organized by Spaceonova in collaboration with Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara.

ii) Speaker : Dr. Guru Pada Mandal, Scientist D, Zoological Survey Of India; on December 21, 2021; “Workshop on Sampling, Isolation, Preservation & Identification of Soil Microarthropods”; DBT Star College Programme organized by Department of Zoology, RKMVC College.

iii) National Level Intercollegiate Online Faculty Development Program on “Outcome Based Education & Bloom’s Taxonomy”; organized by IQAC of RKM Vivekananda Centenary College in association with IPSR Solutions Ltd.; on November 08-15, 2021 (One Week).

iv) Mentorship Programme of DBT Star College; launched by Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India; on November 08, 2021.

v) Speaker : Dr. Sudha Rajamani; on “ The Story of How Life could have originated on Earth”; on October 26, 2021; DBT Star College Programme organized by Department of Zoology, RKMVC College.

vi) Speaker : Prof. Hassan Annegowda Ranganath; on “Genotype to Phenotype through Omics : An Overview”; on October 05, 2021; at PG Student Induction Programme.

vii) Speaker : Prof. Raghavendra Gadagkar; on “Science for All : How to do Cutting-edge Research at Trifling cost ?”; on September 24, 2021; DBT Star College Programme organized by Department of Zoology, RKMVC College.

viii) Speaker : Dr. D.M. Salunke; on “Modern Science and Nation Building”; on September 19, 2021; at UG Student Induction Programme.

ix) Speaker : Dr. Rajan Sankaranarayanan; on “Chiral Checkpoints During Protein Biosynthesis"; Interdisciplinary Webinar under DBT Star College Scheme; on May 12, 2021; organized by Department of Zoology, RK Mission Vivekananda Centenary College.

x) Speaker: Dr. Partha Karmakar ; on “West Bengal Health Scheme”; On January 28, 2021 ; IQAC arranged. Speaker : Prof. Partha Pratim Mazumder; on “Awesome Geographical Sweep of a Mutant Corona Virus, With Some Hesitations”; on December 08, 2020.

xi) Speaker: Prof. Arun Bandyopadhyay; at Student Induction Programme; on September 29, 2020.

14. Honours and Recognition :

a) Treasurer, National Symposium on “Modern Trends in Environmental Biology” and Seminar on “Environment and Animal Life”; on February 6-8, 1989; at Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata 700 118, India.

b) Organizing Secretary, UGC-sponsored National-level Seminar on “Cutting Edge Technologies and Frontier Areas of Research in Zoology”; Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata – 700 118; September 07, 2013.

c) Certificate of Excellence in Teaching from Unicef.

15. Research Project Supervised :

1. A Minor Research Project entitled “ Aphids (Homoptera : Insecta) of Western Himalaya with a reference to biology and gall formation”; from 1990 to 1992; funded by U.G.C., Govt. of India.

2. A Major Research Project entitled “Agricultural application of entomopathogenic fungi and their products isolated from different natural sources as biocontrol agents against aphid insect (Aphis gossypii) of papaya (Carica papaya) and growth promoting factor of papaya”; 3 years (February 01, 2016 to January 31, 2019); funded by DST, West Bengal.

16. Life Member :

a) Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association.

b) Life Member, The Zoological Society, Calcutta.

c) Life Member, Zoological Association, Burdwan.

17. TOTAL LIST OF RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

FULL PAPERS :

i) CHAKRABARTI, S. and MEDDA, P. K., 1985. A review of the genus Ceruraphis (Homoptera : Aphididae). Oriental Insects, 19 : 125-132. (Published from Florida, USA; Impact Factor 0.173).

ii) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1986. Hitherto unknown alate morphs of two species of Eumyzus Shinji (Homoptera : Aphididae) from India with a key to alate viviparous females. Systematic Entomology, 11 : 107-110. (Published from London, UNITED KINGDOM; Impact Factor 2.876).

iii) GHOSH, D., MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1986. Holocycly, seasonal activity, morphometry and natural enemies of willow aphid Cavariella aegopodii (Scopoli) (Homoptera : Aphididae) in the Indian region. Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Animal Sciences), 95 (2) : 181-186. (Published from Bangalore, INDIA; Impact Factor 1.759).

iv) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1986. Two new aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) forming leaf galls on Prunus spp. Entomon, 11 (3) : 203-210. (Published from Trivandrum, INDIA; Impact Factor 0.2).

v) MEDDA, P. K., SAHA, S. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1986. Prunus-infesting aphids of Western and Northwest Himalaya. Proceedings of Second National Symposium on Recent Trends in Aphidological Studies, Modinagar, U.P., p. 29-38. (Published from Modinagar, INDIA).

vi) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1987. Biological notes on Hayhurstia atriplicis (Linne.) (Insecta : Homoptera : Aphididae) with description of its hitherto unknown alate male. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India, 57 (B), II : 121-123. (Published from Allahabad, INDIA; Impact Factor 0.055).

vii) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1987. Hitherto unknown morphs of Myzus sorbi Bhattacharya and Chakrabarti (Aphididae : Homoptera : Insecta) with a note on its biology and natural enemies. Cecidologia Internationale, VIII (3) : 99-106. (Published from Allahabad, India).

viii) CHAKRABARTI, S. and MEDDA, P. K., 1989. Taxonomic studies on some aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) from India. Oriental Insects, 23 : 133-141. (Published from Florida, USA; Impact Factor 0.173).

ix) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1989. Hitherto unknown morphs of Eumyzus pruni and Metopolophium simlaensis (Homoptera : Aphididae) from western Himalaya, India. Entomon, 14 (1 & 2) : 29-32. (Published from Trivandrum, INDIA; Impact Factor 0.2).

x) MEDDA, P. K., GHOSH, D. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1990. Hitherto unknown morphs of Cavariella indica Maity and Chakrabarti (Homoptera : Aphididae) with notes on its biology. Records of Zoological Survey of India, 86 (1) : 93-101. (Published from Calcutta, INDIA).

xi) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1992. Two new aphid species from the western Himalaya and an account of the Pyrus-feeding generations of Melanaphis pahanensis (Homoptera : Aphidoidea : Aphididae). Entomologia Generalis, 17 (2) : 139-146. (Published from Stuttgart, GERMANY; Impact Factor 0.214).

xii) CHAKRABARTI, S. and MEDDA, P. K., 1993. Taxonomic studies on Dysaphis Borner (Homoptera : Aphididae) from the Indian subcontinent. Oriental Insects, 27 : 93-130. (Published from Florida, USA; Impact Factor 0.173).

xiii) MEDDA, P. K., SARKAR, A. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1997. Willow infesting aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) of India and adjacent countries. Journal of Aphidology, 11 (1) : 83-97. (Published from Gorakhpur, INDIA).

xiv) MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 1998. On three undescribed morphs of Macrosiphine aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) from western Himalaya, India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Calcutta, 51 (1) : 57-59. (Published from Calcutta, INDIA).

xv) CHAKRABARTI, S. and MEDDA, P. K., 2004. Uroleucon Mordvilko (Homoptera : Aphididae) from the Indian subcontinent. In “Aphids In A New Millennium” (edts. J. C. Simon, C. A. Dedryver, C. Rispe & M. Hulle). INRA editions, Versailles, FRANCE, p. 131-137.

xvi) DEBNATH, M., MEDDA, P.K. and CHAKRABARTI, S., 2010. Diversity of aphids (Hemiptera : Aphididae) on the plants of Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) in India. Hexapoda, 17 (2) : 101-106. (Published from Chennai, India).

xvii) CHAKRABARTI, S., MEDDA, P. K. and KANTURSKI, M. 2020. Conifer- feeding aphids (Insecta : Hemiptera : Aphididae) of India, Bhutan and Nepal with descriptions of three new species of the genus Cinara. The European Zoological Journal, 87 : 1, 659-687. (Published from Italy).

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS :

i. DEY, K, MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Life cycle and host alternation of some Pemphigine aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) in Indian region. Third Oriental Entomology Symposium, Trivandrum. February 21-24, 1984.

ii. MEDDA, P. K., GHOSH, D. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Studies on the biology of two species of willow-infesting Cavariella (Homoptera : Aphididae) in Garhwal range of Northwest Himalaya. Second National Symposium on Recent Trends in Aphidological Studies, Modinagar. September 26-29, 1985.

iii. MANDAL, A. K., SAHA, S., MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Prunus-infesting aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) of Northwest Himalaya. Second National Symposium on Recent Trends in Aphidological Studies, Modinagar. September 26-29, 1985.

iv. GHOSH, D., MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Studies on peach leaf curling aphid in Garhwal range of Northwestern Himalaya, India : population dynamics on its secondary host, Erigeron bonariensis. National Symposium on Aphidology in India II, Agartala. November 2-4, 1985.

v. MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Conifer-infesting aphids (Insecta : Homoptera : Aphididae) of India and adjacent countries. 10^th National Zoological Conference of the Zoological Society of Bangladesh, Department of Zoology, University of Rajshahi, BANGLADESH. May 28-30, 1996.

vi. MEDDA, P. K., SARKAR, A. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Willow-infesting aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) of India and adjacent countries. 6^th National Symposium on Aphidology, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur. October 28-31, 1996.

vii. CHAKRABARTI, S. and MEDDA, P. K. Uroleucon Mordvilko (Homoptera: Aphididae) from the Indian subcontinent. Sixth International Symposium on Aphids “Aphids in a New Millennium”, Rennes (FRANCE). September 3-7, 2001.

viii. MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. New records of some aphids from western Himalaya. National Seminar on Ecology and Diversity of Aphids and Aphidophaga Complex, Department of Life Science, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Tripura. May 4-5, 2002.

ix. ix. MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Aphids (Homoptera : Insecta) on the fruit-plants of India. National Conference on Zoology (NACOZ-2003) – Opportunities and Challenges. 14^th All India Congress of Zoology, Vivekananda College. Agastheeswaram, Kanyakumari – 629 701. December 21-23, 2003.

x. MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Aphids on Cyperaceae in India. National Symposium on Aphids in Agriculture and Forestry. Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741 235, West Bengal. November 24- 25, 2004.

xi. MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Conifer-infesting aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) of India with description of new species, new morph and synonymies. 7^th International Symposium on Aphids, Fremantle, AUSTRALIA. October 02-07, 2005.

xii. MEDDA, P. K., DEBNATH, M. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) on ornamental plants in India. 9^th National Symposium on Recent Advances in Aphidology. Department of Entomology & Agril. Zoology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 221 005. November 27-29, 2006.

xiii. DEBNATH, M., MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Diversity of aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) on the plants of Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) in India. National Seminar on Dimensions in Zoological Research in Human Welfare. Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata – 700 019. March 23-25, 2007.

xiv. DEBNATH, M., MEDDA, P. K. and CHAKRABARTI, S. Diversity of aphids (Homoptera : Aphididae) and their predatory complex on sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) in India and adjoining countries. Seminar on Chittagong International Biodiversity Conference 2007. Department of Zoology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong – 4331, Bangladesh. May 22-24, 2007.

Name:Dr. Debkumar Datta
Designation:Associate Professor

Details:

Curriculum vitae
Name: DEB KUMAR DATTA
Nationality: Indian
Date of birth: 09th January 1958
Father's name: Late Dr Gouri Sankar Dutta
Address: •(Office): Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, RKMVC College, Rahara, Kolkata, PIN - 700118.
•(Residence): TWINKLE, 81/76 OLD CALCUTTA ROAD, (Dangapara, Battala)
RAHARA, KOLKATA
PIN 700118.
•Mob: 8981042898 / 9231685817
•Email: debkumardatta2@gmail.com
•Designation : Associate Professor in Zoology (since 2000) Date of joining as Lecturer in Zoology 1991, Jan 14. @ Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata.
Academic Qualifications:
• Higher Secondary (XI class) 1975 Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Purulia, W B.
•B Sc (Hons) Zoology 1978 Bankura Christian College, University of Burdwan, W B.
•M Sc (Zoology) Special Paper "Fish and Fisheries" 1980 University of Burdwan, West Bengal.
•Ph D (Sc)     1988 University of Burdwan, West Bengal; Title of thesis: “Toxic effects of lead and cadmium on the digestive system and kidney of two Indian Freshwater Teleosts, Mystus vittatus (Bloch) and Labeo rohita (Hamilton).”
[Supervisor: Late Prof. G M Sinha, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan, W B, India. (Awarded on: the 2nd September, 1988). ]
•Research Project : (one, Major project, interdisciplinary)(2015 to 2018): “Mass Eradication of Mosquitoes using fungi and fungal extracts as bio-control agents.” Sanc. No. 504(sanc) / ST / P / S&T / 9G-3 / 2013 dt. 01.10.2015 – 18/11/2015. DST-WB : 3 Yrs : Rs 19.78 lakhs. (collaboration with Co-Investigator Dr Swapan Ghosh, Assoc Prof., Dept of Botany, RKMVC College, Rahara, Kolkata, WB).
•List of publications:
[authors names; year; title; journal; vol(no.), pp. (Present to 1986); full paper, short communications, abstracts, seminar proceedings articles]

25. R Podder, C Ghosh, Datta, Debkumar 2015 Observations on the Territoriality of some Dragonflies Related to Pond and Canal Water. J. Environ. & Sociobiol. 12 (2): 221-230.
24. Ganguly, P and Datta, Debkumar 2015 Notes on a dragonfly (insects) killing plant Plumbago zeylanica. J. Environ. & Sociobiol. 12 (2): 231-232. (Short com..ion).
23. Datta, Debkumar 2015 Documentation of animals studied in field. International seminar: Exploring the modern approach in biological science: from genome to organism. Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Purulia, Nov 25- 27, 2015 (Abstr.)
22. Datta, Debkumar and Chakraborty, Sudip 2014 People’s Role in Conservation of Organisms Maintaining Quality of a Metropolitan Canal. Proc. Natl. Sem. Trad. Knowl. & Soc. Prac. 217-220.
21. Podder, R; Nath, Susanta and Datta, Debkumar 2013 ‘Spectrophotometric analysis of Body proteins of Chironomid Larvae’ Proc/Natl/ UGC-Seminar/Zoo/ RKMVC College, Rahara, Dec. 2013, pp. 41-44. [UGC Sponsored Natl Sem Organised in Sept 07, 2013, on Cutting Edge Technologies..].
20. Chakraborty, Sudip; Mal, Soumendu and Datta, Debkumar 2013 ‘Dependency of Forest Fringe Villagers on Natural Resources of Joypur Forest, Bankura, West Bengal’. Natl Sem on Natural Resources and Heritage Conservation Issues in India, SEBA, Sept 2013, p. 6 -7 (Abstr).
19. Datta, Debkumar 2013 ‘Deer Living on Lake’ Golden Jubilee Souvenir: 50 years Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College (1963-2013), Rahara, Kol- 700118, Jan 06-12, 2013, p. 37-38.
18. Datta, Debkumar 2013 ‘Biodiversity conservation concern of Belun village of Bardhaman District, West Bengal’ SEBA News Letter 5 (1) , 12-13.
17. Adhikary, Ankush; Sutradhar, Biswajit and Datta, Debkumar 2013 ‘Habitat Preference of Dragonflies and Damselflies’. 100th. Indian Science Congress, Jan 03-07, Kolkata 2013 (Section: Animal, Veterinary and Fishery Sciences) Poster: EP-12, Abstr. p. 392.
16. Datta, Debkumar 2012 ‘On the Conservation of Eld’s Deer’. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Environmental Science in relation to Diversity, Ecology and Toxicity of Faunal Resources’ Organised by Department of Zoology, East Calcutta Girls’ College, Lake Town, in collaboration with Indian Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and Technologists, Jadavpur: Jan 06-07, 2012. Edited by Dr Amit Chowdhury, Published by East Calcutta Girls’ College, Lake Town, Kolkata – 700 089: pp. 66-75.
15. Chakraborty, Sudip and Datta, Debkumar 2009 Studies on the Limnological Qualities of a Section of Bagjola Canal along with Diversity of Some Flora and Fauna. Proceedings of the National Conference on “Biodiversity: Threats and Conservation” February 13–14, 2009 Sponsored by Dept of Science & Technology, W. B. Serampore College, Serampore, Hooghly, W. B.
14. Chakraborty, S; Goswami, G; Datta, Debkumar 2009 Some Bio-indicator Organism; Recent Advances in Animal Science Research, Vol – V, [May 2009] p 621   (Short communication).
13. Datta, D; Chakraborty, S and Goswami, G 2009
Some Traditionally Known Microscopic Organisms Used For Bioindication of Habitat. Wesleyan Journal of Research, Vol. 2 (1) [March 2009] 1-5.
12. Datta, D; Sinha, S K and Banerjee, D 2009 Traditional and Indigenous Uses of Molluscs as Food, Commerce and Medicinal Sources by Rural Folks and Tribals in India. Wesleyan Journal of Research, Vol. 2 (1) [March 2009] 15-17.
11. Chakraborty, S., Banerjee, D. and Datta, D 2009 Some Bio-indicator Organisms found in Bagjola Canal, South DumDum, Kolkata. (Abstr) International Congress of Environmental Research (JERAD), BITS Pilani Campus, Goa. Dec 18-20, 2008.
10. Banerjee*, Debojyoti; Goswami, Gouri and Datta, Debkumar 2008 Phytoremidiation of a Degraded Canal Water around Kolkata; International Congress of Environment and Research 2008 at Goa by Journal Of Environmental Research And Development (Abstr.) *oral presentation in ICER-08 at Goa (India) Dec.18-20, 2008.
9. Datta, Debkumar 2007 Assessment of Ecotoxicological Impacts. J. Environ. & Sociobiol., 4(1): 9 -18.
8. S. Chakladar and D Datta 2001 ‘Vishwayan O Paribesh’ (in Bengali) in VISHWAYAN, GANATANTRA O TRITIYA VISHWA (Ed. Debi Chatterjee) Social Science Congress and Jadavpur University, Vol II pp. 74 – 87.
7. Datta, Debkumar 1996 ‘Computation of Log-Probit Analysis for Bioassay’ in Assessment of Water Pollution (Ed. S R Mishra) APH Publishing Corporation, 5 Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, N Delhi. 110 002 pp. 407- 416.
6. Datta, D K and Sinha, G M 1993 ‘Harnessing the Ganga River Resources with Reference to Commercially Viable Fish Species’ in Advances in Limnology (Ed. H R Singh) Narendra Publishing House, Delhi pp. 347 – 354.
5. Datta, Debkumar and Sinha, G M 1990 Comparative Static Bioassay of Cadmium Toxicity for Two Indian Freshwater Teleosts. J. Freshwater Biol., 2: 313-321.
4. Datta, Debkumar and Sinha, G M 1989 Responses Induced By Long-Term Toxic Effects Of Heavy Metals On Fish Tissues Concerned With Digestion, Absorption And Excretion. Gagenbaurs morphol. Jahrb., Leipzig, 135 : 627-657.
3. Datta, D K and Sinha, G M 1988 Responses Induced on the Mucous Cells of the Digestive Tract of a Carnivorous Freshwater Teleost, Mystus vittatus (Bloch) due to Long-Term exposure to Cadmium. Boletim de fisiologia animal, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 12:47-55.
2. Datta, D K and Sinha, G M 1987 Estimation Of Acute Toxicity Of Cadmium, A Heavy Metal, in a Carnivorous Freshwater Teleost, Mystus vittatus (Bloch). Proc. Indian natn. Sci. Acad., B53: 43-46.
1. Chakraborty, P; Datta, D K and Sinha, G M 1986 Effect of Lead Toxicity on the Alimentary Canal, Pancreas, Liver and Kidney of a Freshwater Teleost, Mystus vittatus (Bloch). Proc. of 2nd National Convention of Young Scientists (Ed. K C Pandey) Dept. of Zoology, Meerut University, Meerut, pp.220 – 229.
• Technical Reports submitted :
2. ‘A Compandium Of Sarada Fertilizers’ Hazards Prone Area’: under the instructions of District Fishery Officer, Bankura, West Bengal, India, (D O No. 2039 dt.19.7.90). 1990.
1. ‘Harnessing of Riverine Resources with reference to Commercially Viable Fish Species etc.’ under the project INTEGRATED ECODEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ON GANGA RIVER BASIN (Sanction No. J-13013/1/83 (D) – EN.I. dt. 30.9.83., Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, New Delhi) under the Supervision of Prof. D K Choudhuri (Co-ordinator and Principal Investigator) and Dr. G M Sinha (Co-Investigator), Dept. of Zoology, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan. 1987.
• Books Published: (School level)
1. Dr. Debkumar Datta, M. Sc., Ph. D., R K M V C College, Rahara, “Sadharan Vijnyan Parichay” (in Bengali) for Class VI, Pustak Bhandar, College St Market, (J-1/7 Marcus Square Park) Kolkata – 700 007. [T B No. – Syll/TB/GSC/VI/04/224 dated: 24/04/2004]. 2004-11.
2. Dr. Debkumar Datta, M. Sc., Ph. D., R K M V C College, Rahara, “Jeevan Vijnyan Parichay” (in Bengali) for Class VII, Pustak Bhandar, College St Market, (J-1/7 Marcus Square Park) Kolkata – 700007. [T B No. – Syll/TB/LSC/VII/04/200 dated: 04/05/2004]. 2004-11.
3. Dr. Debkumar Datta, M. Sc., Ph. D., R K M V C College, Rahara, “Jeevan Vijnyan Parichay” (in Bengali) for Class VIII, Pustak Bhandar, College St Market, (J-1/7 Marcus Square Park) Kolkata – 700 007. [T B No. – Syll/TB/LSC/VIII/04/178 dated: 04/05/2004]. 2004-11.
• Published: (some popular science articles in local magazines; documents not preserved.)
• Membership of professional bodies:
1. Life member, Zoological Society, Kolkata. (Participated in Workshop-cum-Training Programme on Food Safety in collaboration with CFRL, GoI, Kolkata, Aug 2006).
2. Life member, Social Environmental and Biological Association (SEBA) (Participated in Seminars organised in Technical Sessions, Board of Judges of Poster sessions).
3. Life member, St. John Ambulance Association, Rahara Centre. (Participated in Sanitary Mart project of Unicef)
4. Member, U G Board of Studies, Zoology, University of Burdwan, 2008 - 2011.
5. Member, U G Board of Studies, Zoology, West Bengal State University, 2011 - 2016.
6. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Environment and Sociobiology, (Print: ISSN 0973-0834; iNSERB.DIA) Social Environmental and Biological Association (SEBA), Kolkata: 2018 - 2020.
• Interactive Radio Counselling Programme
IGNOU
Radio station: Kolkata B: 297.6m dt June 01, 2003 Time: 4.00 to 5.00 pm.
Topic: Environment and Tourism (TS -5) Vide Letter no. IG/28/11RC/262 dt. 26/05/2003
Anchor: Mr K S D Nair (KSDN) Asst Regional Director, IGNOU RC, Kolkata.
Expert: Dr DEBKUMAR DATTA, Academic Counsellor.
• Head examiner of Madhyamik Pariksha (MP), WB, Subject: Life Sciences. Years 2000, 2001,+.
• Head examiner of Uchcha Madhyamik Pariksha (HS), WB, Subject: Biological Sciences. Years 2008 to 2014.
• Head examiner of B Sc Zoology (Hons) WBSU, Subject: Zoology. Years 2014 to 2017.

Name:KOUTILYA BHATTACHARJEE
Designation:Assistant Professor

Details:

Name:DR. ARUNAVA MUKHERJEE
Designation:Assistant Professor

Details:

Name: DR. ARUNAVA MUKHERJEE

Address: 37/B HARISH MUKHERJEE ROAD, BHOWANIPUR KOLKATA – 700025, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Email: arunavamukherjee50@gmail.com / arunava1981@rkmvccrahara.org

Mobile: +91 9836258702 / 9830358953 (WhatsApp)

Present Designation:

Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Post Graduate Course in Zoology of PG Department of Zoology, RAMAKRISHNA MISSION VIVEKANANDA CENTENARY COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), RAHARA, KOLKATA – 700118

Departmental Coordinator of DBT STAR college scheme( RKMVC College Rahara)

Date of Birth: 24/08/1981

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0649-3219

Area of specialization: Ecology, Aquatic biology, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Environmental Sciences

Academic Qualification (class 10 level onwards)

Degree	Year	University/ Boards	Remarks
Madhyamik	1998	WBBSE	First Division with Star marks
Higher Secondary	2000	WBCHSE	First Division with Star marks (National Scholarship)
B.Sc (Honours) Zoology	2003	University of Calcutta	First class (National Scholarship)
M.Sc (Zoology)	2005	University of Calcutta	First class
M.Phil (Fisheries Technology)	2006	University of Calcutta	First class
PhD (Zoology)	2015	University of Calcutta	NA

Work experience (in chronological order):

Sl no	Positions held	Name of the Institute	From	To
1	Assistant Professor (UG & PG)	RKMVC College, Rahara	04.02.2015	till date
2	Assistant Teacher (HS)	KHSDFHS	09.09.2009	03.02.2015
3	Contractual Lecturer (UG)	PMV college, Sodepur	August, 2008	February, 2009
4	Contractual Lecturer (PG)	Vidyasagar College, Kolkata	December, 2007	July, 2008
5	Part time Lecturer (UG)	PMV college, Sodepur	August, 2006	November, 2007
6	Guest Lecturer (UG)	New Alipore College, Kolkata	July, 2006	November, 2007

Fellowship:

Name of Award

UGC-CSIR NET JRF & LS

UGC RFSMS Fellowship

National Scholarship for Graduation (B.Sc) examination

National Scholarship for Higher Secondary examination

Life Members / Members

· The Zoological Society Kolkata (life member)

· Social Environmental and Biological Association (life member)

· Nature Mates (Scientific Advisor)

· Academy of Biodiversity Conservation (Executive body)

Research Project:

*Funded project

UGC Minor Research Project (completed)

Title: SCREENING OF CAROTENOIDS FROM BIORESOURCES OF INDIAN SUNDARBAN

MANGROVE BIOSPHERE AND SELECTIVE USE OF FLORAL CAROTENOIDS AS FISH

FEED ADDITIVE

Total sanctioned: 4.10 Lakhs

Period: 18^th March, 2017 to 17^th March, 2019

Letter No. PSW-258/15-16(ERO) dated January, 2017

*Non Funded project

1. Isolation of microplastic from the gut of estuarine fishes from Indian Sundarban Mangrove Biosphere (ongoing)

2. Pattern of avian assemblages on solid waste disposal ground in Promodnagar, Kolkata (completed)

3. How does different species of myna uses urban Kolkata as their potential habitat (completed)

4. Temporal & spatial distribution of butterfly species in and around RKMVC College Rahara (completed)

5. Partial life table construction for tailed jay within urban habitat (completed)

6. Natural carotenoids as fish feed additive for ornamental fishes (ongoing)

7. Interaction of native butterflies with exotic invasive plants (ongoing)

Publications (Journals / Proceedings/ Book chapters):

1. Mukherjee, A., Sardar, S., Mandal, B, Saha, N.C. and Mitra, B., 2022. First insect faunal inventory from the recently declared Raimona National Park, Assam, International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol. 7(3): 26-30.

2. Mandal, B., Ganguly, A. and Mukherjee, A., 2022. A review for understanding the reasons for vanishing sundari trees Herteira fomes Buchannan-Hamilton from Sundarban mangroves, Environment and Ecology, Vol. 39(4): 813-817.

3. Dutta, T. Sardar, S., Mitra, Mukherjee, A. and B., Mandal, B., 2022. Interaction with avian assemblages with the local environment of solid waste disposal area: a case study from Promodnagar waste dumping ground in Kolkata Metropolitan city, Ecology, Environment and Conservation, 28 (Jan Suppl. Issue): S114-S118.

4. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Ganguly, A., 2021. Effectiveness of natural carotenoids and coloured chemical factorse on growth and colouration in red molly Poecilia latipinna ( Lesueur, 1821), Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 18(1): 25-32.

5. First report of Geocoris lituratus (Geocoridae: Hemiptera) as egg predator of Graphium agamemnon (Papilionidae: Lepidoptera) in urban landscape, West Bengal, 2021. Shil, D, Bagchi, A., Sarkar, P., Sardar, S., Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Mitra, B., Ambient Science, 8(1): online

6. Ganguly, A., Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Chakraborty, S.K., 2020. A review analysis on environmental factors influencing morphology and behaviour of estuarine mollusc. Ecology, Environment and Conservations, vol. 26 (Nov. Suppl) s65-s69.

7. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Ganguly, A., 2017. Screening of antioxidant properties of some fruits available in Kolkata markets, Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 14(2): 145-154.

8. Mandal, B., Ganguly, A. and Mukherjee, A., 2017. A checklist of roadside trees of Kolkata city, Bionotes, Vol. 19(4): 125-128.

9. Mandal, B., Ganguly, A., Mukherjee, A. and Shome, D., 2017. Assessment and analysis of avenue trees in urban Kolkata: A case study; Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 14(1): 7-15.

10. Mandal, B., Ganguly, A., Banerjee, U., and Mukherjee, A., 2017.On the decline of population of the house sparrow in urban areas of India, Bionotes, Vol. 19(2): 52-53.

11. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Banerjee, S., 2013. A review on the ichthyofaunal diversity in mangrove based estuary of Sundarbans; Journal of reviews in fish biology and fisheries, Vol. 23: 365-374.

12. Banerjee, S., Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2013. Book (Chapter): Ichthyofaunal diversity in mangrove based estuarine ecosystem of Indian Sundarbans: an in depth analysis; Estuaries of India Biodiversity, Ecology, Conservation, Management (Nature Books India).

13. Mukherjee, A., Mandal, B., Majumder, D. and Banerjee, S., 2012. Study on the distribution of fin fish juveniles in few selected rivers of Indian Sundarbans; World journal of fish and marine sciences, Vol. 4(6): 554-565.

14. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A., Sarkar, S. and Banerjee, S., 2012. Study on the ornamental fin fish of Indian Sundarbans with special reference to few floral sources for carotenoid pigmentation; World journal of fish and marine sciences, Vol. 4(6): 566-576.

15. Mandal, B. and Mukherjee, A., 2012. Icthyofaunal diversity in the water bodies of Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India, Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 9(1): 63-71.

16. Mandal, B. and Mukherjee, A., 2011. Quantifying the health of shrimp culture ponds in Indian Sundarbans; The Icfai University (IUP) journal of life sciences, Vol. 5(1): 32-39.

17. Mandal, B. and Mukherjee, A., 2011. Nepenthes khasiana: the pitcher plant needs attention for conservation, Current Science, Vol. 100(6): 807.

18. Mukherjee, A., Mandal, B. and Banerjee, S., 2011. Book (Chapter): Role of plant based natural carotenoids on feeding, growth and colouration of fish - a case study; Carotenoids: Properties, Effects and Diseases; Series: Biochemistry Research Trends (NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHER, USA), pp.179-188.

19. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Banerjee, S., 2011. Study on diversity of Zooplanktons in two ponds at Barrack pore with special reference to the hydrological variables; Proceedings of Zoological society, Kolkata, Vol. 64(2): 132-136.

20. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Banerjee, S., 2010. Growth and pigmentation development efficiencies in fantail guppy, Poecilia reticulata fed with commercially available feed; Agriculture and Biology Journal of North America, Vol. 1(6):1264-1267.

21. Mukherjee, A., Mandal, B. and Banerjee, S., 2009. Turmeric as a carotenoid source on pigmentation and growth of fanail guppy, Poecilia reticulate; Proceedings of Zoological society, Kolkata, Vol. 62(2):119-123.

22. Mandal, B., Mukherjee, A. and Banerjee, S., 2009. Isolation of some carotenoid rich floral bioresources for preparation of diet additives in Aquaculture; Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 6(2): 237-239.

23. Zaman, S., Banerjee, K., Basu, S., Mukherjee, A., Mandal, B. and Mitra, A., 2008. Icthyoplakton loss in coastal West Bengal.Kolkata, Proceedings of Zoological society, Kolkata, National Conference Proceeding vol., pp. 203-206.

24. Mukherjee, A., Mandal, B., Mitra, A. and Banerjee, K., 2007. Culture of Penaeus monodon using plant based additives in Indian Sundarbans; Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 4(2): 199-204.

25. Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2007. A note on fin fish juveniles wasted during harvest of tiger prawn seed, in Chotomollakhali Island, West Bengal; Bionotes, Vol.9(4): 124.

26. Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2007. Threatened fishes of North Bengal region of West Bengal, Bionotes, Vol. 9(3):86.

27. Mitra, A., Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2006. Notes on the wasted Icthyoplankon due to wild harvest of tiger prawn seed from junput (East Midnapur District),West Bengal, Journal of Environment & sociobiology, Vol. 3(2): 171-172.

28. Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2006. Study of water parameters on using Tannery effluents and tannery effluents and tannery waste water for aquaculture at Dhapa,Kolkata, Bionotes, Vol. 8(2):42.

29. Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2006. Avian spectrum in Victoria Memorial Gardens,Kolkata, Bionotes, Vol. 8(1):13.

30. Mitra, A., Bhattacharyya, S., Banerjee, K., Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2006. Book(Chapter): Ornamental fish rearing Training Manual on Ecofriendly and sustainable fishery. (WWF- INDIA, Sundarban Landscape Project, 2006), 1^st edition: July, 2006, pp.99-130 (English version)

31. Mitra, A., Banerjee, K., Basu, S., Mukherjee, A. and Mandal, B., 2006. Book(Chapter): Use of sea weed in fish feed preparation Training Manual on Non classical uses of Mangrove resources of Indian Sundarbans for alternative livelihood programmes (WWF- INDIA, Sundarban Landscape Project,2006) 1^st edition: September, 2006, pp.29-40.

32. Mandal, B. and Mukherjee, A., 2005. A List of resident Birds of Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, Bionotes, Vol. 7(3):91.

Name:Samir Sardar
Designation:Assistant Professor

Details:

Name:Rupak Kumar Das
Designation:Assistant Professor

Details:

Name:Dr. Ajoy Mallik
Designation:Assistant Professor

Details:

Name : Ajoy Mallik, Ph.D.

Address: Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, Kolkata-700118

Date of Birth : 10^th March, 1986

Marital Status : Married

Nationality : Indian Citizen

E-mail : ajoy084@gmail.com & ajoy081@rediffmail.com

Mobile : +919477258709

Education:

2008 BSc. Zoology (Hons.) Basirhat College

Botany & Chemistry Basirhat, University of Calcutta

2010 MSc. Marine Science University College of Science,

University of Calcutta

2016 Ph.D. Biochemistry Bose Institute

University of Calcutta

Title of the thesis: “Study On The Research Scenario Of White Spot Disease And Importance Of Biomarker In The Disease Prevention Of Marine Shrimp"

Total research experiences : 11 years 06 months (up to May 2022)

Research experiences as faculty : 7 years

April’ 01, 2015 to April 19, 2021 : Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Dinabandhu Mahavidyalaya, Bongaon, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India.

April’ 20, 2021 to Present : Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College,

Rahara, Kolkata-700118.

Pre doctoral research experiences: 05 years 11 months

November' 2010 to October' 2016 Bose Institute, Calcutta 700054

Field of expertise:

Marine Biotechnology/ Molecular biology/ Bioinformatics/ Scientometrics/ Research policy

Project Details

Sl. No

Title of Project

Funding Agency

Duration

Total Approved Cost

Role

Current Status of Project

Contribution of India on Climate Change Research in Comparison with Major Countries: A Bibliometric Study of 30 Years (1987-2016)

DST-NSTMIS

Two years

(01.12.2018-

31.03.2021)

16,17,481/-

Completed

Detection of emerging viral pathogens and development of molecular diagnostic tools for shrimp (Penaeus monodon) aquaculture

DST-SERB

Three years

(03.03.2022

02.03.2025)

4926196/-

Ongoing

Publications list (Title of paper, authors, Journal details, pages, year etc.):

A. Published articles in peer-reviewed journals: (total citations: 159 h-index = 8)

[1] Mondal D, Chakrabarty U, Dutta S, Mallik A, Mandal N (2021) Identification and characterization of novel microRNAs in disease-resistant and disease-susceptible Penaeus monodon. Fish & Shellfish Immunology 119, 347-372. (Impact factor: 4.43)

[2] Mondal D, Dutta S, Mallik A, Mandal N (2020) Mitochondrial DNA diversity: Insight into population diversity, structure and demographic history of Penaeus monodon along the entire coastal region of India. Aquaculture Research 51 (11), 4649-4680. (Impact factor: 2.082)

[3] Ghosh B, Dutta SP, Mallik A (2020) Evolving Trends of Indian Research Performance in Cryptography: A Bibliometric and Computational Investigation. J. Sci. Res. 9 (3), 253-267. (Impact factor: 0.85)

[4] Mallik A, Ghosh B (2018) Scientometric analysis of research advancement in graph theory and its applications. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management 12 (2): 243-261.

[5] Basu T., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2017) Evolving importance of anticancer research using herbal medicine: a scientometric analysis. Scientometrics 110(3): 1375-1396. (Impact factor: 3.238)

[6] Mallik A, Chakrabarty U., Dutta S., Mondal D. & Mandal N. (2016) Study on the distribution of disease resistant shrimp identified by DNA markers in respect to WSSV infection in different seasons along the entire East coast of India aiming to prevent white spot disease in Penaeus monodon. Transbound. Emerg. Dis., 63(1):e48-57.(Impact factor: 5.005)

[7] Chakrabarty U., Dutta S., Mallik A., Mandal D. & Mandal N. (2015) Identification and characterisation of microsatellite DNA markers in order to recognise the WSSV susceptible populations of marine Giant Black Tiger Shrimp, Penaeus monodon. Vet. Res., 46:110.(Impact factor: 3.699)

[8] Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2015) White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) prevalence associated with disease resistance among wild populations of black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon (Fabricius). Aquacult. Res. 46:453–461. (Impact factor: 2.082)

[9] Chakrabarty U., Dutta S., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2014) White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and prevalence of disease resistance in a commercially cultured population of Penaeus monodonFabricius, 1798 (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata). Crustaceana, 87 (14):1593–1605.(Impact factor: 0.529)

[10] Chakrabarty U., Mallik A., Mondal D., Dutta S. & Mandal N. (2014) Assessment of WSSV prevalence and distribution of disease resistant shrimp among the wild population of Penaeus monodon along the West coast of India. J. Invertebr. Pathol., 119:12-18.(Impact factor: 2.841)

[11] Mallik A. & Mandal N. (2014) Bibliometric analysis of global publication output and collaboration structure study in microRNA research Scientometrics, 98 (3):2011–2037.(Impact factor: 3.238)

[12] Dutta S.,Biswas S., Mukherjee K.,Chakrabarty U., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2014) Identification of RAPD-SCAR marker linked to white spot syndrome virus resistance in populations of giant black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodonFabricius. J Fish Dis., 37:471–480.(Impact factor: 2.767)

[13] Dastidar, P. G., Mallik, A.& Mandal, N. (2013) Contribution of shrimp disease research to the development of the shrimp aquaculture industry: an analysis ofthe research and innovation structure across the countries. Scientometrics, 97(3):659–674.(Impact factor: 3.238)

[14] Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2013) Experimental evidence for WSSV susceptibility linked to a microsatellite DNA marker in Giant Black Tiger Shrimp, Penaeus monodon (Fabricius). J Fish Dis.,36:593–597. (Impact factor: 2.767)

[15] Mondal K., Ghosh R., Bhattacharyya S.B., Zaman S., Mallik A., Das, M., Mitra, A. (2013) Partial replacement of fish meal with mangrove based plant ingredients and its effect on water quality, growth performance and length-weight relationship of freshwater prawn Macrobrachiumrosenbergii. Species 3 (8), 15-21.

[16] Banerjee K., Vayas, P., Chowdhury R., Mallik A. and Mitra A. (2010) The effects of salinity on the mangrove growth in the lower Gangetic delta. Journal of Indian Ocean Studies 18 (3), 389-97.

Published report/ monograph/ books:

Mitra A., Ghosh R., Mallik A., Mondal K., Zaman S. and Banerjee K. (2013) Sustainable freshwater aquaculture in mangrove-dominated Indian sundarbans using floral-based feed, in a book “Sensitivity of Mangrove Ecosystem to Changing Climate”, Spinger, Annexure 8A.1.
Mitra A., Ghosh R., Mallik A., Mondal K., Zaman S. and Banerjee K. (2013) Study on the Role of Mangrove-Based Astaxanthin in Shrimp Nutrition, in a book “Sensitivity of Mangrove Ecosystem to Changing Climate”, Spinger, Annexure 8A.2.

B. Sequence submitted at NCBI database (328)

[1] 11 different microsatellite DNA sequences linked to white spot disease of P. monodon, Accession IDs: KP751414.1- KP751418.1, MH820179.1 - MH820183.1.

[2] 5 different sub-telomeric region genomic sequences linked to white spot disease of P. monodon, Accession IDs: MH820225.1 - MH820229.1.

[3] One non-LTR retrotransposon, complete sequence of P. monodon, Accession ID: MH820231.1

[4] One intron of P. monodon, Accession ID: MH820230.1

[5] 19 different Penelope-like element mobile element, partial sequences of P. monodon, Accession IDs: MH820206.1 - MH820224.1

[6] 21 different microsatellite sequences of different penaeid shrimp, Accession IDs: MH820184.1 - MH820205.1

[7] 270 mitochondrial DNA sequences of P. monodon which were generated from the population diversity study of P. monodon among the nine different coastal regions of India using the mitochondrial control region (D-Loop) and five mitochondrial genes namely 16SrRNA gene, 12SrRNA gene, NADH Dehydrogenase Subunit 1 (ND1), Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COX1), Cytochrome b gene (Cytb). Accession IDs: MK430566-MK430835,

C. Abstract published at international & national conferences/ symposiums

[1] Mallik A. & Mandal N. (2017) Innovative trends in microrna research: A scientometric analysis of the global research output.Abstract in the 3rd International Conference on “Perspective of cell signalling and molecular medicine”, held on Jan 8-10, organized by Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

[2] Mandal N., Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Mallik A., Mondal D. & Mondal V. (2016) Role of DNA markers to control White Spot Disease (WSD) in marine shrimp aquaculture. Abstract in the International Conference on “Aquatic Resources & Sustainable Management”, February 17-19, 2016 organized by Central Calcutta Science and Culture Organisation for Youth (CCSCOY) in collaboration with University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

[3] Chakrabarty U., Dutta S., Mallik A., Mondal D. & Mandal N. (2014) Estimation of WSSV infection with distribution of disease resistant population of marine shrimp (Penaeus monodon) along the entire coastal areas of India. Abstract in the 4th International Conference of World Science Congress on “Science for sustainable development”, December 16–18, 2014 organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

[4] Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Mallik A., Mondal D. & Mandal N. (2014) Importance of various DNA markers for the development of specific pathogen resistant (SPR) Penaeus monodon. Abstract in the National Conference on "Current trends in Life Sciences research and challenges ahead", February 28 – March 02, 2014 organized by Dept. of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Orissa

[5] Mondal D., Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2014) Quantitative estimation of WSSV propagation among disease resistant and disease susceptible population of marine shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Abstract in the National Conference on "Current trends in Life Sciences research and challenges ahead", February 28 – March 02, 2014 organized by Dept. of Life Sciences, Sambalpur University, Orissa

[6] Mallik A. &Mandal N. (2013) Importance of patents in scientific research: a case study of microrna research Abstract in the International Conference on “Global IPR System and WTO Issues” during Nov. 16-17, 2013 at Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut (UP) India

[7] Mandal N., Chakrabarty U., Dutta S., Khatua S. &Mallik A. (2012) Importance of DNA markers linked to disease resistance in marine shrimp (Penaeus monodon) Abstract in the “BIT’s 2nd Annual World Congress of Marine Biotechnology” on September 20-23, 2012 organized by BIT Congress Inc., Dalian, China

[8] Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Khatua S., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2012) Importance of DNA markers to identify disease resistant Penaeus monodon for disease free shrimp aquaculture Abstract in the 2nd International Symposium on “Perspective of Cell Signaling and Molecular Medicine” January 8-11, 2012 organized by Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

[9] Dastidar P.G., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2012) Are Academic Research and Innovation policies sufficient to sustain the challenges of Aquaculture industries? An analysis of research dynamics across the countries Abstract in the 22nd Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society on “Environmental Challenges facing developed and developing countries in a Globalized World: Quantitative approaches to Comprehensive Solutions” January 3-6, 2012 Jointly Organized by CRRAO AIMSCS, UOH Campus and University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India

[10] Dutta S., Chakrabarty U., Khatua S., Mallik A.& Mandal N. (2011) DNA markers linked to disease resistance in shrimp (Penaeus monodon). Abstract in International symposium on “From innovations in nucleic acids research to regulation of Biological processes” of the day on December 17-19, 2011 organized by Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

[11] Biswas S., Hazra B., Sarkar R., Dutta S., Khatua S., Chakraborty U., Ghate N., Mallick A.& Mandal, N. (2011) Importance of Biotechnology to control various diseases in human as well as in aquatic animal. Abstract in Sir J.C. Bose Memorial National Symposium on Modern Trends in Animal Science Research and Challenges of the Day on March 23, 2011 organized by Department of Zoology and Molecular Biology & Genetics, Presidency University, Kolkata.

[12] Mallik A. (2011) Inter-relationship between mangrove biomass and salinity: A case study from Indian Sundarbans. Abstract in National Seminar on Impact of Emerging Areas of Science & Technology on the Development of Society on February 5-6, 2011 organized by Central Calcutta Science & Culture Organization for Youth, Kolkata.

[13] Mukherjee A., Mallik A., Rakshit D and Chakraborty S. (2009) Vanishing Horseshoe crabs on a warming Earth. Abstract in National Seminar on Climate Change: Challenges and Mitigation on February 27-28, 2009 organized by Central Calcutta Science & Culture Organization for Youth, Kolkata.

Awards/ recognitions:

Received award of UGC-JRF, Gov. of India, through Joint CSIR-UGC-NET Examination, 2010

Name:Dr. Tanmoy Paul
Designation:Assistant Professor

Details:

1. Name: Dr. Tanmoy Paul

2. Designation:

Assistant Professor

Department of Zoology,

Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College,

Rahara, Kolkata 700118

3. Email: dr.paultanmoy@gmail.com

4. Phone: +91 9477455669

5. Qualifications: M.Sc., Ph.D.

6. Areas of Research interest: Tumor hypoxic microenvironment, Toxic metal-microbe interactions, Heavy metal bioremediation.

7. Experiences:

2010-2012 Lecturer (PTT), Department of Zoology, Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur, Kolkata

2012-2014 Junior Research Fellow, Immunoregulation and Immunodiagnostics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI), Kolkata

2014-2017 Junior and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Microbiology, University of Kalyani, WB

2017-2019 Research Associate, Division of Pathophysiology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata

2019-2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, DNC College, WB

2022- Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, RKMVC College, WB

8. Publications:

1.Paul T, Saha NC. 2022. Bioremediation of heavy metals. In Biotechnology for Zero Waste Emerging Waste Management Techniques Ed, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain and Ravi Kumar Kadeppagari. Wiley-VCH

2. Ghosh S, Basu M, Banerjee K, Chaudhury SP, Paul T, Bera DK, Pal DK, Hossain U, Panda CK, Ghosh A. 2021. Arsenic level in bladder tumor of patients from an exposed population: association with progression and prognosis. Future Oncol 17(11), 1311-1323.

3. Paul T#, Basu S. 2020. Vascular Onco-Therapies Targeting Continuous and Intermittent Intra-Tumor Hypoxia. J Cancer Res Pract 7(3), 105-110.

4. Paul T, Saha NC. 2019. Environmental Arsenic and Selenium Contamination and Approaches Towards Its Bioremediation Through the Exploration of Microbial Adaptations: A Review. Pedosphere 29(5), 554-568.

5. Paul T, Basu S, Saha NC. 2019. Anticancer effect of Andrographis paniculata by suppression of tumor altered hypoxia signaling cascade in mouse melanoma cells. J Cancer Res Pract 6:117-23.

6. Paul T#, Mukherjee SK. 2019. Induction of Inflammatory Response in Human Cell Lines by Arsenic Contaminated Soil Isolated Bacterium Micrococcus sp KUMAs15. Egypt J Med Human Gen 20 (2).

7.Paul T#, Basu S. 2018. The role of circular RNA in human glioblastoma, oligodendroma and leukemia. Research Journal of Life sciences, Bioinformatics, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences (RJLBPCS). 4(4): 668-674.

8.Paul T, Mukherjee SK. 2018. Exploration and Intervention of Geologically Ancient Microbial Adaptation in the Contemporary Environmental Arsenic Bioremediation; In Heavy Metals in the Environment: Microorganisms and Bioremediation Ed, Edgardo R. Donati CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, NY.

9. Paul T, Chakraborty A, Islam E, Mukherjee SK. 2018. Arsenic Bioremediation Potential of Arsenite Oxidizing Micrococcus sp. KUMAs15 Isolated from Contaminated Soil of West Bengal. Pedosphere. 28(2): 299-310.

10. Barik S, Bhuniya A, Banerjee S, Das A, Sarkar M, Paul T, Ghosh T, Ghosh S, Roy S, Pal S, Bose A, Baral R. 2013. Neem leaf glycoprotein is superior than cisplatin and sunitinib malate in restricting melanoma growth by normalization of tumor microenvironment. Int. Immunopharmacol. 17(1):42-9.

11. Paul T#. 2012. Fold pressure and origin of introns. Open Access Scientific Reports. #corresponding author

9. Seminars and Workshops:

1. Paul T. 2020. How to Checkmate ‘Cancer”- the Emperor of Maladies, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira and Department of Higher education, Govt. of West Bengal,

Belur Math, Howrah.

2. Paul T, Mukherjee SK. 2016. Arsenic bioremediation potential of arsenic oxidizing Micrococcus sp. KUMAs15 isolated from arsenic contaminated soil of Nadia, West Bengal for sustainable environmental arsenic decontamination. International Conference on Strategies for Environmental Protection and Management (ICSEPM-2016), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

3. Paul T. 2016. Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights. University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

4. Paul T. 2014. Remediation of environmental heavy metal pollution through microbe assisted intervention: mechanisms and applications. At the International Seminar on Expectation to Microbial Bioremediation: Potential of Microorganisms to Solve Environmental Issues in Soil and Water in Asia and Africa. Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences and International Cooperation Center for Agricultural Education, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.

5. Paul T. 2014. National Seminar on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Science, Humanities and Culture. University of Kalyani, West Bengal, Indi

Name:Dr. Subham Mookerjee
Designation:

Details:

Dr. Subham Mookerjee

Contact No: Mobile: +91‐7003027735, +91‐9830868194;

E‐mail: subham.mookerjee@gmail.com

Faculty Department of Zoology AT Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara (SACT-1, GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL), with more than 3 years of teaching experience and associated with research activity in the department.

Ph.D. in Zoology With specialization in Environmental Enteropathogenic Bacteria and Community Health. With more than 10 years of experience in Microbiology at Department of Bacteriology, ICMR- NICED, P-33 CIT Road Scheme –XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata-700010.

Jan.’ 2020- Till date Faculty Department of Zoology (SACT-1, GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL) Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, India.

Apr.’ 2019- Dec. 2019 Guest lecturer Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, India.

Oct.’2015 – Sept. 2018 CSIR- Senior Research Fellow The Dept. of Bacteriology, ICMR- National Institute of Cholera &Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.

May’ 2015 – Sep’2015 ICMR- Senior Research Fellow The Dept. of Bacteriology, ICMR- National Institute of Cholera &Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.

Mar’ 2013 – Feb’ 2015 Junior Research Fellow in Ministry of Environment project , Govt. Of West Bengal. The Dept. of Bacteriology, ICMR- National Institute of Cholera &Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.

Mar’ 2011 – Feb’ 2013 Junior Research Fellow in DST_DFG (GOI) Indo-German project. The Dept. of Bacteriology, ICMR- National Institute of Cholera &Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:

Development of a rapid, cost effective & easier technique for detection and enumeration of coliform and E.coli for water quality monitoring.
Development of an effective modified technique with “coliphage” as a reliable biomarker for potable water sources
Microbiological and molecular biological studies of bacterial Enteropathogens from aquatic environment and drinking water in relation to Diarrhoeal etiology.

PROJECTS HANDLED:

Worked in DST – NMSKCC funded Project, The interplay of climate and non-climate factors in determining the risks and predicting outbreaks of waterborne diseases. At ICMR- NICED under Dr A. Palit.
Worked in the MoES project “Seasonal dynamics of enteropathogenic bacteria in Gulf of Khambat, Gujrat: its impact on health of coastal population” at ICMR- NICED under Dr A. Palit.
Worked in the Ministry of Environment project “Vibrio dynamics in aquatic-riverine-estuarine ecosystem in West Bengal: cholera paradigm” at ICMR- NICED under Dr A. Palit.
Worked in the Indo-German project “Role of estuarine biogeochemistry on the abundance and types of Vibrio cholerae in West Bengal: seasonality and relation with cholera incidence” at ICMR- NICED under Dr A. Palit.
Worked in the project “Effect of Thyroidism on Skeletal Muscle of White Rat.” at Dept. of Zoology, University of Calcutta under Dr. Madhusudan Das.
Presented a Seminar on “Insulin & Insulin Resistance” at Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta.

BOOK CHAPTER

Palit A, Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Einsporn M, Yamasaki S, Lara RJ. “Aquatic Environment, bio-geo-ecology and seasonality in southern deltaic West Bengal, India: Vibrio paradigm.” Biotechnology for people (2013) 121-125. Published by P.D. Women’s college Jalpaiguri. ISBN: 978-93-80663-86-9.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Palit A. Occurrence of toxic Vibrio cholerae in accessible water sources of cholera endemic foci of India. 2012, Jpn. J. Infect. Dis., 65, 358-360.

Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Sur D, Palit A, Diarrheogenic E.coli in potable water sources of West Bengal, India. Acta Tropica 127 (2013) 153– 157.

Batabyal P, Einsporn MH, Mookerjee S, Palit A, Neogi SB, Nair GB, Lara RJ.
Influence of hydrologic and anthropogenic factors on the abundance variability of enteropathogens in the Ganges estuary, a cholera endemic region, Science the total Environment (2014), 472 C:154-161.

Mookerjee S, Jaiswal A, Batabyal P, Einsporn MH, Lara RJ, Sarkar B, Neogi SB, Palit A. Seasonal dynamics of Vibrio cholerae and its phages in riverine ecosystem of Gangetic West Bengal: cholera paradigm. Environ Monit Assess (2014). 186:6241–6250. DOI 10.1007/s10661-014-3851-1.

Batabyal P, MookerjeeS, EinspornMH, LaraRJ, PalitA. High prevalence of toxin producing enteropathogenic Vibrios among estuarine crab in Ganges delta of West Bengal, India. Infection, Genetics and Evolution (2014). 26 359–361. DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.06.001.

Mookerjee S, Batabyal P, Halder M, Palit A. Specificity of coliphages in evaluating marker efficacy: A new insight for water quality indicators. Journal of Virological Methods (2014). 208: 115–118 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2014.07.036 .

Mookerjee S, Batabyal P, Sarkar MH, Palit A (2015). Seasonal Prevalence of Enteropathogenic Vibrio and Their Phages in the Riverine Estuarine Ecosystem of South Bengal. PLoS One.10(9):e0137338. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137338.

Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Einsporn MH, Lara RJ, Palit A (2016). Environmental drivers on seasonal abundance of riverine-estuarine V.cholerae in the Indian Sundarban mangrove. Ecological Indicators 69: 59–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.04.004.

Halder, M., Mookerjee, S., Batabyal, P., Palit A., 2017. Environmental Vibrio cholerae non O1/ non O139 from the Gangetic delta: a diarrheal disease purview. Int. J. Env. Health Res. 27 (4), 241-251.

Halder M, Mookerjee S, Batabyal P, Palit A. 2018. Waterborne outbreaks in Diarrhoea endemic foci of India: a longitudinal exploration and its implications. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 190 (3), 172.

Saha S, Halder M, Mookerjee S, Palit A. 2019. Seasonal influence, enteropathogenic microbial load and diarrhoeal enigma in the Gangetic Delta, India: Present scenario and health implications. Journal of infection and public health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2019.01.066.

Saha S, Halder M, Mookerjee S, Palit A. 2020. Preponderance of multidrug-resistant, toxigenic, and thermotolerant enteropathogenic bacteria in raw and cooked seafood of indo-gangetic basin and associated health risks. Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology 29 (9), 838-849
Saha S, Mookerjee S, Palit A. 2021.Environmental Drivers of the Seasonal Prevalence of Enteropathogenic Bacteria in the Gulf Ecosystem of Gujarat, India: Unravelling Its Diarrheal Enigma. Wseas Transactions On Biology And Biomedicine, 72-83
Mookerjee S, Saha S, .Palit A, Halder M, Batabyal P. 2020.
Environmental Paradigm Of Toxic V.Cholerae In Gangetic Delta Of India .J. Adv. Sci. Edu. Res. 2020: 1: 12-21, ISSN: 2583-0155 (ONLINE)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1. Presented a paper at INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2019,on the theme Bio Diversity, Environment & Climate change titled “Changing environmental and anthropogenic burden: its telling effect on diarrheal disease”Saha S, Mookerjee S, Halder M & Palit A.

2. Published an abstract in a International Seminar , INTZOOCON on “Environmental stipulations in acquisition of toxin genes in V. cholerae: unfolding paradigm off Gangetic delta” Mookerjee S, Saha S, Halder M and Palit A, at Ramkrishna Mission Golpark in February 2018, Organised by the Dept. of Zoology, University of Calcutta.

3. Published an abstract in a National Seminar on Biotechnology for people: Applications and Awareness on “Aquatic Environment, bio-geo-ecology and seasonality in southern deltaic West Bengal,India: Vibrio paradigm.” Palit A, Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Einsporn M, Yamasaki S, Lara RJ. at Presannadeb Women’s college Jalpaiguri held on 4th-5th Decemner 2012.

4. Published an abstract in an International Seminar on Aquatic environment, bio-geo-ecology and seasonality along the Gangetic delta of West Bengal: Vibrio paradigm. Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Einsporn M, Yamasaki S, Lara RJ, Palit A, at the 46th Annual Joint Panel Meeting, US-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program Joint Panels on Cholera and other Bacterial Enteric Infections, in Kolkata during December 13-15, 2011 pp-226.

5. Published an abstract in an International Seminar on: “When pathogens respond to human interaction with waterbodies in West Bengal. India”. Batabyal P, Mookerjee S, Palit A, Lara RJ, Einsporn M, German Society for Marine Research, YOUMARES 2.0, 2011, Germany, PP-44.

ACADEMIC DEGREE	DIVISION/PERCENTAGE	ORGANISATION	YEAR
Ph.D. (Zoology)	NA	University of Calcutta	2019
CSIR NET (LS)	NA	CSIR	2009
M.Sc. (Zoology)	First Class (77.3%)	University of Calcutta	2009
B.Sc. (Zoology)	First Class (67.1%)	University of Calcutta	2007
HS (10+2)	First division (71.9%)	WBCHSE	2004
Secondary (10)	First division (85.6%)	WBBSE	2002

Date of Birth: 14th July, 1986

Address: 12G/1A Paikpara Row, Kolkata-700037

Gender: Male

Nationality: Indian

Name:SUBHAJIT MAITY
Designation:

Details:

SUBHAJIT MAITY

Address: 78/A/1, Bhuban Mohan Roy Road,

Baisali Park, Behala East, Kolkata-8

Phone: +91 9831940164

E. mail: subho.maity@gmail.com

Date of birth: 12^th October, 1987

Citizenship: Indian

Sex: Male

Category: Unreserved

Marital status: Married

Father’s name: Dilip Kumar Maity

Father’s status: Retired Govt. Engineer

Professional objective: To utilize my background and expertise in teaching.

Present professional attachments:

State Aided College Teacher (Zoology UG & PG) in Rahara Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College since January 2020.

Education:

2005-2008 B. Sc. Zoology (Honours) [allied subjects Botany & Chemistry] 67% (Hons) and 68.8% (total) University of Calcutta,West Bengal, India.

2008-2010 M. Sc. Zoology (Specialization in Parasitology & Immunology) 75.2% University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India.

2011- Qualified GATE (95.7 percentile) and Joint CSIR-UGC NET (UGC NET JRF rank- 57).

2012–2018 PhD Thesis submitted & awarded (in Diabetes) at Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics; University of Calcutta. Supervisor: Prof. Abhay Sankar Chakraborti (Professor in Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta) & Joint Supervisor: Dr. Partha Chakrabarti (Senior Scientist at IICB, Kolkata).

Specialization:

Endocrinology, animal physiology, protein biochemistry, toxicology, clinical pharmacology and diabetic nano-biotechnology

Postdoctoral fellowship:

DBT-RAship, GoI (July 2018-Dec 2019)

Thesis title: Studies On Naringenin As A Herbal Antidiabetic Agent In Free And Encapsulated State In Polymeric Vehicles.

Publications:

1. SubhajitMaity, PiyasiMukhopadhyay, PatitPabanKundu, AbhaySankarChakraborti. Alginate coated chitosan core-shell nanoparticles for efficient oral delivery of naringenin in diabetic animals-An in vitro and in vivo approach, Carbohydrate Polymers 170 (2017) 124–132.

2. SubhajitMaity, SandipanChakraborty, AbhaySankarChakraborti. Critical insight into the interaction of naringenin with human haemoglobin: A combined spectroscopic and computational modelling approaches, Journal of Molecular Structure 1129 (2017) 256-262.

3. SubhajitMaity, AbhaySankarChakraborti. Formulation, physico-chemical characterization and antidiabetic potential of naringenin-loaded poly D, L lactide-co-glycolide (N-PLGA) nanoparticles, European Polymer Journal 134 (2020) 109818.

4. SusantaSadhukhan, SubhajitMaity, SandipanChakraborty,Silpita Paul, Dinesh Munian, Arup Kumar Pattanayak, Biman Jana Madhusudan Das. Structural insight into the effect of polymorphic variation on the functional dynamics of methionine synthase reductase: Implications in neural tube defects, Chemical Biology & Drug Design (2020) doi.org/10.1111/cbdd.13780[Joint 1^st author].

5. Sauradipta Banerjee, SubhajitMaity, AbhaySankarChakraborti. Methylglyoxal-induced modification causes aggregation of myoglobin, SpectrochimicaActa Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 155 (2016) 1–10.

6. PiyasiMukhopadhyay, SubhajitMaity, SandipanChakraborty, RuchiraRudra, HiralGhodadara, ManishaSolanki, AbhaySankarChakraborti, A. K. Prajapati, P. P. Kundu. Oral delivery of quercetin to diabetic animals using novel pH responsive carboxypropionylated chitosan/alginate microparticles, RSC Advances 6 (2016) 73210-73221.

7. SohamMitra, TarunKeswani, NabanitaGhosh, SuranjanaGoswami, AnuradhaDatta, Salomie Das, SubhajitMaity, Arindam Bhattacharyya. Copper induced immunotoxicity promote differential apoptotic pathways in spleen and thymus, Toxicology 306 (2013) 74– 84.

8. PiyasiMukhopadhyay, SubhajitMaity, SudiptoMandal, AbhaySankarChakraborti, A.K. Prajapati, P.P. Kundu. Preparation, characterization and in vivo evaluation of pH sensitive, safe quercetin-succinylated chitosan-alginate core-shell-corona nanoparticle for diabetes treatment,Carbohydrate Polymers 182 (2018) 42–51.

9. Subhajit Maity, Partha Chakrabarti, Abhay Sankar Chakraborti. Naringenin Ameliorates

Palmitic Acid-induced Fatty Acid Stress in Hepatocytes, The Natural Products Journal

10 (2021) DOI: 10.2174/2210315511666210121154928.

10. Susanta Sadhukhan, Subhajit Maity, Sandipan Chakraborty, Silpita Paul, Dinesh

Munian, Arup Kumar Pattanayak, Biman Jana, Madhusudan Das. Molecular Insight

into the Effect of a Single-Nucleotide Polymorphic Variation on the Structure and

Dynamics of Methionine Synthase Reductase and Its Association with

Neural Tube Defects, ACS Omega 6 (2021) 26372−26380 [Joint 1^st authorship].

11. Susanta Sadhukhan, Mahammed Moniruzzaman, Subhajit Maity, Sudakshina Ghosh,

Arup Kumar Pattanayak, Suman Bhusan Chakraborty, Biswanath Maity, Madhusudan Das.

Organometallic Folate Gold Nanoparticles Ameliorate Lipopolysaccharide-

Induced Oxidative Damage and Inflammation in Zebrafish Brain, ACS Omega 7

(2022) 9917–9928 [Joint 1^st authorship].

12. Subhajit Maity, Arghya Acharyya, Abhay Sankar Chakraborti. Flavonoid-based

Polymeric Nanoparticles: A Promising Approach for Cancer and Diabetes

Treatment, European Polymer Journal [Ms revision stage].

Abstract and poster Presentation:

Attended many conferences and symposia.

1) Abstract Symposium (Poster presentation), Exploring biological systems: cell to organism, 1st and 2nd March 2016, University of Calcutta. Naringenin-loaded poly (D, L-lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles: Preparation, characterization and therapeutic efficacy in experimental diabetes by Subhajit Maity and Abhay Sankar Chakraborti.

2) Abstract conference (Poster presentation), National conference on nanoscience and nanotechnology, 18th and 19th September 2014, University of Calcutta. Formulation, characterization and antidiabetic potential of naringeninloaded poly D, L lactide-co-glycolide nanoparticles by Subhajit Maity and Abhay Sankar Chakraborti.

3) Abstract conference (Poster presentation), 100th Indian Science Congress Conference Proceedings, 3rd-7th January 2013, Jointly by University of Calcutta and Bose Institute. Quercetin-loaded poly (D, L-lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles: Preparation, characterization and therapeutic efficacy in experimental diabetes by Rajat Pal, Subhajit Maity and Abhay Sankar Chakraborti.

Research projects:

ü Strategies to overcome metformin side-effects in rodents and its uptake in OCT1 site directed mutagenesis hepatocytes and intestinal epithelial cells (DBT, GoI).

ü Studies on naringenin as a herbal anti-diabetic agent in free and encapsulated state in polymeric vehicles (UGC, GoI).

PhD registration (under my supervision):

ü None as of now.

Name:Prof. Pannalal Das
Designation:

Details:

Name:Prof. Bulganin Mitra
Designation:Emeritus Professor

Details:

Name:Prof. Tapash Chandra Ghosh
Designation:Emeritus Professor

Details:

Name : Tapash Chandra Ghosh

Date of birth : 03.01.1959

Field of specialization : Bioinformatics/Molecular

evolution/Genetics

DETAILS OF ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

Examination University/Institution Year of obtaining the degree

M.Sc. Kalyani Univ. 1984

Ph. D. Kalyani Univ. 1991

Post Doctoral Fellow/Visiting Scientist: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy; National Institute of Genetics, Japan.

Service Record

1993 - 2001: Junior Information Scientist, Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata

2001-2004: Lecturer, Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata

2005- 2009: Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata

2009-2019: Professor, Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. (Selected in an open post)

February 2019 -till date Adjunct Professor, Microbiology Department, Raiganj University, West Bengal.

Research Activities

Different proteins evolve at different rates. Elucidation of the determinants of the rate of protein sequence evolution is one of the great challenges in evolutionary biology. The main theme of our research goal is to identify and understand the different evolutionary forces by analyzing the genomic and functional data of various organisms.

Special Contributions To Teaching

Besides my research activities, I am also involved in the following teaching programnes:

(i) Every year I teach a course on “Bioinformatics” for the Ph.D. students of Bose Institute (a compulsory educational course in Bose Institute for the Ph.D. students).

(ii) Working as a guest faculty in taking classes on “Bioinformatics” to the M.Tech. students of the department of Biotechnology of the West Bengal Technical University, M.Sc. students of the department of Biochemistry of Patna University, M. Sc. students of North Bengal University and M.Sc. students of the department of Molecular biology and Biotechnology of Kalyani University.

(iii) Acted as an examiner of the M.Sc./M.Tech. students of Calcutta University, Kalyani University, West Bengal Technical University, Vidyasagar University, Patna University, Bhagalpur University and Assam University.

Management Services:

(i) Rendered services as a Executive Committee Member of the Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics of Bose Institute, Kolkata,

(ii) Executive Committee member of Bioinformatics Centre, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar.

(iii) Executive Committee member of Bioinformatics Centre, Bhagalpur University, Bihar.

(iv) Executive Committee member of Bioinformatics Facility of Presidency College, Kolkata, Kalyani University, West Bengal and Vidyasagar University, West Bengal.

(v) Member of executive committee of Academic Science Culture and Promotion Society for propagation of the achievements of science and scientific techniques as well as computer training of the school students in remote villages at grass root level.

(vi) Responsible for Management of the International Symposium on (1) “Recent Trends in Bioinformatics” in 1998 & (2) “Bioinformatics for Genome Analysis” in 2004 as the Organising Secretary.

(vii) Served as a convenor of advisory committee of Bose Institute, Bioinformatics Centre.

(viii) Served as an external expert (nominated by the Department of Boitechnology, Government of India) to examine the possibilities of establishing a Bioinformatics Centre at Bhagalpur University, Bihar.

(ix) Served as a member of the Board of studies in Bioinformatics of North Orissa University.

(x) Acted as an external expert for the recruitment of Scientist in the field of bioinformatics of the Bioinformatics Centres of Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Bhagalpur University, Bihar and Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, Imphal, Assam Central University, Tezpur Central University, North Bengal University, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University, West Bengal etc.

(xi) Acted as a member of the “Board of Studies” of Purabi Das School of Information Technology, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur.

Highlighting the most innovative research contributions:

I am working in the field of molecular evolution/genomic/bioinformatics for more than 20 years.. Very briefly, the major results of my works are as follows:

The relationship between synonymous codon usage and protein secondary structure is one of my pioneering works. We are the first to demonstrate that the synonymous codon usage is intrinsically related the protein structural units (BBRC 269: 692-696 (2000); Gene 300, 179-187 (2002); DNA Research. 2008 15: 347-356). This work has got a large number of citations, including in the journal “Science”. Our work on the genomic adaptation of microorganisms at high temperature established that elevated growth temperature imposes selective constraints on the stability of codon-anticodon interactions that would have significant impact in resolving the selectionist and neutralist debate on the relationship between G+C content and optimal growth temperature. Our group also demonstrated that the selection of synonymous codons between thermophilic and mesophilic prokaryotes is related to differential folding patters of mRNA secondary structures and translational error minimizing property (Bioinformation 2010 4: 352-356; FEBS Letters 2007 581: 5825-5830; BBRC 2005 330: 629-632). Our work on evolutionary systems biology established the role protein disorder, protein complexes, three dimensional structural contexts and protein-protein interaction network on protein evolution (Gene 2009 429: 18-22; Gene 2009 434: 50-55; J Mol Evol 2010 71: 60-69). We established the role of protein connectivity, protein disorder, expression level, functionality and stable/transient interaction pattern for the differential evolutionary rates between the disease and non disease genes and these results might be helpful in understanding the disease process and prediction of candidate disease genes in the future (Gene 2009 439: 11-16; Mol Biol Evol. 2010 27:934- 941); Genomics 2011 97: 200-204 ; Genome Biol Evol. 2014 6(10):2741-2753). Recently, we demonstrated that protein evolutionary rates are mainly determined by protein-complex forming propensity of the proteins and these results have wider implications in understanding the protein evolutionary rates from the perspectives of neutralist/selectionist hypothesis (BMC Syst Biol. Nov 12;4(1):155 (2010); Genome Biology Evol. 2013 5: 1366-1375 ). By analyzing the orthologous sequences of cold and warm vertebrates our group demonstrated that GC transition has favored disordered residues to promote functional diversity in GC rich genes, and to protect them against functional loss of protein misfolding (Genomics 2014 104: 530-537). Comparing 256 prokaryotes of four oxygen requirement groups his group proposed that higher protein disorder provides an adaptive opportunity for aerobic microbes and this work has been evaluated by F1000 (Gene 2014 548: 134-141). There is a long standing controversy whether the disease genes evolve slower than non-disease genes or not. To resolve this controversy, our group integrated human disease genes from several databases and compared their protein evolutionary rates with non-disease genes in both housekeeping and tissue-specific group. We demonstrated that protein complex forming property is one of the major parameters in controlling the protein evolution irrespective of their tissue specific expression (Genomics 2015 Nov 11. pii: S0888-7543(15)30039-2. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2015.11.001.). Our studies on the evolutionary dynamics of duplicated genes demonstrated that human essential genes are mostly retained as duplicates, a trend that is different from mouse. These duplicated genes are functionally more redundant, evolutionary more conserved and are maintained by more-efficient dosage regulation, which enable them to serve as back-up copies to increase gene-deletion fitness of humans (PLoS One Mar 9;10(3):e0120784. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120784). Comparison of evolutionary genomic properties of human small-scale duplicates with traceable human whole-genome duplicates from vertebrates 2R WGD event showed that human WGDs are functionally less similar, diverge more in subcellular level and contain a higher proportion of essential genes than SSDs, all of which is different from yeast (BMC Genomics. 2016 Jan 22;17(1):71. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2392-0)

Moreover, human resource development in the field of bioinformatics is one of the important national/international issues. In addition to my research activites, I am also involved in designing bioinformatics course curriculum of different universities. I also act as executive member of different national bioinformatics centres for the development of bioinformatics research in India.

List of Research Guidance

NO.

NAME OF STUDENTS

DISSERTATION TITLES

DATE OF SUBMISSION/AWARD

Placement

Dr. Surajit Basak

Tracing the evolutionary forces for temperature adaptation of DNA , RNA and protein molecules of different organisms

FEBRUARY -2007

(AWARDED)

Scientist,

NICED

Kolkata

Dr. Angshuman Bagchi

Structural biology and bioinformatic approach on sox gene cluster towards the understanding of sulfur lithotrophy in proteobacteria

DECEMBER – 2007

(AWARDED)

Professor

Kalyani

University

Dr. Keya Sau

Studies on the codon and amino acid usage bias in bacteriophages.

2007

(AWARDED)

Associate

Professor

Haldia

Institute

Technology

Dr. Tania Banerjee

Studies on synonymous codon usage and dna base composition in relation to the dynamics of genome evolution

APRIL 2008

(AWARDED)

Scientist

Strand

Genomics

Dr. Pamela Mukhopadhyay

Studies on evolutionary forces in shaping genetic organization of plant and animal genomes having heterogeneous base composition.

AUGUST- 2010

(AWARDED)

Post

Doctoral

Fellow

Queensland

Institute

of Medical

Research

Dr. Bratati Kahali

Studies on the evolutionary forces on codon and amino acid usages in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes

2011

(AWARDED)

Scientist

Indian

Institute

of Science

Bangalore

Dr. Soumita Podder

Studies on the origin of evolutionary rate heterogeneity in the human disease and non-disease proteome

2013

(AWARDED)

Assistant

Professor

Raiganj

University

Dr. Kamalika Sen

genomic and functional analysis of the human genes configuring pseudogenes in the frame of evolutionary-studies

2014

(AWARDED)

DST

Women

Scientist

Bose

Institute

Dr. Tina Begum

Structural and genomic analysis of human disease & non – disease genes from the perspective of protein evolution.

2016

(AWARDED)

Post Doctoral

Fellow

University

of Lausanne

Switzerland

10.

Dr. Sandip Chakraborty

Studies on eukaryotic protein evolution: insights from the protein-protein interaction network and protein complex assembly

2015

(AWARDED)

Post doctoral fellow in Sweden

Dr. Arup Panda

Studies on the role of protein structural disorder on the evolutionary features of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes

2016

(AWARDED)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Jyotirmoy Das

In-silico studies of microRNA regulations in higher eukaryotes from the perspective of molecular evolution

2017

(AWARDED)

Linkoping University

Sweden

Dr. Deeya Saha

Studies on Overlapping genes: From Evolutionary Perspective

2017

(AWARDED)

University of Liege

Belgium

Debarun Acharyya

The Importance of Human Duplicated Genes: Insights from Evolutionary Perspective

2018

(AWARDED)

Research Associate

Bose Institute

Dola Mukherjee

An in silico study of plant metabolic genes: revelations of evolution and gene regulation

2019

(AWARDED)

Working as a Faculty at JIS

Manish P Victor

Studies on the relative contributation of different factors that influence codon usage patterns in different organisms.

2021

(AWARDED)

Working as a Research associate at Institute of Life Science, Bhubaneswar, India.

Kakali Biswas

Studies on different tissue-specific human genes: Insights from evolutionary conservation and disease correlation

Thesis under preparation

SRF (extended)

Partha Sarathi Das

Implementation of machine learning technique to predict essential genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

2021

(AWARDED)

Working as a Scientist and Functional Head in PatientMD.

Publications

1. Podder, Soumita, Ghosh, Avishek, Ghosh Tapash, Mutations in membrane-fusion subunit of spike glycoprotein play crucial role in the recent outbreak of COVID-19. J Med Virology 2021; 93, 2790-2798.

2. Victor, MP, Acharya, D, Chakraborty, S, Ghosh, TC, The combined influence of codon composition and tRNA copy number regulates translational efficiency by influening synonymous nucleotide substitution. Gene. 2020 DOI : 10, 1016/j.gene.2020.144640.

3. Victor, MP, Acharya, D, Chakraborty, S, Ghosh, TC, Chaperone Client Proteins Evolve Slower Than Non-Client Proteins. Funct Integr Genomics 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10142-020-00740-1.

4. Victor MP, Acharya D, Begum T, Ghosh TC.The optimization of mRN expression level by its intrinsic properties-Insights from codon usage pattern and structural stability of mRNA. Genomics. 2019 Dec;111(6):1292-1297.

5. Podder, S, Saha,D, Ghosh, TC, Deciphering the intrinsic properties of fungal proteases in optimizing phytopathogenic interaction. Gene. 2019 Aug 30;711:143934. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2019.06.024. Epub 2019 Jun 19.

6. Sen, K, Bhattacharyya, D, Sarkar, A, Das, J, Maji, N, Basu, M, Ghosh, Z, Ghosh, TC, Exploring the major cross-talking edges of competitive endogenous RNA networks in human chronic and acute myeloid leukemia. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2018 Sep; 1862(9):1883-1892.

7. Biswas, K, Acharya, D, Podder, S, Ghosh, TC, Evolutionary rate heterogeneity between multi- and single-interface hubs across human hosekeeping and tissue-specific protein interaction network: Insights from proteins and its partners properties. Genomics. 2018 Sep; 110(5):310-317.

8. Mukherjee, D, Saha, D, Acharya, D, Mukherjee, A, Chakraborty, S, Ghosh ,TC, The role of introns in the conservation of the metabolic genes of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genomics. 2018 Sep; 110(5):283-290.

9. Satapathy, SS, Sahoo, AK, Ray, SK, Ghosh, TC, Codon degeneracy and amino acid abundance influence the measures of codon usage bias: improved NC(Nc) and Encprime (Nc) measures, Genes Cells. 2017 Mar, 22(3):277-283. Doi: 10.1111/gtc. 12474. Epub 2017 Feb 10.

10. Panda, A, Acharya, D, Ghosh, TC. Insights into human intrinsically disordered proteins from their gene expression profile. Mol. Biosyst. 2017 13 (12): 2521-2530.

11. Begum, T, Ghosh, TC, Basak, S. Systematic Analyses and Prediction of Human Drug Side Effect Associated proteins from the perspecitive of protein Evolution. Genome Biol. Evol. 2017 Feb 1:9(2):337-350. Doi: 10.1093/gbe/evw301.

12. Das, M., Haberer, G., Panda, A., Das Laha, S., Ghosh, T C., A R Schäffner 2016. Expression Pattern Similarities Support the Prediction of Orthologs Retaining Common Functions after Gene Duplication Events. Plant Physiol 171(4): 2343-2357.

13. Saha D, Podder S, T C Ghosh 2016. Overlapping Regions in HIV-1 Genome Act as Potential Sites for Host-Virus Interaction. Front Microbiol. 2016 Nov 4;7:1735. eCollection 2016.

14.Sen K, Sarkar A, Maji RK, Ghosh Z, Gupta S, T C Ghosh 2016. Deciphering the cross-talking of human competitive endogenous RNAs in K562 chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line Mol Biosyst. 2016 Nov 15;12(12):3633-3642

15. Acharya, D., T.C. Ghosh 2016. Global analysis of human duplicated genes reveals the relative importance of whole-genome duplicates originated in the early vertebrate evolution. BMC Genomics Jan 22;17(1):71. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2392-0.

16. Biswas, K., Chakraborty, S., Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2016. Insights into the DN/Ds ratio heterogeneity between brain specific genes and widely expressed genes in species of different complexity. Genomics 108: 11-17.

17. Saha, D., Podder, S., Panda, A., T.C. Ghosh 2016. Overlapping genes: A significant genomic correlate of prokaryotic growth rates. Gene 582(2):143-147.

18. Chakraborty, S., Panda, A., T.C. Ghosh 2016. Exploring the evolutionary rate differences between human disease and non-disease genes. Genomics 108: 18-24.

19. Acharya, D., Mukherjee, D., Podder S., T.C. Ghosh 2015. Investigating different duplication pattern of essential genes in mouse and human. PLoS One Mar 9;10(3):e0120784.

20. Mukherjee, S., Panda, A., T.C. Ghosh 2015. Elucidating evolutionary features and functional implications of orphan genes in Leishmania major. Infect Genet Evol 32:330- 337.

21. Saha, D., Panda, A., Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2015. Overlapping genes: a new strategy of thermophilic stress tolerance in prokaryotes. Extremophiles 19: 345-353.

22. Mukherjee, D., Mukherjee, A., T.C. Ghosh 2015. Evolutionary Rate Heterogeneity of Primary and Secondary Metabolic Pathway Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Biol Evol 8: 17-28.

23. Satapathy, SS, Ray,SK, Sahoo, AK, Begum, T, Ghosh, TC, Codon usage bias is not significantly different between the high and the low expression genes in human Int J Mol Genet Gene Ther 1(1): doi http://dx.doi.org/10.16966/2471-4968.103

24. Begum, T., T.C. Ghosh 2014. Elucidating the genotype-phenotype relationships and network perturbations of human shared and specific disease genes from an evolutionary perspective. Genome Biol Evol 6: 2741-2753.

25. Panda, A., Podder, S., Chakraborty, S., T.C. Ghosh 2014. GC-made protein disorder sheds new light on vertebrate evolution. Genomics 104: 530-537.

26. Panda, A., T.C. Ghosh 2014. Prevalent structural disorder carries signature of prokaryotic adaptation to oxic atmosphere. Gene 548: 134-141.

27. Das, J., Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2014. Insights into the miRNA regulations in human disease genes. BMC Genomics Nov 21;15:1010. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1010.

28. Sen, K., T.C. Ghosh 2013. Pseudogenes and their composers: delving in the 'debris' of human genome. Briefings in Functional Genomics 12: 536-547.

29. Chakraborty, S., T.C. Ghosh 2013. Evolutionary rate heterogeneity of core and attachment proteins in yeast protein complexes. Genome Biol Evol 5: 1366-1375.

30. Das, J., Chakraborty, S., Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2013. Complex-forming proteins escape the robust regulations of miRNA in human. FEBS Lett. 587, 2284-2287.

31. Kahali, B., T.C. Ghosh 2013. Disorderness in Escherichia coli proteome: perception of folding fidelity and protein-protein interactions. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 31, 472-476.

32. Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2012. Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Autoimmune Disease Genes and Malfunctioned Immunological Genes. BMC Evol Biol Jan 25;12(1):10. [Epub ahead of print].

33. Sen, K., T.C. Ghosh 2012. Evolutionary conservation and disease gene association of the human genes composing pseudogenes. Gene 501,164-170.

34. Panda, A., Begum, T., T.C. Ghosh 2012. Insights into the evolutionary features of human neurodegenerative diseases. PLoS One 7(10):e48336. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048336. Epub 2012 Oct 30.

35. Sen, K., Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2011. On the quest for selective constraints shaping the expressivity of the genes casting retropseudogenes in human. BMC Genomics (2011) Aug 8;12:401.

36. Kahali_,B., Ahmad, S., T.C. Ghosh 2011. Selective constraints in yeast genes with differential expressivity: Codon pair usage and mRNA stability perspectives. Gene 481, 76-82.

37. Bagchi, A., T.C. Ghosh 2011. New Direction to the Solution of Protein Folding Problem. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 28, 653-654.

38. Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2011. Insights into the Molecular Correlates Modulating Functional Compensation between Monogenic and Polygenic Disease Gene Duplicates in Human. Genomics 97, 200-204.

39. Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2010. Exploring the differences in evolutionary rates between monogenic and polygenic disease genes in human. Mol Biol Evol 27:934- 941.

40. Basak, S., Mukhopadhyay, P., Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh2010. Genomic adaptation of prokaryotic organisms at high temperature. Bioinformation 4(8): 352-356.

41. Mukhopadhyay P., T.C. Ghosh 2010. Relationship between gene compactness and base composition in rice and human genome. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 27:477-488.

42. Singh,H., Andrabi, M., Kahali, B., Ghosh T.C., Kochetov A.V.,Ahmad S., 2010.On nucleotide solvent accessibility in RNA structure. Gene 463: 41-48.

43. Begum, T., T.C. Ghosh 2010. Understanding the Effect of Secondary Structures and Aggregation on Human Protein Folding Class Evolution. J Mol Evol 71: 60-69.

44. Bhattacharya, T., T.C. Ghosh 2010. Protein Connectivity and Protein Complexity Promotes Human Gene Duplicability in a Mutually Exclusive Manner. DNA Research 17: 261-270.

45. Sur, S., Bothra, A., Ghosh, T.C., A. Sen 2010. Investigation of the molecular evolution of nitrogen fixation using nucleotide triplet based condensed matrix method. International J Integrative Biology 10, 59-65.

46. Sen, K., Podder, S., T.C. Ghosh 2010. Insights into the genomic features and evolutionary impact of the genes configuring duplicated pseudogenes in human. FEBS Letters 584: 4015-4018.

47. Chakraborty, S., Kahali, B., T.C. Ghosh 2010. Protein complex forming ability is favored over the features of interacting partners in determining the evolutionary rates of proteins in the yeast protein-protein interaction networks. BMC Syst Biol 2010 Nov 12;4(1):155.

48. Podder, S., Mukhopadhyay, P., T.C. Ghosh 2009. Multifunctionality dominantly determines the rate of human housekeeping and tissue specific interacting protein evolution. Gene 439: 11-16.

49. Manna, B., Bhattacharya, T., Kahali, B., T.C. Ghosh 2009. Evolutionary constraints on hub and non-hub proteins in human protein interaction network: insight from protein connectivity and intrinsic disorder. Gene 434: 50-55.

50. Kahali, B., Ahmad, S., T.C. Ghosh 2009. Exploring the evolutionary rate differences of party hub and date hub proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein-protein interaction network 2008. Gene 429: 18-22.

51. Mandal, U.K., Das, B., Ghosh T.C., Sen, A., A.K. Bothra 2008. Nucleotide Triplet Based Molecular Phylogeny of class-I and class II Aminoacyl t-RNA Synthetase in three Domain of Life Process: Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 26: 321-328.

52. Mukhopadhyay, P., Basak, S., T.C. Ghosh 2008. Differential Selective Constraints Shaping Codon Usage Pattern of Housekeeping and Tissue Specific Homologous Genes of rice and Arabidopsis. DNA Research 15: 347-356.

53. Kahali, B., Basak, S., T.C. Ghosh 2008. Delving deeper into the unexpected correlation between gene expressivity and codon usage bias of Escherichia coli genome. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 25: 655-662.

54. Patra, S.K., A. Patra, F. Rizzi, Ghosh T. C., S. Bettuzzi 2008. Demethylation of (Cytosine-5-C-methyl) DNA and regulation of transcription in the epigenetic pathways of cancer development. Cancer Metastasis Rev 27: 315-334.

55. Bagchi, A., T.C. Ghosh 2008. Structural interaction between DsrE, DsrF and DsrH in Dsr operon. A. Bagchi and T.C. Ghosh. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 25: 517-524.

56. D’Onofrio, G., Ghosh, T.C., S. Saccone 2007. Different functional classes of genes are characterized by different compositional properties. FEBS Letters 581: 5819-5824.

57. Bagchi, A., and T.C. Ghosh. 2007.Homology modeling and molecular dynamics study of the interactions of SoxY and SoxZ: The central player of biochemical oxidation of sulfur anions in Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans. Res J Microbiol. 2: 569-576.

58. Bagchi, A., and T.C. Ghosh. 2007. Structural insight into the functionality of the transcriptional regulator SoxR from Paracoccus pantotrophus in sulfur oxidation operon Res J Microbiol. 2: 735-741.

59. Basak, S., Roy, S., T.C. Ghosh 2007. On the origin of synonymous codon usage divergence between thermophilic and mesophilic prokaryotes. FEBS Letters 581: 5825-5830.

60. Mukhopadhyay, P., Basak, S., T. C. Ghosh 2007. Synonymous codon usage in different protein secondary structural classes of human genes: Implication for increased non-randomness of GC₃ rich genes towards protein stability. J Biosciences 32: 947-963.

61. Mukhopadhyay, P., Basak, S., T. C. Ghosh 2007. Nature of selective constraints on synonymous codon usage of rice differs in GC-poor and GC-rich genes. Gene 400: 71-81.

62. Kahali, B., Basak, S., T.C. Ghosh 2007. Reinvestigating the codon and amino acid usage of S. cerevisiae genome: A new insight from protein secondary structure analysis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 354: 693-699.

63. Sau, K., Gupta, S.K., Sau, S., Mandal, S.C., T.C. Ghosh 2007. Studies on synonymous codon and amino acid usage biases in the broad-host range bacteriophage KVP40. J. Microbiol. 45: 58-63.

64. Basak, S., T.C. Ghosh 2006. .Temperature Adaptation of Synonymous Codon Usage in Different Functional Categories of Genes: A Comparative Study betweenMethanococcus jannaschii and Methanococcus maripaludis Homologous Genes. FEBS Letters 580: 3895-3899.

65. Bagchi, A., and T.C. Ghosh. 2006. Structural and functional characterization of SoxW – a thioredoxin involved in the transport of reductants during sulfur oxidation by the global sulfur oxidation reaction cycle. Res. J Microbiol.1: 392-400.

66. Bagchi, A., and T.C. Ghosh. 2006. Structural identification of the interactions of SoxA and SoxX during the oxidation of sulfur anions via the novel global sulfur oxidizing (Sox) operon. Res. J Microbiol.1: 172-182.

67. Bagchi, A., T.C. Ghosh 2006. Structural study of two proteins SigE and ORF1 to predict their roles in the biochemical oxidation of sulfur anions via the global sulfur oxidation operon (sox). Comp Biol Chem 30: 227-232.

68. Joy, F., Basak, S., Gupta, S.K., Das, P.J., Ghosh, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2006. Compositional correlations in canine genome reflects similarity with human genes. J Biochem Mol Biol 39: 240-246.

69. Sau, K., Gupta, S.K., Sau, S., Mandal, S.C., T.C. Ghosh 2006. Factors influencing synonymous codon and amino acid usage biases in Mimivirus. BioSystems 85: 107-113.

70. Banerjee, T., T.C. Ghosh 2006. Gene expression Level Shapes the Amino Acid Usages in Prochlorococcus marinus MED4. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 23: 547-554.

71. Bagchi, A., T.C. Ghosh 2006. Structural insight into the interactions of SoxV, SoxW and SoxS in the process of transport of reductants during sulfur oxidation by the novel global sulfur oxidation reaction cycle. Biophys Chem 119: 7-13.

72. Bagchi, A., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Structural identification of a novel thioredoxin SoxS: prediction of the function in the process of transport of reductants during sulfur oxidation by the novel global sulfur oxidation reaction cycle. J Mol Struct – Theochem 758: 113-118.

73. Banerjee, T., Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Compositional transitions between Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana genes are linked to the functional change of encoded proteins. Plant Science 170: 267-273.

74. Bagchi, A., T.C. Ghosh 2005. A structural study towards the understanding of the interactions of SoxY, SoxZ and SoxB leading to the oxidation of sulfur anions via the novel global sulfur oxidizing (sox) operon. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 335: 609-615.

75. Sahu, K., Sau, S., Mandal, S.C., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Factors influencing the synonymous codon and amino acid usage bias in an AT-rich P. aeruginosa phage PhiKZ. Acta Biochim Biophys Sin 37: 625-633.

76. Gupta, S.K., Banerjee, T., Basak, S., Sahu, K., Sau, S., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Studies on codon usage in Thermoplasma acidophilum and its possible implications on the occurrences of lateral gene transfer. J Basic Microbiol 45: 344-354.

77. Sahu, K., Gupta, S.K., Sau, S., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Synonymous codon usage bias in 16 Staphylococcus aureus phages: Implication in phage therapy. Virus Res 113: 123-131.

78. Sahu, K., Gupta, S.K., Sau, S., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Comparative analysis of the base composition and codon usages in fourteen mycobacteriophage genomes. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 23: 63-72.

79. Banerjee, T., Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Role of mutational bias and natural selection on genome-wide nucleotide bias in prokaryotic organisms. BioSystems 81: 11-18.

80. Basak, S., T.C. Ghosh 2005. On the origin of genomic adaptation at high temperature for prokaryotic organisms. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 330: 629-632.

81. Banerjee, T., Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Towards a resolution on the inherent methodological weakness of the “effective number of codons used by a gene”. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 330: 1015-1018.

82. D’Onofrio, G., T.C. Ghosh 2005. The compositional transition of vertebrate genomes: an analysis of the secondary structure of the proteins encoded by human genes. Gene 345: 27-33.

83. Basak, S., Mandal, S., T.C. Ghosh 2005. Correlations between genomic GC levels and optimal growth temperatures: some comments. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 327: 969-970.

84. Basak, S., Banerjee, T., Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2004. Investigation on the Causes of Codon and Amino Acid Usages Variation Between Thermophilic Aquifex aeolicus and Mesophilic Bacillus subtilis. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 22: 205-214.

85. Banerjee, T., Basak, S., Gupta,S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2004. Evolutionary Forces in Shaping the Codon and Amino Acid Usages in Blochmannia floridanus. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 22: 13-24.

86. Sau, K., Gupta, S.K., Ghosh T.C., S. Sau 2004. Synonymous codon usage analysis of mycobacteriophage Bxz1 and its plating bacteria M. smegmatis: identification of highly and lowly expressed genes of Bxz1 and the possible function of its tRNA species. J Biochem Mol Biol 37: 487-492.

87. Subramaniyam, V., Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2004. Shannon’s uncertainty principle and gene expression levels. V. Subramaniyam, Current Science 86: 1142-1147.

88. Gupta, S.K., Bhattacharyya, T.K., T.C. Ghosh 2004. Synonymous codon usage in Lactococcus lactis: Mutational Bias Versus Translational Selection. J Biomol Struct Dynamics 21: 527-535.

89. Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2003. Reinvestigation on the causes of genomic GC variation between the orthologous genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 303: 65-68.

90. D’Onofrio, G., Ghosh T.C., G. Bernardi 2002. The base composition of the human genes is correlated with the secondary structures of the encoded proteins. Gene 300:179-187.

91. Gupta, S.K., Bhattacharyya T.K., T.C. Ghosh 2002. Compositional correlation and codon usage studies in Buchnera aphidicola. Indian J Biochem Biophys 39: 35-48.

92. Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2001. Gene expressivity is the main factor in dictating the codon usage variation among the genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Gene 273: 63-70.

93. Khetawat, D., Ghosh T.C., Bhattacharya, M.K., Bhattacharya, S.K., S. Chakrabarti 2001. Molecular characterization of the VP7 gene of Rotavirus isolated from a clinical sample of Calcutta, India., Virus Res 74: 53-58.

94. Mandal, D., Jana, S., Panda, S., Bhattacharya, S., Ghosh T.C., Bhattacharya, S.K., S. Chakrabarti 2000. Distribution of HIV-I subtypes among female sex workers of Calcutta, India. Indian J Med Res 112: 165-172.

95. Ghosh, T.C., Gupta, S.K., S. Majumdar 2000. Studies on codon usage in Entamoeba histolytica. Intl J Parasitology 30: 715-722.

96. Gupta, S.K., Majumdar, S., Bhattacharya, T.K., T.C. Ghosh 2000. Studies on the relationships between the synonymous codon usage and protein secondary structural units. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 269: 692-696.

97. Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 2000. CUCG: A non-redundant codon usage database from complete genomes. Current Science 78: 28-29.

98. Majumdar S., Gupta S.K., Sundararajan V.S., T.C. Ghosh 1999. Compositional correlation studies among the three different codon positions in 12 bacterial genomes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 266: 66-71.

99. Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 1997. Similarities inferred from the studies of long range correlations among mitochondrial DNA sequences. Indian J Biochem Biophys 34: 259-265.

100. Gupta, S.K., T.C. Ghosh 1996. Genolyte: a PC-based computer program for visualisation of genomic DNA sequences. Indian J Biochem Biophys 33: 152-155.

101. Pal, M.K., T.C. Ghosh 1991.Binding of dyes by Teichoic Acid in competition with other polyanions. Makromol Chem.192: 467-471.

102. Pal, M.K., Ghosh T.C., J.K. Ghosh 1990. Studies on conformation and metal ion binding by Teichoic Acid of Staphylococcus Aureus. Biopolymers 30: 273-277.

103. Pal, M.K., T.C. Ghosh 1990. Induction of Metachromasia and Circular Dichroism in the dye 1,9 dimethyl methylene blue by S. Aureus wall teichoic acid. Indian J Biochem Biophys 27: 176-178.

104. Pal, M.K., T.C. Ghosh 1988. Teichoic Acid: Induction of Metachromasia and Circular Dichroism in pinacyanol dye. Makromol Chem. Rapid Commun. 9: 97-100.

Book chapter

Chakraborty, S., Podder, S., Kahali, B., Begum, T., Sen, K., Ghosh, T C. 2011. Insights into Eukaryotic Interacting Protein evolution in Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, Macroevolution and Genome Evolution edited by Pierre Pontarotti, Springer.

Talks / Seminars delivered (invited):

March 5-17, 2018 Third Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.

December 2017, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SBME) Satellite Meeting at Kaziranga, Assam, India

November 17-18, 2017, Nagaland Central University on “Functional Genomics”

March 29,2017 IISER, Kolkata, India

March 27, 2017 NICED, Kolkata, India

January 2017 at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh

March 2016 at Raiganj University, West Bengal on "Man and Microbes"

March 2016 Silver Jubilee Symposium at School of Computational and Integrative Sciences JNU, New Delhi

March 2016 Nagaland Central University, Nagaland on National Training ' Molecular Profiling and Genome

November 2015 at Birla Institute of Technology, Meshra, Ranchi in a WORKSHOP ON “EMERGING TECHNIQUES IN BIOINFORMATICS AND ITS’ APPLICATION”

November 2015 at Guwahati Biotech Park, Guwahati on “ASSAM BIOTECHNOLOGY CONCLAVE 2015”

November 2015 at Tripura Central University, Tripura on 8th NEBInet Annual Coordinators Meeting.

March 2015 at North Bengal University on “National Seminar and Workshop on Bioinformatics’

January 2015 at University of Mumbai on 102^nd Indian Science Congress

November 2014 at School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.

September 2014 in EMBO workshop on “The genome: structure, expression and evolution” at Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy.

December 2013 on Use o Recombinant DNA in Modern Biotechnological Research at National Onstitute of Technology, Durgapur, India.

May 2012 EMBO workshop on "Evolution in the time of Genomics" at Venice, Italy.

November 2011 in International Interdisciplinary Science Conference 2011 at New Delhi, India

February 2010 in a workshop on Bioinformatics organized by Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati

September 2010 in 14th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles, France

February 2009 in workshop on ‘Bioinformatics-Concept and Application’ organized by Bioinformatics Centre, Central Agricultural University, Aizawl.

February 2009 in workshop on "Current trends in Evolutionary Biology" organized by Bioinformatics Centre, Kalyani University, Kalyani.

March 2009 in workshop on "Bioinformatics- application in biological sciences" organized by Bioinformatics Centre, Dibrugarh University

November 2008 in a symposium on "Functional genomics and Evolutionary Biology" organized by Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar.

November 2008 in International Symposium on “Microbial Biotechnology: Diversity, Genomics and Metagenomics” organized by Association of Microbiologist of India at University of Delhi,

November 2008 in 1^st BTISnet interactive meet for Bioinformatics Centres of North Eastern States, organized by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India at Sikkim state council of science and technology, Gangtok.

April 2007 in Centre of Information Biology (CIB), National Institute of Genetics (NIG) Japan.

January 2006 in XXIX All India Cell Biology Conf and Symp. on Gene to Genome organized by Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow.

February 2004 workshop on “Medi-informatics” organized by Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad.

March 2004 workshop on “Bioinformatics Tools Genomics and Proteomics” organized by Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar.

October 2003 in a course on “Bioinformatics” organized by UNESCO, European Office Naples, Italy.

March 2001 symposium on “Computational methods in nucleic acid and protein sequence analysis” held at JNU, New Delhi.

October 2001 in “5^th Anton Dohrn Workshop on natural selection and the neutral theory” held at Ischia, Italy.

Awards, recognitions, if any:

Awarded Biotechnology Overseas Associateship in 2000-01 and 2005-06 by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

Invited as a guest lecturer in 2013 in a course on “Bioinformatics” organized by UNESCO, European office in Italy

Elected Fellow West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (2013)

Member of Editorial board:

Indian Journal of Microbiology (From 2009 - 2011)

BMC Genomics (From 2010 - )

Evolutionary Bioinformatics (From 2013 - )