Faculty Details

Research disciplines of present faculty members:

Research discipline

Name of the faculty

Biomedical materials and Tissue engineering

Dr Paulomi Ghosh

Bioinformatics and Microbial genomics

Dr Utpal Bakshi

Cancer Biology

Dr Paramita Saha; Dr Subhabrata Paul; Dr Somsubhra Nath

Cell biology of Ciliogenesis and cell cycle

Dr Shubhra Majumder

Clinical immunology

Dr Gaurab Sircar

Host pathogen interaction

Dr Piyali Mukherjee; Dr Debanjan Mukhopadhyay; Dr Junaid Jibran Jawed

Plant Biotechnology

Dr Jayanti Jodder

Plant-microbe interaction

Dr Avishek Banik

Microbial ecology and nanomedicine

Dr Abdulla Al Masum

Molecular endocrinology

Dr Paramita Saha

Plant physiology

Dr Subhabrata Paul

Molecular Epigenetics

Dr Mayukh Biswas

Molecular Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Epigenomics

Dr Arpita Konar

Molecular Parasitology

Dr Md. Sabir Ali

Molecular Virology

Dr Mousumi Khatun

Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging

Dr Manasmita Das

Neuroimmunology

Dr Piyali Mukherjee

Plant Physiology

Dr Subhabrata Paul

RNA Biology

Dr Chandrama Mukherjee

Synthetic organic chemistry

Dr Piyali Sarkar

Tumor Virology and Cancer Genomics

Dr Abhik Saha


Awards and achievements of Faculty members

  • Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship to Dr. Dipak Manna by DBT, Govt. of India
  • AMI-Young Scientist Award (2019) to Dr. Avishek Banik by the Association of Microbiologists of India
  • Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship to Dr. Chandrama Mukherjee by DBT, Govt. of India
  • Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship to Dr. Shubhra Majumder by by DBT, Govt. of India
  • Welcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Intermediate fellowship to Dr. Abhik Saha
  • Ramanujan Fellowship to Dr. Abhik Saha by DST, Govt. of India

Publications in last five years (*corresponding author)

1. Chandrashekharaiah P.S., Gupte Y., Sarkar P., Prasad S., Sanyal D., Dasgupta S., and Banik A.* Resources, Conservation & Recycling (2022) 180, 106211.

2. Majumder A., Mondal S.K., Mukhoty S., Bag S., Mondal A., Begum Y., Sharma K., and Banik A.* Food Chemistry: X (2022).

3. Bag S., Mondal A., Majumder A., Mondal S.K., and Banik A.* Phytochemistry Reviews (2022).

4. Bag S., Mondal A., and Banik A.* Microbiological Research (2022) 254, 126890.

5. Pradhan S., Hore S., Maji SK., Manna S., Maity A., Kundu P.K., Maity K., Roy S., Mitra S., Dam P., Mondal R., Ghorai S., Jawed J.J., Dutta S., Das S., Mandal S., Mandal S., Kati A., Sinha S., Maity AB., Dolai TK., Mandal AK (2022). Scientific Reports. 12(1):630.

6. Bag S., Mondal A., Majumder A., and Banik A.* Food Chemistry (2022) 371, 131098.

7. Nag A., Paul S., Banerjee R., Kundu R. (2021) Computers in Biology and Medicine 137:104818.

8. Perris A., Bhattacharya S., Jawed J.J., Hoda M. (2021) Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology 9:271-80.

9. Swamy MK., Nath S., Paul S., Jha NK., Purushotham B., Rohit KC., and Dey A. (2021) Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 1-14.

10. Dey S., Paul S., Nag A., Banerjee R., Gopal G., Mukherjee A., Kundu R. (2021) Science of The Total Environment 769:144671.

11. Pal A., Verma P., Paul S., Majumder I., Kundu R. (2021) 3 Biotech 11(2):1-11.

12. Maity S. and Saha A.* (2021) Frontiers in Microbiology 12:675419.

13. Gain C., Sarkar A., Bural S., Rakshit M., Banerjee J., Dey A., Biswas N., Kar G.K., Saha A.* (2021) Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry 37:116112.

14. Sarkar P., Malik S., Laha S., Das S., Bunk S., Ray J.G., Chatterjee R., Saha A.* (2021) Frontiers in Oncology 11:614448.

15. Mukherjee N., and Mukherjee C.* (2021) WIREs RNA 12(4):e1642

16. Sarkar A, Kumari N and Mukherjee P. * (2021) FEBS J https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.16256

17. Jodder J.* (2021) Plant Cell Reports 40:783–798.

18. Chandrashekharaiah P.S., Sanyal D., Dasgupta S., Banik A.* (2021) Chemosphere 269:128755.

19. Chandrashekharaiah P.S., Sanyal D., Dasgupta S., Banik A.* (2021) Physiologia Plantarum 173 (1):246-258.

20. Saha P.,* Kumar S., Datta K., Tyagi R.K.* (2021) The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 208:105823.

21. Marcolino M.K., Morgado P., Manna D., Yee H. and Singh U. (2021) International journal of parasitology 51(2-3):193-200.

22. Misra S. and Ganesan M.* (2021) Plant Gene 27:100300.

23. Kundu A. and Ganesan M.* (2020) Current Plant Biology 24:100160.

24. Das S., Majumder T., Sarkar A., Mukherjee P., Basu S. (2020) International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 165:1323

25. Gain C., Malik S., Bhattacharjee S., Ghosh A., Robertson E.S., Das B.B., Saha A.* (2020) PLoS Pathogens 16(2):e1008105.

26. Dutta S., Das N., Mukherjee P.* (2020) Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1990.

27. Jodder J.* (2020) Journal of Biosciences 45:91.

28. Halder P., Khatun S., and Majumder S.* (2020) Journal of Biosciences 45:117.

29. Zalenski A.A., Majumder S., De K., Venere M. (2020) Scientific Reports 10(1):13946.

30. Vikramdeo K.S.#, Saha P.#, Dutta S., Kumar N., Chowdhury A.R., Kumar S., Tyagi R.K., Ghosh I., Datta K. (2020) Cell Biology International 44(6):1312-1330 ( # equal contributions)

31. Das A.#, Jawed J.J.#, Das M.C., Parveen S., Ghosh C., Majumdar S., Saha B. and Bhattacharjee S. (2020) Cytokine 137:155319. (#equal contributions).

32. Khanra S., Juin S.K., Jawed J.J., Ghosh S., Dutta S., Nabi S.A., Dash J., Dasgupta D., Majumdar S. and Banerjee R. (2020) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 14(8):e0008575.

33. Masum A.A., Pal K., Ghosh D., Saha I., Roy S., Ghosh C.S., Islam M. and Karmakar P. (2020) Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 11(2):025020.

34. Kundu A., Bhattacharyya B., Dhara K., Paul S., Majumder I., Kundu R. (2020) New Journal of Chemistry 44:4898-4906.

35. Majumder I., Paul S., Nag A., Kundu R. (2020). Scientific reports 10(1):1-12.

36. Manna D., Ehrenkaufer G., Lozano A.D. and Singh U. (2020) Current Opinion in Microbiology 58:62-68.

37. Sharma M., Morgado P., Zhang H., Ehrenkaufer G.,Manna D., and Singh U. (2020) Infection and Immunity 88(10):e00349-20

38. Manna D., Lozano A.D., Ehrenkaufer G. and Singh U. (2020) Frontiers of Cellular and Infection Microbiology 10:363.

39. De K., Grubb T., Zalenski A., Pfaff K., Pal D.,Majumder S., Summers M.K., Venere M. (2019) Molecular Cancer Research, 17(7): 1519-1530.

40. Kundu A., Das S., Basu S., Kobayashi Y., Kobayashi Y., Hiroyuki K., Ganesan M*. (2019) Plant Biology, 21(1):35-44.

41. Banik A*., Dash G. K., Swain P., Kumar U., Mukhopadhyay S. K., and Dangar T. K.* (2019). Microbiological Research, 219: 56-65.

42. Banik A., Chattopadhyay A., Ganguly S., Mukhopadhyay S.K. (2019) Industrial Crops and Products 137: 549-556.

43. Siddiqui N., Masum A.A., Uddin M.R., Mandal S., Sengupta M., Islam M.M., and Mukhopadhyay S. (2019) Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 37(18): 4863-4874.

44. Mandal T., Pathak S., Dey A., Islam M. M., Seth S. K., Masum A. A., Mukhopadhyay S. (2019) ACS omega 4(4): 7200-7212.

45. Mondal S., Manna S.K., Pathak S., Masum A.A., and Mukhopadhyay S. (2019) New Journal of Chemistry 43(8):3513-3519.

46. Zhang S., Pei Y., Lang F., Sun K., Singh R.K., Lamplugh Z.L., Saha A., Robertson E.S. (2019) PLoS Pathogens 15(1):e1007514.

47. Saha A.*, and Robertson E.S.* (2019) Journal of Virology 93(13):e00238-19

48. Gautam G., Ali M.S., Bhattacharya A. and Gourinath S. (2019) PLoS Pathogens 15(2): e1007573.

49. Paul S., Patra D., & Kundu R. (2019) Scientific Reports 9(1):1-14.

50. Dey S., Kundu R., Gopal G., Mukherjee A., Nag A., and Paul S. (2019) Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 144: 207-221.

51. Sannigrahi A., Nandi I., Chall S., Jawed J.J., Halder A., Majumdar S., Karmakar S., and Chattopadhyay K. (2019) ACS Chemical Biology 14(7):1601-1610.

52. Jawed J.J., Dutta S., Majumdar S. (2019) Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy 117:109098.

53. Sur M., Dey P., Sarkar A., Bar S., Banerjee D., Bhat S. and Mukherjee P.* (2018) Cell Death Discovery 4:114.

54. Bhattacharjee S., Bose P., Patel K., Roy S.G., Gain C., Gowda H., Robertson E.S., and Saha A.* (2018) Cell Death & Diseases 9(6):605.

55. Ghosh S., Khan M. A., Ganguly A., Al Masum A., Alam M. A., & Guchhait N. (2018) Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 190:471-477.

56. Mandal T., Hossain A., Dhara A., Al Masum A., Konar S., Manna S. K., ... & Mukhopadhyay S. (2018) Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 17(8):1068-1074.

57. Khan S., Masum A. A., Giri P., Islam M. M., Harms K., & Chattopadhyay S. (2018) ChemistrySelect 3(25):7112-7122.

58. Banik A*., Pandya P., Patel B., Rathod C., and Dangar M.* (2018) Science of the Total Environment, 630:231-242.

59. Saha P., and Datta K. (2018) Oncotarget 9 (12):10784-10807.

60. Jodder J., Das R., Sarkar D., Bhattacharjee P., and Kundu P. (2018) RNA Biology, 15(1):130-143.

61. Patra D., Paul S., Sepay N., Kundu R., Ghosh T. (2018) Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 36(16): 4143-4155.

62. Goswami P., Paul S., Banerjee R., Kundu R., Mukherjee, A. (2018) Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis 828: 1-9.

63. Jodder J., Basak S., Das R., Kundu P. (2017) Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 100:97-105

64. Ganesan M., Lee H.Y., Kim J.I., Song P.S. (2017) Plant, Cell and Environment 40: 2469-2486.

65. Mukherjee C., Sweet K. M., Luzum J. A., Abdel-Rasoul M., Christman M.F. and Kitzmiller J.P. (2017) Personalized Medicine 14:5.

66. Chatterjee K., Majumder S., Wan Y., Shah V., Wu J., Huang H-Y., and Hopper A.K. (2017) Genes and Development 31: 2186-2198.

67. Kausar N., Al Masum A., Islam M. M., & Das A. R. (2017) Molecular diversity 21(2):325.

68. Bhattacharyya A., Makhal S. C., Ghosh S., Masum A. A., & Guchhait N. (2017) Chemistry Select 2(31): 9924-9929.

69. Ghosh S., Al Masum A., Ganguly A., Islam M. M., Alam M. A., & Guchhait N. (2017) Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 178:24-31.

70. Khan S., Al Masum A., Islam M. M., Drew M. G., Bauzá A., Frontera A., & Chattopadhyay, S. (2017) Polyhedron 123:334-343.

71. Saha P., Kaul R., Datta K. (2017) Nucleus (India) 60(2):221-226.

72. Patra D., Paul S., Majumder I., Sepay N., Bera S., Kundu R., ... & Ghosh, T. (2017) Dalton Transactions 46(46):16276-16293.

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