Faculty, Para-academics and Staff

Dr. Nrisingha Dey
Designation	Professor and ICMR-Emeritus Scientist Dean, School of Agriculture and Rural Development in addition, Dean & Head, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Previously	Scientist-G, BRIC-Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
Education	Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Calcutta.
Research Interests	Development of chimeric promoters using Intra/Intermolecular shuffling of pararetrovival promoter sequences for translational research. Functional characterization of stress-specific transcription factors in pearl millet (Pennisetum Glaucum). CRISPR-Cas9/dCas9 mediated genome editing in crop plants for improving stress tolerance and nutritional index. Identification of novel microRNAs and their targets during ectopic expression of AtFt in Tobacco.
Awards & Recognition	Elected as Fellow from National Academy of Science, Allahabad, (FNASc.), in the year 2019. Elected as Fellow from West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (FAScT), in the year 2017. Received TATA Innovation award from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, in the year 2015.
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Dr. Subrata Banerjee
Designation	Professor, Head of Dept. of Biomedical Science & Technology, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Previously	Former Professor – H & HOD Biophysics & Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Education	Ph.D.(Sc.), University of Calcutta, 1991
Expertise	Cellular metabolism, Mitochondrial dynamics
Research Interests	Crosstalk between proliferation and differentiation in haemetopoiesis and carcinogenesis
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Dr. Abhijit Chakrabarti
Designation	Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Previously	Senior Professor, Crystallography & Molecular Biology Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Education	PhD in Biochemistry, 1990, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Research Interests	Membrane Biophysics, Protein Aggregation, Pharmacological Chaperones
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Dr. Kunal Sikder
Designation	Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Education	Ph.D. in Physiology from Calcutta University, Kolkata Post-doc: Center for Translational Medicine, Dept. of Medicine (Thomas Jefferson University, United States)
Research Interests	Cellular stress pathways and intra-cellular communications in cardiomyopathies Immuno-genetics of autoimmune disorders Visit Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology and Immuno-genetics of Autoimmune diseases
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Dr. Arnab Basu
Designation	DBT Ramalingaswami Fellow, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Education	Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of Calcutta and Department of Microbiology, Bose Institute, India. Post-doctoral fellow, Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India. Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO-63104, USA
Research Interests	Regulation of bacterial growth and pathogenesis Genetic analysis of antibiotic resistance Nanomedicine as modern therapeutics Visit Laboratory of Infection Biology
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Dr. Pushkar Malakar
Designation	Ramanujan Fellow, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Education	Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Microbiology, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Research Interests	Functions of lncRNAs in pathological conditions, Altered hepatic glucose metabolism in diabetes and cancer, Alternative splicing in glucose metabolism in diabetic complications Visit Laboratory of RNA Biology and Hepatic Glucose Metabolism
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Dr. Dipak Manna
Designation	Ramalingaswami Fellow, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Education	Ph. D. in Molecular and Cell Biology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Research Interests	Developmental studies of protozoan parasite Entamoeba Transcription regulation in stress response Development of rapid, low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic kit for Entamoeba Development of an alternative method for introducing plasmid DNA into Entamoeba Visit Laboratory of Parasitology and Infectious Disease
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Dr. Gautam Chatterjee
Designation	Assistant Professor, RKMVERI, Narendrapur campus	CV
Education	Ph.D, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, 2015
Expertise	Genetics and Molecular Biology
Research Interests	Chromosome Biology of Pathogenic Fungi; Microbial Networks in Organic Agriculture and Natural Farming; Plant Microbiome in Agriculture; Antibiotic Resistome and One Health
Courses taught	Genetics, Molecular biology, Molecular Tools And Techniques, Bioinformatics and Cell Biology.
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Dr. Bhubaneswar Pradhan
Designation	Director, Quality Testing Laboratory Assistant Professor, Agricultural Biotechnology, RKMVERI, Narendrapur Campus	CV
Education	MSc in Agriculture (Biotechnology), Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, India PhD in Biotechnology, Institute of Life Sciences, (Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India) Bhubaneswar, India
Research Interests	Molecular basis of host-pathogen interaction Plant virology Small RNA and RNAi Functional genomics Medicinal plant genomics and metabolomics
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Dr. Arkadeb Dutta
Designation	Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences and Department of Sports Science & Yoga, RKMVERI	CV
Education	PhD (Physiology), Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences, DRDO, Delhi 2009
Research Interests	Neurophysiology of Chronic Pain and its Management in Musculoskeletal Disorders. Mind-Body Interventions in Neuroplasticity – in Development and Rehabilitation. Cognition and Emotional Control in Sports.
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Dr. Subhadip Paul
Designation	Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences and Department of Sports Science & Yoga, RKMVERI	CV
Education	Ph.D (Computational Neuroscience), National Brain Research Centre (Department of Biotechnology Institute, Govt. of India), Gurgaon, India
Research Interests	Investigation of the organization principles of the structural and functional networks of the human brain in health and diseases using computational modeling of large-scale brain-imaging signals. Understanding the genetic signatures underlying neuroimaging-based structural and functional phenotypes of the human brain. Development of multi-modal brain-imaging data analysis methods/tools for diagnosis of brain diseases. Understanding the relationship between the structural/ functional brain network organization principles and human cognition/ behavior.
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Brahmachari Vedeshachaitanya (Somnath Maharaj)
Designation	Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI
Education	M.Sc. (Biophysics), 2018; Ph.D. (Medical Biotechnology), 2022.
Previously	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
Research Interests	Understanding the mechanism of drug resistance in cancer, specially in Multiple Myeloma, one of the most common forms of Blood cancer. Role of non-coding RNAs in the development of Cancer.
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Brahmachari Manashdeep
Designation	Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI
Education	Ph. D. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, India National Post Doctoral Fellowship, CSIR-CLRI, Chennai
Research Interests	Translational Science, Wound healing, Nano-Biotechnology, Microbiology, Environmental Biotechnology
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Visiting Faculty

Dr. Debasis Bandyopadhyay (Banerjee)
Designation	Visiting Professor, School of Biological Sciences, RKMVERI	CV
Previously	Ex-Professor and Head, Department of Pathology, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan
Education	MD (Pathology) – Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
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Guest Faculty

Name	Institution	Area of Teaching
Prof. Rinini Dastidar, PhD in Biochemistry	Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan	Clinical Biochemistry
Dr. Ajitesh Roy, MD DM Endocrinology	RKM Seva Pratishthan	Diabetes and other endocrine disorders
Dr. Poulami Mukherjee, MD Microbiology	RKM Seva Pratishthan, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences	Virus and viral diseases
Dr. Prabudhha Mukherjee, MBBS DNB	Dept. of Medicine, RKM Seva Pratishthan, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences	Nosocomial infections
Prof. (Dr.) Soumitra Kumar, MD DM	Dept. of Cardiology	Various aspects of Cardiovascular diseases

Staff

Rajesh Naskar