Sukhendu Mandal, Assistant Professor

Contact information :

Molecular Bacteriology Lab, Room No. MB-756, Dept of Microbiology, University of Calcutta, 35-Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata -700019 ; e-mail: smmicrobioATcaluniv.ac.in sukhendu1AThotmail.com

Academic qualifications:

Positions held/ holding:

Assistant Professor; Dept. of Microbiology, Tripura University; June’12 to Dec’12.

Assistant Professor; Dept. of Microbiology, University of Calcutta; Dec’12 to present

Research Interest

  • Role of alternate sigma factors in Mycobacterial gene expression. Studies on the alternate RNAP holoenzymes and transcription factors involved during stress.

    • Mycobacterial genomics

  • Identification and characterization of novel inhibitors of M. tuberculosis and S. aureus RNA Polymerase.

    • Isolation and characterization of novel bacterial species based on their hydrocarbon or rubber degradation properties.

  • Identification of novel Actinomycetes for their unique antimicrobial components.

    • Bacterial Taxonomy and molecular systematics.

  • Analysis of arctic microbial flora.

Research guidance:

Number of researchers pursuing M.Phil/ Ph.D : 05

Important Publications

  1. Lin W et al (2018) Structural Basis of Transcription Inhibition by Fidaxomicin (Lipiarmycin A3) Molecular Cell; DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.02.026.

2. A. M. Gupta, S. Mukherjee, A. Dutta, J. Mukhopadhyay, D. Bhattacharyya and S. Mandal* (2017) Identification of suitable promoter for sigma factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Molecular BioSystems, DOI: 10.1039/C7MB00317J. (IF: 2.78)

3. 3. Lin W, Mandal S, Degen D, Liu Y, Ebright YW, Li S, Feng Y, Zhang Y, Mandal S, Jiang Y, Liu S, Gigliotti M, Talaue M, Connell N, Das K, Arnold E, Ebright RH. (2017). Structural Basis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transcription and Transcription Inhibition. Molecular Cell. 66(2):169-179.e8. (IF: 14.71)

4. 4. Gupta AM and Mandal S*. (2016). Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37 Rv1222: structural insight in transcription inhibition. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics. DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1189357. (IF: 2.98)

5. Guha S, Sarkar M, Ganguly P, Uddin MR, Mandal S, and DasGupta M. (2016) Segregation of nod-containing and nod-deficient bradyrhizobia as endosymbionts of Arachis hypogaea and as endophytes of Oryza sativa in intercropped fields of Bengal Basin, India Environmental Microbiology; DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13348. (IF: 6.20)

6. Mandal M, Paul S, Uddin MR, Mondal MA, Mandal S, Mandal V. (2016) In vitro antibacterial potential of Hydrocotyle javanica Thunb. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease. 6(1): 54-62.

7. Gupta AM, Pal P, and Mandal S* (2015) Structural analysis of sigma E interactions with core RNA polymerase and its cognate P-hsp20 promoter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 34(4):792-9; DOI:10.1080/07391102.2015.1054432. (IF: 2.98)

8. Gupta AM, Bhattacharya S, Bagchi A and Mandal S* (2015) Implication from the predicted docked interaction of sigma H and exploration of its interaction with RNA polymerase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bioinformation. 11(6): 296-301. DOI: 10.6026/97320630011296 (IF: 0.62)

9. Biswas J, Mandal S and Paul AK. (2015) Production, purification and some bio-physicochemical properties of EPS produced by Halomonas xianhensis SUR308 isolated from a saltern environment. Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature. DOI: 10.1080/22311866.2015.1038852.

10. Das R, Pal A, Mandal S and Paul AK.(2015) Screening and Production of Biodegradable Polyester Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) by Bacteria Endophytic to Brassica nigra L. British Biotechnology Journal.7, 134-146, Article no.BBJ.2015.054.

11. Degen D, Feng Y, Zhang Y, Ebright KY, Ebright YW, Gigliotti M, Vahedian-Movahed H, Mandal S, Talaue M, Connell N, Arnold E, Fenical W, Ebright RH. (2014). Transcription inhibition by the depsipeptide antibiotic salinamide A. Elife. e02451. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02451. (IF: 8.52)

12. Mandal S*and Das Gupta S. K. (2012) Interactions of SoxR with its promoters involve different binding geometries. Archives of Microbiology 194, 737-747. (IF: 1.86)

13. Mandal S*and Ghosh W (2012). The mechanism of regulation of chemolithotrophic sulfur oxidation in Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Research & Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology & Virology. 2, 24-29. (IF: NA)

14. Mandal S* (2012) The sulfur oxidation operon repressor-function is influenced by the product of its adjacent upstream ORF in Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Current Microbiology. 64, 259-264. (IF: 1.4)

15. Mandal S, Chaterjee S, Dam B, Roy P, and Das Gupta S. K. (2007) The dimeric repressor SoxR binds cooperatively to the promoter(s) regulating expression of the sulfur oxidation (sox) operon of Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Microbiology, 153, 80-91. (IF: 3.23)

16. Dam B, Mandal S, Ghosh W, Das Gupta S. K, and Roy P. (2007). Mutation in a molybdopterin cofactor biosynthetic locus impairs chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulfate as well as tetrathionate in the betaproteobacterium Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis: Evidence for sulfite inhibition of the tetrathionate intermediate (S4I) pathway of sulfur oxidation. Research in Microbiology, 158, 330-338. (IF: 2.99)

17. Lahiri, C., Mandal S*.,Ghosh, W., Dam, B. and Roy, P. (2006) Sulfur oxidation gene cluster, soxSRT-soxVWXYZABCD, essential for chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulfate and tetrathionate by Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Current Microbiology, 52, 267-273. (IF: 1.4)

18. Ghosh W, Mandal S, and Roy P. (2005) Paracoccus bengalensis sp. Nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph from the rhizospheric soil of an Indian tropical leguminous plant. Systematic and applied Microbiology. 29, 396-403. (IF: 3.5)

19. Ghosh W, Bagchi A, Mandal S, Dam B and Roy P. (2005)Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol.55, 1779-1787. (IF: 2.8)

12. Details list of publications:

a) Journals:

  1. Lin W et al (2018) Structural Basis of Transcription Inhibition by Fidaxomicin (Lipiarmycin A3) Molecular Cell; DOI 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.02.026.

2. Sarkar HS, Ghosh A, Das S, Maiti PK, Maitra S, Mandal S, Sahoo P. (2018) Visualisation of DCP, a nerve agent mimic, in Catfish brain by a simple chemosensor. Sci Rep. 21;8(1):3402. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21780-5.

3. Das S, Himadri Sarkar HS, Uddin MR, Mandal S, and Sahoo P, (2018) A chemosensor to recognize N-acyl homoserine lactone in bacterial biofilm. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 259; 332-338

4. A. M. Gupta, S. Mukherjee, A. Dutta, J. Mukhopadhyay, D. Bhattacharyya* and S. Mandal* (2017) Identification of suitable promoter for sigma factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Molecular BioSystems, DOI: 10.1039/C7MB00317J.

5. Sarkar HS, Das S, Mandal D, Uddin MR, Mandal S, and Sahoo P (2017) “Turn-on” fluorescence sensing of cytosine: development of a chemosensor for quantification of cytosine in human cancer cells. RSC Advances 7(85):54008-54012

6. Mondal S, Ali SS, Manna S, Mandal S, Mahapatra AK (2017). Benzopyrylium-phenothiazine-conjugate of flavylium derivative as fluorescent chemosensor for cyanide in aqueous media and its bioimaging. New Journal of Chemistry.

7. Ali SS, Gangopadhyay A, Maiti K, Mondal S, Pramanik AK, Guria UN, Uddin MR, Mandal S, Mandal D, Mahapatra AK. (2017) A chromogenic and ratiometric fluorogenic probe for rapid detection of a nerve agent simulant DCP based on a hybrid hydroxynaphthalene-hemicyanine dye. Org Biomol Chem. 15(28):5959-5967. (IF: 3.52)

8. Das S, Sarkar HS, Uddin MR, Rissanen K, Mandal S*, Sahoo P*. (2017) Differential detection and quantification of cyclic AMP and other adenosine phosphates in live cells. Chem Comm. 53(54):7600-7603. (IF: 6.32)

9. Lin W, Mandal S, Degen D, Liu Y, Ebright YW, Li S, Feng Y, Zhang Y, Mandal S, Jiang Y, Liu S, Gigliotti M, Talaue M, Connell N, Das K, Arnold E, Ebright RH. (2017). Structural Basis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transcription and Transcription Inhibition. Molecular Cell. 66(2):169-179.e8. (IF: 14.71)

10. Naskar B, Modak R, Maiti DK, Bauza A, Frontera A, Maiti PK, Mandal S and Goswami S. (2017). A highly selective “ON–OFF” probe for colorimetric and fluorometric sensing of Cu 2+ in water. RSC Advances 7(19):11312-11321.(IF: 3.84)

11. Mondal S, Manna SK, Maiti K, Maji R, Ali SS, Manna S, Mandal S, Uddin MR, Mahapatra AK*. (2017) Phenanthroline-fluorescein molecular hybrid as a ratiometric and selective fluorescent chemosensor for Cu2+ via FRET strategy: synthesis, computational studies and in vitro applications. Supramolecular Chemistry. DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2017.1301452.(IF: 2.39)

12. Sahoo P, Das S, Sarkar HS, Maiti K, Uddin MR, and Mandal S. (2017) Selective fluorescence sensing and quantification of Uric acid by Naphthyridine-based receptor in biological sample. Bioorganic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2017.03.002.(IF: 3.23)

13. Sarkar HS, Das S, Uddin MR, Mandal S and Sahoo P. (2016). Selective recognition and quantification of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate in human blood sample by a rhodamine derivative. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.201600516. (IF: 3.20)

14. Gupta AM and Mandal S*. (2016). Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37 Rv1222: structural insight in transcription inhibition. Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics. DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2016.1189357. (IF: 2.98)

15. K. Maiti, A. K. Mahapatra, R. Maji, S. Mondal, S. S. Ali, A. Gangopadhyay, S. K. Manna, and Mandal S. (2016) A Fluorophore-Free Chemodosimeter for H2S with Luminescence Turn–on Response: Hyrdogen Sulphide Sensing in Garlic Extract. Chemistry Select, 1, 5066.

16. Sahoo P, Sarkar HS, Das S, Maiti K, Uddin MR and Mandal S. (2016). Pyrene appended thymine derivative for selective turn-on fluorescence sensing of uric acid in live cells. RSC Advances. 6(71): 66774. (IF: 3.84)

17. Ghosh S, Ganguly A, Uddin MR, Mandal S, Akhtarul AM and Guchhait N. (2016). Dual mode selective chemosensor for copper and fluoride ions: A fluorimetric, colorimetric and theoretical investigation. Dalton Transactions. DOI: 10.1039/C6DT00968A. (IF: 4.1)

18. Guha S, Sarkar M, Ganguly P, Uddin MR, Mandal S, and DasGupta M. (2016) Segregation of nod-containing and nod-deficient bradyrhizobia as endosymbionts of Arachis hypogaea and as endophytes of Oryza sativa in intercropped fields of Bengal Basin, India Environmental Microbiology; DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13348. (IF: 6.20)

19. Mahapatra AK, Ali SS, Maiti K, Mondal S, Maji R, Manna S, Manna SK, Uddin MR, and Mandal S.(2016). Highly Sensitive Ratiometric Fluorescence Probes for Nitric Oxide Based on Dihydropyridine and Potentially Useful in Bioimaging. RSC Advances 6(114); DOI:10.1039/C6RA23139J . (IF: 3.84)

20. Mahapatra AK, Manna S, Karmakar P, Maiti K, Maji R, Mandal D, Uddin MR, and Mandal S. (2016). Installation of efficient quenching groups of a fluorescent probe for the specific detection of cysteine and homocysteine over glutathione in solution and imaging of living cells. Supramolecular Chemistry. DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2016.1170127. (IF: 2.39)

21. Mahapatra AK, Mondal S, Manna SK, Maiti K, Maji R, Ali SS, Mandal S, Md. Uddin MR, and Maiti DK. (2016). Highly selective ratiometric fluorescent probes for detection of perborate based on excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) in environmental samples and living cells. Chemistry Select. DOI: 10.1002/slct.201500032. (IF: 3.2)

22. Mandal M, Paul S, Uddin MR, Mondal MA, Mandal S, Mandal V. (2016) In vitro antibacterial potential of Hydrocotyle javanica Thunb. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease. 6(1): 54-62.

23. Mahapatra AK, Mondal S, Manna SK, Maiti K, Maji R, Ali SS, Mandal D, Uddin MR and Mandal S. (2016) Reaction-based sensing of fluoride ions using desilylation method for triggering excited-state intramolecular proton transfer, Supramolecular Chemistry, DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2015.1122195. (IF: 2.39)

24. Maji R, Mahapatra AK, Maiti K, Mondal S, Ali SS, Sahoo P, Mandal S, Uddin MR, Goswami S, and Fun. HK (2016). A highly sensitive fluorescent probe for detection of hydrazine in gas and solution phase based on the Gabriel mechanism and its bio-imaging. RSC Advances. DOI: 10.1039/C6RA14212E. (IF: 3.84)

25. Mahapatra AK, Ali SS, Maiti K, Manna SK, Maji R, Mondal S, Uddin MR, Mandal S and Sahoo P.(2015) Aminomethylpyrene-based Imino-Phenol as Primary Fluorescence Switch-on Sensors for Al3+ in Solution and in Vero Cells and their Complexes as Secondary Recognition Ensemble toward Pyrophosphate. RSC Adv., DOI:10.1039/C5RA16641A (IF: 3.84)

26. Mahapatra AK, Maji R, Maiti K, Manna SK, Mondal S, Ali SS, Manna S, Sahoo P, Mandal S, Uddin MR and Mandal D (2015) A BODIPY/pyrene-based chemodosimetric fluorescent chemosensor for selective sensing of hydrazine in the gas and aqueous solution state and its imaging in living cells. RSC Adv., DOI:10.1039/C5RA10198K (IF: 3.71)

27. Gupta AM, Pal P, and Mandal S* (2015) Structural analysis of sigma E interactions with core RNA polymerase and its cognate P-hsp20 promoter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 34(4):792-9; DOI:10.1080/07391102.2015.1054432. (IF: 2.98)

28. Gupta AM, Bhattacharya S, Bagchi A and Mandal S* (2015) Implication from the predicted docked interaction of sigma H and exploration of its interaction with RNA polymerase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bioinformation. 11(6): 296-301. DOI: 10.6026/97320630011296 (IF: 0.62)

29. Biswas J, Mandal S and Paul AK. (2015) Production, purification and some bio-physicochemical properties of EPS produced by Halomonas xianhensis SUR308 isolated from a saltern environment. Journal of Biologically Active Products from Nature. DOI: 10.1080/22311866.2015.1038852.

30. Das R, Pal A, Mandal S and Paul AK. (2015) Screening and Production of Biodegradable Polyester Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) by Bacteria Endophytic to Brassica nigra L. British Biotechnology Journal.7, 134-146, Article no.BBJ.2015.054.

31. Mahapatra AK, Mondal S, Manna SK, Maiti K, Maji R, Uddin R Md, Mandal S, Deblina Sarkar, Tapan K. Mondal and Dilip K. Maiti. (2015) A New Selective Chromogenic and Turn-On Fluorogenic Probe for Copper (II) in Solution and Vero Cells: Recognition of Sulphide by [CuL]. Dalton Trans., 44(14):6490-501. (IF: 4.1)

32. Mahapatra AK, Mondal S, Maiti K, Manna SK, Maji R, Mandal D, Mandal S, Goswami S, Quah SK and Fun HK. (2014) A pyrenethiazole conjugate as a ratiometric chemosensor with high selectivity and sensitivity for tin (Sn4+) and its application in imaging live cells. RSC Adv., 4, 56605-56614. (IF: 3.71)

33. Mahapatra AK, Manna SK, Maiti K, Mondal S, Maji R, Mandal D, Mandal S, Uddin MR, Goswami S, Quah CK, and Fun HK. (2014) An azodye-rhodamine-based fluorescent and colorimetric probe specific for the detection of Pd(2+) in aqueous ethanolic solution: synthesis, XRD characterization, computational studies and imaging in live cells. Analyst. 140, 1229-1236. (IF: 3.91)

34. Degen D, Feng Y, Zhang Y, Ebright KY, Ebright YW, Gigliotti M, Vahedian-Movahed H, Mandal S, Talaue M, Connell N, Arnold E, Fenical W, Ebright RH. (2014). Transcription inhibition by the depsipeptide antibiotic salinamide A. Elife. e02451. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02451. (IF: 8.52)

35. Mandal S*and Das Gupta S. K. (2012) Interactions of SoxR with its promoters involve different binding geometries. Archives of Microbiology 194, 737-747. (IF: 1.86)

36. Mandal S*and Ghosh W (2012). The mechanism of regulation of chemolithotrophic sulfur oxidation in Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Research & Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology & Virology. 2, 24-29. (IF: NA)

37. Mandal S* (2012) The sulfur oxidation operon repressor-function is influenced by the product of its adjacent upstream ORF in Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Current Microbiology. 64, 259-264. (IF: 1.4)

38. Mandal S, Chaterjee S, Dam B, Roy P, and Das Gupta S. K. (2007) The dimeric repressor SoxR binds cooperatively to the promoter(s) regulating expression of the sulfur oxidation (sox) operon of Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Microbiology, 153, 80-91. (IF: 3.23)

39. Dam B, Mandal S, Ghosh W, Das Gupta S. K, and Roy P. (2007). Mutation in a molybdopterin cofactor biosynthetic locus impairs chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulfate as well as tetrathionate in the betaproteobacterium Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis: Evidence for sulfite inhibition of the tetrathionate intermediate (S4I) pathway of sulfur oxidation. Research in Microbiology, 158, 330-338. (IF: 2.99)

40. Lahiri, C., Mandal S*.,Ghosh, W., Dam, B. and Roy, P. (2006) Sulfur oxidation gene cluster, soxSRT-soxVWXYZABCD, essential for chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulfate and tetrathionate by Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Current Microbiology, 52, 267-273. (IF: 1.4)

41. Ghosh W, Mandal S, and Roy P. (2005) Paracoccus bengalensis sp. Nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph from the rhizospheric soil of an Indian tropical leguminous plant. Systematic and applied Microbiology. 29, 396-403. (IF: 3.5)

42. Ghosh W, Bagchi A, Mandal S, Dam B and Roy P. (2005) Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 55, 1779-1787. (IF: 2.8)

PROJECTS

Conference/ seminar volumes:

· Participated and deliver invited talk in seminar “Current Trends in Plant and Microbial Research: CTIPMR-2016” organized by Dept of Botany, Raiganj University on March 16rth and 17th, 2016. Abstract title: RNA polymerase: an ideal target for drug discovery from natural products..

· Participated (lab) in 57th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI 2016) and International Symposium on Microbes and Biosphere What’s New What’s Next on November 24-2, 2016 at Gauhati University, Assam, India Abstract title: Identification of suitable promoter for sigma factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

· Participated (lab) in 57th Annual Conference of Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI 2016) and International Symposium on Microbes and Biosphere What’s New What’s Next on November 24-2, 2016 at Gauhati University, Assam, India Abstract title: Exploration of diverse actinomycetes from Kashmir soil for its antagonistic effect.

· Participated (lab) in seminar “Frontiers of Modern Biology 2015” organized by Dept of Biological Science, IISER Kolkata on December 5th and 6th, 2015. Abstract title: Structural analysis of sigma E interaction with core RNA Polymerase and its cognate p-hsp20 promoter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

· Participated in IPLS Conference-2014 an Interdisciplinary programme in Life Sciences (DBT-CU-IPLS) organized by Dept of Biochemistry, Dept of Biotechnology and Dept of Microbiology, University of Calcutta on January 10 and 11, 2014.

· Participated (lab) in seminar “Advancing Biology Through Technology and Computation” organized by Dept of Microbiology, West Bengal State university and Kingston College of Science on August 22nd, 2014. Abstract title: Structural analysis of mycobacterium tuberculosis sigmaH and exploration of its interaction with RNA polymerase.

· Organized Seminer on “National Perspective of Microbiology Research in India” at Dept of Microbiology, CU on March 14 -15, 2013.

· Abstract and Poster presentation “Recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase: structural studies, identification and characterization of inhibitors.”Mandal S, Yi J, Srivastava A, Zhang Y and Ebright R. H. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute, and Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854, USA: in FASEB summer research conference on title “Mechanisms and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription” at Saxtons River, Vermont, USA from 19th June to 23th June, 2011.

· Abstract and Poster presentation “Class-I lariat peptides siamycin I and siamycin III: inhibition of bacterial RNA polymerase, and cloning, sequencing, and surrogate-host expression of biosynthetic gene clusters.”Mandal S, Niedfeld RR, Semenova E, Kravets A, Ebright YW, Mukhopadhyay J,Mandal S, Severinov K and Ebright R. H. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute, and Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854, USA: in FASEB summer research conference on title “Mechanisms and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription” at Saxtons River, Vermont, USA from 19th June to 23th June, 2011.

· Abstract and Poster presentation “Structural biology of bacterial RNA polymerase: RNA polymerase from pathogenic bacteria and closely related thermophilic bacteria.”Feng Y, Liu S, Zhang Y, Jiang Y, Mandal S, and Ebright R. H. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute, and Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854, USA: in FASEB summer research conference on title “Mechanisms and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription” at Saxtons River, Vermont, USA from 19th June to 23th June, 2011.

· Abstract and Poster presentation “Recombinant Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase: structural studies, identification and characterization of inhibitors.”Yi J, Mandal S, and Ebright R. H. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Waksman Institute, and Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway NJ 08854, USA: in FASEB summer research conference on title “Mechanisms and Regulation of Prokaryotic Transcription” at Saxtons River, Vermont, USA from 21st June to 26th June, 2009.

· Abstract “SoxR, regulates activity of Sulfur oxidation (Sox) operon promoters through a concentration dependent mechanism involving repression and activation; Mandal S, Chaterjee S, Dam B, Roy P, and Das Gupta S. K.” of the oral presentation in the symposium on “Recent Developments in Modern Biology”, May 19-21, 2006, held at Digha, India, organized by Society of Biological Chemists, Kolkata, India. Gave oral presentation.

· Abstract and Poster presentation “Mapping of a sulfur oxidation mutation leads to the identification of novel regulatory gene cluster soxSRT in the upstream of the structural gene cluster soxVWXYZABC in a sulfur chemolithotrophic bacterium Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001; Lahiri, C., Ghosh, W., Mandal, S. and Roy, P”. In FAOBMB Satellite Symposium on Regulation of Gene Expression, December 5-6, 2003, IICB, Kolkata, India.

Membership of Learned Societies:

Member of “Society of Biological Chemistry”, India.

Member of “British Science Association”, UK.

Invited lectures delivered :

1. Vidyasagar University, August 2016

2. Raiganj University, March 2016

3. VJR College, September 2015

4. Bose Institute, July 2015

Awards :

“HHMI Fellowship” for postdoctoral research in Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, NJ, USA: (2011-2012)

“NIH Fellowship” for postdoctoral research in Rutgers University, NJ, USA: (2007-2011)

“Prof B B Biswas outstanding scholar of the year” award for the research work done during PhD tenure. By Bose Institute, India.(2007)

Other notable activities:

Editor of “American Journal of Biochemistry” by Scientific and Academic Publishing; Editor of “American Journal of Microbiology” by Science Publications;

Editor of “Asiatic journal of Biotechnology Resources” by Pacific Publishers;

Editor of International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences (IJPAES);

Editor of World Research Journal of Biochemistry

Editor of Universal Journal of Biomedical Engineering

Reviewer of “African Journal of Microbiology Research” by Academic Journals; Reviewer of “Research & Reviews: A Journal of Life Sciences” by STM Journals.;

Reviewer of “Research & Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology & Virology” by STM Journals,

Reviewer of Scientific Reports;

Reviewer of Frontiers of Microbiology;

Reviewer of Gene;

Reviewer of Symbiosis.

Reviewer of Microbial Echology.