Dr. Santunu Pailan

Dr. Santunu Pailan

Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, The University of Burdwan

Address: Sarat Palli, East Ukil Para, PO & PS- Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, Kolkata-700144, West Bengal

Office address: Department of Biotechnology, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Bardhaman – 713104, West Bengal

Contact details: Mob: 9830213847, 9875563241

Email: spailan@biotech.buruniv.ac.in; santanu.pailan@gmail.com

Academic qualification:

Year of Passing University: M. Sc (Microbiology) 2009 Department of Microbiology, The University of Burdwan

Ph.D. (Microbiology) 2017 Department of Microbiology, The University of Burdwan

Other academic qualification:

➢ Qualified NET Examination in Life Sciences (conducted by CSIR-UGC; December, 2009; Lectureship)

➢ Qualified GATE 2009 & 2010 (in Life Sciences)

➢ Awarded JRF by State fellow scheme in 2010 & SRF in 2012 from The University of Burdwan

❖ PH.D. THESIS TITLE: Microbial Degradation of Organophosphate Insecticide by the Selected Isolates.

Teaching and research experiences:

➢ Worked as Guest Faculty in the department of Microbiology of Surendranath College, University of Calcutta for more than one year.

➢ Six and half years (6.6 yr) of Doctoral research work and still associated with the department of microbiology, The Burdwan University for research work.

Research publications:

1. Santanu Pailan, Debdoot Gupta, Snehal Apte, Srinivasan Krishnamurthi, Pradipta Saha (2015). Degradation of organophosphate insecticide by a novel Bacillus aryabhattai strain SanPS1, isolated from soil of agricultural field in Burdwan, West Bengal, India. International Biodeterioration and Degradation 103: 191-195. IF-4.32

2. Santanu Pailan and Pradipta Saha (2015). Chemotaxis and degradation of organophosphate compound by a novel moderately thermo-halo tolerant Pseudomonas sp. strain BUR11: evidence for possible existence of two pathways for degradation. PeerJ 3:e1378; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1378. IF-2.984

3. Santanu Pailan, Kriti Sengupta, Urmimala Ganguly, Pradipta Saha (2016). Evidence of biodegradation of Chlorpyrifos by a newly isolated heavy metal tolerant bacterium Acinetobacter sp. strain MemCl4. Environmental Earth Sciences 75:1019. DOI 10.1007/s12665-016-5834-8, IF- 2.867

4. Debdoot Gupta, Samiddha Banerjee, Santanu Pailan & Pradipta Saha (2016). In silico Identification and characterization of a hypothetical protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis EAI5 as a potential virulent factor. Bioinformation 12(3): 182-191. IF-0.5

5. Kriti Sengupta, Masrure Alam, Santanu Pailan & Pradipta Saha (2019) Biodegradation of 4- 71 nitrophenol by a Rhodococcus species and a preliminary insight into its toxicoproteome based on mass spectrometry analysis Journal of Environmental Biology 40 (3): 356-362. IF-0.8

6. Santanu Pailan, K Sengupta & Pradipta Saha (2020) Key for Developing Smart Bioremediation

Process of Next Generation, Microbial Technology for Health and Environment (Springer

Nature) 22, 361.

Seminars, workshops and conferences attended:

1. Attended work shop on Fluorescence Microscopy conducted by USIC, Burdwan University, 2012.

2. Oral presentation at the 21st West Bengal State Science Congress-2014.

3. Paper and poster presentation at International Symposium on Genetic Analysis Translational and Developmental conference, University of Burdwan, 2014.

4. Paper presentation at International Conference (Mother Earth: Save I to Achieve a Sustainable

Future for All) University of Burdwan, 2014.

Database deposits etc.(genbank accession number for 16s rrna gene sequences): 16S rRNA gene sequences from 18 isolated pure Organophosphate insecticide degrading bacterial cultures:

KF887017, KF887018, KP216767, KJ920200, KJ920201, KR080498, KF887019, KR072212, KR072211, KR080499, KR080500, KR080501, KR080502, KR080504, KR080505, KR080503, KR080507 and KR080506.