Curriculum Vitae

     YEAR                                                             DEGREE                                                            INSTITUTE                                             CPI/%

2019-present                                         Doctor of Philosophy                        Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur                    10.0

  2014-2019                                   Integrated Msc in Biotechnology          St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata                 9.2

  2012-2014                                                           ISC                                              M.P.Birla Foundation H.S.School                        96.25%

  2005-2012                                                          ICSE                                             M.P.Birla Foundation H.S.School                        96.4%

·     Awarded Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)                                                                               [lateral entry, May 2020]

·     Qualified GATE (Biotechnology), 2019, AIR 167

·     Qualified CSIR-NET, June 2018, Life Sciences, AIR 48

·     Qualified CSIR-NET, December 2017, Life Sciences, AIR 69

·   Awarded Fr. Henri Depelchin S.J. Memorial Gold Medal for obtaining highest marks in Integrated MSc in Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata (2014-2019)

·    Received Prof. Saroj Chandrasekhar Memorial Award 2023

• Senior Research Fellow (SRF)                                                                                                                                  (July, 2021 – Present)

       Supervisor: Dr. Arun Kumar Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

       Skills acquired: Insect cell culture | Baculovirus preparation | Mammalian cell culture assays

·           Junior Research Fellow (JRF)                                                                                                                                  (July, 2019 – July,2021)

Supervisor: Dr. Arun Kumar Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Skills acquired: Bacterial culture | Mammalian culture | Cloning | Site-directed mutagenesis | Protein purification | HDX | Co-Immunoprecipitation | Phage Display | SDS-PAGE | Western Blot | ELISA | Pymol | GraphPad

·         Purification and characterization of beta-arrestin                                                                                       (Jan, 2019 to April, 2019)

Supervisor: Dr. Arun Kumar Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

   Integrated MSc Dissertation project

§  Purified β-arrestin from E. coli culture by affinity chromatography and size exclusion chromatography

§  Characterized purified β-arrestin by: i. co-immunoprecipitation with (a) cell lysate and (b) purified proteins, ii. ELISA, iii. GloSensor Assay (performed with mammalian cell line)

Skills acquired: Bacterial culture | Mammalian culture | Protein purification | Co-Immunoprecipitation | SDS-PAGE | Western Blot | ELISA | GraphPad

·        Protein purification: Purification of RMF (Ribosome Modulating Factor) and HPF (Hibernation Promoting Factor) from       Escherichia coli                                                                                                                                                                                 (June, 2017)

Supervisor: Dr. Chandana Barat, Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata

§  Purified RMF and HPF from E. coli culture by Ni-NTA chromatography

§  Validated purity of proteins by SDS-PAGE and Dot blot

Skills acquired: Bacterial culture | Protein purification | SDS-PAGE | Dot Blot

·   Python for Everybody Specialization                                                                                                (offered by: University of Michigan)

Programming for Everybody | Python Data Structures | Using Python to Access Web Data | Using Databases with Python | Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python

·   Preliminary French course                                                                             (offered by: St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata)