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News and updates

Openings: 

  1. PhD: Positions are presently available for students willing to pursue PhD in area of microbial genomics/ microbial stress response. Candidates who have secured fellowships through NET or any other equivalent examination can send their CV along with a cover letter to aghosh78@gmail.com

  2. RA/Postdoc: Candidates willing to carry out postdoctoral research in the area of the microbial stress response with experience on haloarchaea may go through our research profile and can contact directly by email to Dr. Abhrajyoti Ghosh at aghosh78@gmail.com. We encourage candidates to apply for DBT RA, ICMR RA, SERB-NPDF etc.

  3. We are presently looking for postdoctoral candidates having experience in genomic/ metagenomic and transcriptomic analysis. Interested candidates may contact directly to Dr. Abhrajyoti Ghosh at aghosh78@gmail.com.

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Updates:

  1. ​02/12/2024: We welcome our new lab member Dr. Sritama Baag who will be working in the Microbiology section of our lab as a DBT-RA. 

  2. 02/12/2024: It is with a bittersweet sentiment that we bid farewell to our esteemed alumni Dr. Arghya Bhowmick as he embarks on a new journey as a HHMI Research Associate at The Mullins Lab, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

  3. 13/11/2024: The biochemistry group has published a paper entitled “Role of VapBC4 toxin-antitoxin system of

  4. in heat stress adaptation” in the journal mBio.

  5. 01/11/2024: It is with a bittersweet sentiment that we bid farewell to our esteemed alumni Dr. Koustav Bhakta as he embarks on a new journey as a post-doctoral fellow at The George William Hooper Foundation, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

  6. 18/07/2024: We welcome our new lab member Ms. Saheli Majumder who will be working in the Biochemistry section of our lab as a UGC-JRF. 

  7. 16/07/2024: We welcome our new lab member Ms. Sriparna Mondal who will be working in the Microbiology section of our lab as a UGC-JRF. 

  8. 14/06/2024: The biochemistry group has published a paper entitled “Functional diversity in archaeal Hsp60: a molecular mosaic of Group I and Group II chaperonin” in The FEBS Journal.

  9. 29/05/2024: The microbiology group has published a paper entitled “Exploring the dynamics of ISR signaling in maize upon seed priming with plant growth promoting actinobacteria isolated from tea rhizosphere of Darjeeling” in the journal Archives of Microbiology.

  10. 30/01/2023: We welcome our new lab member Ms. Shirsha Samanta who will be working in the Biochemistry section of our lab as a UGC-JRF.

  11. 01/02/2023 – 30/04/2023: Mr. Arghya Bhowmick visited the laboratory of Prof. Sonja Verena Albers at the University of Freiburg, Germany as a short-term EMBO fellow for collaborative experimental research work.

  12. 16/04/2023: It is with a bittersweet sentiment that we bid farewell to our esteemed alumni Dr. Chandrima Bhattacharyya as she embarks on a new journey as a post-doctoral fellow at the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, Qiryat Shemona, Northern Israel. 

  13. 21/07/2023: We congratulate our alumni Dr. Mousam Roy as he joined Unilever UK as an enzymologist.

  14. 21/07/2023-28/07/2023: Mr. Arghya Bhowmick received the prestigious Carl Storm Inernational Diversity Grant for presenting a poster on “The role of chromosomal type II Toxin- Antitoxin system in the cross-stress adaptation of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius” in the GRS and GRC on Archaea, organized at Mount Snow, West Dover, Vermont, USA.

  15. 27/07/2023: The biochemistry group has published a paper entitled “Heat shock response in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and first implications for cross-stress adaptation” in the journal: Research in Microbiology.

  16. 28/11/2023: Mr. Arghya Bhowmick presented a poster and gave a lecture on the topic “Unlocking the secrets of archaeal stress adaptation: insights from Type II Toxin-Antitoxin systems in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius” at the student symposium held on the occasion of 107 th  foundation day of Bose Institute.

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Shirsha Samanta presented her research in the symposium “The Interface of Biology and Chemistry in Life Processes” organized by the Society of Biological Chemists (India), Kolkata Chapter between April 6-8, 2024 at Shankarpur, West Bengal, India.

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Koustav Bhakta presented his research findings in the 46th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting

held at TIFR Hyderabad, India & University Of Hyderabad between March 15-17, 2024.

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Sangita Mondal presented her research in the symposium “The Interface of Biology and Chemistry in Life Processes” organized by the Society of Biological Chemists (India), Kolkata Chapter between April 6-8, 2024 at Shankarpur, West Bengal, India.

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Spent an excellent time meeting teachers, friends, and colleagues at the 2nd International Conference on "Physiology to Pathology: Finding the Therapeutic Roadmap" held at Amity University, Kolkata, between 7-9 March 2024.

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Prof. Shilpi Sharma from IIT Delhi delivered a fascinating lecture on rhizoengineering in the DBS seminar series of Bose Institute, Kolkata.

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Had a wonderful time discussing science and beyond at the International Conference on ‘Biodiversity and Geochemistry of Deep and Extreme Earth Systems’ held at IIT Kharagpur between February 1-3, 2024.

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