AG Laboratory

Currently we have 6 Ph.D. students and one Post-Doc working in our biochemistry and environmental microbiology sections.

Arghya is characterizing the toxin-antitoxin system and its role in survival of Sulfolobus under stress condition with special focus on type-II TA system. 

Koustav is looking into the structural and functional aspects of heat shock protein machinery (sHsps and group-II chaperonin) of Sulfolobus and studying their interactions and unfolded substrate shuttling process.

Sangita is exploring different aspects of beneficial plant-microbe interactions through omics techniques to understand the molecular crosstalk in the rhizosphere for better plant productivity.  

Jagriti is looking into the gene level regulation mechanism of type-II toxin-antitoxin system of Sulfolobus and trying to identify potential proteases involved in the process.

Agnita is conducting multiple level study of dynamic osmoadaptive mechanisms of halophilic archaea that are found in Sundarban mangrove. 

Shirsha studies the structural and functional aspects of Prefoldin from Sulfolobus and its role in unfolded substrate protection and transfer to thermosome

Dhruba is currently investigating the sponge microbiome of the Sundarbans and uncovering its role in breaking down polyaromatic hydrocarbons.