Team SGLAB
Dr. Sayak Ganguli
Assistant Professor
Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology
St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata – 700016
Scholars
Dr. Meesha Singh
Awarded PhD in 2023
“ Characterization of antibiotic resistance in wastewater networks”
[in collaboration with Dr. Mahashweta Mitra Ghosh, SXC]
Currently
Postdoctoral Fellow @Jadavpur University
Ms. Sarmishta Mukhopadhyay
Thesis Submitted in 2024 “Genomics guided Drug Design against multidrug resistant Shigella flexneri” [in collaboration with Dr. Santanu Chakrabarti]
Mr. Souradip Basu
Thesis Submitted in 2024 “Assessment of Gut Bacterial Profiles from Tribes of West Bengal” [in collaboration with Prof Subrata Sankar Bagchi, University of Calcutta and Dr. Mahashweta Mitra Ghosh, SXC]
Ms. Rupsha Karmakar
“Resistome Mapping and Characterization from urban and rural aquifers” [in collaboration with Dr. Mahashweta Mitra Ghosh, SXC]
Mr. Wrick Chakraborty
“COPD Microbiome” [in collaboration with Institute of Pulmocare and Research, Kolkata]
Mr. Debava Chaudhuri
“Genomics guided sustainable consortium development in Indian Sundarbans” [in collaboration with Wipro Earthian Program]
Internship Students
Arunima Bhattacharya
Email: arunimabhattacharya.99@gmail.com
Affiliation: PG Dept of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata, India
Present Affiliation: INSERM U1212/Université de Bordeaux, France
Period of Work: 2021-2022
Title of the Project: Characterization and Annotation of hypothetical proteins from Acinetobacter baumannii/ Pseudomonas aeruginosa - WHO listed critical priority pathogens for identifying novel drug targets
Abhijit Saha
Email: asahaagcs@gmail.com
Affiliation: Biotechnology Post Graduate at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Post GraduateBiotechnology Post Graduate at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata
Period of Work: June onwards
Title of the Project: Genomic analysis of the bacterial rhizosphere metagenome of mangroves at Indian Sunderbans
Baibhab Chakraborty
Email: chakrabortybaibhab@gmail.com
Affiliation: Post-Graduate & Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal, India
Present Affiliation: Post-Graduate & Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), 30, Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata – 700016, West Bengal, India
Period of Work: June & July 2024
Title of the Project: Probiotic Screening of Microbes and Analysis of Gut Microbiome of Tribes (Sabar, Mech and Bhutia)
Abhinanda Adak
Email: abhinanda.rima@gmail.com
Affiliation: St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Indian Institute of Management (Kozhikode)
Period of Work: November, 2021 - June, 2023
Title of the Project: In search of the Pristine Gut: A comparative profiling of the human gut microbiome.
Tannishtha Das
Email: tannishthad20@gmail.com
Affiliation: St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru
Period of Work: 1st January 2022 - ongoing
Title of the Project: In Search of the Pristine Gut: A comparative profiling of the human gut microbiome
Mahima Chakraborty
Email: mahima.chakraborty2021@vitstudent.ac.in
Affiliation: Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore campus
Present Affiliation: Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore campus
Period of Work: June 2024 to July 2024
Title of the Project: Computational Characterization and Structural Analyses of BbKst protein isolated from Bambusa balcooa
Indrakshi Banerjee
Email: banerjeeindrakshi2000@gmail.com
Affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Period of Work: September 2022- April 2023
Title of the Project: Virtual screening and identification of potential leads from natural products against hypothetical proteins of Shigella flexneri
Astha Mukhopadhyay
Email: astha.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com
Affiliation: 4th year student, Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Ph.D Scholar, National Center for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, (NCBS-TIFR), Bangalore
Period of Work: September 2022 - April 2023
Title of the Project: Virtual screening and identification of potential leads from natural products against hypothetical proteins of Shigella flexneri
Srinjay Shome
Email: srinjayshome.2001@gmail.com
Affiliation: 4th year student, Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Final year student, Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Period of Work: September,2022 to April,2023
Title of the Project: Virtual screening and identification of potential leads from natural products against hypothetical proteins of Shigella flexneri
Saptarshi Bhattacharyya
Email: sbhattacharyya72000@gmail.com
Affiliation: MSc Student, Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Intern at National Institute of Biomedical Genomics
Period of Work: 2022 (June - July); 2023 (June - July)
Title of the Project: Identification of bacterial assemblages from rice root endosphere and detecting climate independent core (2022). AMR profiling in bacterial isolates from waste water sample (2023).
Ankur Paul
Email: ankurpaul.edu@gmail.com
Affiliation: 4th year student, Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Research Intern
Period of Work: September 2022 - April 2023
Title of the Project: Virtual screening and identification of potential leads from natural products against hypothetical proteins of Shigella flexneri
Saptaki De
Email: saptakide3@gmail.com
Affiliation: Master’s Student at the Post Graduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata.
Present Affiliation: Postgraduate student.
Period of Work: June 2022- July 2022, June 2023- July 2023.
Title of the Project: ‘Identification of bacterial assemblages from rice root endosphere and detecting climate independent core’ (2022). ‘AMR profiling and detection in bacterial isolates from waste water sample of Kolkata’ (2023).
Nayanika Pramanik
Email: nayanikaedu@gmail.com
Affiliation: Research Intern
Present Affiliation: Final Year student of Integrated M.Sc. in Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Period of Work: September 2022 to April 2023
Title of the Project: Virtual screening and identification of potential leads from natural products against hypothetical proteins of Shigella flexneri
Nabhonil Chatterji
Email: nabho.greenwood@gmail.com
Affiliation: Postgraduate department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India
Period of Work: January 2022 - Present
Title of the Project: In Search of the Pristine Gut: A comparative profiling of the human gut microbiome
Oendrila Dey
Email: deyoendrila@gmail.com
Affiliation: St. Xavier's College
Present Affiliation: Bidhannagar Government College
Period of Work: May-June 2024
Title of the Project: Bacterial Pan Genome Analysis on Shigella dysenteriae genome
Sutrisha Kundu
Email: sxcsutrisha19@gmail.com
Affiliation: Integrated MSc student in Biotechnology (4th year)
Present Affiliation: Pursuing PhD at Presidency University, Kolkata
Period of Work: August 2022 till present
Title of the Project: Comparative microbial profiling of different domestic and hospital wastewater samples
Shinjini Chowdhury
Email: shinjinic.j30@gmail.com
Affiliation: CHRIST(Deemed to be University)
Present Affiliation: CHRIST(Deemed to be University)
Period of Work: May 2024 to June 2024
Title of the Project: Comparative Pangenome Analyses using Shigella sonnei
Sampoorna Dey
Email: sampoornadey2402@gmail.com
Affiliation: Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology,St. Xavier's College (Autonomous) Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Postgraduate and Research Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous) Kolkata, Student: PG 1
Period of Work: (June-July) 2024: Wet lab
Title of the Project: Probiotic screening of gut microbiota
Sampreet Manna
Email: sampreet0110@gmail.com
Affiliation: Final year PG student of Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's kolkata.
Present Affiliation: Final year PG student of Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's kolkata.
Period of Work: June 2024- uly 2024
Title of the Project: Antimicrobial synergistic assay of MDR Shigella flexineri with different phytochemicals
Titas Bandyopadhyay
Email: titasbandyopadhyay7@gmail.com
Affiliation: Intern
Present Affiliation: Post Graduate Student of the Department of Botany at Bidhannagar college
Period of Work: May-June 2024
Title of the Project: Molecular docking analysis of shigella invasion proteins interaction with different herbal compounds
Soumyajit Ganguly
Email: soumyajitganguly192@gmail.com
Affiliation: 4th year student on Integrated M.Sc. in Biotechnology at St. Xavier's College Kolkata
Present Affiliation: Appeared Master's examination of last year on 2024
Period of Work: August 2022- April 2023
Title of the Project: Virtual screening and identification of potential leads from natural products against hypothetical proteins of Shigella flexneri
Subhrendu Gupta
Email: subhrendu35@gmail.com
Affiliation: Internship
Present Affiliation: Final Year student in MSc (Integrated) Biotechnology at St Xavier's (Autonomous) College, Kolkata
Period of Work: 30 days (1month)
Title of the Project: Endophytic Metagenome Analysis
Swarnadeep Paul
Email: swarnadeep2901@gmail.com
Affiliation: STUDENT
Present Affiliation: STUDENT
Period of Work: 2023 MARCH-JUNE
Title of the Project: BIOINFORMATICS
Rajeshwari Podder
Email: rpodder22@yahoo.com
Affiliation: Master's Student (Integrated M. Sc Biotechnology)
Present Affiliation: Project Junior Research Fellow, IIT B
Period of Work: 3 to 4 months
Title of the Project: "Antimicrobial Resistance is increasing in tandem with climate change: A kit to assess the AMR burden.”