Dr. Tuhinshri Sen
Professor

(033) 2582 3293 (R)

• Biodiversity
• Taxonomy
• Ecology
• Palynology
• Developmentalanatomy and mass propagation of endangered taxa of Indian pteridophytes
• Reproductive biology with special reference to environment

Research Project Completed in last 5 years

Gametophytes of ferns and their reproductive biology funded by UGC during 1995-1999

Recent Significant Publicatons

• U. Sen, T. Sen, S. Rahman & H. Kobir, 2004, Otogeny of seals of Indian Species of Pteris - In D.D. Pant memorial volume, ed. by P.C. Srivastava, Allahabad.
• T. Bandyopadhay and T.Sen, 2003. Two new species of Cyathea Sm. from North-Eastern India. In Ptediodology in the New Millenium.
• A. Biswas and T. Sen, 2001. Studies in the morpho-taxonomy of Indian Dennstaedtiaceae. I. Four new taxa of Microlepia from NE India. Indian Fern Journal. 16 : 1-13
• T. Sen, 2000. Gametophytes of Polypodiaceae and their reproductive behaviour. In Recent Trends in Botanical researches. Ed. D.K. Chauhan, Allahabad, pp. 131-137
• S. Rahaman and T. Sen, 1999. A comparative study of morpho-anatomy of the fern genera Pleopeltis Humb. ed Bonpl. ex Willd and Lepisorus (J. Smith) Ching. Indian Fern Journal, 16 : 1-11
• Rahaman S and Sen T. 1999, Is the genus Lepidogrammatis Ching taxonomically distinct from Lemmaphyllum Presl? Indian Fern G. Vol. 16 : 87-95
• Sen T and Rahaman S. 1999. Anatomy of Thyrsopteris elegans Indian Fern G, Vol. 16 : 123-129

Award/Prize/National Recognition

• Recipient of S S Bir Gold Medal
• Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
• Elected Fellow of the Indian Fern Society
• Elected Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology (2003)
• Member of Executive Committee of Indian Fern Society
• Chancellor's Nominee in Selection & Re-employment Committees of North Bengal University from April, 2004
• Member of Board of Studies - Visva-Bharati, Botany Deptt.
• Member of Board of Undergraduate Studies, Burdwan University, Botany Deptt.

Dr. (Mrs.) Sima Bhattacharya
Professor

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2464 2637

E-mail:

• Molecular Biology
• Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics
• Genetics

• Cytology and genetics of different plant species
• Cytogenetical effects of detergents on plant and animal system
• In tissue culture of plants
• Cell culture of plants with special reference to cancer

• Behaviour of the somatic chromosomes of Lattyrus sativus Linn at the Magnetic field. Pabitra Kr. Poddar and Sima Bhattacharya, Ind. Biologist. 35(2) : 15-21 (2003)

• Analysis of Mitochoudrial adenosine-triphosphatase and succixic selydrogevase activities during reproductive stages in hybrid rice. S. Bhattacharya & N. Mondal, Ind. Biol. 33(2) : 75-79 (2001)

• Study on the Effect of Magnetic Field on some indexing enzyme activities of the living roof tip cells of Lattyrus sativus Linn. Pabitra Kr. Poddar, S. Bhattacharya, A. Bardhan and P. Chatterjee, Ind. J. Environ & Ecoplan. 6(1) : 9-12 (2002)

• Effect of Magnetic Field on the nucleoli of the living root tip cells of Lathyrus sativus L. Ind. Biol. 34: 29-33, 2002

• In vitro regeneration of plantlets of seeding explants of different species of Bauhinia L. Plant Tissue Culture, 10, 103-109, 2000
  

Dr. P.D. Ghosh
Professor

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2582 5838 (R)

E-mail:

• Cytogenetics
• Molecular Genetics
• Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering and Embriology

• Development of somaclonal variants & induced mutagenesis
• Micropropagation of Floricultural
• Aromatic & medicnal plants
• Germplasms analysis of medicinal Aromatic & crop plants
• Transgenic development in rice

Research Projects Completed in last 5 years

• Salt Tolerant Genotype in Mulberry' funded by 'Sericultural research project'* during 1997-2001
• 'Genetic transformation in Rice' funded by 'I.C.A.R'.* during 1997-2001
• 'Standardization & optimization of Plants for producing Tissue culture plants' funded by 'DBT Govt. of India' during 1997-2000
• 'Improvement & commercialization of Cashewnut for Growers of West Bengal through Micropropagation and Breeding' funded by 'ARC (Govt. of West Bengal)' during 1997-2000

Award/Prize/National Recognition

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2582 8893 (R)

Area of Interest

• Biodiversity of fungi
• Plant Mircobe Interactions in Plant Pathology
• Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
• Epidemiology of Plant diseases

• Biology and Ecology of Fungal Pathologies
• Epidemiology & ecology of sheath blight
• Sheath rot & foot root disease of rice
• Diseases of rose
• Seed health testing with respect to seed borne fungi of pulses
• Post harvest fungal associations of fungi of perishables
• Screening of useful natural products from local weeds
• Myconhizal association

Research Project

"Exploitation of growth prompting substances of Lantana camara for improvement in yield and other characters of some important crops"funded by UGC during 2001-2004

Recent Significant Publicatons

• Biswas, S and S. Chaudhuri Improved Growth and Productivity of rice due to growth promoting substances from Lantana camara. J. Phytol. Res. 16(2), 2003
• I. Bandyopadhyay and S. Chaudhuri, Enzyme activity of fungi associated with ripe banana - Indian Phytopath. 57(1/2), 2004 (In Press)
• Sukul S & S. Chaudhuri. Effect of foliar application of Lantana camara leaf extracts on growth and yield of rice. Ind. J. Plant Physiol. 6(2) (NS) 127-130, 2001
• Sukul S & S. Chaudhuri. Antimicrobial natural products from the leaves of Lantana camara with activity comparable to some therapeutically used antibiotics. Ind. J. Pharma. Sci. 63(1), 20-23, 2000

Dr. Chandan Sengupta
Professor

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2582 0788 / (033) 2416 2083 / 98301 32758

E-mail:

• Microbiology
• Applied Microbiology
• Virology
• Environmental Botany
• Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering of Microbes

• Survival ecology of rhizobia and other diazotrops
• Pseudomonas & some other soil microbes including their biotic interactions under different soil conditions
• Histopathological studies of some mycoplasma diseases
• Seed pathological studies of some solanaceous plants
• Interaction study among rhyzospheric microorganisms

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2592 6717

E-mail:

• Biosystematics of Angiosperms
• Ecology and Environmental Botany
• Natural Resources and Conservation

• Morpho-anatomical studies of cypselas & carpological studies in Asteraceae
• Anfatomical studies of Indian Verbenaceae
• Ethnobotanical & floristic study in Eastern India

• Notes on some arboreal genera of Asteraceae with special reference to India. Phytotaxonomy, 2: 84-93. 2002
• Cypselar features in nineteen taxa of the tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae) and their taxanomic significance. In: J. K. Maheshwari and A.P. Jain (Eds.), Recent Researchers in Plant Anatomy and Morphology. Journal of Economic & Taxonomic Botany Additional Series No. 19: 253-274, 2001
• Morphology and structure of cypselas in thirteen species of the tribe Astereae (Asteraceae). Phytomorphology 51 (1): 17-26, 2001. (Golden Jubilee Volume)
• Basak, Nandita and Mukherjee, S. K. 2003. Taxonomic significance of cypselar features in some species of Vernonia L. (Vernonieae - Asteraceae) Journal of Hill Reaserch, 16 (1) : 9-15
• Bandyopadhyay, S. Mitra, S. and Mukherjee, S.K. 2003. Addition of two taxa in the floristic composition of West Bengal, J. Interocad. 7(3) : 340-342
• Chakraborty, A.K. Mukherjee, S.K. Maiti, G.G. and Kabi, M.C. 2003. SEM studies of seed and seed coat structures in cultivars of Lycopersicon esculentum Mill J. Veg. Crop. Pro. 9(2) : 75 85 from the Lane Research Centre, Okhlahoma, USA.
• Paine, A.K. and Mukherjee, S.K. 2003. Comparative anatomical studies of two species of the genus Homalium in the tribe Homaliae (Flacourtiaceae). J. Econ. Taxon Bot. 27 : 1009-1018
• Mitra, S. and Mukherjee, S.K. 2003. Morpho-anatomical study of cypsela of Crassocephalum (Benth.) S. Moor - a rare plants of West Bengal (India). J. Swamy Bot. Cl. 20 : 19-22
• Mukherjee, S.K. and Nordenstam, B. 2004. Diversity of the carpopodial structures in some members of the Asteraceae and their taxonomic significance. Compositae Newsletter (In Press) Published from Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SWEDEN

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2628 3005 (R)

Area of Interest

• Biodiversity of Bryophyta and Gymnosperms
• Palyebotany and Palynology
• Palynology (living and fossil)
• Palynotaxonomy & Biodiversity
• Ecology, Paleoflonistics, Paleoenvironment
• Paleogeography
• Palynology in hydrocarbon exploration & Biostratigraphy

• Palyonology in hydrocarbon exploratibiostratigraphy
• Palynotaxonomy & biodiversity
• Ecology & palaeofloristics

"Palynological Event and Cretaceous - Teriary boundary in Meghalaya" funded by UGC during 1998-2001

• Nandi, Bharati and Chattopadhyay, S. 2003. Heterosporous water ferns from the Late Cretaceous to Neogene sediments of India. In : Pteridology in the New Millenium: NBRI Golden Jubilee Prof. B.K. Nair Commem. Volume. Edts: S. Chanda and M. Srivastava. Kluwer Academic publisher, The Netherland: 505-520
• Nandi, Bharati, Banerjee Subhra & Sinha Atreyee: 2003. Fossil fungal spores of Xyleriaceae from the Cretaceous - Tertiary sediments of Meghalaya, north-eastern India. Acta Palaeobotanica Sinica. 42(1): 56-67
• Nandi, Bharati and Chattopadhyay, S. 2002. Triprojectoaperturate pollen grains from the Late Cretaceous sediments of Meghalaya, India. Acta Palaeobotanica Sinica. 41(4): 601-610

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2657 2745 (R)

Area of Interest

• Biosystematics of Angiosperms
• Ecology and Environmental Botany
• Natural Resource and Conservation

• Taxonomic revision of Indian genera of Angiosperms
• Foliar anatomy with respect of development pattern
• Morphology and anatomy of fruits and seeds with respect to their developmental patterns
• Floristics Study. Nomenclature of higher plants

"Qualitative and quantitative improvement of jute plant by physical treatment" funded by DST & NES, Govt. of West Bengal

• Maity, D and G.G. Maiti 2003 A Taxonomic note on Craniotome furcata (Link) kuntze and its new varieties. J. Econ. Taxon Bof. 27 (suppl.): 1238-1244
• Bhakat, R.K. and G.G. Maiti 2003, On Phytosociological Establishment of Mangroves in Nayachar Island, Hooghly Estnary, Sci. & Cult. 69 (11-12): 441-442
• Bhakat, R.K. and G.G. Maiti 2003, Invasive species and displacement of P,lant Diversity, J. Curr. Sci. 3(2): 483-486
• Maity, D. N. Pradhan and G.G. Maiti, 2003. Traditional Uses of some Medicinal Plants of Sikkim Himalaya, ECOBIOS 1(2) : 48-58
• Chakraborti, A.K., S.K. Mukherjee, G.G. Maiti and M.C. Kabi 2003 SEM Studies of seed and seed coat structure in cultivars of hycopersicon esculenlum Mill, J.Veg. Crop Prod. 9(2) : 75-85
• Hazra, K., S.K. Mukherjee, G.G. Maiti and N. Mandal 2003 Studies on the seeds of some grain amarnath genotypes (Amaranthus spp.) and their taxonomic value. J. Swamy Bot. Cl. 20: 75-78
• Maity, Debabrata, A.S. Chauhan and G.G. Maiti, 2003. Ethnobotanical notes on some unexploited medicinal plants used by Lepchas and Nepalese communities of North Sikkim. J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 27 (2): 325 332
• Bhakat, R.K. and G.G. Maiti, 2002. Mangrove succession on Nayachar Island, Hooghly estuary, J. Natl. Bot. Soc: 56: 71-74
• Mukhopadhyay, M. and G.G. Maiti, 2002. Morphological studies and systematic evaluation of floral arrangement and leaves of seven species of Carex L. (Cyperaceae). In A.P. Das (ed.), "Perspectives of Plant Biodiversity", Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun, pp. 329-343
• Basak, S. and G.G. Maiti, 2000. Primula arunachalensis sp. nov. (Primulaceae) from Eastern Himalaya. Acta Phtotax. Geobot. (Japan) 51(1) : 11-15

Dr. Padma Chatterjee
Reader

M.Sc., Ph.D.

(033) 2416 7374 (R)

E-mail:

• Plant Physiology
• Biochemistry
• Plant molecular Biology

• Studies on phytochemicals and studies of their biological activities with special reference to antitumour.
• Antifungal and antibacterial properties.

• Poddar, P.K., Bhattacharya, S., Bardhan, A. and Chatterjee, P. 2002. Study on the effect of magnetic field on some indexing energy activities of the living root tip cells of Lathyrus sativus. Indian Journal of Environment and Ecoplanning, 6(1) : 9-12
• Bandyopadhyay, D., Bardhan, A. and Chatterjee, P. (2002). Further evidence of synthetic drug replacement and manipulation of fungal growth by some herbal products. Indian Journal of Environment and Ecoplanning, 6(2) : 289-292
• Bardhan A. and P. Chatterjee. 2002. Antibacterial activity of crude extract of Bauhinia scandens. Indian Jour. Environ and Ecoplanning 6 (2), 363-365
• Aruneema Bardhan and Padma Chatterjee Antifungal and antibacterial screening of Bauhinia scandens. J. Natal. Bot. See. 54: 33-36, 2000

• Biodiversity of Algae
• Microbiology
• Applied Microbiology
• Ecology
• Environmental Botany
• Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

• Selection of potential Rhizobial
  Bradyrhizobial inoculants competent for different soil stress conditions
• Study of stress tolerance mechanisms (salt, low pH, low phosphate and aluminium) in Rhizobia Bradyrhizobia, Biocontrol of plant diseases

• 'Evaluation of Neem Germplasms of different Agro-climatic Regions of Eastern India for potential use as Biocide against Phyto-pathogenic microbes funded by UGC during 2001-2004 -- Co-investigator
• Bioremediation of heavy metal pollutants using microbes funded by UGC during 2000

Hazra L., S.K. Mukherjee, & N. Mandal, 2002. Aminoacid composition of seed storage protein fractions in Amaranthus hypochodriacus (L.). Indian Biologist 34(2): 47-50. (India)