Dr.-Boudhayan-Bandyopadhyay

Dr. Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay

Present Position: Associate Professor

Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science & Biotechnology

E-mail: boudhayan1.bandyopadhyay@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:

  • PhD (Science), (Bose Institute, University of Calcutta)
  • Sc. in Chemistry, (IIT Kharagpur)
  • Sc.(H) in Chemistry, (University of Calcutta)

Research Key Areas:

  • Application of nanoparticles in biological system and medicine
  • Protein folding & role of chaperones
  • Drug design and delivery
  • Biostatistics

Research Highlights:

  • Seed funding award. Adamas University, Kolkata, India. 2021
  • Contact order is a determinant for the dependence of GFP folding on the chaperonin GroEL. 2019. Biophysical Journal. (Cited in Research Highlights, Biophysical Journal, as one of the influential research works in Protein Folding and IDPs)
  • JBC Best Poster Award. Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK. 2017

Experience:

  • Associate Professor. Adamas University, Kolkata, India. 2020 – present
  • Assistant Professor – Grade 2. VIT Bhopal University, India. 2018 – 2020
  • Post-doctoral fellow. Bar Ilan University, Israel. 2018
  • Post-doctoral fellow. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. 2014 – 2018
  • Assistant Professor. BIEMS, Kolkata, India. 2012 – 2014

Research Publication (s):

  • Number of research papers published in International refereed journals: 9
  • Number of research papers published in International peer-reviewed Scopus Proceedings: 8
  • Number of invited Book-Chapters: 1

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Selected Publication (s):

  1. Sarkar, R. Agarwal, Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay*. 2022. Molecular docking studies of phytochemicals from Terminalia chebula for identification of potential multi-target inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 proteins. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. 13 (2), 100557.
  2. Banerjee, S. Raghunathan, S. Banerjee, Boudhayan Bandyopadhay*. 2021. Portable sterilizer with microbe content detection device. Bulletin of the National Research Centre. 45, 35.
  3. Roy, SK. T. Ahmed, Boudhayan Bandyopadhay, N. Giri. 2020. Development of Quinolone resistance and prevalence of different virulence genes among Shigella flexneri and Shigella dysenteriae in environmental water samples. Letters in Applied Microbiology. 71 (1), 86-93
  4. T. Ahamed, B. Roy, U. Basu, S. Dutta, A.N. Ghosh, Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay, N. Giri. 2019. Genomic and proteomic characterizations of Sfin-1, a novel lytic phage infecting multidrug-resistant Shigella spp. and Escherichia coli C. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10: 1876
  5. Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay, T. Mondal, R. Unger and A. Horovitz. 2019. Contact order is a determinant for the dependence of GFP folding on the chaperonin GroEL. Biophysical Journal. 116, 42–48
  6. Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay* and Y. Peleg. 2018. Facilitating circular permutation using Restriction Free (RF) cloning. Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. 31(3), 65–68
  7. Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay, A. Goldenzweig, T. Unger, O. Adato, S. J Fleishman, R. Unger, and A. Horovitz. 2017. Local energetic frustration affects the dependence of green fluorescent protein folding on the chaperonin GroEL. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(50), 20583–20591
  8. Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay, T. Das Gupta, D. Roy and S. K. Das Gupta. 2012. DnaK Dependence Of The Mycobacterial Stress Responsive Regulator HspR Is Mediated Through Its Hydrophobic C-Terminal Tail. Journal of Bacteriology. 194, 4688–4697
  9. T. Das Gupta, Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay and S. K. Das Gupta. 2008. Modulation of DNA-binding activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis HspR by chaperones. Microbiology. 154, 484–490

Research Projects:

  1. “Application of solid solutions of perovskite oxide nanoparticles as alternative to antibiotics” Seed grant – funded by Adamas University, Kolkata, India.

Research Patents:

  1. Fleishman, A. Goldenzweig, A. Horovitz and Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay. MODIFIED ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, P-572131-US (US Serial No.:15/830,368), 4-December-2017, Yeda Research And Development Co. Ltd. (Assignee (s)) (Filed)

Research Advisor / Supervisor:

  • Doctoral Thesis Advisor / Supervisor : 1 (Under progress)
  • Doctoral Thesis Advisor / Supervisor : 0
  • Post Graduate Thesis Advisor : 0

Award/ Academic Recognition/ Major Professional Activity:

  • Editorial Board Member : IJBST Journal Group (ISBN : 0974-3987)
  • Keynote speaker. International Faculty Development Program, M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering, India. 2021
  • JBC Best Poster Award. Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium, University of Cambridge, UK. 2017
  • Post-doctoral fellowship. Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. 2014
  • Junior Research Fellowship. (NET-JRF). CSIR India. 2006
  • MCM Scholarship. IIT Kharagpur. 2005
  • Summer Scholarship. Eveready Industries India Ltd. 2005
  • National Scholarship. MHRD, Govt. of India. 2001, 1999