Supervisor

Arnab Gupta

Principal Investigator

Arnab completed his PhD in 2006-07 from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology in the field of human genetics under the supervision of Prof. Kunal Ray. Subsequently, he moved to US for his postdoctoral training with Prof. Svetlana Lutsenko and Ann Hubbard at The Johns Hopkins University. His field of study was to elucidate the regulations of the human copper pumps and channels. After a brief stint at the University of Calcutta as a Ramanujan Fellow, he set up his independent research group at IISER Kolkata. Presently at IISER Kolkata, using various cutting edge techniques especially high-resolution imaging and molecular dynamic studies, his group is probing the secretory pathway that the copper ATPase ATP7A and ATP7B traverses to export copper from the cell. The second line of the group's interest is to understand the copper mediated endocytic regulation of the primary copper importer CTR1. The research of the group is funded through multiple funding agencies, i.e., The Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, DST-Core research grant, DST-Special Call, ICMR- Adhoc Project Program, MHRD-STARS and Intramural funding from IISER Kolkata.

Current Lab Members

Member 1

Aarohi Gupta

Junior Curiosity Fellow (with honorary status)

making surprise visits to ensure the lab is running with maximum fun, creativity, and pizza breaks

Member 1

Salauddin Sekh

Lab Manager

I oversee all the macro as well as micro activities in the lab. In my leisure time, I help others in their experiments.

Member 1

Sharon Mary Jose

Senior Research Fellow

I am working on understanding the intra- and intermolecular trafficking regulation of the homologous Cu-ATPases ATP7A and ATP7B.

Member 1

Raviranjan Pandey

Senior Research Fellow

I am characterizing small molecules for the therapy of Wilson's disease. I am also exploring pathways of copper toxicity.

Member 1

Aayatti Mallick Gupta

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am interested in structural and functional studies on zinc transporters.

Member 1

Kaustav Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Fellow

I am working on elucidating copper homeostasis and its interplay pathways in C. elegans.

Member 1

Krishanu Dutta

Senior Research Fellow

I am trying to generate animal models for Menkes and Wilsons disease.

Member 1

Mainak Chakraborty

Senior Research Fellow

I am trying to delineate the Cisplatin-mediated regulation of copper importer CTR1.

Member 1

Swastika Dey

Junior Research Fellow

I am investigating the alterations in cupro-proteome during Leishmania infection and its implications in host-pathogen interaction.

Member 1

Brindaban Maji

Junior Research Fellow

I am working on deciphering the role of copper in regulation of cholesterol homeostasis. I am also interested in the effects of heavy metal toxicity in mammalian liver.

Member 1

Bratati Dutta

Junior Research Fellow

I am exploring the role of copper during adipogenesis.

Member 1

Mrittika Paul

Junior Research Fellow

I am working on understanding the role of AP3 in lysosomal regulation.

Member 1

Debosmita Bhattacharya

Junior Research Fellow

I am focusing on deciphering the impact of heavy metals on lysosome related organelles(LRO).

Member 1

Arpan Narayan Roy

Project Fellow

I am developing and characterizing small molecules for therapy of Wilson disease, in collaboration with Prof. Amitava Das, Chemistry, IISER Kolkata.

Member 1

Borkar Aditya Ashok

BS-MS 5th Year

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Member 1

Baivab Kumar Saha

BS-MS 5th Year

Stochastic model of copper induced ATP7B trafficking in polarized epithelia.

Lab Alumni

Member 1

Santanu Das

Post Doctoral fellow at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Member 1

Sumanta Kar

Post Doctoral fellow at Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin (FMP-Berlin)

Member 1

Ruturaj

Post Doctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)

Member 1

Saptarshi Maji

Post Doctoral fellow at Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology IPMC-CNRS

Member 1

Rupam Paul

Post Doctoral fellow at University of Florida

Member 1

Asmita Pal

Assistant Professor at Government General Degree College Narayangarh

Member 1

Siddhanta V. Nikte

Post Doctoral fellow at Goethe University Frankfurt

Member 1

Shuvendu Kr Chatterjee

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Member 1

Sohini Dutt

Grad student at University of Maryland

Member 1

Rounak Dutta

Grad student at Stony Brook University

Member 1

Fathima Zahrana

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Member 1

Archita Ghosh

Assistant Manager at Bangiya Gramin Vikash Bank

Member 1

Soumyendu Saha

Grad Student at McGill University

Member 1

Prodyuti

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Member 1

Indira Bhattacharya

Grad Student at University of Maryland

Member 1

Pruthwiraj

Entrepreneur

Member 1

Samarpita Sen

Grad student at University of Cambridge

Member 1

Taniya Mandal

Grad Student at Francis Crick Institute

Member 1

Ankita Nayak

Grad Student at National University of Singapore

Member 1

Ameena Mohammed

Grad student at University of Tubingen

Member 1

Adrija Chakrabarty

Grad Student at CeMM Center for Molecular Medicine Vienna

Member 1

Monalisa Mishra

Grad Student at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)

Member 1

Sharanya Bhattacharya

Grad Student at Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and Technical University of Munich

Member 1

Tisha Dash

Grad Student at Northwestern University

Member 1

Avijit Majumder

Grad Student at IISER Pune

Interns

Soumita Dey

University of Kalyani

(Summer'25)

Manish Bhat

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

(Summer'25)

Sakir Gazi

Indian Association For The Cultivation of Science

(Summer'24)

Preyarshri

University of Calcutta

(Summer'24)

Poulomi Patra

University of Kalyani

(Summer'24)

Oindrilla Acharya

Jadavpur University

(Spring'23)

Tithi Dutta

University of Kalyani

(Spring'23)

Subhanjan Bhattacharya

MAKAUT

(Spring'23)

Tanima Biswas

University of Calcutta

(Summer'23)

Sarmistha Paul

University of Calcutta

(Summer'23)