Our Team

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Jayasri Das Sarma, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Mohanpur – 741246, India
                  &
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA

E-Mail: dassarmaj [AT] iiserkol.ac.in
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Present Team Members

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Shalini Das Gupta, PhD

Institute Postdoctoral fellow

Email: shalini.dasgupta91@gmail.com

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Pracheta Sengupta, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow (SERB Power Grant)

Email: sengupta.pracheta@gmail.com

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Safiriyu Abass Alao

PhD Scholar


Email:saa19rs001@iiserkol.ac.in

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Kamble Mithila Ashok

PhD Scholar

Email:mak17rs074@iiserkol.ac.in

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Vaishali Mulchandani

Integrated PhD

Email:vm17ip003@iiserkol.ac.in

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Saurav Kumar

Integrated PhD


Email:s17ip029@iiserkol.ac.in

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Madhav Sharma

Integrated PhD




Email:ms17ip006@iiserkol.ac.in

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Suvam Mukherjee

Integrated PhD

Email: suvam0593@gmail.com

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Souvik Karmakar

PhD Scholar

Email: Sk20rs069@iiserkol.ac.in

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Grishma Kasle

PhD Scholar


Email: gk20rs083@iiserkol.ac.in

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Debina Bhattacharyya

PhD Scholar

Email: db20rs008@iiserkol.ac.in

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Rishika Jana

PhD Scholar


Email: rishikajana2014@gmail.com

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Santosh Kumar Samal

PhD Scholar

Email: samalsantoshsipu@gmail.com

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Satavisha Ghosh

PhD Scholar

Email: sg21rs040@iiserkol.ac.in

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Anurag Banerjee

5th year BS-MS Project

Email: ab17ms046@iiserkol.ac.in

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Padmapriya S

5th year BS-MS Project


Email: padmapriyas012345@gmail.com

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Archana Kumari Shaw

Project Assistant

Email: archanakumarishaw0605@gmail.com

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Deeksha Rai

Research Associate


Email: r.raideeksha@gmail.com

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Omkar Sahu

4th year BS-MS Intern


Email: os18ms007@iiserkol.ac.in

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DANGETI VVN DURGAPRASAD

Veterinarian at animal facility


Email: dpnag123@gmail.com

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Kanan Raj

Molecular Biology Laboratory Technician


Email: kananrajchoudhary@gmail.com

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Sayaree Pan

Technician and operator of in vivo animal imaging


Email: sayareepan@gmail.com

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Gayathri Gopinath

4th Year BS-MS


Email: getggnath@gmail.com

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Neeraj Bhavani A B

4th Year BS-MS


Email: neerajbhavanilal@gmail.com

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Udit Ghosh

3rd Year BS-MS


Email: ug19ms097@iiserkol.ac.in

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Sattwik Mohanty

3rd Year BS-MS


Email: sattwikm17@gmail.com

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Animesh Sanjay Sinha

3rd Year BS-MS


Email: ass19ms069@iiserkol.ac.in

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Alumni

Doctor of Philosophy & Postdoctoral Fellow

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Abhinoy Kishore, PhD

Present Position: Research Associate, Dept. of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Science (since july 2017)

abhinoy@gmail.com

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Afaq Hussain, PhD

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ah12rs051@iiserkol.ac.in

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Dhriti Majumdar, PhD

Present Position: SERB-NPDF Fellow at IIT Madras(October 2017- Present)

dhriti2004@gmail.com

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Kaushiki Biswas, PhD

Present Position: Assistant Professor at Presidency University

kaushiki.dbs@presiuniv.ac.in

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Manmeet Singh, PhD

Present Position: NIAID, USA

manmeet0590@gmail.com

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Rahul Basu, PhD

Present Position: Postdoctoral Visiting (RML-Beth) Fellow

rahulbasu_2006@yahoo.co.in

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Subhajit Das Sarma, PhD

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Soumya Kundu, PhD

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soumya.phoenixrising.kundu
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Abhishek Bose, PhD

Present Position: IUSSTF Postdoctoral Fellow



abhsk.bose261291@gmail.com

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Debanjana Chakravarty, PhD

Present Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF

dolldebby@gmail.com

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Fareeha Saadi, PhD

Present Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

fareehasaadi2342@gmail.com

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Lucky Sarkar, PhD

Present Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Cleveland Clinic Florida Research and Innovation Center, USA

abhsk.bose261291@gmail.com

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Anirban Ganguly, PhD

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anirbanganguly39@gmail.com

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Mahua Maulik, PhD

Present Position: NIBMG Fellow, Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, Early career fellow

madhuka@gmail.com

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Sourodip Sengupta, PhD

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ss14ip009@iiserkol.ac.in

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Chayan Bhattacharjee, PhD

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bhattacharjee.biotech@gmail.com

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BS-MS /IPHD

Maters Student Trained

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Damayantee Das

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Deepthi Thomas

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deepthithomas94@gmail.com

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Gisha Rose Antony

Present Position: Pursuing PhD At Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram

rosekakkanattu@gmail.com

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Jibin Sadasivan

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

jibin11019@gmail.com

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Lakshmy Vasan

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at University Of Toronto, ON, Canada

lakshmyvasan@gmail.com


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Madhurima Chatterjee

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at Vrije University Amsterdam and University of Goettingen

madhurima.cob@gmail.com

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Rahul Kumar

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at McGill University

rahul.kumar@mail.mcgill.ca



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Saurav Saswat Rout

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at University of Saskatchewan

ssr6186@gmail.com

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Subham Dipt

Present Position: Data Scientist At IGaming.Com, Berlin, Germany

Shubham.Dipt@Gmail.Com


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Soumen Jana

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at Optical Neuroimaging Unit, OIST

soumen.jana@oist.jp


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Swathy Babu

Present Position: Pursuing PhD at Okinawa Institute of Science Education and Research Graduate University,Japan

swathynbabu@gmail.com

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Vineeth A R

Present Position: DST-INSPIRE Fellow

vineethraveendran174
@gmail.com

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S N Samikshya

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Sanskruti Biswal

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Arunima Vadlamannati

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Shilauni Dadwal

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Summer Internship Students

Parth Ankam

Affiliation: Second year BS-MS at IISER Thiruvananthapuram



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Summer Project: Chemokine and chemokine receptor knockout mice to study their role in inflammation and neuroinflammation
Immediate Mentor: Rituparna Chatterjee

Anaswar S R

Affiliation: 3rd year BS-MS at IISER THIRUVANANTHAPURAM



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Summer Project: Literature review on nexus between Connexin43 and Tgf beta-i and its association with Treg cells.
Immediate Mentor: Grishma Kasle

Dharitri Chaudhuri

Affiliation: Fourth year MSc Integrated Biotechnology at St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata

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Summer Project: Azadirachta indica A. Juss (Neem) and its anti-viral and anti-neuroinflammatory role in amelioration of Coronavirus-induced pathogenesis: an extensive study
Immediate Mentor: Lucky Sarkar

Keya Roy

Affiliation: M.Sc. Second semester, Banaras Hindu University



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Summer project: Literature review on the regulation of cellular prion protein expression in the MHV-A59 induced mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis.
Immediate Mentor: Shalini Das Gupta

Sikha V T R

Affiliation: Third year BS-MS student at IISER Kolkata





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Summer Project: Role of the aquaporin 4 protein in mouse hepatitis virus induced mouse model of the human neurological disease multiple sclerosis
Immediate mentor: Shalini Das Gupta

Udit Ghosh

Affiliation: Second-year BS-MS at IISER Kolkata





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Summer Project: The role of iNOS/Arg1 axis in the reciprocal interaction of microglia and T cells through CD40 receptor and CD40 ligand during neuroinflammation
Immediate Mentor: Kamble Mithila Ashok

Monalisa Mishra

Affiliation: 3rd year BS-MS at IISER Kolkata





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Summer Project: "Role of iNOS and its antagonist Arginase1 in Microglia Mediated neurodegeneration with special emphasis on phagocytic microglia"
Immediate Mentor: Kamble Mithila Ashok

Sucheta Dey

Affiliation: Second year Master's student of the Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics in Rajabazar Science College, University of Calcutta

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Summer Project: Exploring the antimicrobial activities of Basak
Immediate mentor: Debina Bhattacharyya

Shashwat Tripathi

Affiliation - Second year BS-MS student at IISER Kolkata

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Summer Project: Understanding the link between GJC2 and other genes associated with hypomyelinating leukodystrophies
Immediate mentor: Dr. Mahua Maulik

Omkar Sahu

Affiliation: 3rd Year BS-MS at IISER Kolkata


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Summer Project: Understanding the role of Connexin 47 in CNS demyelination: Insights from Cx47 protein interactors
Immediate Mentor: Dr. Mahua Maulik

Teesta Raychaudhuri

Affiliation: 3rd Year BS-MS at IISER Bhopal

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Summer Project: Understanding the role of Connexin 47 mutations in CNS dysmyelinating diseases
Immediate Mentor: Dr. Mahua Maulik

Anwesha Roy

Affiliation: 3rd Year B.Tech Biotechnology student at Heritage Institute of Technology

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Summer Project: Understanding antiviral response associated with Ifit2 upon beta coronavirus infection
Immediate Mentor: Madhav Sharma

Ahana Sarkar

Affiliation- 3rd Year B. Tech in Biotechnology at NIT Durgapur

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Summer Project: Mouse Hepatitis Virus: An Experimental Animal Model to Understand Certain Pathology of Human Disease Multiple Sclerosis
Immediate Mentor: Madhav Sharma

Krushna ranjan Pradhan

Affiliation: Second-year BS-MS at IISER Kolkata


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Summer Project: Structure and function of GPCR.
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Ankit Mohanty

Affiliation: 3rd Year BS-MS at IISER Berhampur






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Summer Project: Recombinant virus construction: insights from murine ß-coronavirus RSA59
Immediate Mentor: Sourodip Sengupta

Akshiti Bhat

Affiliation: 3rd year BS-MS at IISER Kolkata






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Summer Project: From MHV-A59 to RSA59 and RSMHV2- the path towards recombinant viruses.
Immediate Mentor: Sourodip Sengupta

Sooraj Vasanthan

Affiliation: BS-MS 2nd Year, IISER Bhopal



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Summer Project: Exploring the therapeutic aspects of Tulsi.
Immediate Mentor: Debina Bhattacharyya

Hasathi Bhagavatula

Affiliation: Third year B.Sc Blended Bioscience at Modern College of Arts Science and Commerce, Pune.

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Summer Project: Chemokine and Chemokine receptor knockout mice to study their role in inflammation and neuroinflammation.
Immediate mentor: Rituparna Chatterjee

Gayathri Gopinath

Affiliation: Fourth Year BS-MS at IISER Kolkata



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Summer Project: Astroglia/Microglia/Neuron and Oligodendrocyte Mediated Secretion of Chemokine and Their Receptor.
Immediate Mentor : Prof. Jayasri Das Sarma

Aishwarya Shahare

Affiliation: 2nd Year B.Sc Hons Undergraduate, Kanchrapara College, Kalyani University

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Summer Project: Role of Ros in Ovarian Cancer
Immediate Mentor: Vaishali Mulchandani

Omkar Panigrahi

Affiliation: Third year student of IISER Pune

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Summer project: Role of proline in viral induced cell to cell fusion and gliotropism".
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V . Dhanalakshmi

Affiliation: Thiagarajar college (autonomous) affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University.

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Summer project: Neem extract ( leaf / bark / seed) ROS in different cancers ( special emphasis to cervical cancer and Ovarian cancer)
Immediate mentor: Vaishali Mulchandani

Aritra Ghosh

Affiliation: 2nd Year Bs-Ms Undergraduate, IISER Kolkata


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Summer Project: Actions of Vegf in Ovarian Cancer
Immediate Mentor: Vaishali Mulchandani