Faculty Profile

 

Name : Alok  Bhattacharya
Designation : Professor
Centre :
School : Life Sciences
Room No : 117
Off. Phone : 91-11-26704516
Residence :
Email : alok0200@mail.jnu.ac.in   alok.bhattacharya@gmail.com
Web Address : http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/alok

Qualifications

Ph.D 
                                    

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Parasitology, Basic biology, Computation biology & Bioinformatics  
                                    

Experience

Administrative Experience
1998-2008 : Co-ordinator, Bioinformatics Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2002-2004 : Dean, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2004-2008 : Dean, School of Information Technology Jawaharlal Nehru University

Student guidance
19 Ph.D. students
2 M.Tech students
2 M.Phil students 
                                    

Awards & Honours

1. National Science Talent Search Scholarship ( 1967-1976 )
2. Science Exhibition Award of Delhi University ( 1968, 1969 )
3. Robert McNamara Fellow of the World Bank ( 1985-1986 )
4. Rockefeller Biotechnology Career Development Award ( 1988-1990 )
5. Member Guha Research Conference (1992)
6. S.S. Bhatnagar award (1994)
7. Fellow, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi (2000)
8. J.C. Bose Fellowship of DST (2008)  
                                    

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Dr. Nancy Guillen, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France  
                                    

Best Peer Reviewed Publications (upto 5)

1. Sahoo, N., Labruyere, E., Bhattacharya, S., Sen, P., Guillen, . & Bhattacharya, A. (2004) Calcium binding protein 1 of Entamoeba histolytica interacts with actin and is involved in dynamics of cytoskeleton. J. Cell Sci. 117, 3625-3634

2. Loftus B, Anderson I, Davies R, Alsmark UC, Samuelson J, Amedeo P, Roncaglia P, Berriman M, Hirt RP, Mann BJ, Nozaki T, Suh B, Pop M, Duchene M, Ackers J, Tannich E, Leippe M, Hofer M, Bruchhaus I, Willhoeft U, Bhattacharya A, Chillingworth T, Churcher C, Hance Z, Harris B, Harris D, Jagels K, Moule S, Mungall K, Ormond D, Squares R, Whitehead S, Quail MA, Rabbinowitsch E, Norbertczak H, Price C, Wang Z, Guillen N, Gilchrist C, Stroup SE, Bhattacharya S, Lohia A, Foster PG, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Weber C, Singh U, Mukherjee C, El-Sayed NM, Petri WA Jr, Clark CG, Embley TM, Barrell B, Fraser CM, Hall N. (2005) The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Nature. 433(7028), 865-8.

3. Vishnoi, A., Roy, R. & Bhattacharya, A. (2007) Comparative analysis of bacterial genomes: identification of divergent regions in mycobacterial strains using an anchor-based approach. Nucleic Acids Res. 35, 3654-3667.

4. Shrimal S., Bhattacharya S., Bhattacharya A. (2010) Serum-Dependent Selective Expression of EhTMKB1-95, a Member of Entamoeba histolytica B1 Family of Transmembrane Kinases. PLoS Pathogens 6(6), e1000929.

5. Somlata, Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A. (2011) A C2 domain protein kinase initiates phagocytosis in the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Nat. Commun. 2, 230, doi: 10.1038/ncomms1199  
                                  

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books (upto 3)

1. Shrimal S., Bhattacharya S., Bhattacharya A. (2010) Serum-Dependent Selective Expression of EhTMKB1-95, a Member of Entamoeba histolytica B1 Family of Transmembrane Kinases. PLoS Pathogens 6(6), e1000929.

2. Vaz, C., Ahmad, H. M., Sharma, P., Gupta, R., Kumar, L., Kulshreshtha, R. and Bhattacharya, A. (2010). "Analysis of microRNA transcriptome by deep sequencing of small RNA libraries of peripheral blood." BMC Genomics 11(1): 288.

3. Somlata, Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharya, A. (2011) A C2 domain protein kinase initiates phagocytosis in the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica. Nat. Commun. 2, 230, doi: 10.1038/ncomms1199  
                                    

Patents (if any)

1. Pandey, G.K., Reddy, V.S., Deswal, R., Bhattacharya, A. and Sopory, S.K. (2004) “Transgenic plants with enhanced chlorophyll content and salt tolerance, U.S. Patent number 6,791,009.