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Bama Charan Mondal

Bama Charan Mondal
Bama Charan Mondal
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Life Sciences
Room No
201
Off. Phone
011-26704530
Email
bamacharan[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, bamacharan[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/bamacharan/cv.pdf
Qualifications

Ph. D.  in Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, University of Calcutta, India 
M. Sc in Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, India
B. Sc in Chemistry (Honors), University of Calcutta, India

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Underlying mechanisms of myeloid blood cell development using the Drosophila (fruit fly) model system.
How do stem and progenitor cells maintain their lifelong state and differentiate when necessary?
How do phagocytic tissue macrophages become versatile and heterogeneous?

Experience

2025- present: Associate Professor, SLS, JNU
2021-2025: Assistant Professor & DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellow, BHU, Varanasi
February – December 2020: Assistant Professor & Ramalingaswami Fellow, BHU, Varanasi, India
September 2019 - January 2020: Scientist In-charge, Lab. of DNA Fingerprinting Service, CDFD, Hyderabad
April 2018 - February 2020: Ramalingaswami Fellow, CDFD, Hyderabad, India 
2013- 2018: Staff Research Associate, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
2007-2013: Postdoctoral Scholar- Employee, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
 

Awards & Honours

2020: DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship
2018: Ramanujan Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology, India (renounced)
2017: Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship, Department of Biotechnology, India
2017: Recognition from the Chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for 10 years of service
2013: Travel award for attending Young Investigator Meeting (YIM) 2013 from India Bioscience, NCBS, Bangalore
2004: Senior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Medical Research.
2001: National Eligibility Test for Lectureship from the Joint CSIR-UGC.
2001: Qualified GATE with 94.2 percentile, all India rank 0110, Conducted by IIT, Kanpur

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Maurya D, Rai G, Mandal D, Mondal BC*.  Transient caspase-mediated activation of Caspase-Activated DNase causes DNA damage required for phagocytic macrophage differentiation. Cell Reports. 2024 May 28; 43(5): 114251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114251 PMID: 38761374 

  2. Goins L, Girard JR, Mondal BC, Buran, Su C, Tang R, Biswas T, Banerjee U. Wnt signaling couples G2 phase control with differentiation during hematopoiesis in Drosophila. Developmental Cell. 2024 Sep 23;59(18):2477-2496.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2024.05.023  PMID: 38866012  

  3. Evans CJ, Olson JM, Mondal BC,……………..………, Banerjee U. A functional genomics screen identifying blood cell development genes in Drosophila by undergraduates participating in a course-based research experience. G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics. 2021 Jan 18;11(1):jkaa028.    doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaa028. 

  4. Mondal BC, Shim J, Evans CJ, Banerjee U. Pvr expression regulators in equilibrium signal control and maintenance of Drosophila blood progenitors. eLife. 2014 Sep 8;3:e03626. doi: 10.7554/eLife.03626. PMID: 25201876

  5. Shim J#, Mukherjee T#, Mondal BC, Liu T, Young GC, Wijewarnasuriya DP, Banerjee U.  Olfactory control of blood progenitor maintenance. Cell. 2013 Nov 21;155(5):1141-53. (#equal contribution) doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.10.032. PMID: 24267893

  6. Mondal BC#, Mukherjee T#, Mandal L#, Evans CJ, Sinenko SA, Martinez-Agosto JA, Banerjee U. Interaction between Differentiating Cell- and Niche-Derived Signals in Hematopoietic Progenitor Maintenance. Cell. 2011 Dec 23;147(7):1589-600. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.11.041. PMID: 22196733

  7. Mondal BC, Mukhopadhyay A, Chaudhuri U, Ganguli B, Dasgupta UB. Methylation Status of Promoter-Associated CpG Islands in Primary Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Acta Haematologica. 2008;120(4):207-10. doi: 10.1159/000193222. Epub 2009 Jan 20. PMID: 19153475 

  8. Mondal BC, Bandyopadhyay A, Majumdar S, Mukhopadhyay A, Chandra S, Chaudhuri U, Chakrabarti P, Bhattacharyya S, Dasgupta UB. Molecular profiling of chronic myeloid leukemia in eastern India. American Journal of Hematology. 2006 Nov;81(11):845-9. doi: 10.1002/ajh.20682. PMID: 16888785 

  9. Mondal BC, Majumdar S, Dasgupta UB, Chaudhuri U, Chakrabarti P, Bhattacharyya S. e19a2 BCR-ABL fusion transcript in typical chronic myeloid leukemia: a report of two cases. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 2006 Oct;59(10):1102-3.  doi: 10.1136/jcp.2005.029595.  PMID: 17021137 [IF = 3.4].1]

  10. Mondal BC, Paria N, Majumdar S, Chandra S, Mukhopadhyay A, Chaudhuri, U, Dasgupta UB. Glutathione-S-transferase M1 and T1 null genotype frequency in chronic myeloid leukaemia. European Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2005 Jun;14(3):281-4.  doi: 10.1097/00008469-200506000-00014.  PMID: 15901999 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  1. Maurya D, Mondal BC*. Protocol to study DNA strand breaks during development and apoptosis using in situ nick translation in Drosophila. STAR Protocols. 2025 June 19; 6(3): 103921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103921

  2. Maurya D, Mondal BC*. Larval hematopoietic organs of multiple Drosophila species show effector caspase activity and DNA damage response. microPublication Biology. 2024 December 18. PMID: 39758584 10.17912/micropub.biology.001392

  3. Thakurta B, Hazra S, Samanta A, Nasir A, Singh AK, Maurya D, Mondal BC, Giri A, Pal BN, Pal M. One-Step Room Temperature Synthesis of Printable Carbon Quantum Dots Ink for Visual Encryption and High-Performance Photodetector. Advanced Optical Materials. 2024 October 09; 12(36), 2401886  https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202401886 

  4. Goins L, Girard JR, Mondal BC, Buran, Su C, Tang R, Biswas T, Banerjee U. Wnt signaling couples G2 phase control with differentiation during hematopoiesis in Drosophila. Developmental Cell. 2024 Sep 23;59(18):2477-2496.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2024.05.023  PMID: 38866012 [IF 

  5. Maurya D, Rai G, Mandal D, Mondal BC*.  Transient caspase-mediated activation of Caspase-Activated DNase causes DNA damage required for phagocytic macrophage differentiation. Cell Reports. 2024 May 28; 43(5): 114251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114251 PMID: 38761374 

  6. Evans CJ, Olson JM, Mondal BC,……………..………, Banerjee U. A functional genomics screen identifying blood cell development genes in Drosophila by undergraduates participating in a course-based research experience. G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics. 2021 Jan 18;11(1):jkaa028.    doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkaa028.   

  7. Mandal D & Mondal BC* (2024). FLP/FRT-mediated somatic recombination to generate somatic clones for studying gene function. (eds: S.C. Lakhotia & H.A. Ranganath) Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, India, 309-316 

  8. Jaiswal P, Mandal D, Biswas J, Rai G, Lakhotia SC, and Mondal BC* (2024). Study of immune response in Drosophila melanogaster (eds: S.C. Lakhotia & H.A. Ranganath), Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru, India, 375-382

  9. Maurya D, Mondal BC* (2024). The creation via destruction: Caspase-activated DNase causes DNA strand breaks to regulate macrophage differentiation. ISCB Newsletter. 48 (1): 29-33.

Patents (if any)

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