Sudeshna Sengupta

Name

Sudeshna Sengupta

Designation

Project Manager

Education

  •  Doctor of Philosophy: Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras
  •  Master of Science: Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology, University of Calcutta
  •  Bachelor of Science: Department of Human Physiology, Presidency College, University of Calcutta

Email

sudeshna.mems@ee.iitm.ac.in

Office Location

ESB 002

Research Experience

  • Senior Scientist, Bioincubator, IIT Madras Research park
  •  Scientist I, Institute of Chemical and Engg. Sciences; Singapore
  •  Postdoctoral Research, Department of Electrical Engineering; IIT Madras
  •  Ph.D. Research, Department of Biotechnology; IIT Madras
  •  ISJRP (Indo Swiss Joint Research Programme) Fellow, Basel; Switzerland
  •  Research Assistant, Department of Pathology University of California at Los Angeles

Honours And Awards

  •  Awarded the Indo-Swiss joint research fellowship (ISJRP) to work at Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland Dec, 2008.
  •  Awarded the WOMEN SCIENTISTS SCHEME (WOS-A) fellowship as Principle investigator, from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for 3 yrs from July 2012.

Research Publications

Refereed journal articles

  •  Sengupta, S., Chandra, T. S. 2010. Molecular and structural characterization of GTP- cyclohydrolase II in Eremothecium ashbyi NRRL Y-1363: cDNA cloning, comparative sequence analysis and molecular modelling. Fungal biology 114: 731 -738.
  •  Sengupta, S., Chandra, T. S. 2011. Sequence analysis and structural characterization of a glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene from the phytopathogenic fungus Eremothecium ashbyi. Mycopathologia 171: 123-131.
  •  Sengupta, S., Chandra, T. S. 2011. Isolation and application of pyruvate kinase gene as a genetic marker for phylogenetic studies in the phytopathogenic fungus Eremothecium ashbyi. International journal of advanced Biotechnology and Research 2(4): 457-467.
  •  Sengupta, S., Kaufmann, A., Chandra, T. S. 2012. Development of fluorescent reporter tagged RIB gene cassettes for replicative transformation, expression and enhanced riboflavin production in Eremothecium ashbyi. Fungal biology 116(10): 1042–1051. (IF- 2.92)
  •  Sengupta, S., Kaufmann, A., Chandra, T. S. 2013. Live cell fluorescence imaging for early expression and localization of RIB1 and RIB3 genes in Ashbya gossypii. Journal of Basic Microbiology 00: 1–7. (IF 1.395)
  •  Sengupta, S., Chandra, T. S. 2013. Antagonistic effect of myo-inositol on riboflavin production in two riboflavinogenic fungi Ashbya gossypii and Eremothecium ashbyi. Mycoscience 54: 429 -432. (IF 1.418)
  •  Achar, H.V.B., Sengupta S and Bhattacharya, E. (2013). Fabrication of ultrathin silicon nanoporous membranes and their application in filtering industrially important biomolecules. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 12(4): 583-588. (IF 1.825)
  •  Sudeshna Sengupta, Sudhakar Jonnalagadda, Lakshani Goonewardena and Veeresh Juturu 2015. Metabolic engineering of a novel muconic acid biosynthetic pathway via 4-hydroxybenzoic acid in Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (81:8037-8043). (IF 3.688)
  •  Priyanka Bhadra, Sudeshna Sengupta, Noel Prashant Ratchagar, Balachandra Achar, Anju Chadha and Enakshi Bhattacharya 2016. Study of microorganism filtration and selective transportation of charged ZnO nanoparticles through silicon nanoporous membranes. Journal of Membrane Science (503:16-20). (IF 5.056)