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Dr. Kausik Bhattacharyya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Bioscience and Technology. He has more than 12 years of research experience in Infectious Disease biology, Microbiology, Genomics and Bioinformatics and 6 years of experience teaching Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Delhi. He has completed his Ph.D. from Department of Biomedical Sciences (ACBR), University of Delhi, where he worked on whole genome variations and functional genomics with Clinical Isolates of M. tuberculosis. Before joining Ph.D., he has worked as a junior Team Mentor and Project Fellow in the area of drug discovery project of Tuberculosis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Drug_Discovery) at CSIR, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi and as a visiting researcher at Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh. He has contributed to the development of Indian Genetic Disease Database (https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Indian_Genetic_Disease_Database) during his training at CSIR, Indian Institute of Chemical biology (IICB), Kolkata. Dr. Kausik has undergone initial post-doctoral training at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and later at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning and Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore where he worked on habitat specific bacterial behaviour, bacterial gene expression and Antibiotic Microbial Resistance (AMR). He has developed skills in both Bioinformatics (genomics and transcriptomics) as well as Wet lab experiments involving Microbiology, Molecular biology, Animal Cell Culture and Microscopy. Email: kausik.bhattacharyya@mitwpu.edu.in

Awards: CSIR, OSDD Best Annotator, Travel Bursary, Indian Immunology foundation for attending 7-day workshop at EMBL-EBI Cambridge, UK.

Research Areas: Infectious diseases, Inter Microbial interaction, Habitat Specific bacterial interaction and behaviour, Microbiome.

Publications:

1. Bhattacharyya K, Nemaysh V, Joon M, Pratap R, Varma-Basil M, Bose M, Brahmachari V. Correlation of drug resistance with single nucleotide variations through genome analysis and experimental validation in a multi-drug resistant clinical isolate of M. tuberculosis. BMC microbiology. 2020 Dec;20(1):1-14. [IF:4.465]

2. Bhattacharyya K, Bandopadhyay U, Singh A, Prakash A, Nemaysh V, Jain S, Varma- Basil M, Lynn AM, Bose M, Luthra PM, Natarajan K. Modulation of macrophage defense responses by Mycobacterial persistence protein MprA (Rv0981) in human THP-1 cells: effect of single amino acid variation on host-pathogen interactions. bioRxiv. 2020 Apr 28:2020-04.

3. Maini J, Pathak AK, Bhattacharyya K, Kumar N, Narang A, Jain N, Singh I, Dhingra V, Brahmachari V. Human PRE-PIK3C2B exhibits long-range intra-and inter-chromosomal interactions with genomic regions enriched in repressive marks. bioRxiv. 2020 Nov 11:2020- 11.

4. Jain S, Bhattacharyya K, Bakshi R, Narang A, Brahmachari V. Distinguishing between biochemical and cellular function: A re there peptide signatures for cellular function of proteins? Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. 2017 Apr;85(4):682-93. [IF: 4.088]

5. Bandyopadhyay U, Chadha A, Gupta P, Tiwari B, Bhattacharyya K, Popli S, Raman R, Brahamachari V, Singh Y, Malhotra P, Natarajan K. Suppression of Toll-like receptor 2–mediated proinflammatory responses by Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein Rv3529c. Journal of leukocyte biology. 2017 Nov;102(5):1249-59. [IF: 6.011]

6. Shrivastava K, Garima K, Narang A, Bhattacharyya K, Vishnoi E, Singh RK, Chaudhry A, Prasad R, Bose M, Varma-Basil M. Rv1458c: a new diagnostic marker for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in a novel duplex PCR assay. Journal of medical microbiology. 2017 Mar;66(3):371-6. [IF: 3.196]

7. Ghosh S, Matsuoka Y, Asai Y, Kitano H, Bhardwaj A, Scaria V, Vashisht R, Shah A, Mondal AK, Vishnoi P, Sonal K, Jain A, Priyadarshini P, Bhattacharyya K, Kumar V, Passi A, Pratibha Sharma P, Brahmachari S. Software platform for metabolic network reconstruction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Systems Biology of Tuberculosis. Springer, New York, 2013: pp 21–35. (Book Chapter)

8. Vashisht R, Mondal AK, Jain A, Shah A, Vishnoi P, Priyadarshini P, Bhattacharyya K, et al. …Crowd sourcing a new paradigm for interactome driven drug target identification in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PloS one. 2012 Jul 11;7(7):e39808. (Joint 1st Author) [IF:3.752]

9. Pradhan S, Sengupta M, Dutta A, Bhattacharyya K, Bag SK, Dutta C, Ray K. Indian genetic disease database. Nucleic acids research. 2010 Oct 30;39(suppl_1):D933-8. [Featured Article]. [IF: 19.16].

Google scholar Link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=i2-RsmIAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus id : 55313145700

ORCID id : 0000-0002-4033-676X

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