Specialisation: Molecular Biology and Genomics

Academic qualifications:

• Bethune College; University of Calcutta : B. Sc. in Chemistry Honours
• University of Calcutta : M. Sc. in Biochemistry
• University of Calcutta : Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Indian Institute of Chemical Biology)

Positions held/ holding:

• Post-Doctoral Fellow: Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1998- 2000.
• Senior Research Associate, Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2001-2005
• Visiting Scientist, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 2002
• Lecturer, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, April, 2005
• Assistant Professor (stage II & III): April 2009- March 2017
• Associate Professor, April 2017-till date

Research interests:

• Molecular basis of progression of complex disorders: prostate cancer and type 2 diabetes mellitus
• Genetic and biological underpinning of individuals susceptibility of human malaria
• Host-parasite interaction: relating genetic diversity with evolution and function

Select list of publications:

1. Diversity analysis of MSP1 identifies conserved epitope organization in block 2 amidst high sequence variability in Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Ghoshal S, Gajendra P, Datta Kanjilal S, Mitra M, Sengupta S. Malar J. 2018 Dec 3;17(1):447
2. Deciphering genetic regulation of CD14 by SP1 through characterization of peripheral blood mononuclear transcriptome of P. faiciparum and P. vivax infected malaria patients. Chakraborty B, Mondal P, Gajendra P, Mitra M, Das C, Sengupta S. EBioMedicine. 2018 Nov;37:442-452.
3. Endorsing cellular competitiveness in aberrant epithelium of oral submucous fibrosis progression: neighbourhood analysis of immunohistochemical attributes. Anura A, Kazi A, Pal M, Paul RR, Sengupta S, Chatterjee J. Histochem Cell Biol. 2018 Jul;150(1):61-75