Awards

University Grants Commission-Junior Research Fellowship
Qualified National Eligibility Test for this Award in December, 1995.
Tenure: July, 1996–-July, 2001.
Recipient of S. R. Moitra Memorial Gold Medal for securing First Class First position in Physiology (Hons.) in University of Calcutta, 1994.
Recipient of Nirodh Baran Bakshi Memorial Prize for having secured the highest marks in B. Sc. Examination, 1994.
Recipient of S. C. Mahalanabis Memorial Prize for having secured the highest marks in Physiology in B. Sc. Examination, 1994.
Recipient of National scholarship, Govt. of India, 1994-1996.

Research Experience

Basic Molecular Biology techniques: restriction digestion, ligation, transformation, cloning, PCR, Northern blotting, Southern blotting, deletions using Exonuclease III, Western blotting.
Sequencing of DNA and its analysis using GenePro, pcgene, BLAST, CLUSTALW programs. Basic Microbiological techniques like culturing and maintenance of Candida albicans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and E.coli.
Gene disruption in Candida albicans, using conventional Ura-blaster technique and PCR-based approach. Complementation of mutant strains with genes cloned in statement vectors.
Morphogenesis in Candida albicans and detailed study of the same in both solid and liquid media.
Biochemical assays like radioactive incorporation of amino acids and sugars and enzyme immunoassays.