Vol I, Issue II. Duration: January 2010 to July 2010.
Bio-sys
@ Heritage
Outstanding success in GATE 2010 Inside Bio-sys
Cover Story – “Outstanding Success in GATE, 2010”
Sports Fiesta @ Biotech
Events @ Biotech
Awards and Honours
Departmental publications
Placements of Students
Students for higher studies
Dakshh 2010
The last semester was another stepping stone for success in the Department of Biotechnology, Heritage Institute of Technology. Its progress and breakthroughs propose a promising picture which will leave nobody in doubt about the Department’s excellence if one examines the statistics put forward here. On a self-congratulatory note the department brings forth another edition of the newsletter highlighting a glittering view of what came to pass and how it has changed and brought the department to the forefront. Newer ventures, changes, breakthroughs, publications, intradepartmental masterminded activities seem overshadowed by the remarkable performance of the GATE candidates this year. Of the 30 prestigious rank holders of our department, the statistics prove beyond doubt of our steady input of achievements from all years: B. Tech, M. Tech, as well as the pass outs. The success of the 3rd year B.Tech Shounak Banerjee (GATE All India Rank: 20) proves beyond doubt the ability of our students
to fore-plan their career and venture into unbidden success and surpass all. Archita Ghoshal (AIR: 200), Reeshab Goenka ( AIR: 335) top the unending picture. Sayani Das (AIR: 24) rose from among lakhs of candidates and has topped the GATE candidates from B. Tech 4th Year along with fellow students Anwesha Ghosh (AIR: 33), Ishita Paul (AIR: 89), Mishtu Mukherjeee (AIR: 119) making it to the top cream of a long list. M. Tech (2nd year ) Debashis Kar (AIR: 1331),(1st Year) Susmita Ghatak (AIR: 1398); 2009 pass out: Debdutta Bhattachrya (AIR: 704), Disharee Das (AIR: 711), Dipmoy Nath (AIR: 1068) have come to form the new face of our department worldwide ,joining hands with millions across the world, building thoughts into facts: making us proud to call them “Biotechnologists of
Tomorrow ”.
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Editorial The Department of Biotechnology, HITK has been our home for three years now – a sufficiently long time to know and understand the nooks and crannies of BBuilding as well as the temperaments of each of our teachers! However, it is not enough time to understand the vast subject of biotechnology and its ever-expanding reach into its neighbouring sciences. Nevertheless, the past academic year was one of much advancement within and outside of the department. The departmental teachers’ work was published in various reputed scientific journals and they participated in several conferences, both national and international. On the other hand, the students participated in seminars, workshops and programmes dedicated to the biosciences. In every one of these programmes, our students and teachers shone brightly as beacons of knowledge and future greats in the field of biotechnology. Within the college, our students have shown that they do not box themselves in the realm of academia. The Annual Sports Day saw the students of the department come back victoriously with many prizes and accolades. The students also participated in the tech fest of the college, Dakshh ’10 and won quite a few prizes! So do enjoy reading through Bio-Sys’ second issue – which could not have been possible without the support of Prof. Subhabrata Sengupta, Mr. Riddhi Goswami and Dr. Srabanti Basu as well as the rest of the faculty and their encouragement. Saurabh Kumar Singh & T.C.A. Lakshmi Narasimhan. 3rd Year, Biotechnology.
Events in 2010 Student News Our Students participated in the IISER Kolkata Science Day programme EXSCITE 2010 on the 6th of March, 2010. Neha Chetlangia and Samayita Chakraborty of our department won the first prize in the poster competition. Shounak Banerjee, Rahul Sureka and Bhaskar Chatterjee won the second prize in the quiz competition. HITK won the prize for the best college in the programme. Amit Kumar Singh (M. Tech. 2nd yr) participated in the National Workshop “Statistics in Genomics”, organized by the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, between the 12th and 14th of January, 2010. Four B. Tech. 3rd yr students got selected in the Indian Academy of Sciences Summer Research Fellowship Programme 2010:Samayita Chakraborty under Prof. Anupam Chatterjee at NEHU, Shillong. Bhaskar Kumar Chatterjee under Prof. Anil Grover at the University of Delhi (South Campus). Rahul Sureka under Dr. Neeraja Krishna at IISc Bangalore. Sudeshna Guha Thakurta under Prof. Vijaylakshmi Rabindranath at IISc Bangalore.
Faculty News Prof. Subhabrata Sengupta delivered an invited lecture on “Glycosidase Inhibitors: Therapies for the Future” in the National Conference on Glimpses of Molecular, Medical and Marine Biotechnology, organized by ITME, Kolkata, 26th and 27th March 2010. Dr. Srabanti Basu delivered an invited lecture on “Non-Nutritional Values of Herbal Foods” organised by Techno India Salt Lake, Kolkata under TIFAC core seminar on “Herbal Foods and its Prospects” on 26th April, 2010. Prof. Subhabrata Sengupta delivered an invited lecture on the Refresher Course on “Recent Advances in Fermentation Technology” organized by Department of Food Technology and Biochemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Mr. Riddhi Goswami and Ms. Sudipta Dey participated in the Refresher Course on “Recent Advances in Fermentation Technology” organized by Department of Food Technology and Biochemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Mr. Riddhi Goswami got the prize for best paper presentation (oral) in the 17th West Bengal Science and Technology Congress hosted at the WBUAFS on the 4th and 5th of March, 2010.
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Journal publications in 2010 1. D. Soren., ML Jana, S. Sengupta, AK Ghosh (2010) Purification and characterization of a low molecular weight endoxylanase from mushroom Termitomyces clypeatus. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 162(2):373-89. 2. Ghosh A, Bhagat M, Das M, Bala SK, Goswami R, Pal S. (2010) Prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors in people of Asian Indian origin: Age and sex variation. Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research. 1(2):81-85. 3. Minakshi Bhagat, Sangita Mukherjee, Priyanka De, Riddhi Goswami, Mithun Das, Arnab Ghosh. (2010) Clustering of Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors in AsianIndian Women: Santiniketan Women Study. Menopause. 17(2):359-64. 4. Soma Banerjee and Riddhi Goswami. (2010) GST profile expression study in some selected plants - in silico approach. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry. 336(1-2):109-26. 5. Aparupa Bhattacharya, Susmita Dutta, Parameshwar De, Parthasarathi Ray, Srabanti Basu. (2010) Removal of Mercury (II) from aqueous solution using papain immobilized alginate beads: optimization of immobilization conditions and modeling of removal study. Bioresource Technology. (Accepted) 6. Sudipta Dey and Somnath Mukherjee. (2010) Kinetic study for an aerobic packed bed biofilm reactor for treatment of organic wastewater with and without phenol. Journal of Water Resources and Protection. (Accepted) 7. Sudipta Dey and Somnath Mukherjee. (2010) Performance and kinetic evaluation of phenol biodegradation by mixed microbial culture in a batch reactor. International Journal of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. 2(3): 40-49. 8. Abhishek Mukherjee, Anil K Ghosh, Subhabrata Sengupta. (2010) Purification and characterization of a thiol amylase overproduced by a non-cereal, non-leguminous plant, Tinospora cordifolia. Carbohydrate Research. (Accepted) 9. Tapan K Ghosh (2010) A Novel Concept to Modify Airlift Reactor. International Journal of Chemical engineering research. 2(2): 133-138.
Placements of BT students in 2010 Company placed Tata Consultancy Services Infosys Technologies Limited Wipro Technologies IBM Company placed
Infosys Technologies Limited
No. of B.Tech students 2 10 12 2 No. of M.Tech students 1
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Conference Publications in 2010 National publications
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Interational publications
Science Day Celebrations On the 25th of February, 2010 the National Science Day was celebrated in the college. The department organized a seminar whose guest lecturers included:Chief Guest: Dr. Hemanta Kumar Majumder, Working Chairman, Department of Science &Technology, Govt. of West Bengal. Dr. Sekhar Chakrabarty, Sr. Deputy Director, NICED, Kolkata. Dr. N.C. Mondal, Emeritus Professor, Bose Institute, Kolkata. Dr. Maitrayee Dasgupta, Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta. This session was followed by a debate on “Bt Brinjal is Safe for India” that was presided over by Dr. Dasgupta. The best speaker for the motion was Afia Dasgupta of 3rd year and best speaker against the motion was Chris Mallika Bhadra of 4 th year. The students also hosted a poster competition that showed off the creativity as well as the knowledge that the students of this department possessed in which Debapratim Dutta and Rahul Sureka of 3rd year won the first prize.
DAKSHH 2010 Biotechnology students won many awards in the recently concluded Tech Fest Dakshh ’10. Joydeep Chakroborty (3 rd year Biotech) added another feather to his cap by winning the Biosensors event.
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Pass-out Students going for Higher Education – 2009 and 2010 Sno. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Degree/ Job
University/Research Institute/Industry
Name of students
MS Biomedical Sciences MS Biomedical Sciences MS Microbiology PhD Microbiology PhD Biomedical Sciences PhD Biomedical Sciences PhD in Dept of Biological Sciences M.Tech. Agricultural Systems Management M.Tech. Biochemical Engg. & Biotech M.Tech. Biotechnology & Bioengineering PhD Biotechnology M.Tech. Biotechnology M.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology M.Tech. Chemical Engineering PhD in Health Sciences Center PhD. Biotechnology PhD Programme M.Tech. Industrial Biotechnology M.Tech. Biotechnology
State University of New York, USA University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA University of Kansas, USA Clemson University, USA University of Central Florida, USA University of Central Florida, USA University of Utah, USA IIT Kharagpur IIT Delhi IIT Kanpur IIT Guwahati Anna University NIT Surathkal NIT Rourkela University of Tennessee, USA IIT Guwahati IISc Bangalore Manipal University Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
Dipmoy Nath (’09) Disharee Das (’09) Anindita Basu (’09) Sambuddha Basu (’09) Satadru K. Lahiri (’09) Debarati Mukherjee (’09) Anwesha Ghosh Ishita Paul Sayoni Das Mishtu Mukherjee Suradip Das Akash Bhattacharya Anindya Das Sreerupa Sarkar Nivesh Mittal (M.Tech.) Soumadeep Chakraborty (M.Tech) Sarmistha Naskar (M.Tech.) Upasana Kejriwal Ishani Das
Sports Day The College Annual Sports 2010 was organized on the 26th and 27th of February. The Basketball and Tug of War events were swept clean by both the BT boys’ and BT girls’ teams. In the 100m sprint (Girls) Swetalini Kumari (1st yr) and Soumi Chattopadhyay (2nd yr) grabbed the 1 st and 2nd positions respectively.
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Student
Team for Bio-Sys Editors T.C.A. Lakshmi Narasimhan. Saurabh Kumar Singh. Article Desk Soumi Chattopadhyay.
B.Tech – 3rd Year Shounak Banerjee Archita Ghoshal Reeshab Goenka Mayank Jajodia Neha Arora Samayita Chakraborty Snehashis Sengupta Bhaskar Chatterjee Amrita Chowdhury B.Tech – 4th Year Sayani Das Anwesha Ghosh Ishita Pal Mishtu Mukherjee
All India Rank
20 200 335 406 998 1063 1088 1134 1260
24 33 89 119
B.Tech – 4th Year contd. Richa Sharma Suradip Das Upasana Kejriwal Akash Bhattacharya Rukmini Roy Anindya Basu Sreerupa Sarkar Parnab Das Ishani Das Abhieshek Dutta Sayani Goswami Sarbadeb Kundu
127 137 144 200 243 335 359 401 571 799 902 1660
M.Tech. Debashis Kar Susmita Ghatak
1331 1398
2009 Pass-Outs Debdutta Bhattacharyya Disharee Das Dipmoy Nath
704 711 1068
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