Dr. Mrs. Jolly Basak
Lecturer
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Department
Centre for Biotechnology

Areas of Specialisation

Contact Address
Lecturer, Centre for Biotechnology, Visva-Bharati
Siksha Bhavana, Santiniketan 731235, West Bengal

Email, landline & mobile phone no
jolly.basak@visva-bharati.ac.in , jollybasa@yahoo.com
Phone No. (OFF): + 91 23539458, 9432369170

Research Areas
1.Biochemistry of the highly complex host-pathogen interaction system in plants [Specific aims: systematic analyses of the transcriptome and metabolome, correlation of expression pattern of genes with the accumulation pattern of metabolites using analytical chemistry and metabolite profiling].;

Awards and Honours
1.  Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2006
2. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 2006
3. Sir Nilratan Sarkar Best Ph.D. Student Award of Bose Institute, 2004.
4. National Eligibility Test (NET, CSIR) & DBT Research Fellowship for Ph.D., 2000.
5. Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 1999.

Representative publication (Maximum 5, in last 5 years)
1. Frascaria-Lacoste N, Fernandez-Manjarres JF, Basak J, Gerard PR, Bertolino P, Dufour J, Cruaud C, Couloux A and Massot S. Diversité nucléotidique pour le gène PHANTASTICA (PHAN) le long d'un gradient altitudinal chez le frêne commun (Fraxinus excelsior L.) et chez le frêne oxyphylle (Fraxinus angustifolia Valh). Genetics Selection Evolution. (in press).
2. Pal A, Chakrabarti A and Basak J. New motifs within the NB-ARC domain of R proteins: Probable mechanisms of integration of geminiviral signatures within the host species of Fabaceae family and implications in conferring disease resistance. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2007. 246(3):564-73.
3. Das M, Bhattacharya S, Basak J, and Pal A. Phylogenetic relationships among the bamboo species as revealed by morphological characters and polymorphism analyses. Biologia Plantarum. 2007. 51 (4): 667-672.
4. Basak J, Kundu S and Pal A. Phylogenetic analysis of divergent structural organization of nucleotide binding domain encoded by resistance genes and gene homologs in the family Fabaceae. Indian Journal of Biotechnology. 2007. 6: 9-17.
5. Basak J and Bahadur RP. Theoretical model of the three dimensional structure of a disease resistance gene homolog encoding resistance protein in Vigna mungo. Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics. 2006. 24:123-30.

Research Projects