ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Bomba Dam</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .text { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 13pt} .subtext { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20pt} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#A3A3C0" text="#750000" link="#9F5000" vlink="#9F5000" alink="#9F5000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"> <table width="94%" border="0" align="left"> <tr> <td height="283" valign="top" align="center" width="3%" rowspan="2"> <div align="center"></div> </td> <td height="30" valign="top" align="center" colspan="2"> <div align="center" color="#750000"><b><font color="#750000" size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Faculty Member</font></b></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="206" valign="top" align="center" width="37%"><img src="Bomba-Dam.jpg" width="186" height="233"></td> <td height="206" valign="top" align="center" width="60%"> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Bomba Dam</font> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF" align="left"><br></font></b> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Lecturer</font> </font><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br> <font color="#333333">_________________________________</font></font></font></p> <p align="left" class="text"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2">Department<span class="text"> <font class="subtext"><br> </font></span></font> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font color="#660000">Botany</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="3%" height="2">&nbsp;</td> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="2">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="3%" height="26"> <p align="left">&nbsp;</p> </td> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="26" valign="top"> <table width="92%" border="1" align="center" class="text" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" height="90"> <tr><td colspan="4" height="50"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Qualification:</b><br> M.Sc., Ph.D.<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="50"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Contact Address: </b><br> Lecturer, Department of Botany, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="50"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Email:</b><br> bumba_micro@visva-bharati.ac.in; bumba_micro@rediffmail.com<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="50"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Fax: </b><br> 03463-262728<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="50"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Phone numbers (mobile and/or landline): </b><br> +91-3463-262751-6 (6 lines) Ext. 382 (O), <br> +91-9231853685 (M)<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="50"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Research areas:</b><br> §ð Bacterial physiology and metabolism: Bioenergetics, Autotrophy and Chemolithotrophy Bacterial taxonomy, molecular phylogeny<br> Molecular Mutagenesis: special reference to Transposon mutagenesis<br> Genomics and Bioinformatics <br> Molecular characterization of wild replicons and plasmids<br> Understanding molecular mechanism of Plasmid replication and Plasmid partitioning/segregation<br> Regulation of gene expression: protein-nucleic acid and protein-protein interaction<br> Type IV secretion system and their role in bacterial pathogenesis<br> UV and chemical mutagenic repair mechanism<br> <br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="100"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Awards and Honours:</b><br> &#149; National Eligibility Test (NET)  CSIR Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Lectureship (LS), 2003. (Remarks: Stood among the first 20% of the qualified candidate (Qualified for the Shyamaprasad, (SPM) Fellowship Test, CSIR).<br> &#149; State Level Eligibility Test (SLET - 2003), for Research and Lectureship. <br> &#149; Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE - 2003).<br> &#149; Recipient of North Bengal University Gold Medal for standing 1st Class 1st in B. Sc. Examination <br> &#149; Recipient of North Bengal University Gold Medal for standing 1st Class 1st (with Distinction Marks) in M. Sc. Examination <br> &#149; National Scholarship, Government of West Bengal, from January 2001  September 2002.<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="100"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Significant publications :</b><br> &#149; Dam B, Mandal S, Ghosh W, Das Gupta S K, and Roy P. (2007) The S4-intermediate pathway for the oxidation of thiosulfate by the chemolithoautotroph Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis and inhibition of tetrathionate oxidation by sulfite. Research in Microbiology, 158: 330-338. (impact factor = 2.154)<br> &#149; Mandal S, Chaterjee S, Dam B, Roy P, and Das Gupta S K. (2007) The dimeric repressor SoxR binds cooperatively to the promoter(s) regulating expression of the sulfur oxidation (sox) operon of Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Microbiology, 153: 80-91. (impact factor = 0.638)<br> &#149; Lahiri C, Mandal S, Ghosh W, Dam B and Roy P. (2006) A novel gene cluster soxSRT is essential for the chemolithotrophic oxidation of thiosulfate and tetrathionate by Pseudaminobacter salicylatoxidans KCT001. Current Microbiology, 52: 267-273. (impact factor = 1.330)<br> &#149; Ghosh W, Bagchi A, Mandal S, Dam B and Roy P. (2005) Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 55(Pt 5):1779-87. (impact factor = 2.113)<br> </p></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="4" height="100"> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="2"><b>Patents (if any):</b><br> Sequenced and annotated around 30 Kb of both genomic and plasmid DNA of the sulfur chemolithotroph Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis and submitted it to Genbank database. This includes:<br> Genes from the moco (Molybdopterin cofactor biosynthesis) locus (5.6 Kb); Accession No. EF017216.<br> Partially complete nucleotide sequence of the plasmid pBTK445 (~24.5 Kb); Accession No. EU585932.<br> </p></td></tr> </table> <table width="5%" border="0" height="600"> <tr> <td background="file://///Web/g/visva-Bharati-final/Faculty/faculties/vidya_bhavana/b.gif">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>