Qualification:
M.Sc., Ph.D.

Contact Address:
Professor, Department of Botany, Siksha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan - 731235

Email:
sksenvb@rediffmail.com, sukanta_micro@visva-bharati.ac.in

Fax:
03463-262728

Phone numbers (mobile and/or landline):
+91-3463-262751-6 (6 lines) Ext. 382 (O)
+91-3463-261686 (direct) /+919832124119 (Mobile)

Research areas:
Production of microbial metabolites

Awards and Honours:
• UGC Career Award, 2001
•Fellow West Bengal academy of Science & Technology
•Fellow of Science & Society

Ten Significant publications :
• Mukherjee, G., Singh, R.K, Mitra, A. and Sen, S.K. 2007. Production of ferulic acid esterase by Streptomyces sp. Bioresource Technology. 98: 211 – 213. (impact factor = 4.253)
•Ghosh, S., Sachan, A., Sen, S.K. and Mitra, A. 2007. Microbial transformation of ferulic acid to vanillic acid by Streptomyces sannensis MTCC 6637. Journal of Industrial Microbioloy and Biotechnology. 34: 131-138. (impact factor = 1.798)
•Roy, R.N., Laskar, S. and Sen, S.K. 2006. Dibuty phthalate, the bioactive compound produced by Streptomyces albidoflabus. 321. 2. Microbial Research. 161: 121-126. (impact factor = 1.771)
•Mukherjee, G. and Sen, S.K. 2006. Purification, characterization and antifungal activity by Streptomyces venezuelae P10. Current Microbiology. 53: 265-269. (impact factor = 1.330)
•Sachan, A., Ghosh, S., Sen, S.K., and Mitra, A. 2006. Co-production of caffeic acid and p- hydroxybenzoic acid from p-coumaric acid by Streptomyces caeruleus MTCC6638. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 71: 720 - 727. (impact factor = 2.896)
•Bairagi, A., K. Sarkar Ghosh, S. K. Sen and A. K. Ray .2004. Evaluation of the nutritive value of Leucaena leucocephala leaf meal inoculated with fish intestinal bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus circulans in formulated diets for rohu, Labeo rohita (Hamilton) fingerlings. Aquaculture Research.35, 436-446. (impact factor = 1.099)
•Sen,S.K. and Chatterjee,S.P. 1989. Influence of B-vitamins and trace element of lysine overproducing Micrococcus varians 2Fa. Acta Biotechnologica. 9 : 45-49. (impact factor = 0.021
•Sen,S.K. 1985. Isolation method of lysine overproducers from hydrocarbon utilisers. Acta Biotechnologica. 5: 379-381. (impact factor = 0.021)
•Sen,S.K. and Chatterjee,S.P. 1985. :Influnece of antibiotic and trace salts on lysine producing Arthrobacter globiformis. Acta Biotechnologica. 5: 215-218. (impact factor = 0.021)

Book Chapter:
• Shelly Sinha, Pritam Chattopadhyay and Sukanta K Sen. 2012. Microbial degradation of recalcitrant PAHs – Microbial diversity involving remediation process. In Microbial degradation of xenobiotics. S N Singh (Ed), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, pp 395-410.

Number of Ph.D students produced :
18