EVALUATIVE REPORT 1. Name of the department: MICROBIOLOGY 2. Year of Establishment: UG 2003 3. Names of Programmes/ Courses offered: (UG, PG, MPhil, PhD, Integrated Masters, Integrated PhD etc. 4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/ units involved 5. Annual/ semester/ choice based credit system (programme wise) UG (Hons.) B.Voc (Industrial Aquaculture) ENVSc. P.G. Add-on (Hospital Waste Disposal Management) UG Annual System as per University or Calcutta Norms 6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments COURSE FACULTY PARTICIPATION AS B.Voc (Industrial Mr. Nirmalya Chakraborty Teaching Aquaculture) ENVS P.G. Dr. Kuntal Kanti Goswami Teaching/ Examination ENVS P.G. Mrs. Parbatee Nag Examination Add-on (Hospital Waste Disposal Management) Mrs. anjana Bose Teaching 7. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign institutions etc. 8. Details of courses/ programmes discontinued (if any) with reasons 9. Number of Teaching posts sanctioned and filled Professor Sanctioned Filled Associate Professor Assistant Professor 683
CWTT 3 3 PTT 1 1 Guest Teacher 2 10 Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization, (D.Sc./ D.Litt./ Ph.D./ M. Phil. etc.) Name Qualification Designation Specialization No. of Years of Exp. Dr. Soma Halder M.Sc, M.Tech, PhD Assistant Professor Botany (Microbiology, Plant Biotechnology) 14 No. of PhD stdnts Mr. Nirmalya M.Sc, M.Phil CWTT Microbiology 12 - Chakraborty Mrs. Parbatee Nag M.Sc CWTT Biochemistry 12 - Dr. Kuntal Kanti Goswami M.Sc CWTT Microbiology and Cancer Immunology 2 - M.Sc PTT Microbiology 12 - Mrs. anjana Bose Dr. Aniruddha M.Sc, PhD Guest Teacher Organic 10 - Sinha Chemistry Mr. Chinmoy Saha M.Sc Guest Teacher Genetics 1 - Dr.oy M.Sc, PhD Guest Teacher Microbiology 1 - Samaddar (2011-2013) Mrs. Antara Pal (2010-2014) M.Sc Guest teacher Microbiology 4-11. List of senior visiting Visiting Faculty Institute faculty 12 Percentage of lectures delivered by temporary faculty 20% 13. Student -Teacher Ratio (programme wise) Session UG 2011-12 40:1 2012-13 29:1 2013-14 29:1 2014-15 31:1-684
14. Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff; sanctioned and filled 15. Qualifications of teaching faculty with D.Sc./Ph.D./ MPhil/PG 16. Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and grants received: 17 Departmental projects funded by DST-FIST; UGC, DBT, ICSSR, etc. 18. Research Centre/ facility recognized by the POST SANCTIONED FILLED GLI Laboratory 1 1 Assistant Laboratory Attendant 2 2 PhD- 2 M.Phil-1 M.Sc-4 National: 1 Project Name: Isolation of Potent antagonistic soil bacteria and their effect to prevent different plant disease producing fungus. Faculty Name: Mr. Nirmalya Chakraborty Sanctioned amount: 4.9 lacks UGC Scheme: UGC Minor Project University 19. Publications: a) Publication per faculty b) Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (bl. national /b2.international) by faculty and students c) Number of publications listed in International Database (For Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) d) Monographs e) Chapter in Books f) Books Edited g) Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers h) Citation Index i) SNIP j) SJR k) Impact factor l) h-index FACULTY a b1 b2 c d e f g h i j k l Mr. Nirmalya Chakraborty 1 1 Dr. Kuntal Kanti Goswami 10 10 1 Mr. Chinmoy Saha 3 685
PUBLICATION LIST : IN ANNEXURE TO 20. Areas of consultancy and income generated: 21. Faculty as members in a) National Committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Boards. a)national Committees b) International Committees c) Editorial Board 22. Student projects a) Percentage of students who have done inhouse projects including inter departmental/ programme b) Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/ Industry/ other agencies 23. Awards/ Recognitions received by faculty and students: AWARD RECEIVED BY STUDENTS Ananda Guha Majumder Subhodeep Das SoumyaSengupta SohomSanyal Ananya Banerjee, Binita Goswami, Mohona Mukherjee, Sayan Charaborty 30% of UG (Hons.) students do project on their own interest on different areas as follows: i. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants ii. Isolation and Characterisation of petroleum degrading bacteria. iii. Quorum sensing of bacteria 10% of UG (Hons.) students do project on their own interest on various fields in institutes like- CNCI NICED IPGMER NAME AWARD SESSION 19 th Dipta memorial Symposium ; 2011 (Science quiz competition) Position: First Prize 20 th Dipta memorial symposium ; (Science quiz competition) Position : Second Prize National seminars on Modern Trends in Microbiology Chapter IX: St. Xavier s College (Poster Presentation) 1 st Position 2012 2012 Abhrajyoti Chakrabarti, Aripriya Roy Ananya Banerjee, Binita Goswami, Sujata Deb, Sazia Begum 2 nd runner up National seminars on Modern Trends in Microbiology Chapter X: (Poster Presentation) 1 st position 2013 686
Simanti Pal Debalina Halder Debayan Dey Ananda Guha Majumdar Bhuban Chandra Paul Memorial and Roma Roy Memorial Bhuban Chandra Paul Memorial and Roma Roy Memorial Bhuban Chandra Paul Memorial and Roma Roy Memorial Syama Prasad Mukherjee Memorial Prize Santanu Ghosh Memorial Prize Bhuban Chandra Paul Memorial and Roma Roy Memorial Prize 2014-2015 2013-2014 2012-2013 2011-2012 24. List of eminent academicians and scientists/ visitors to the department: i. Prof. Amal Kanti Pal; CU, Dept. of Botany ii. Prof. Maitryee Bhattacharya, CU, Biochemistry iii. Prof. Anirban Siddhanta, CU, Biochemistry iv. Dr. Sagarmoy Ghosh, CU, Microbiology v. Prof. Sanjay Ghosh; CU, Biochemistry vi. Dr. Aditi Nag Chowdhury; Lady Brabourne College, Microbiology 25. Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops organized & the source of funding a) National: UGC sponsored seminar on present scenario and future prospects of Microbiology and Plant Biotechnology. 3 rd and 4 th March 2011. Workshop on Preparation and antimicrobial action of silver Nanoparticles and isolation and function of macrophages. Arranged by Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry. Asutosh College (2 nd and 3 rd December 2015) Funded by College. b) International: NIL 687
26. Student profile programme/ course wise: Name of the Programme: BSc with Microbiology (Honours) (UG) Year Applicatn Received Selected Enrolled Year Pass % No. 1 st Class M F 2015-16 3045 54 15 39 2015-16 96.88% 19 2014-15 1875 83 31 52 2014-15 100% 18 (1 ST, 2 ND ) 2013-14 2216 56 26 30 2013-14 100% 19 2012-13 2105 51 20 31 2012-13 100% 19 (1 S ) NB: Admission Record of 1 st Year and Pass percentage of outgoing 3 rd Year 27. Diversity of Students Name of the Course: : BSc with MICROBIOLOGY (Honours) (UG) Year % of Students from the same state % of students from other States % of students from abroad 2015-16 98% 2% NIL 2014-15 100% NIL NIL 2013-14 100% NIL NIL 2012-13 92% 4% 4% 28 How many students have cleared national and state competitive examinations such as NET, SLET, GATE, Civil services, Defence services, etc. NET - 2014-, 2013-, 2012-6, 2011-9 GATE- 2014-, 2013-, Civil Service -1 29. Student progression: Student Progression Against % enrolled UG to PG Above 95% PG to M.Phil PG to Ph.D 50% Employed 30% Campus Selection NIL Other than campus recruitment By self searching Entrepreneurship/Self Employment NIL 30. Details of Infrastructural facilities (a) Library: Central library:428 Reading Library: 29 Seminar Library: 313 688
(b) Internet facilities for Staff & Students: Available. Details of the computer facility are given below: CONFIGURATION Laptop: Intel core i3 2 nd generation, RAM 2GB DDR3, HDD 500GB Windows 8 Desktop: Intel core i3-3220 3 rd generation, RAM 4GB DDR3, Mother Board Intel (c) Class rooms with ICT facility: ONE (d) Laboratories: 1 NUMBER 1 1 Mono ocular compound microscope (No.20), Autocleave (No. 2), 4 o C freeze (No. 3), -20 o C freeze (No. 1), Water bath (No. 2), Laminar air flow chamber (No. 1), Hot air oven (No. 1), Incubator (No. 3), P H Meter. (No. 2), Distillation chamber (No. 1), Digital balance (No. 2), Cold centrifuge(no. 1), Centrifuge (No. 1), Spin win (No. 1), Binocular microscope (No. 1) Vortex (No. 1), Gel casting tray (No. 2), Power pack (No. 4), UV transilluminator (No. 2) Micrometer (No. 10), Haemocytometer (No. 10) 31. Number of students receiving financial assistance from college, university, government or other agencies 32 Details on student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminar) with external experts: Not applicable for our department as it is self financed, instalment available. i) Career Counselling programme on 13 th September 2015 Industrial Representative: Dr. M.K. Basu from Nitrofix Research Representatives: a) Ipsita Guha (CNCI) b) Chinmoy Saha (C U) c) Sreemoyee Sarkar (WBUT) d) Shrestha Ghosh (Bose Institute) ii) 2 days workshop on Preparation and antimicrobial action of silver nanoparticles anf isolation and function of macrophages on 2-3 December 2016 Resource Persons: Dr. Aditi Nag Chaowdhury Dr. Rini Roy iii) Cancer Awareness Programme on 07/01/2016 Medical Perspective: 689
Dr. Vikram Chaturvedi Research Perspective: Dr. Manas Ranjan Ray Poster presentation by students iv) Extention Lecture on Microbiology Practical by Dr. Aditi Nag Chowdhury 33 Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning: Along with traditional chalk-and-talk method the department regularly practices the following methods to make the teaching learning more attractive. Those are: Audio Visual method Special classes are regularly taken to address the problems of the weaker students. Small research based home assignments are provided to students time to time. Extempore given by students on study topics. Collection of advanced news regarding the subject. Students have assigned time to take books from departmental library to enrich their knowledge. 34. Participation in Institutional Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities: NAME Mr. Nirmalya Chakraborty Social Responsibility (ISR) and Extension activities Examiner and Scrutiniser: Internal Examiner and External examiner of CU (UG) Microbiology. Examiner and Scrutinizer for Food and Nutrition (Hons.). Examiner and Scrutinizer for Microbiology (Hons.) Paper IIIA External examiner for ENVS (Hons.) Examiner For West Bengal State University. Examiner for Clinical Nutrition. (CU) Paper setter : C.U. Microbiology (Gen) R.K. Mission Vidyamandir Microbiology (Hons.) Moderator: R.K. Mission Vidyamandir Microbiology (Hons.) Teaching in other colleges: C.U. Home science department (Food and Nutrition Hons.) Vidyasagar University Distance ENVS PG course at Jogomaya Devi Centre. Asutosh College B.Voc course of Industrial Aquaculture. Seminar: 690
UGC sponsored seminar on Present Scenario and future prospects of Microbiology (2011) Symposium on Challenges of teaching microbiology in UG syllabus (2011) organised by University of Calcutta. Microbial structuring and its role in marine and other ecosystem functioning. CU. Biochemistry. (2014). Career Counselling programme. Arranged by Dept. Of Microbiology Asutosh College. On 13 th September 2015 Workshop on Preparation and antimicrobial action of silver nanoparticles and isolation and function of macrophages. Arranged by Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry. Asutosh College (2 nd and 3 rd December 2015) UGC sponsored Half Day seminar on Recent research prospects in Microbiology Organised By R.K.MissionVidyamandir (2012) Workshop on Microbiology Syllabus (UG) in R.K.Mission Vidyamandir.(2014) Mrs. Parbatee Nag Examiner and Scrutinizer: Internal Examiner and External examiner for CU Microbiology Scrutinizer for Food and Nutrition (Hons.). External examiner for ENVS (M.Sc.) Paper Setter: Part II Microbiology (Gen) Teaching in Other Colleges: Behala Vivekanada College for Vidyasagar University Distance Education : 2010, 2011. Seminars: UGC sponsored seminar on Present Scenario and future prospects of Microbiology (2011) Symposium on Challenges of teaching microbiology in UG syllabus (2011) organised by University of Calcutta. 691
Microbial structuring and its role in marine and other ecosystem functioning. CU. Biochemistry. (2014). Career Counselling programme. Arranged by Dept. Of Microbiology Asutosh College. On 13 th September 2015 Workshop on Preparation and antimicrobial action of silver nanoparticles and isolation and function of macrophages. Arranged by Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry. Asutosh College (2 nd and 3 rd December 2015) UGC sponsored National Seminar on Modern Biology and its impact on public health (2012) Dr. Kuntal Kanti Goswami Examiner and Scrutiniser: Internal and external examiner for CU, UG Microbiology Internal Examiner for ENVS (M.Sc part I) Practical Examination Scrutiniser for UG part-ii (Gen) Examination. Paper Setter: Part II Microbiology (Gen) Teaching in Other Colleges: BehalaVivekanada College for Vidyasagar University Distance Education : 2013, 2014. Seminars and Workshops: Paper Presentations: 30th Annual Convention of Indian Association for cancer research and International Symposium on signalling network and Cancer at IICB (2011). National conference on Interface of science and environment: (Scienviron 2011).Tropical Medicine. 39 th annual conference of Indian immunological society, BHU (2012) One day symposium on Cancer awareness Day. CNCI. (2014) Workshops Attended: National workshop on use of RDT in modern biotechnological research. NIT, Durgapur. 2013 CME cum workshop on Stem cell therapy and research, NSC Bose Cancer research Institute. 2011 692
Microbial structuring and its role in marine and other ecosystem functioning. CU. Biochemistry. 2014. Career Counselling programme. Arranged by Dept. Of Microbiology Asutosh College. On 13 th September 2015 Mrs. anjana Bose Workshop on Preparation and antimicrobial action of silver nanoparticles and isolation and function of macrophages. Arranged by Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry. Asutosh College (2 nd and 3 rd December 2015) Engaged in Pathological laboratory for Malarial parasite diagnosis. Career Counselling programme. Arranged by Dept. Of Microbiology Asutosh College. 35 SWOC analysis of the department and Future plans Strengths: The department from the beginning has been blessed with the efficient academicians from diverse fields of expertise and research background which includes Botany, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Genetics and Immunology. The main focus for all the faculty members is to create a lucid scientific background for students which will help them in their future research or lab based job profiles. Apart from regular lectures the department expose students with new smart class based studies where topics are clarified using animations and study related videos. The department has a collection of all the modern instruments needed for successful learning of present day Microbiological scenario. Weaknesses: Due to vast academic activities of the college at times getting class rooms with adequate space becomes difficult. High student to teacher ratio also sometimes makes it difficult as per individual care is concerned. Opportunities: Since apart from regular syllabus oriented practical s we expose students with various interesting project works where they get the flavour of research at UG level. A separate 693
Challenges: Future plans: laboratory could be created to take this initiative in a broader level so that many interested students can be given such opportunities. Departmental teachers are constantly in process of getting projects from various funding agencies which will enhance the departmental research as well help procuring new and advanced instruments. The department always emphasise on research based learning for students so that they grow interest for research in future to serve the society better from the Microbiological perspective. The department would like to open Post graduate course in near future. The department is also interested to tie up with industry so that the students can get chance there for job and research. LIST OF PUBILICATION BY FACULTY KUNTAL KANTI GOSWAMI ANNEXURE I: 1. Goswami KK, Barik S, Banerjee S, Bhowmick AK, Biswas J, Bose A, Baral R. Supraglottic laryngeal tumor microenvironmental factors facilitate STAT3 dependent pro-tumorigenic switch in tumor associated macrophages to render utmost immune evasion. Immunol Lett. 2013: 156(1-2):7-17. IF: 2.512, h-index: 74, SJR: 1.23. 2. Goswami KK, Barik S, Sarkar M, Bhowmick A, Biswas J, Bose A, Baral R. Targeting STAT3 phosphorylation by neem leaf glycoprotein prevents immune evasion exerted by supraglottic laryngeal tumor induced M2 macrophages.molimmunol. 2014 Jun;59(2):119-27. IF: 3.375, SNIP: 0.882, SJR: 1.524. 3. AtanuMallick, SubhasisBarik, Kuntal Kanti Goswami, Saptak Banerjee, Sarbari Ghosh, Koustav Sarkar, Anamika Bose, Rathindranath Baral (2013). Neem Leaf Glycoprotein Activates CD8+ T Cells to Promote Therapeutic Anti-Tumor Immunity Inhibiting the Growth of Mouse Sarcoma. PLoS One 8(1): e47434. IF: 3.54, h-index: 181, SJR: 1.39. 4. Krishnendu Chakraborty, Anamika Bose, Kuntal K. Goswami, Kalyan K. Mukherjee, Shyamal Goswami, Diptendu Ghosh, Tathagata Chakraborty, KoustavSarkar, Smarajit Pal, AnupBhowmick, JaydipBiswa, RathindranathBaral (2012). Dysregulated CC receptor/ligand in 694
monocytes/macrophages from tongue squamous cell carcinoma patients is partially rectified by interferon -2b. Human Immunology 73: 38-47. IF: 2.127, h-index: 79, SJR: 0.9, SNIP: 0.718. 5. Tathagata Chakraborty, Anamika Bose, Kuntal Kanti Goswami, ShyamalGoswami, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Rathindranath Baral (2012). Neem leaf glycoprotein suppresses regulatory T cell mediated suppression of monocyte/macrophage functions International Immunopharmacology 12: 326 333. IF: 2.472, h-index: 82, SJR: 0.941, SNIP: 0.935. 6. Tathagata Chakraborty, Anamika Bose, Subhasis Barik, Kuntal Kanti Goswami, Saptak Banerjee, Shyamal Goswami, Diptendu Ghosh, Soumyabrata Roy, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Koustav Sarkar, RathindranathBaral (2011). Neem leaf glycoprotein inhibits CD4+CD25+Foxp3+Tregs to restrict murine tumor growth. Immunotherapy 3(8), 949 969. IF: 2.083, h-index: 25, SJR: 0.67, SNIP: 0.477. 7. Soumabrata Roy, Shyamal Goswami, Anamika Bose, Kuntal Kanti Goswami, koustav Sarkar, Krishnendu Chakraborty, Tathagata Chakraborty, Samarjit Pal, AtanuHaldar, parthasarathibasu, Jaydip Biswas (2011). Defective dendritic cell generation from monocytes is a potential reason for poor therapeutic efficacy of interferon a2b (IFNa2b) in cervical cancer Translational Research 158 (4): 200-213. IF: 5.03, h-index: 74, SJR: 1.81, SNIP: 1.169. 8. Barik S, Banerjee S, Mallick A, Goswami KK, Roy S, Bose A, Baral R (2013). Normalisation of tumor microenvironment by neem leaf glycoprotein potentiates effector T cell functions and therapeutically intervenes in the growth of mouse sarcoma. PLoS One(in press). IF: 3.54, h-index: 181, SJR: 1.39. 9. Anamika bose, Subhasis Barik, Saptak Banerjee, Tithi Ghosh, Atanu Mallick, Suchandra Bhattacharya Majumdar, KuntalKantiGoswami, AvishekBhuniya, Sayantan Banerjee, rathindranathbarl, Walter Storkus, Parthasarathi Dasgupta, Subrata Majumdar (2013). Tumorderived vascular pericytesanargises T helper cells. Journal of Immunology. IF: 4.92, h-index: 311, SJR: 3.55, SNIP: 1.332. 10. Sen A, Goswami KK, Mallick A, Saxena AK, Sanyal U, Baral R. In vitro and in vivo evaluation of 2-chloroethylnitrosourea derivatives as antitumor agents.exponcol. 2015 Mar; 37(1):23-9. IF: 1.24 NIRMALYA CHAKRABORTY 1. Debanjana Biswal, Nikhil Ranjan Pramanik, Syamal Chakrabarti, Nirmalya Chakraborty, Krishnendu Acharya, Sudhanshu Sekhar Mandal,Saktiprosad Ghosh, Michael G. B. Drew, Tapan Kumar Mondale and Sujan Biswas. Lewis base controlled supramolecular architecturesvia non- 695
covalent interactions of dioxomolybdenum(vi)complexes with an ONS donor ligand: DFT calculations and biological study. New Journal Of Chemistry 2015;39, 2778. IF: 3.277, h-index: 95, SJR: 0.99. CHINMOY SAHA 1. Das, S., Sen, M., Saha, C., Chakraborty, D., Das, A., Banerjee, M., and Seal, A. 2011. Isolation and expression analysis of partial sequences of heavy metal transporters from Brassica juncea by coupling high throughput cloning with a molecular fingerprinting technique. Planta 234(1): 139-156. doi: 10.1007/s00425-011-1376-1. IF: 3.347, h-index: 121, SJR: 1.47, SNIP: 1.118. 2. Ghosh, U.D., Saha, C., Maiti, M., Lahiri, S., Ghosh, S., Seal, A., and Ghosh, M.M. 2014. Root associated iron oxidizing bacteria increase phosphate nutrition and influence root to shoot partitioning of iron in tolerant plant Typhaangustifolia. Plant Soil 381(1-2): 279-295. doi: 10.1007/s11104-014-2085-x. IF: 3.42, h-index: 131, SJR: 1.41. 3. Saha C, Seal A (2015) Early changes in shoot transcriptome of rice in response to Rhodotorulamucilaginosa JGTA-S1. Genomics Data 6:237-240. doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2015.09.023. IF: 0.52, h-index: 4, SJR: 0.23. CHAPTER IN BOOKS: 1. Tumor and its Environment: Effort by Neem Leaf Glycoprotein to keep it Green. SubhasisBarik, Kuntal Kanti Goswami, AtanuMallick, Saptak Banerjee1, Anamika Bose and RathindranathBaral. Bioactive Phytochemicals: Perspectives for Modern Medicine Vol. 2 696