Resume Mayukh

Resume of Mayukh Banerjee: Office: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics, Jadavpur, Kolkata- 700032, India (033-2473-3491/0492 (Extn: 124) Fax: 91(33)2473-5179 (Attn. Dr. A.K. Giri) e-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Permanent address: B/11, Nandankanan, Santoshpur, Kolkata: 700 075 ((91) (33) 2416-8859 Mob: 9836251342

Personal Data: Date of Birth : 11/08/1980 Name of the Father: Tapan Kumar Banerjee Nationality : Indian Name of the Examination

University/Board

Year

Div/Class

SUBJECT Zoology (Specialization in Entomology)

M.Sc

Banaras Hindu University

2004

First (66.5%)

B.Sc (Hons)

University of Calcutta

2002

Second (59.63%)

1999

First (75.60%)

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics

1997

First (82.13%)

Bengali, English, Mathematics, Physical Science, Life Science.

Higher Secondary West Bengal council of Higher Secondary Education Madhyamik West Bengal Board of Secondary Education •

Zoology

Currently working as senior research fellow under supervision of Dr. A. K. Giri and in Toxicogenomics of Arsenic project in Molecular and Human Genetics at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India.

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Qualified in CSIR-NET (for both JRF and Lecturership) held in Dec-2003.

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Qualified in GATE held on February-2004 (92.37 percentile).

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Was awarded National Scholarship on the basis of the result of Madhyamik Exam, 1997.

Work Experience: 1. Epidemiological – Fieldwork including questionnaire based survey and sample collection. 2. Cytogenetics - Biomarker analysis with Chromosomal Aberration Assay and Micronuclei formation, Comet Assay, Karyotyping. 3. Molecular Biology - Genotyping with RFLP and sequencing; SDS-PAGE, Western Blot, Microarray, Real Time, RNA isolation from blood and skin tissue, c-DNA synthesis 4. Biochemical Techniques – Enzyme assays, including, Catalse, Myeloperoxidase, Superoxide dismutase, etc. 5. Cell culture – Lymphocyte Culture 6. Metal estimation (As and Cu) using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry 7. Satistical Analysis - Employing statistical tools like GraphPad etc.

Publications: 1.

Banerjee M, Sarma N, Biswas R, Roy J, Mukherjee A, Giri AK. (2008), DNA repair deficiency leads to susceptibility to develop arsenic-induced premalignant skin lesions. Int J Cancer (in press).

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Biswas D, Banerjee M, Sen G, Das JK, Banerjee A, Sau TJ, Pandit S, Giri AK, Biswas T. (2008), Mechanism of erythrocyte death in human population exposed to arsenic through drinking water. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. (in press).

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De Chaudhuri S, Kundu M, Banerjee M, Das JK, Majumdar P, Basu S, Roychoudhury S, Singh KK, Giri AK. (2008), Arsenic-induced health effects and genetic damage in keratotic individuals: Involvement of p53 arginine variant and chromosomal aberrations in arsenic susceptibility. Mutat Res. (in press).

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Banerjee N, Banerjee M, Ganguly S, Bandyopadhyay S, Das JK, Bandyopadhay A, Chatterjee M, Giri AK. (2008), Arsenic-induced mitochondrial instability leading to programmed cell death in the exposed individuals. Toxicology, 246(2-3): 101-111.

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Ghosh, P., Banerjee, M., De, Chaudhuri S., Das J.K., Sarma, N., Basu, A., Giri, A.K. (2007), Increased chromosome aberration frequencies in the Bowen’s patients compared to non-cancerous skin lesions individuals exposed to arsenic. Mutation Research- Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, 632 (1-2):104-10.

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Banerjee M, Sarkar J, Das JK, Mukherjee A, Sarkar AK, Mondal L, Giri AK. (2007), Polymorphism in the ERCC2 codon 751 is associated with arsenic-induced premalignant hyperkeratosis and significant chromosome aberrations. Carcinogenesis, 28(3):672-676.

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Ghosh, P., Banerjee, M., De Chaudhuri, S., Chowdhury, R., Das, J. K., Mukherjee, A., Sarkar, A. J., Mondal, L. K., Baidya, K. P., Sau, T. J., Banerjee, A., Basu, A., Chaudhuri, K., Ray, K., Giri, A.K. (2007), Comparison of Health Effects between individuals with and without skin lesions in the population exposed to arsenic through

drinking water in West Bengal, India. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 17(3): 215-223. Meetings/Presentations: o Awarded a prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “Arsenic Susceptibility: Epidemiological and Cytogenetic Assessment” in the “14th Alexander Hollaender Course on Genetic Toxicology: Genomic and Proteomic Approaches & Special Course on Arsenic Exposure Assessment” at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata (December 10 – 12, 2008). o Co-author in a poster entitled “ o Presented a poster entitled “Deficiency in DNA Repair: A Clue to Arsenic Susceptibility”, in the “XIIIth All India Congress of Cytology and Genetics and International Symposium on Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Decipher the Molecular Basis of Pathogenesis” at the Osmania University, Hyderabad (December 28 - 30, 2007). o Co-author in the poster entitled “Arsenic contamination in ground water: Health effects and genetic susceptibility” in “International symposium on Chemical Biology”, at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata (March 7-9, 2007). o Co-author in the poster entitled “Sub-optimal DNA Repair Leads to Arsenic Susceptibility: Evidence from Comet Assay and Chromosomal Aberrations” in the XXXIIth Annual Conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics and International Symposium on "Deconstructing Human Diseases: The Genomic Advantage", at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata (February 14-16, 2007). o Oral Presentation for the paper entitled “Polymorphism in the ERCC2 Codon 751 is Associated with Arsenic-induced Premalignant Hyperkeratosis” in the “Annual Congress of Society of Biological Chemists, Kolkata Chapter” at Digha, West Bengal (May 19 – 21, 2006). o Awarded a prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “Association of ERCC2 gene polymorphism with Arsenic Induced Hyperkeratosis” in the “XXXI Annual Conference of Environmental Mutagen Society of India” at National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad (February 23 – 25, 2006). Membership Of Academic Societies: • •

Environmental Mutagen Society of India Indian Society of Human Genetics

Research Interests: • Understanding the molecular basis of arsenic susceptibility. • Learning cutting-edge technologies like Proteomics, Metabolomics, Microarray • Epidemiology of arsenic toxicity.

Name of the three References: 1) Dr. Ashok K. Giri Assistant Director Molecular and Human Genetics Division Indian Institute of Chemical Biology 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032 India Email: [email protected] [email protected] 2) Dr. Kunal Ray Assistant Director Molecular and Human Genetics Division Indian Institute of Chemical Biology 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032 India Email: [email protected] [email protected] 3) Dr. Susanta Roychoudhury Assistant Director Molecular and Human Genetics Division Indian Institute of Chemical Biology 4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032 India Email: [email protected] [email protected] Mayukh Banerjee