Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College)

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College

Govt. Sponsored | NAAC Accredited A Grade College with CGPA 3.23

Affiliated to West Bengal State University

Acharya Prafulla Chandra College (APC College)

Nabanita Giri

M.Sc. Ph.D

Contact Details :

Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology
Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore, Kolkata-700131 West Bengal, India

Publications :

  • Giri,N., Bhowmik,P., Bhattacharya,B., Mitra,M.,and Das Gupta,S.K Mycobacteriophage D29gene65encodesanearly expressedproteinthatfunctionsasastructurespecificnuclease.J Bacteriol. (2009); 191: 959-67.
  • Bhattacharya,B.,Giri,N.,Mitra,M.,andDasgupta,S.K.(2008)Cloning,characterization and expression analysis of nucleotide metabolism-related genes of mycobacteriophageL5. FEMS MicrobiolLett(2008);280:64-72.
  • Abstract “Isolation and Characterization of novelbacteriophageSF11ofShigellaflexneri.” SK TousifAhamed, Shanta Dutta ,Nabanita Giri of the poster that was presented in the International Conferenceon “100th Indian Science Congress, New Biology Section”,January 3to7, 2013, held at Calcutta University, Kolkata organized by “The Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata,India”.
  • Abstract “Isolation and characterization of anovelbacteriophage with broad spectrumlytic activity against Shigellaspp.”SK Tousif Ahamed,Shanta Dutta,Nabanita Giri accepted for poster presentation in the “FEMS 2013,5th Congress of Europian Microbiologists,Leipzig, Germany”, July 21 to 25, 2013.
  • Abstract “Isolation and characterization of anovelbacteriophage with broad spectrumlytic activity against Shigellaflexneri”SK Tousif Ahamed,Shanta Dutta,Nabanita Giri accepted for presentation International Conference on “Molecular Biologyandits applications” organized by Department of life Science and Biotechnoly, Jadavpur University,Feb 14&Feb 15,2014.
  • Abstract “Isolation and characterization of anovellyticbacteriophageagainstShigellaspp” SK Tousif Ahamed, Nabanita Giri accepted for presentation in National Conference on “Advanced Biology through Technology and computation ”organized by Dept. of Microbiology, West Bengal State University, August 22, 2014.
  • Best presentation award obtained for the abstract “Isolation and identification of Shigella spp.and their specific bacteriophages from environmental water samples in Kolkata, West Bengal.” in National conference on “New avenues in Microbiology and Biotechnology challenges and prospects,organized by Dept. of Microbiology, West Bengal State University, 18th&19th March,2016.

Ongoing &Completed Research Projects (As Principal Investigator):

Sl. No. Title of Project Name of FundingAgency Amount(Rs.) Date of Initiation& Duration
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3.
Investigation of Shigellaphage diversity and their genomics from environmental water samples of Kolkata, West Bengal.

Investigation of Shigella phage diversity from environmental water samples of Kolkata, West Bengal. Shigellaspp. specific bacteriophages identification and charecterisation from

environmental waters in Kolkata, West Bengal.
West Bengal State DBT.


DST, Govt. of India




UGC-Minor.
27 Lakhs



. 18 Lakhs



. 1,91,000
1/4/2015 to
30/3/2018



30/8/2014 to
29/8/2017


15.12.10 to
14.06.12

Research interests :

Isolation,Identification and characterization of Shigellasp. specific bacteriophages; understanding the molecular mechanism of host-virus interactions,deciphering the genetic mosaism of those phages during evolution.

Understanding the Life cycle of Shigellaphages with special emphasis on molecular details of replication and development of phagetherapyas an alternative to antibiotics.

Supervision of Ph.D scholars:

Mr.SK Tousif Ahemed and Mr. Banibrata Roy are working as Project assistants in the above said major projects.They are also going to be registered in West Bengal state university for Ph.D under my supervision.

Supervision of M.Sc. students for summer project :

About 7 students both from internal and external have successfully completed their summer projects (duration 2 moths) under my supervision.

Research Collaboration :

The projects are running with the successful collaborations with Bose Institute, NICED and University of Kalyani. Who legenome Sequencing facilities are obtained from Bose Institute, Ultra centrifugation of Phages, TEM studies and bacterialstrains are obtained from NICED, all the cloning,PCR facilties and critical molecularbiology works are supported by Universityof Kalyani.