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The National Academy of Sciences, India CONFIDENTIAL (For use of Fellows of the Academy only) The National Academy of Sciences, India NOMINATIONS Valid for Consideration for Election to Fellowship – 2017 Section of Biological Sciences BOOK - II ANIMAL SCIENCES (Structural, Developmental, Functional, Genetical, Ecological, Behavioural, Taxonomical and Evolutionary Aspects) MEDICAL & FORENSIC SCIENCES (Basic and Clinical Medical Sciences, Pharmacology, Anthropology, Psychology and Forensic Sciences, Human genetics, Reproduction Biology, Neurosciences, Molecular Medicine) 5, Lajpatrai Road, Allahabad-211002 The National Academy of Sciences, India NOMINATIONS Valid for Consideration for Election to Fellowship – 2017 Section of Biological Sciences BOOK - II CONTENTS ANIMAL SCIENCES 291 - 339 (Structural, Developmental, Functional, Genetical, Ecological, Behavioural, Taxonomical and Evolutionary Aspects) MEDICAL & FORENSIC SCIENCES 340 - 437 (Basic and Clinical Medical Sciences, Pharmacology, Anthropology, Psychology and Forensic Sciences, Human genetics, Reproduction Biology, Neurosciences, Molecular Medicine) 5, Lajpatrai Road, Allahabad-211002 (I) ANIMAL SCIENCES AGRAWAL, Nirupama 307 MUKHOPADHYAY, Arnab 297 BALASINOR, Nafisa Huseni 308 NALLUR, Ramachandra Basappa 298 BANDYOPADHYAY, Probir Kumar 291 PETER, M.C. Subhash 299 BARAL, Rathindranath 309 PRAKASH, Soam 322 BHADURY, Punyasloke 292 RAISUDDIN, Sheikh 313 CHANDRA, Goutam 324 RAMACHANDRAN, Sundararaj 329 CHAUHAN, Manmohan Singh 293 RAMESH, Saraf Rajagopalaiahsetty 300 CHAUHAN, Ramswaroop Singh 325 ROY, Bishnupada 301 DAS, Manoj Kumar 310 ROY, Jagat Kumar 323 DINESH, Diwakar Singh 294 SAVARIAR, Vincent 336 GHOSH, Sukla 326 SENGUPTA, Pinaki Prasad 314 GOSWAMI, Umesh Chandra 327 SHARMA, Deepak 302 GOVINDARAJU, Archunan 332 SHARMA, Ramesh C. 330 GUPTA, Neelima 295 SHARMA, Vijay Kumar 337 HALDAR, Chandana 333 SINHA, Ravindra Kumar 303 HUSSAIN, Syed Ainual 311 SUBBIAH, Poopathi 315 JADHAO, Arun Govindraoji 318 SUKUMAR, Raman 304 JAIN, Subodh Kumar 328 SWARUP, Anoop 338 KADARKARAI, Murugan 334 TRIPATHI, Bhupendra Nath 316 KAMARAJU, Raghavendra 319 TRIVEDI, Ritu 317 KAR, Devashish 335 VENKATARAMAN, Krishnamoorthy 305 KAR-CHOWDHURI, Debapratim 320 VENUGOPALAN, Vayalam Purath 331 KUMAR, Pradeep 296 WUDAYAGIRI, Rajendra 339 MATHUR, Premendu Prakash 321 YENUGU, Suresh 306 MISRA, Aditya Kumar 312 MEDICAL & FORENSIC SCIENCES ADIGA, Satish Kumar 407 CHAKRABARTI, Sasanka 344 BAJPAI, Minu 340 CHAKRABARTI, Subhabrata 391 BAL, Chandra Sekhar 341 CHAKRABORTY, Soumen 410 BANERJEE, Monisha 372 CHANDAK, Giriraj Ratan 392 BANERJEE, Soma 342 CHATTOPADHYAY, Debprasad 393 BASHYAM, Murali Dharan 408 CHATTOPADHYAY, Koushik 411 BASU, Sandip 409 CHAUDHURI, Swapna 412 BHATTACHARYA, Jayanta 389 CHAUHAN, Shyam Singh 345 BHATTACHARYYA, Maitree 390 CHHIBBER, Sanjay 430 BHUMA, Vengamma 343 CHIPLUNKAR, Shubhada Vivek 346 BISWAS, Jyotirmay 429 CHOUDHURY, Nabajyoti 413 (II) CHOWDHURY, Rukhsana 347 MISHRA, Amit Kumar 359 COLAH, Roshan Behram 394 MISRA, Ramnath 401 DAS, Kusal Kanti 373 MUKHOPADHYAY, Satinath 421 DAS, Nilay Kanti 348 NALLARI, Pratibha 433 DAS, Sanjeev 374 NAMPERUMALSAMY, Venkatesh Prajna 384 DAS, Satya Narayan 395 NATH, Gopal 360 DASH, Debabrata 349 PADHY, Rabindra Nath 422 DEEPAK, Kishore Kumar 350 PARTHASARATHY, Satishchandra 434 DUTTA, Ranjna 375 PATURU, Kondaiah 402 GANGADHAR, Bangalore Nanjundaiah 376 PAUL, Goutam 361 GANGENAHALLI, Gurudutta Ugraiah 414 PAUL, Jaishree 385 GARG, Pankaj 377 RAJAMMA, Usha 362 GARG, Ravindra Kumar 415 RAMACHANDRAN, Balaraman 363 GHATAK, Ashim 378 RANA, Surinder Singh 364 GHOSH, Deepa 351 RANI, Rajni 435 HALDER, Ashutosh 396 RAY, Arunabha 423 HARINARAYAN, Chittari Venkata 352 REDDY SHETTY, Prakasham 403 HUSAIN, Nuzhat 397 SADAKSHARAM, Jayachandran 386 JULKA, Pramod Kumar 416 SAGAR, Rajesh 365 KAKKAR, Poonam 398 SALUJA, Daman 436 KALIMUTHUSAMY, Natarajaseenivasan 379 SAXENA, Sandeep 366 KANNABIRAN, Chitra 431 SENGUPTA, Sharmila 367 KAR, Shantanu Kumar 399 SETH, Pankaj 368 KATARE, Om Prakash 380 SHARMA, Aman 404 KAUR, Gurcharan 417 SHARMA, Jai Bhagwan 369 KAUR, Indu Pal 353 SHUKLA, Sangeeta 424 KHULLAR, Madhu 418 SINGH, Mahendra Pratap 425 KOYAKUTTY, Manzoor 381 SINGH, Sunit Kumar 405 KULKARNI, Mahesh Jagdish Rao 382 SINGH, Surender 426 KUMAR, Arun 400 SOUNDARAPANDIAN, Kannan 387 KUMAR, Ashok * 419 SRIVASTAVA, Deep Narayan 370 KUMAR, Lalit 354 TANDON, Salil 388 KUMAR, Rajeev 383 TOTEJA, Gurudayal Singh 406 KUMAR, Rakesh 355 TRIPATHI, Anil Kumar 437 MAHESHWARI, Monika 356 TRIPATHI, Arvind 427 MALHOTRA, Rajesh 357 VALECHA, Neena 371 MANDAL, Nripendranath 432 VUTHALURU, Seenu 428 MEHROTRA, Ravi 420 MISHRA, Akhilesh Chandra 358 (III) ANIMAL SCIENCES (Structural, Developmental, Functional, Genetical, Ecological, Behavioural, Taxonomical and Evolutionary Aspects) BANDYOPADHYAY, PROBIR KUMAR (b 1959), Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal Member of the NASI: Yes (YON 2017, Animal Sciences) Professor P.K. Bandyopadhyay has been nominated as a member of NASI in the year 2014. During his research career, 25 students have been awarded Ph.D. under his supervision and he has published more than 130 papers on animal taxonomy. Professor Bandyopadhyay‘s current research pertains to fish diseases and its plant based control measures. In 2014, he had been able to bring a breakthrough in his research findings when he and his team isolated and characterized the bioactive compound, the oleic acid from Carica papaya seed and used the product as aqua-soluble drug in treating fish bacterial disease in-vivo (Ghosh and Bandyopadhyay, 2016). Further, he again proved his potency in the field by establishing antiprotozoan activity of bioactive compounds of fresh garlic bulb over trichodinid ciliates affecting ornamental goldfish (Saha and Bandyopadhyay, 2017). Apart from fishery sciences, he did a great deal of work on identification and description of new species of protozoan parasites of fish and other group of vertebrates and invertebrates. His work on histopathological alteration of the goldfish, Carassius auratus, due to myxozoan infection with special reference to scanning electron microscopic observation (Saha and Bandyopadhyay, 2017) is unique and first in the field of parasitological research on Ornamental fish. Proposer: Prof. Wasim Ahmad, Seconder: Dr. H. Pathak Ten Best Publications: 1. Saha, M., Bandyopadhyay, P.K. (2017): Phytochemical screening for identification of bioactive compound and antiprotozoan activity of fresh garlic bulb over trichodinid ciliates affecting ornamental goldfish. Aquaculture, Elsevier, doi.10.1016/j.aquacu (if=1.893, ci=nil). 2. Saha, M., Bandyopadhyay, P.K (2016) :Studies on histopathological alteration of three major organs of the goldfish,Carassius auratus L., of India due to myxozoan infection with special reference to scanning electron microscopic observation. Parasitolo (if=2.027, ci=nil). 3. Saha, M., Bandyopadhyay, P.K (2016): First report of some known Trichodinella epizootica Šramek- Hušek, 1953, and Tripartiella Lom, 1959 from the cultured Oranda Gold Fish (Carassius auratus auratus) in India. Zootaxa.(Magnolia press) 4184 (1): 130–14 (if=0.994, ci=01). 4. Mitra, A., Bandyopadhyay, P.K., Gong, Y. (2012) :Studies on trichodinid and chilodonellid Ciliophorans (Protozoa:Ciliophora) in the Indian freshwater and estuarine fishes with description of Trichodinella sunderbanensis sp.nov.and Trichodina nandusi s (if=2.027, ci=06). 5. Mitra, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, P.K. (2005): First records of ectoparasitic African trichodinids (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) in a cichlid fish Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters 1852) from the Churni river system, West Bengal, India. Animal Biology 56 (3): 323 (if=0.879, ci=08). 6. Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Mitra A.(2004): Observations on two new species of Nematocystis Hessé, 1909 (Protozoa: Monocystidae) from earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) of West Bengal, India. Animal Biolology 55 (2): 133-139. (if=0.879, ci=13). 7. Bandyopadhyay, P.K., Mitra, A.K. (2005): Stomatophora cloptoni sp. n.(Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida), from seminal vesicle of an Indian Earthworms. Acta Protozool. (2005) 44:385-388. (if=1.491, ci=07). 8. Bandyopadhyay, P.K., Roy Choudhuri, U.S.,Biswas, Gargi. (2004): Description of two new species of Acephaline Gregarine (Protozoa:Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida), Apolocystis chotonagpurensis sp. n. and Stomatophora janovy sp. n. From Earthworms (Annelida (if=1.491, ci=10). 9. Mitra, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, P.K. (2005): Trichodina haldari sp. n. and Paratrichodina bassonae sp. n. (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) from Indian fresh water fishes”. Act Protozool. 45: 289 – 294 (if=1.491, ci=11). 10. Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Mitra A. K. (2004): Observations on two new species of Monocystis Stein, 1848 (Protozoa: Apicomplexa: Monocystidae) Monocystis darjeelingensis sp.n. and M. ranaghatensis sp.n. from earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) of West Bengal (if=1.491, ci=11). 291 BHADURY, PUNYASLOKE (b 1979), Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata) Member of the NASI: No (YON 2017, Animal Sciences) Taxonomic intractability is one of the major problems in metazoan groups that inhabit terrestrial and marine domains. The candidate has effectively used molecular tools to resolve taxonomic intractability in one of the metazoan groups represented by the Phylum Nematoda. Prof. Bhadury has developed DNA barcoding as an effective tool for rapid identification of free-living nematodes across marine realms and for the first time addressed and resolved long standing question in biogeography, such
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