Name: Dr. SANJOY SADHUKHAN

Designation: Assistant Professor

Address: Department of Botany, University, Raiganj – 733134, Uttar Dinajpur, .

Mobile: 9002887792; Email:[email protected]

Qualifications: M.Sc., PhD

Academic Details:

Degree University/Institute PhD Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Master of Science (M.Sc.) Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India Bachelor of Science , India (B.Sc.)

Areas of Interest/Specialization: Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology

Experience: Research – Post PhD (11 years) Teaching – UG (4 years 10 months), PG (03 years)  Postdoctoral Research Associate: University of Pittsburgh, (Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA.  Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.

Awards & Honours: 1. Qualified in GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test of Engineering) 2000, conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

2. Qualified in NET (National Eligibility Test) December 1999, conducted by University Grant Commission and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.

Research Guidance Currently guiding 1 PhD scholar, guided 6 PG students

Design of New Curricula and Courses

Both UG and PG courses of Botany at Raiganj University Conferences & Symposiums attended 1. International conference on “Post Genomic Era” at IIT Kharagpur: 15-16th December 2002. 2. International conference on “Genomics & Proteomics” at IIT Kharagpur - January 2005. 3. Poster presentation at 2nd Annual Rangos Research Symposium: June 2012. 4. Poster presentation at 3rd Annual Rangos Research Symposium: June 2013. 5. Oral presentation at UGC sponsored National Seminar on Global Climate Change and Its Impact on Floral, Faunal and Microbial Biodiversity. Department of Botany, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling – 734104, West Bengal, India. : June 2015 6. Invited speaker at one-day National Seminar on “Recent Innovations in Science and Technology for a Sustainable Environment” (RISTSE 2019) organized by Department of Botany, Gangarampur College, Gangarampur.

Publications: (Cumulative Impact Factor of Publications: 53.233) Total Citations: 302; h- index: 8; i10-index: 8

 Sadhukhan, S. (2019) “Histobiochemical and physicochemical characterization of mutant jute Corchorus capsularis CMU 013 with poorly developed fibre”. Biosci. Biotech. Res. Comm. 12(1): 90-98. ISSN: 0974-6455 (print); 2321-4007 (web).

 Mandal, P., Sadhukhan, S. (2019) “Carbon dioxide the green-house gas and mushroom fruiting”. Review of Research 8(4) 7020: 1-7. ISSN: 2249-894X

 Sarkar, K., Sadhukhan, S., Han, S. S., Vyas, Y. M. (2015) “SUMOylation-disrupting WAS mutation converts WASp from a transcriptional activator to a repressor of NF-κB response genes in T cells". Blood. 126(14):1670-82. [Citation index: 17] {Impact factor: 10.452}. ISSN: 0006-4971 (print); 1528-0020 (web).

 Samanta, P., Sadhukhan, S., Basu, A. (2015) “Identification of differentially expressed transcripts associated with bast fibre development in Corchorus capsularis by suppression subtractive hybridization.". Planta. 241(2):371-385. [Citation index: 11] {Impact factor: 3.263}. ISSN: 0032-0935 (print) 1432-2048 (web).

 Sarkar, K., Sadhukhan, S., Han, S. S., Vyas, Y. M. (2014) “Disruption of hSWI/SNF- Complexes in T cells by WAS Mutations Distinguishes X-linked Thrombocytopenia from Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome”. Blood. 2014 Nov 27; 124(23):3409-19. [Citation index: 12] {Impact factor: 10.452}. ISSN: 0006-4971 (print); 1528-0020 (web).

 Sadhukhan, S., Sarkar, K., Taylor, M., Candotti, F., Vyas, Y. M. (2014) “Nuclear Role of WASp in Gene Transcription Is Uncoupled from Its ARP2/3-Dependent Cytoplasmic Role in Actin Polymerization”. The Journal of Immunology 1302923. [Citation index: 32] {Impact factor: 4.922}. ISSN: 0022-1767 (print) 1550-6606 (web).

 Samanta, P., Sadhukhan, S.,* Das, S., Joshi, A., Sen S. K., Basu, A., (2011) “Isolation of RNA from Field-Grown Jute (Corchorus capsularis) Plant in Different Developmental Stages for Effective Downstream Molecular Analysis.” Molecular Biotechnology 49(2): 109-115. [Citation index: 13] {Impact factor: 1.876}. ISSN: 1073-6085 (print) 1559-0305 (web).

*P. S. and S. S. contributed equally to this work.

 Taylor, M. D., Sadhukhan, S.,* Kottangada, P., Ramgopal, A., Sarkar, K., D’Silva, S., Selvakumar, A., Candotti, F., and. Vyas, Y. M. (2010) “Nuclear Role of WASp in the Pathogenesis of Dysregulated TH1 Immunity in Human Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome” Science Translational Medicine 2, 37ra44 [Cover image] [Citation index: 102] {Impact factor: 15.843}. ISSN: 1946-6234 (print) 1946-6242 (web).

*M. D. T. and S. S. contributed equally to this work.

 Das Sarma J., Ciric, B., Marek, R., Sadhukhan, S., Safagh, J., Fitzgerald D., Shindler, K. S., Rostami, A. M. (2009) “Functional Interleukin-17 Receptor A is Expressed in the Central Nervous System Glia and Upregulated in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis.” Journal of Neuroinflammation 6(1):14. [Citation index: 97] {Impact factor: 5.408}. ISSN: 1742-2094.

 EST SEQUENCES SUBMITTED IN NCBI DATABASE: NCBI GenBank accession numbers are EE332505 to EE332682 and EL595867 (179 Sequences). Sadhukhan, S., Basu, A., Maity, M.K., Sen, S.K. EE332505. (2007) Jute Plasmid library Corchorus capsularis cDNA similar to Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase small chain, chloroplast precursor (RuBisCO small subunit), mRNA sequence gi|112136034|gb|EE332505| [40956596]

 Sarkar, S., Chorasia, A., Maji, S., Sadhukhan, S., Kumar, S., Adhikari, B. (2006) “Synthesis and Characterization of Gelatin based Polyester Urethane Scaffold”, Bulletin of Materials Science. 29 (5): 475-484. [Citation index: 18] {Impact factor: 1.017}. ISSN: 0250-4707 (print) 0973-7669 (web).

Seminars organized:

1. National Seminar on Current Trends in Plant and Microbial Research- 16th and 17th March 2016, organized by Department of Botany, Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal. –Acted as Joint Organizing Secretary of the Organizing Committee. 2. National Seminar on Current Trends in Plant and Microbial Research- 23rd March 2017 , organized by Department of Botany, Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal. – Acted as Treasurer of the Organizing Committee.