Rajal Debnath

About

Research Interest: Microbiome, Microbial Ecology
Target Area: Terrestrial environments; plant-microbe, insect-microbe
Core-competency: Molecular fingerprinting, cloning, Next generation sequencing (Illumina), Inferential statistics, scientific writing.

A trained microbiologist having worked on projects funded by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR, Govt. of India, New Delhi), Department of Biotechnology (DBT, Govt of India, New Delhi) at the national laboratory of CSIR. Started with studying microbes in isolation, I carried forward my understanding of microbial behavior collectively in groups employing comtemporary molecular techniques. I specialize in analyzing community data using custom scripts and NGS pipelines (UPARSE, QIIME, MOTHUR, RDPpyro) on cluster computer/server with an edge of using R language packages (http://cran.r-project.org/) to understand underlying patterns using multivariate statistical approaches.
Importance of microbial ecology study with advanced sequencing techniques is opening up newer frontiers in Science and understanding concerted role of these microbes in modelling everything from biogeochemical processes to health care is gaining momentum.
Currently, looking forward to working as a post doctoral fellow in the microbiome, microbial ecology field with a dynamic team of researchers wherein I can learn further and enhance my understanding by contributing as a team player.

Employment

• Central Silk Board Scientist-B
  2015 - Present
• North East Institute of Science and Technology CSIR Senior Project Fellow
  2010 - 2013

Education

• CSIR-NEIST & Gauhati University Department of Biotechnology Ph.D
  2013 - 2017
• Bangalore University M.Sc
  2007 - 2009
• Bangalore University B.Sc
  2004 - 2007

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (10)

• Aeromonas caviae CSB04, a causal organism of bacterial flacherie in muga silkworm (Antheraea assamensis Helfer)
  Current Science 2017
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• Rhizospheric Bacterial Community of Endemic Rhododendron arboreum Sm. Ssp. delavayi along Eastern Himalayan Slope in Tawang
  Front. Plant Sci. 2016 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01345
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• Antimicrobial biosynthetic potential and genetic diversity of endophytic actinomycetes associated with medicinal plants
  FEMS Microbiology Letters 2015 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnv158
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• Community Profiling of Culturable Fluorescent Pseudomonads in the Rhizosphere of Green Gram (Vigna radiata L.)
  PLoS ONE 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108378
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• Rhizosphere Engineering of Crop Plants by Bacterial ACC-deaminase Under Water Stress
  Trends in Soil Microbial ecology 2014
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• Effect of CTAB in biosynthesis of Au-nanoparticles using Gymnocladus assamicus and its biological evaluation
  Materials Letters 2013 DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2013.09.065
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• Metagenomics: A hunting expedition in microbial diversity
  Molecular Biology of Bacteria 2013
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• Psychrotolerant antifungal Streptomyces isolated from Tawang, India and the shift in chitinase gene family
  Extremophiles 2013 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-013-0587-8
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• Bioprospecting Micromonospora from Kaziranga National Park of India and their anti-infective potential
  World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2012 DOI: 10.1007/s11274-012-1080-8
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• Phylogenetic analysis of alkaline proteinase producing fluorescent pseudomonads associated with green gram (Vigna radiata L.) rhizosphere
  Folia Microbiologica 2012 DOI: 10.1007/s12223-012-0097-6
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