Dr. Souvik Mitra
Designation: Assistant Professor in Botany, West Bengal Education Service, Government of West Bengal
Affiliation: Undergraduate and Postgraduate Department of Botany, Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling- 734101, State- West Bengal, India.
Education:
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Botany from University of Calcutta (Year of passing- 2009)
Ph.D. in Botany from University of Calcutta (Year of award- 2016).
Topic: Studies on lipid profile of some genera under Bryophyta of Eastern Himalaya.
Areas of research:
Analysis of lipid classes, fatty acids including fatty acid derived metabolites of oxylipin pathway and
their biological significance.
Chemical investigation on rare acetylenic fatty acids in mosses and to decipher their biosynthetic
pathway and biological significance.
Metabolomic studies of ethno-medicinally important mosses including extraction of volatiles by recent
techniques such as sample enrichment probe (SEP), solid phase microextraction (SPME) and their
analysis using different chromatographic techniques such as GC-MS, HP-TLC.
Professional experience and skills:
Teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate courses (Botany) for the last 5 years and 6 months at UG &
PG Department of Botany, Darjeeling Government College.
Supervising M.Sc, and Ph.D. students for their postgraduate and doctoral research.
Publications:
Mitra S., Paul D. (2020). Iron plaque formation on roots and phosphate mediated alleviation of toxic effects in Lens culinaris Medik. induced by arsenic. South African Journal of Botany, 131: 267-276. (IF of journal- 1.504).
Paul K., Saha C., Nag M., Mandal D., Naiya H., Sen D., Mitra S., Kumar M., Bose D., Mukherjee G., Naskar N., Lahiri S., Das Ghosh U., Tripathi S., PoddarSarkar M., Banerjee M., Kleinert A., Valentine A., Tripathy S., Sinharoy S., Seal A. (2019). A tripartite interaction among the Basidiomycete Rhodotorula mucilaginosa N2 fixing Endobacteria, and rice improves plant nitrogen nutrition. The Plant Cell, doi: 10.1105/tpc.19.00385. (IF of journal- 8.631)
Biswas-Raha A., Mitra S., Poddar Sarkar M. (2019). Ecological impact on fatty acid composition of mosses from two Biodiversity Hotspots of Hungary and India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section B: Biological Sciences, doi: 10.1007/s40011-019-01080-2. (IF of journal-0.396)
Mitra S., Manna A., Rai R. (2019). Phytochemical screening and in-vitro antioxidant potential of two ethnomedicinally important mosses of Dicranaceae from Darjeeling hills. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, 8: 649-654.
Roy Chowdhuri S., Biswas Raha A., Mitra S., Datta J., Poddar Sarkar M. (2018). “Dicranin” in the membrane phospholipids of a Dicranaceae and Pottiaceae moss member of the Eastern Himalayan Biodiversity Hotspot. Lipids, 53: 539-545. (IF of journal- 2.144)
Mitra S. (2017). High content of Dicranin in Anisothecium Spirale (Mitt.) Broth., a moss from Eastern Himalayas and its chemotaxonomic significance. Lipids, 52(2): 173-178. (IF of journal- 2.144)
Mitra S., Burger B.V., Poddar-Sarkar M. (2017). Comparison of headspace-oxylipin-volatilomes of some Eastern Himalayan mosses extracted by Sample Enrichment Probe and analysed by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. Protoplasma, 254(2): 1115-1126. (IF of journal- 2.633)
Mitra S., Banerjee D., Mandal M. (2017). Traditional uses and phytochemistry of Ampelocissus latifolia (Roxb.) Planch tuberous root through GC-MS technique. The Journal of Economy, Environment and Society, 1(2): 49-53.
Ali S.B., Ghatak B., DuttaGupta S., Debabhuti N., Chakraborty P., Sharma P., Ghosh A., Tudu B., Mitra S., Poddar-Sarkar M., Bhattacharya N., Bandyopadhyay R. (2016). Detection of 3-carene in mango using quartz crystal microbalance sensor. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 230: 791-800.(IF of journal- 5.667)
Ghosh P.K., Bhattacharjee P., Mitra S., Poddar-Sarkar M. (2014). Physicochemical and hytochemical analyses of Copra and oil of Cocos nucifera L. (West Coast Tall Variety). International Journal of Food Science. Article ID 310852. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/310852.
Mitra S., Burger B.V., Poddar-Sarkar M. (2013). Headspace volatile oxylipins of Eastern Himalayan moss Cyathophorella adiantum extracted by Sample Enrichment Probe. Lipids, 48(10): 997-1004. (IF of journal- 2.144)
Mukhopadhyay S.T., Mitra S., Biswas A., Das N., Poddar-Sarkar M. (2013). Screening of antimicrobial and antioxidative potential of selected Eastern Himalayan mosses. European Journal of Medicinal Plants, 3(3): 422-428.
Choudhury B., Mitra S., Biswas A.K. (2010). Regulation of sugar metabolism in rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings under arsenate toxicity and its improvement by phosphate. Physiology Molecular Biology of Plants, 16(1): 59-67.
Mitra S., Poddar-Sarkar M. (2013). To work with mosses-A field diary, in: Pal R., Ray S.(eds), Manual of Cryptogamic Botany. Probir Chatterjee Research Foundation, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, pp- 32-45.
Awards:
Awarded with outstanding presentation in 3rd Regional Science and Technology Congress, West Bengal organized at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri during 12-13th December, 2018.
Awarded with best oral presentation in International Conference on “Frontiers in Biological, Environmental and Medical Sciences” organized at The University of Burdwan, Burdwan during 8th-10th March, 2017.
Awarded with international travel grant for presenting research findings at Natural History Museum, Budapest by UGC-UPE in 2012.
Awarded with fellowship under Research Fellowship Scheme for Meritorious Students by UGC-UPE in 2012.
List of papers presented in conference/symposium/seminar:
1. 3rd Regional Science & Technology Congress- 2018.
Organized by: Department of Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal and Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College.
Place & Date: Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri.
Lecture on: Chemotaxonomic significance of acetylenic fatty acids in Dicranales mosses from Darjeeling hills.
2. International Conference on “Frontiers in Biological, Environmental and Medical Sciences”
Organized by: The University of Burdwan
Place & Date: The University of Burdwan; 8th -10th March, 2017.
Lecture on: Chemotaxonomic perspective of Dicranales and Hypnales mosses based on multivariate chemometrics of their fatty acid fingerprints.
3. International Symposium on “Plant Signaling and Behaviour (PSB)-2014” Organised by: Landes Biosciences, USA, Society of Plant Signaling and behaviour, University of Delhi.
Place & Date: Department of Botany, Delhi University; 7th – 10th March, 2014.
Lecture on: Fatty acid derived oxylipin signaling molecules in some Eastern Himalayan mosses analyzed by headspace sample enrichment probe- gas chromatography mass spectrometry (HS-SEP-GC-MS)
4. International Conference on Conservation of Bryophytes
Organized by: European Committee for Conservation of Bryophytes (ECCB)
Place & Date: Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; 18th- 21st April, 2012.
Lecture on: Lipidome and diversity of mosses of Eastern Himalaya
5. National symposium on "Last Hundred Years of Science in India"
Organised by: West Bengal Council of Science & Technology & Dept. Of Science and Technology, Govt. of West Bengal and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Place & Date: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata during 9th-10th January, 2013
Lecture on: Ecological and environmental significance of the cellular fatty acid dynamicity in Eastern
Himalayan mosses.
6. 100th Indian Science Congress
Organised by: Indian Science Congress Association
Place & Date: University of Calcutta, 3rd-7th January, 2013.
Lecture on: Exploration of antibacterial and antioxidative potential of Eastern Himalayan mosses
7. International Conference on Advances in Electron Microscopy and related Techniques: XXXI EMSI 2010.
Organized by: Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai & Electron Microscopic Society of India
Place & Date: Bhaba Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai; March, 2010.
Lecture on: Ultra-architectural study of key-species as a parameter for low cost bio-monitoring in
coal belt region.
Academic memberships:
International Association of Bryologists.
Indian Science Congress Association.
Probir Chatterjee Research Foundation.
Botanical Society of Bengal.
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