Department of Microbiology

The department of microbiology was initiated in the year of 2006 as honours degree course. Since the day of inception, the department is being nurtured under the headship of Prof. Aparupa Khan. At present Prof. Arpan Dasgupta and Prof. Shubhadip Mukherjee is also serving the department with Mr. Aslam Parvez as lab attendant. The department has a well-equipped laboratory notably with laminar airflow, spectrophotometer, cold centrifuge, BOD incubator etc. It has a separate culture room for bacterial culture and molecular biology experiments setup. The departmental library has a collection of 90 books along with around 150 books of international standard in the central library. The department has good waste management practice to avoid microbial waste pollution in the surrounding environment. This department does a survey of microbial quality testing of college drinking water and canteen foods periodically. In this academic session, this department had 81% of passed students among which two of the students secured rank in Burdwan University.

Dr. Kirat Kumar Ganguly

Assistant Professor (H.O.D.)

Ph.D. in Life Science and Biotechnology (Jadavpur University, India, Post-Doctoral in Cancer Biomarker Discovery (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA)
M.Sc. in Microbiology & Microbial Technology, Kalyani University
B.Sc.(Hons.) in Microbiology, University of Calcutta, India
Specialization: Microbiology, Cell & Molecular Biology
Teaching Interest: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Environmental & Agricultural Microbiology, Food & Dairy Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Genetics
Research Interest: Cell Receptor Biology & Metastasis. Study of cellular interaction with neighboring cells, microenvironment, and their role in physiological as well as in pathological condition. Special interest is to study the interactions and reveal their underlying mechanism at the molecular level in different types of cancer. In addition, his interest includes the development of specific tools for early detection and therapeutic interventions applicable in types of cancer.

Email: kirat.1982@gmail.com

    Mrs. Aparupa Khan

    State Aided College Teacher – II

    M.Sc. Botany, M.B.A. Human Resource
    Specialization: Microbiology, Immunology
    Teaching Interest: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Environmental & Agricultural Microbiology, Food & Dairy Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Genetics
    Research Interest: Heavy metal effect on Bacteria growth, physiology

    Email: aparupa_khan@rediffmail.com

      Mr. Arpan Dasgupta

      State Aided College Teacher – I

      M.Sc. Microbiology from H.N.B Garhwal University. Qualified UGC-CSIR NET, ICAR NET, GATE Life Science. Pursuing Ph.D. from NIT Durgapur
      Specialization: Microbiology
      Teaching Interest: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Environmental & Agricultural Microbiology, Food & Dairy Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Genetics
      Research Interest: Production of bioactive metabolites from microorganisms. Investigation of physicochemical and structural characterization of bioactive compounds. Application of the bioactive compounds with special aspects of the environmental application.

      Email: arpandasgupta6@gmail.com

        Mr. Subhadip Mukherjee

        State Aided College Teacher – II

        M.Sc. Microbiology
        Specialization: Microbiology
        Teaching Interest: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Environmental & Agricultural Microbiology, Food& Dairy Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Genetics
        Research Interest: Extraction, characterization, and application of microbial extracellular enzymes

        Email: subhadip.mukherjee1@gmail.com

          Ms. Monami Mondal

          Guest Lecturer

          M.Sc. in Microbiology
          Specialization: Microbiology
          Teaching Interest: Molecular biology, Cell biology, Environmental & Agricultural Microbiology, Food& Dairy Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology, Medical Microbiology, Genetics
          Research Interest: Isolation and characterization of Extremophiles

          Email: monamimondal20@gmail.com

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            List of recommended books for Microbiology (Honours and Programme)

            Sl. No.Authors  / Editors NameTitle of Book (Vol if any)Publishers
            1PelczarJr MJ, Chan ECS, and Krieg NR. (2004)Microbiology, 5th editionTata McGraw Hill.
            2Madigan MT, and Martinko JM. (2014)  Parker J.Brock Biology of Micro-organisms, 14th editionPrentice Hall International, Inc.
            3Tortora GJ, Funke BR, and Case CL. (2008)Microbiology: An Introduction. 9th editionPearson
            4Atlas RM. (1997)Principles of Microbiology. 2nd edition.WM.T.Brown Publishers.
            5Stanier RY, Ingrahm JI, Wheelis ML and Painter PR. (1987).General Microbiology. 5th edition  McMillan Press.
            6Black JG. (2008)Microbiology: Principles and Explorations. 7th edition.Prentice Hall
            7Willey MJ, Sherwood, LM &Woolverton C J (2013)  Prescott, Harley and Klein’s Microbiology by. 9th Ed.McGrawHill
            8Nelson DL and Cox MM (2008)Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, 5th Edition.W.H. Freeman
            9Voet,D. and Voet J.G (2004)  Biochemistry 3rd   editionJohn Wiley and Sons
            10Berg JM, Tymoczko JL and Stryer L (2011)BiochemistryW.H.Freeman and Company
            11Dimmock, NJ, Easton, AL, Leppard, KN (2007).  Introduction to Modern Virology. 6th editionBlackwell Publishing Ltd.
            12Versteeg J. (1985).A Color Atlas of Virology.Wolfe Medical Publication.
            13Freifelder DM. (1983)  Physical Biochemistry: Applications to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.W. H. Freeman
            14Upadhyay, Upadyay, Nath (2009).  Biophysical Chemistry: Principle & techniques.Himalaya Pub House.
            15Karp G. (2010) John  Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments. 6th edition.Wiley & Sons. Inc.
            16De Robertis, EDP and De Robertis EMF. (2006).  Cell and Molecular Biology. 8th edition.Lipincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia.
            17Cooper, G.M. and Hausman, R.E. (2009).  The Cell: A Molecular Approach. 5 Edition.ASM Press & Sunderland, Washington, D.C.; Sinauer Associates, MA.
            18Gardner EJ, Simmons MJ, Snustad DP (2008).Principles of Genetics. 8th Ed.Wiley-India
            19Watson JD, Baker TA, Bell SP, Gann A, Levine M and Losick R (2008)  Molecular Biology of the Gene, 6th editionCold Spring Harbour Lab. Press, Pearson Publication
            20Adams MR and Moss MO. (1995).  Food Microbiology. 4th editionNew Age International (P) Limited Publishers, New Delhi, India.
            21Casida LE. (1991).Industrial Microbiology. 1st edition.Wiley Eastern Limited.
            22Frazier WC and Westhoff DC. (1992).  Food Microbiology. 3rd edition.Tata McGraw- Hill Publishing Company Ltd, New Delhi, India.
            23Ananthanarayan R. and Paniker C.K.J. (2009)  Textbook of Microbiology. 8th editionUniversity Press Publication
            24Goering R., Dockrell H., Zuckerman M. and Wakelin D. (2007)  Mims’ Medical Microbiology. 4th edition.Elsevier
            25Rastogi S.C., Mendiratta N. and Rastogi P. (2007)  Bioinformatics: methods and applications, genomics, proteomics and drug discovery, 2nd ed.Prentice Hall India Publication
            26Primrose and Twyman (2003)Principles of Genome Analysis & Genomics.Blackwell
            27Brown TA. (2010).Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis. 6th edition.  Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, U.K.
            28Russell PJ. (2009).i Genetics – A Molecular Approach. 3rd EdBenjamin Cummings

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            Department of Microbiology
            Michael Madhusudan Memorial College
            Kabiguru Sarani, City Center
            Durgapur, West Bengal 713216
            Email: kirat.1982@gmail.com (H.O.D.)