WEST
BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY BF-142, Sector-I, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700064 www.wbut.net
Dr. Shaon Ray Chaudhuri
Research Area
Project
Details
1.
Title:
Genetic
Resource Management of East Calcutta Wetland.
Funding:
Department of Science
and Technology, New Delhi.
Scheme:
DST Fast Track Scheme
for Young Scientist.
This
project involves the microbial resource mapping
of East Calcutta Wetland. It reveals a rich
bacterial resource at that site. It has resulted
in isolation of 22 bacterial isolates of which
9 are protease producing; 9 are oil utilizing
while most of them can uptake metal as evident
from EDXRF and TEM results.
2.
Title:
Ionizing
radiation induced DNA DSB studies of methanogens
isolated from East Calcutta wetland.
Funding:
UGC-DAE Consortium
Scheme:
UGC DAE CSR
This
project aims at isolation of methanogens from
East Calcutta Wetland. Following isolation they
would be characterized based on their DNA DSB
repairing ability, 16S rDNA gene sequence as
well as Rad gene sequence.
3.
Title:
Trace
element profiling of East Calcutta Wetland for
phylogeny based growth condition prediction.
Funding:
UGC-DAE Consortium
Scheme:
Experimental program at IOP,
Bhuvaneshwar.
This
project intends to do the trace element profiling
of different sites of ECW to predict the growth
condition of as yet uncultivated microbe which
have been identified using culture independent
approach. It also intends to evaluate the ongoing
bioremedial activity at the Bheris (waste water
fed fisheries).
4.
Title:
Development
of sulphate reducing bioremediation package
for Jaduguda Effluent discharge.
Funding:
DAE
Scheme:
BRNS
This
aims at isolation of efficient sulphate reducing
bacterial consortium from ECW as well as Jaduguda.
These would be done following phylogenetic prediction
of putative sulphate reducers. These would be
used for checking their reducing efficiency.
Consortium for reducing noncomplex sulphates is required. It would
be immobilized and its reducing efficiency would
be checked both at lab scale and at tailing
ponds at Jaduguda.
5.
Title:
Understanding the scopes
of value added waste water management through
fisheries.
Funding:
Jointly by WBUT, India
and EPRC, Bangladesh
Scheme:
Pre-Proposal Project
This aims
at analyzing the physico-chemical and microbiological
parameters of waste water fed fish ponds at ECW
and Dhaka. It intends to compare the two and analyze
the variation, if any. It also would be used to
address the problem of fish production failure
at Dhaka as compared to ECW.
