Dr. Abhijit Dutta
abhijit_datta21@rediffmail.com, abhijit_datta21@yahoo.com

Academic Profile
B.Sc. in Botany (Honours), Chemistry and Zoology, with 1st Class (Rank 3), University of Calcutta – 1985.
M.Sc. in Botany; Specialization in Cell Biology and Genetics, with 1st Class (Rank 1), University of Calcutta 1987 (held in 1988).
CSIR-UGC NET, New Delhi – 1989.
Ph.D. Programme in Molecular Biology, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, Calcutta – 1988-1995.
Young Scientist Award – 1995 (DST).
Post Doctoral Programme in Molecular Biology, Department of Agricultural Botany, University of Meerut, Meerut – 1995-1996.

Areas of Interest
• Cell Biology;
• Molecular Biology
• Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics

Ares of Research
• Cell Genetics
• Molecular Biology & Bioinformation

Ongoing Research Projects
Molecular characterization and Genotyping of Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) – (P.I.) UGC

Teaching Course Taught
Under Graduate: Molecular biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Biometry, Plant Anatomy, Pharmacognosy.
Post Graduate: Molecular biology, Genetics, Biometry, Bioinformatics, Plant Anatomy, Pharmacognosy

List of Publications
Abhijit Datta and D. Ray (1999) Isolation, characterization and sequence analyses of some novel repetitive families from Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanko. In : XXIII All Ind. Cell Biology Conf., Hyderabad, India.

Abhijit Datta and D. Ray (1999) Characterization of some novel repetitive families from Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanko. In : Natl. Symp. on Advances and Applications of Animal Science in Human Welfare, Darjeeling, India.

Abhijit Datta and D. Ray (1999) Identification and isolation of EcoRI repetitive families from Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanko. In : XI Intl. Biotechnology Symp., Berlin, Germany.

Abhijit Datta (1998) Molecular characterization and physical mapping of a promoter sequence from Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica. In : III Congress of Asia Pacific Organization for Cell Biology, Osaka, Japan.

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1997) Molecular cloning and characterization of a MboI repetitive element from Oryza sativa cv. IR36. Acta Botanica 25 (77-82).

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1997) Putative promoter sequence from an indica rice cultivar IR36 nuclear genome. GeneBank Accn. No. X 81196.

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1997) Repetitive DNA sequences in plants. Acta Botanica 25 : 1-12.

Abhijit Datta and P.K. Gupta (1997) Tagging of major genes for protein content using hybridization based and MP-PCR based SSR markers. In : Proc. of National Conf. On Environmental issues, impact assesment and resource management, Hapur, India.

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1996) Regulation of gene expression in plants. Acta Botanica 24 : 203-212.

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1996) In : Proc. of 2nd Intl. Crop Science Congress, New Delhi, India.

Abhijit Datta and P.C. Sharma (1996) Studies on abundance and polymorphism of microsatellites in elite Indian wheat genotypes. In : Proc. of 4th Intl. DNA Fingerprinting Conference, Victoria, Australia.

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1996) Identification of some novel repetitive DNA sequences from the genome of Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica. Acta Botanica 24 : 199-202.

Abhijit Datta (1995) Molecular cloning and characterization of a new size class repetitive sequence from Oryza sativa. In : 82nd Indian Science Congress, Calcutta, India. (ISCA Young Scientist Award Lecture).

R.K. Chaudhuri and Abhijit Datta (1995) Isolation of a putative promoter sequence from Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica cv. IR36. Rice Biotech. Qrt. 22 : 15-16.

Abhijit Datta (1995) Molecular cloning, characterization and analyses of repeated DNA sequences from the genome of Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Calcutta, Calcutta.

R.K. Chaudhuri and Abhijit Datta (1995) Isolation of a promoter from IR36 nuclear genome with an aim towards improvement of Indian rice germplasm. In : Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Biotechnology Research and Applications for Sustainable Development, Bangkok, Thailand.

R.K. Chaudhuri, Abhijit Datta and D.K. Mukhopadhyay (1994) Sequence divergence in MboI repeat family in five local rice cultivar genomes. Rice Biotech. Qrt. 20 : 9-10.

Abhijit Datta, D.K. Mukhopadhyay and R.K.Chaudhuri (1994) Novel repeated DNA sequences from Oryza sativa ssp. indica. In : Proc. of XVI Intl. Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, New Delhi, India.

Abhijit Datta, D.K. Mukhopadhyay and R.K.Chaudhuri (1994) A novel repeat from Oryza sativa ssp. indica. and its role in detecting genetic diversity in some indica cultivars. In : Proc. of II Asia Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Chennai, India.

Abhijit Datta, D.K. Mukhopadhyay and R.K.Chaudhuri (1994) AA Genome specific promoter like DNA sequence from indica rice (IR36) genome. In : Plant Genome II. San Diego, California, USA.

Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1993) Cloning and partial characterization of a small repeat family from Oryza sativa ssp. indica. In : Proc. of VIII All India Congress of Cytology and Genetics, Berhampur, India.

Abhijit Datta, M. Singh, D.K. Mukhopadhyay, A. Das and R.K. Chaudhuri (1993) Restriction fragment length polymorphism of repeated DNA sequences in Indian rice cultivars. In : Proc. of GMF Intl. Seminar on Gene/Genome Mapping, Calicut, India.

Abhijit Datta, D. Roy and R.K. Chaudhuri (1991) RFLPs in Indian rice cultivars. In : Proc. of Society of Biological Chemists, IICB, Calcutta, India.

P. Mallik, Abhijit Datta and R.K. Chaudhuri (1991) Cloning and sequencing of genome specific repetitive DNA species of Solanum nigrum. In : Proc. of Society of Biological Chemists, IICB, Calcutta, India.

I. Chaudhuri and Abhijit Datta (1990) Salinity tolerant rice cultivar through callus culture. In : Proc. of Intl. Symp. on Chromosome Research, IICB, Calcutta, India.

R.K. Chaudhuri, D.K. Mukhopadhyay, P. Mallik and Abhijit Datta (1990) Structural differentiation in ribosomal RNA genes in Indian rice cultivars. In : Rice Research : New Frontiers, Hyderabad, India.

Abhijit Datta (1989) Effect of cycloheximide on growth behaviour and protein synthesis of yeast. In : 76th Indian Science Congress, Madurai, India.