Research

The Department of Biological Sciences at Adamas University, with academic and research focus in Microbiology and Biochemistry. The department contributes to cutting edge research and professional practice through sustained faculty-led scholarly activities, extramural research projects, and structured student research engagement. With it’s undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs that integrate laboratory-based experimentation, molecular and biochemical techniques, and analytical approaches the research activity aligns with contemporary biological sciences. Faculty members of the department have published consistent research articles in peer-reviewed international journals indexed in SCOPUS and SCIE. A cumulative publication output of around one hundred research papers, fifty book chapters, with almost 700 citations and individual h-indices typically ranging from 7 to above 14, reflecting consistent research productivity and impact in core areas of modern biology. Major research thrusts of the department include antimicrobial resistance, microbial genetics and ecology, biomaterial sciences and tissue engineering, host–pathogen interactions, environmental and applied microbiology, protein biochemistry, enzymology, molecular regulation of biological processes, bioinformatics, and emerging interdisciplinary areas such as nanobiotechnology and omics-based research. Faculty members have received extramural research funding of more than 4 Cr from national agencies including DBT-BIRAC, DST-SERB, ICMR, and allied government funding bodies for investigator-driven projects in infection biology, structural and functional biochemistry, probiotic and microbial systems, and diagnostic development. Such grants collectively accentuate the department’s research activities and infrastructure development. A number of research fellows avail fund from ANRF, ICMR, and DST-INSPIRE. The department is supported by well-established laboratories for microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology, equipped to conduct Biosafety unit for BSL-2 pathogens, microbial culture, biochemical assays, enzymatic and protein studies, molecular diagnostics, and data-driven biological analysis, supplemented by shared institutional research and instrumentation facilities and active collaboration with IIT-KGP, IIT-Roorkee, Jadavpur University, Chittaranjan Cancer Institute, University of Calcutta, and other institutes of eminence.  Research and innovation activities actively involve undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students through dissertations, sponsored projects, and collaborative research initiatives, leading to scholarly publications and conference presentations. Alongside, regular organization of conferences like BIONEXT, BIOMEET, and a number of annual events and workshops in collaboration with Microbiology Society UK and Microbiologists Society India. Overall, the Department of Biological Sciences demonstrates a growing and sustainable research ecosystem.

1. Lanthanide-induced defect-engineered BTO nanoparticles as ultrasound-driven reusable piezocatalysts for the degradation of organic dyes, antibiotics, and bacterial pathogens toward comprehensive wastewater treatment Neelanjana Bag, Jhilik Roy, Amartya Sau, Indrajit Mondal, Anuja Chatterjee, Zia Ullah, Muhammad Madni, Dhananjoy Mondal, Suman Bhandary, Shubham Roy, Sukhen Das Biological Sciences Separation and Purification Technology 2026 1873-3794 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/separation-and-purification-technology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2025.135839 Scopus, SCIE School of Life Science and Biotechnology

2. Pigments from pathogenic bacteria: a comprehensive update on recent advances Kusumita Acharya, Swarna Shaw, Sudipta Paul Bhattacharya, Shatarupa Biswas, Suman Bhandary, Arijit Bhattacharya Biological Sciences World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 2024 1573-0972 https://link.springer.com/journal/11274
10.1007/s11274-024-04076-x Scopus School of Life Science and Biotechnology

3. Exosome-sheathed porous silica nanoparticle-mediated co-delivery of 3,3′- diindolylmethane and doxorubicin attenuates cancer stem cell-driven EMT in triple negative breast cancer Rupali Sarkar, Souradeep Biswas, Rituparna Ghosh, Priya Samanta, Shampa Pakhira, Mrinmoyee Mondal, Yashaswi Dutta Gupta, Suman Bhandary, Prosenjit Saha, Arijit Bhowmik and Subhadip Hajra, Biological Sciences Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2024 1477-3155 https://link.springer.com/journal/12951 10.1186/s12951-024-02518-0 Scopus, SCIE School of Life Science and Biotechnology

4. Mesoporous silica nanotechnology: promising advances in augmenting cancer theranostics, Yashaswi Dutta Gupta, Yuri Mackeyev, Sunil Krishnan and Suman Bhandary Biological Sciences Cancer Nanotechnology 2024 1868-6966 https://link.springer.com/journal/12645 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12645-024-00250-w Scopus, SCIE School of Life Science and Biotechnology

5. A critical analysis on the roles of exopolysaccharides and ACC deaminase in salinity stress tolerance in crop plants Anirudha Dutta,Souvik Banerjee,Saheli Dinda,Indranil Chowdhury, Srijan Haldar, Subhendu Bandyopadhyay Dept. of Biological Sciences Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology 2022 ISSN: 1878-8181 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2022.102372 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2022.102372 Scopus SOLB

6. Biomaterial‐based therapeutic approaches to osteoarthritis and cartilage repair through macrophage polarization. Piyali Das, Sonali Jana, and Samit Kumar Nandi. Dept. of Biological Sciences The Chemical Record 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200077 https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202200077 Scopus, SCIE SOLB

7. Waste-derived biomaterials as building blocks in the biomedical field. Sonali Jana, Piyali Das, Joydip Mukherjee, Dipak Banerjee, Prabal Ranjan Ghosh, Pradip Kumar Das, Rup Narayan Bhattacharya, and Samit Kumar Nandi. Dept. of Biological Sciences Journal of Materials Chemistry B 1 2022 https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TB02125G
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1TB02125G Scopus, SCIE SOLB

8. Potential Effects of Nanotechnology for the Enhancement of Leguminous Microgreens Quality, Productivity and Sustainability. Sadhika Bose, Khushi Dutta, Hindol Ray, Srijoni Banerjee, and Piyali Das. Dept. of Biological Sciences In Recent Trends and Applications of Leguminous Microgreens as Functional Foods, pp. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025 978-3-031-75678-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75678-8_22
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75678-8_22 Scopus SOLB

9. Identification of Evolutionary Trade-Offs Associated With High-Level Colistin Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii. Kusumita Acharya, Upasana Bhattacharya, Shatarupa Biswas, Nilanjan Pradhan, Sunandini Bhattacharya, Mallika Ghosh, Arijit Bhattacharya* Dept. of Biological Sciences APMIS 2026 ISSN:1600-0463 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/16000463
doi: 10.1111/apm.70121. Scopus, SCIE SOLB

10. Repurposing approved protein kinase inhibitors as potent anti-leishmanials targeting Leishmania MAP kinases Anindita Bhattacharjee, Arka Bagchi, Solanki Sarkar, Sriparna Bawali, Arijit Bhattacharya*, Arunima Biswas* Dept. of Biological Sciences Life Science 2024 ISSN: 1879-0631 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/life-sciences doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2024.122844. Scopus, SCIE SOLB

11. Cyanostyrylcopillar[5]arene Derivative: Synthesis, Photophysical Study, Chromogenic Detection of Aliphatic Amines, and Biofilm-Antibiofilm Activity. Subrata Ranjan DharaRajat SahaNabajyoti BaildyaKusumita AcharyaArijit Bhattacharya Arijit Bhattacharya, Kumaresh Ghosh Dept. of Biological Sciences ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024 ISSN : 1944-8252 https://pubs.acs.org/journal/aamick doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c16248 Scopus, SCIE SOLB

12. A comprehensive profiling of quorum quenching by bacterial pigments identifies quorum sensing inhibition and antibiofilm action of prodigiosin against Acinetobacter baumannii. Kusumita Acharya, Sonjukta Borborah, Abhishek Chatterjee, Mallika Ghosh & Arijit Bhattacharya* Dept. of Biological Sciences Arch Microbiol. 2023 ISSN: 1432-072X https://link.springer.com/journal/203 doi: 10.1007/s00203-023-03710-w. Scopus, SCIE SOLB

13. Evaluation of Modulators of cAMP-Response in Terms of Their Impact on Cell Cycle and Mitochondrial Activity of Leishmania donovani. Amrita Saha, Anindita Bhattacharjee, Amit Vij, Pijush K Das, Arijit Bhattacharya*, Arunima Biswas* Dept. of Biological Sciences Front Pharmacol. 2020 ISSN. 1663-9812 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology
doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.00782. Scopus, SCIE SOLB

14. Exploiting antimicrobial resistance: Better knowledge of resistance mechanisms can inform the search for and development of new antibiotics. Ouellette Marc, Bhattacharya Arijit. Dept. of Biological Sciences EMBO reports 2020 ISSN: 1469-3178 https://link.springer.com/journal/44319 doi: 10.15252/embr.202050249 Scopus, SCIE SOLB

15. Versatility of reverse transcriptase loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) from diagnosis of early pathological infection to mutation detection in organisms Srishti Sen 1, Priyanka Bhowmik 2, Shubhangi Tiwari 1, Yoav Peleg 3, Boudhayan Bandyopadhyay 4 Dept. of Biological Sciences Molecular biology reports 2024 1573-4978 https://link.springer.com/journal/11033 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-023-09110-z Scopus, SCIE SOLB

16. Effect of Mutations on the Evolution of Extended Spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL) Anirudha Dutta 1, Antarika Chowdhury 1, Parijat Roy 1, Priyanka Bhowmik 2 Dept. of Biological Sciences The protein journal 2025 1875-8355 https://link.springer.com/journal/10930/updates doi: 10.1007/s10930-025-10284-7. Scopus, SCIE SOLB

1. An MoU was signed between Adamas University and the ICAR–Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, coordinated by Dr. Moumita Gangopadhyay, for training and research collaboration. This national-level MoU was originally valid for 36 months from 26 June 2018 to 25 June 2021 and focused on strengthening research capacity and hands-on training in allied biological sciences.

2. Adamas University entered into a national MoU with Ecura Labs Pvt. Ltd., coordinated by Dr. Anwesha Chatterjee and Dr. Rudra Prasad Saha, for the development of a cost-effective hybrid serology-based rapid point-of-care test kit for community screening of COVID-19 infection. This original MoU was active for 12 months from 30 April 2020 to 31 May 2021.

3. An extension MoU was signed between Adamas University and the ICAR–Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres under the coordination of Dr. Moumita Gangopadhyay. This national collaboration continued training and research activities for an additional 12 months, from 26 June 2021 to 25 June 2023.

4. Adamas University signed a national MoU with Guwahati Biotech Park, coordinated by Dr. Manoj Kumar Singh, to promote industry–academia collaboration. This original MoU was valid for 36 months from 16 September 2021 to 15 September 2024, focusing on applied research, innovation, and industry exposure.

5. The Department of Biological Sciences entered into a national academic collaboration MoU with The Climate Thinker, coordinated by Dr. Arijit Bhattacharya and Dr. Subhendu Bandyopadhyay. This original MoU, effective for 60 months from 2 January 2022 to 1 January 2027, emphasizes interdisciplinary academic engagement and knowledge exchange.

6. A national MoU was signed between Adamas University and Moulana Azad College, coordinated by Dr. Rajib Majumder, to foster academic collaboration. This original MoU was active for 36 months from 15 March 2022 to 14 March 2025.

7. Adamas University entered into a national MoU with Merck Life Science Private Limited, coordinated by Dr. Rajib Majumder, for training and academic collaboration. This original MoU was valid for 12 months from 25 April 2022 to 24 April 2023, focusing on skill development and industry-oriented learning.

8. A national industry–academia collaboration MoU was signed between Adamas University and Suraksha Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., coordinated by Dr. Piyali Das. This original MoU was valid for 36 months from 1 June 2022 to 31 May 2025, supporting collaborative research and diagnostic training.

9. Adamas University signed a national research collaboration MoU with CSIR–Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, coordinated by Dr. Rajib Majumder and Dr. Rudra Prasad Saha. This original MoU was effective for 36 months from 2 February 2023 to 1 February 2026.

10. The Department of Biological Sciences entered into a national academic collaboration MoU with Ranaghat College, coordinated by Dr. Arijit Bhattacharya and Dr. Srijan Haldar. This original MoU spans 60 months from 10 February 2023 to 9 February 2028, promoting academic exchange and collaborative activities.

11. A national academic collaboration MoU was signed between the School of Life Science and Biotechnology and the Microbiologists Society of India, coordinated by Dr. Sanmitra Ghosh. This original MoU was valid for 24 months from 23 March 2023 to 22 March 2025, focusing on academic networking and professional development.

12. Adamas University entered into a national industry–academia collaboration MoU with Debgiri Agro Products Private Limited, coordinated by Dr. Moumita Gangopadhyay. This original MoU was valid for 36 months from 5 December 2023 to 4 December 2026, supporting applied research and industry engagement.

13. A national research collaboration MoU was signed between Adamas University and the Sundarban Green Environment Association, coordinated by Dr. Moumita Gangopadhyay. This original MoU was active for 36 months from 7 December 2023 to 6 December 2026, focusing on environmental and sustainability-related research.

14. Adamas University signed a national industry–academia collaboration MoU with Ashok Laboratory Clinical Testing Centre Pvt. Ltd., coordinated by Dr. Priyanka Bhowmik and Dr. Arijit Bhattacharya. This original MoU was valid for 36 months from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026.

15. A national research collaboration MoU was established between Adamas University and the Institute of Astronomy, Space and Earth Science, coordinated by Dr. Moumita Gangopadhyay. This original MoU was effective for 36 months from 16 January 2024 to 15 January 2027.

16. Adamas University entered into an international MoU with Elsevier, coordinated by Dr. Chiranjib Chakraborty and Dr. Rudra Prasad Saha, for organizing an international conference. This original MoU was valid for 12 months from 7 October 2024 to 30 November 2025.

17. A national industry–academia collaboration MoU was signed between Adamas University and Synthetic Moulders Ltd., coordinated by Dr. Srijoni Banerjee. This original MoU was valid for five months from 1 March 2023 to 31 August 2023, focusing on short-term industry engagement.

18. Adamas University entered into a national research–student collaboration MoU with Moulana Azad College, coordinated by Dr. Rajib Majumder. This original MoU is valid for 36 months from 12 March 2025 to 12 March 2028, emphasizing student-centric research collaboration and academic exchange.