International Publications (last five years)

1. Conversion of rural abattoir wastes to an organic fertilizer and its application in the field cultivation of tomato in India: Malancha Roy, Rimi Das, Anupam Debsarcar, Pradip Kumar Sen, Joydeep Mukherjee: Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 31 (4), 350-360, 2016
2. Removal of fluoride contamination in water by three aquatic plants: Sukalpa Karmakar, Joydeep Mukerjee, Somnath Mukherjee: International Journal of Phytoremediation: 18 (3), 222-227, 2016
3. Streptomyces euryhalinus sp. nov., a new actinomycete isolated from a mangrove forest: Kaushik Biswas, Jayanta Debabrata Choudhury, Riddhi Mahansaria, Malay Saha, Joydeep Mukherjee: Journal of Antibiotics (Nature Publishing Group), 70, 747-753, 2017
4. Isolation of indigenous Staphylococcus sciuri from chromium-contaminated paddy field and its application for reduction of Cr(VI) in rice plants cultivated in pots: Avishek Dutta, Sayanti Ghosh, Jayanta D Choudhury, Riddhi Mahansaria, Malancha Roy, Ashish Kumar Ghosh, Tarit Roychowdhury, Joydeep Mukherjee: Bioremediation Journal, 21, 30-37, 2017
5. Production enhancement and characterization of the polyhydroxyalkanoate produced by Natrinema ajinwuensis (as synonym) ≡ Natrinema altunense strain RM-G10: Riddhi Mahansaria, Anusua Dhara, Amit Saha, Saubhik Haldar, Joydeep Mukherjee: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 107 (Pt. B), 1480-1490, 2018
6. A new collagenase enzyme of the marine sponge pathogen Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans NW4327 is uniquely linked with a TonB dependent receptor: Sayak Bhattacharya, Jayanta Debabrata Choudhury, Ratan Gachhui, Joydeep Mukherjee: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules: 109, 1140-1146, 2018
7. Effects of flask configuration on biofilm growth and metabolites of intertidal cyanobacteria isolated from a mangrove forest: Maruthanayagam Veerapathiran, Sandeep Chakraborty, Sayani Mitra, Sanmoy Karmakar, Joydeep Mukherjee: Journal of Applied Microbiology, 125, 190-202, 2018
8. Oxynema aestuarii sp. nov. (Microcoleaceae) isolated from an Indian mangrove forest: Sandeep Chakraborty, Veerapathiran Maruthanayagam, Anusree Achari, Riddhi Mahansaria, Arnab Pramanik, Parasuraman Jaisankar, Joydeep Mukherjee: Phytotaxa, 374, 24-40, 2018
9. Biosorption of fluoride by water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) from contaminated water: Sukalpa Karmakar, Joydeep Mukherjee, Somnath Mukherjee: International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 15, 801-810, 2018
10. Mathematical modelling for phytoplankton distribution in Sundarbans estuarine system, India: Tanaya Das, Saranya Chakraborti, Joydeep Mukherjee, Goutam Kumar Sen: Ecological Modelling 368, 111–120, 2018
11. U32 collagenase from Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans NW4327: Activity, structure, substrate interactions and molecular dynamics simulations: Sayak Bhattacharya, Sourya Bhattacharya, Ratan Gachhui, Saugata Hazra, Joydeep Mukherjee: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules: 124, 635–650, 2019
12. Microbial diversity of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest tidal mangrove forest, and its bioprospects: Kaushik Biswas and Joydeep Mukherjee: Invited book chapter in “Microbial diversity in ecosystem sustainability and biotechnological applications, Volume 2, Soil and agroecosystems: Publisher Springer Nature, 2019
13. Structural elucidation and antimicrobial activity of a diketopiperazine isolated from a Bacillus sp. associated with the marine sponge Spongia officinalis: Dhruba Bhattacharya, Tapan Kumar Lai, Joseph Selvin, Joydeep Mukherjee: Natural Product Research, 35 (14), 2315-2323, 2021
14. Euryhalinema mangrovii gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptoelongatus litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov.(Leptolyngbyaceae) isolated from an Indian mangrove forest: Sandeep Chakraborty, Veerabadhran Maruthanayagam, Anushree Achari, Arnab Pramanik, Parasuraman Jaisankar, Joydeep Mukherjee: Phytotaxa, 422, 58–74, 2019
15. Enhancing the efficiency of disc membrane chromatography modules by using a flow directing layer: Pedram Madadkar, Riddhi Mahansaria, Joydeep Mukherjee, Raja Ghosh: Journal of Membrane Science, 580, 154–160, 2019
16. Monitoring of biofilms grown on differentially structured metallic surfaces using confocal laser scanning microscopy: Daniel Kleine, Jonas Chodorski, Sayani Mitra, Christin Schlegel, Katharina Huttenlochner, Christine Müller-Renno, Joydeep Mukherjee, Christiane Ziegler, Roland Ulber: Engineering in Life Sciences, 19, 513–521, 2019
17. Removal of Pb (II), As (III), and Cr (VI) by nitrogen‐starved Papiliotrema laurentii strain RY1: Soumyadev Sarkar, Avishek Mukherjee, Rubia Parvin, Subhadeep Das, Uttariya Roy, Somdeep Ghosh, Punarbasu Chaudhuri, Tarit Roychowdhury, Joydeep Mukherjee, Semantee Bhattacharya, Ratan Gachhui: Journal of Basic Microbiology, DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201900222, 2019
18. Microbial diversity of the Sundarbans, the world’s largest tidal mangrove forest, and its bioprospects: Kaushik Biswas, Joydeep Mukherjee: Book chapter in Microbial Diversity in Ecosystem Sustainability and Biotechnological Applications, Volume 2, Soil and Agroecosystems Eds. Tulasi Satyanarayana, Subrata Kumar Das, Bhavdish Narain Johri, Springer, 2020
19. Production enhancement of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) in Halogeometricum borinquense, characterization of the bioplastic and desalination of the bioreactor effluent: Riddhi Mahansaria, Sampa Bhowmik, Anusua Dhara, Amit Saha, Mrinal Kanti Mandal, Raja Ghosh, Joydeep Mukherjee: Process Biochemistry, 94, 243-257, 2020
20. Bacillus rugosus sp. nov. producer of a diketopiperazine antimicrobial, isolated from marine sponge Spongia officinalis L.: Dhruba Bhattacharya, Sergio de los Santos Villalobos, Valeria Valenzuela Ruiz, Joseph Selvin, Joydeep Mukherjee: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 113, 1675–1687, 2020
21. Assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contamination in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest tidal mangrove forest and indigenous microbial mixed biofilm-based removal of the contaminants: Saranya Balu, Shantanu Bhunia, Ratan Gachhui, Joydeep Mukherjee: Environmental Pollution, 266, 115270, 2020
22. Whole-Genome sequence of cyanobacterium Oxynema sp. AP17, isolated from an Indian mangrove forest: Shayontani Basu, Veerabadhran Maruthanayagam, Arnab Pramanik, Joydeep Mukherjee: Microbiology Resource Announcements 9:e00808-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00808-20, 2020
23. Draft genome sequence of Bacillus sp. Strain SPB7, isolated from the marine sponge Spongia officinalis: Dhruba Bhattacharya, Sergio de los Santos Villalobos, Valeria Valenzuela Ruiz, Joseph Selvin, Joydeep Mukherjee: Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9:e00358-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00358-20, 2020
24. Application of recycled slaughterhouse wastes as an organic fertilizer for successive cultivations of bell pepper and amaranth: Shantanu Bhunia, Ankita Bhowmik, Rambilash Mallick, Anupam Debsarcar, Joydeep Mukherjee: Scientia Horticulturae, 280, 109927, 2021
25. Microbial Infections and Virulence Factors: Sayak Bhattacharya, Joydeep Mukherjee book chapter in Model Organisms for Microbial Pathogenesis, Biofilm Formation and Antimicrobial Drug Discovery, Editors Busi Siddhardha, Madhu Dyavaiah, Asad Syed, 2020
26. Aerofilum fasciculatum gen. nov., sp. nov. (Oculatellaceae) and Euryhalinema pallustris sp. nov. (Prochlorotrichaceae) isolated from an Indian mangrove forest: Sandeep Chakraborty, Veerabadhran Maruthanayagam, Anushree Achari, Arnab Pramanik, Parasuraman Jaisankar, Joydeep Mukherjee: Phytotaxa (in press), 2021
27. Development of a novel helical-ribbon mixer dryer for conversion of rural slaughterhouse wastes to an organic fertilizer and implications in the rural circular economy: Ankita Bhowmik, Shantanu Bhunia, Anupam Debsarkar, Rambilash Mallick, Malancha Roy, Joydeep Mukherjee: Sustainability 13, (16), 9455, 2021
28. Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of the extract of Streptomyces euryhalinus isolated from the Indian Sundarbans: Kaushik Biswas, Dhruba Bhattarcharya, Malay Saha, Joydeep Mukherjee, Sanmoy Karmakar: Archives of Microbiology, 204, 34, 2022
29. The current and future role of microbial culture collections in food security worldwide: Alondra María Díaz-Rodríguez, Lilian Alejandra Salcedo Gastelum, Carmen María Félix Pablos, Fannie Isela Parra-Cota, Gustavo Santoyo, Mariana Laura Puente, Dhruba Bhattacharya, Joydeep Mukherjee, Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4:614739. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.614739, 2021
30. Role of intertidal microbial communities in carbon dioxide sequestration and pollutant removal: A review: Abhishek Mandal, Ahana Dutta, Reshmi Das, Joydeep Mukherjee: Marine Pollution Bulletin 170, 112626, 2021
31. Assessing the effect of herbicide diuron on river biofilm: A statistical model. Tanaya Bhowmick, Goutam Sen, Joydeep Mukherjee, Reshmi Das: Chemosphere, 282, 131104, 2021
32. Effect of biologically induced cementation via ureolysis in stabilization of silty soil: Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ramendu Bikas Sahu, Joydeep Mukherjee, Geomicrobiology Journal, DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2021.2005188, 2021

International Conferences

1. Application of halophilic archaea for the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (bioplastics): Riddhi Mahansaria, Joydeep Mukherjee: ICBE Asia (AIChE) Conference, 8-10 January, 2018, Singapore
2. Identification of marine sponge pathogen and purification and characterization of virulence factor, collagenase enzyme: S. Bhattacharya, J. D. Choudhury, J. Mukherjee: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Conference, 7-11 June, 2018, Atlanta, USA
3. Effect of surface materials, planktonic and biofilm growth on production of exocellular polysaccharides from intertidal cyanobacteria for both health as well as for industrial application: M. Veerabadhran, J. Mukherjee: 3^rd European Conference on Biodeterioration of Stone Monuments, November, 8 to 9^th, 2018, Cergy-Pontoise, France
4. Cyclic diketopiperazine from marine sponge associated Bacillus sp.: Structural characterization and antimicrobial activity: Dhruba Bhattacharyya and Joydeep Mukherjee: Poster presentation in Gordon Research Conferences, Ventura, United States: February 23^rd to 28^th, 2020
5. Tannic acid induced membrane surface modification to increase efficiency of direct contact membrane distillation for desalination of the bioreactor effluent of a bioplastic-producing haloarchaeal bioprocess: Arnab Banerjee, Joydeep Mukherjee: Materials Today Proceedings, 47 (7), 1404-1408, 2021
6. Valorization of rural abattoir waste as fertilizer for sustainable agricultural production and socio-economic development: Shantanu Bhunia, Ankita Bhowmik, Anupam Debsarkar, Rambilash Mallick, Joydeep Mukherjee: Nature Conferences, Waste Management and Valorisation for a Sustainable Future, Seoul, South Korea, October 26-28, 2021

Report

Microbial diversity: distribution, ecology and biotechnology: Anindita Mitra and Joydeep Mukherjee (Invited chapter) in Environmental management and biodiversity conservation plan for Sundarbans biodiversity, submitted by the World Wildlife Fund to the World Bank.

Patent

1. An apparatus for recycling slaughterhouse waste and method thereof. Inventors: Ankita Bhowmik, Shantanu Bhunia, Joydeep Mukherjee: Indian Patent No. 370569, date of grant 29/06/2021
2. Device and method of providing enhanced surface area for growth and attachment of biofilms/ biological cells in a modified cylindrical flask: Atulona Datta and Joydeep Mukherjee, Indian patent application no. 202031044832, First examination report received
3. Enhanced surface area conico-cylindrical flask (ES-CCF) for biofilm cultivation: US Patent No.: US 8,945,917 B2, Date of patent: February 3rd, 2015. Inventors: Sreyashi Sarkar, Debashis Roy, Joydeep Mukherjee

GenBank submissions on marine/estuarine bacteria

phaC gene sequences of haloarchaea and halobacteria obtained from Gujarat and West Bengal coasts of India

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16S rRNA gene sequences of haloarchaeal and halobacterial environmental isolates obtained from Gujarat and West Bengal coasts of India

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