Development of novel promoter with enhanced activity

Area of specialization

• Plant Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics
• Genetic modification of plants suitable for sustainable agriculture
• New drug development and active compound characterization from medicinal plants
• Plant microbe interaction
•  Plant Promoter Characterization

Education

• Ph.D. Plant Molecular Biology/Biochemistry, 1999, University of Calcutta

• M.S. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, 1991, University of Calcutta

• B.S. Chemistry/Biochemistry, 1987, University of Calcutta
   

Position and Employment :

• Lecturer, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar 2003 - till present
• Post Doctoral Research Associate, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Feb 2001- July 2004
• Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, Sep 1997- Jan 2001
• Senior Research Scholar (CSIR), Bose Institute, Calcutta, 1993-1996
• Junior Research Scholar  (CSIR), Bose Institute, Calcutta, 1991-1993

Total Number of Publications :                                     19

Total Number of Gene Bank Submissions :           23, 348 ESTs

Patents

Title of Invention: "Using the full length transcript (FLt) promoter from mirabilis mosaic  caulimovirus (MMV) to express chimeric genes in plant" Authors: Dr. Indu B. Maiti and Dr. Nrisingha Dey. Patent No. 6,420,547

Title of Invention: "Composition and methods using the Mirabilis mosaic caulimovirus sub-genomic transcript (Sgt) promoter for plant genetic engineering". Authors: Dr. Indu B. Maiti and Dr. Nrisingha Dey. Patent application No. 10/161,718

Some selected publications

Lai, J., Dey, N., C.-S., Bharti, A. K., Rudd, S., Mayer, K.F.X., Larkins, B., Becraft, P., and Messing, J. (2004) "Characterization of maize endosperm transcriptom and its comparison to the rice genome", Genome Research 14, 1932-1937.

Pattanayak, S., Dey, N., Bhattacharyya, S. and Maiti, I.B. (2004), "Isolation of full-length transcript promoter from Strawberry vein banding virus (SVBV) and expression analysis by protoplasts transient assays and in transgenic plants", Plant Science 167, 427-438.

Maiti, I.B., Dey, N., Dahlman, Douglas. L. and Webb, B. (2003) "Antibiosis-type resistance in transgenic plants expressing teratocyte secretary protein (TSP) gene from Hymenopteran Endoparasites   (Microplitis Croceipes)" Plant Biotechnology, 1:209-219

Becraft, W. P., Li, K., Dey, N., Yvonne, A., (2002) "The maize dek1 gene functions in embryonic patern formation and cell fate specification" Development 129, 5217-5225

Bhattacharyya, S., Dey, N. and Maiti, I. B. (2002), "Analysis of cis-sequence of subgenomic transcript promoter from the Figwort mosaic virus and comparison of promoter activity with the cauliflower mosaic virus promoters in monocot and dicot cells" Virus Research 90, 47-62

Dey, N. and Maiti, I. B. (1999), "Structure and promoter/leader deletion analysis of mirabilis mosaic virus full-length transcript promoter in transgenic plant"  Plant Molecular Biology, 40: 771-782.