Malabika Roy Pathak, Ph.D.

Experience

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  Research Work for Ph.D.

  Mar 1990 - Aug 1995

  Ph.D. Research Scholar ( worked as JRF and SRF), Department of Botany, Bose Institute

  Ph.D. Work was on rice cells at physiological and biochemical level to analyze the molecular responses of rice cells under heat stress in relation to study different di and polyamines levels, the work was conducted in tissue cultured rice callus and rice plants were regenerated from heat stressed rice cells those were exposed to differed level of heat stress both at temperature and time variables. The work was performed under the guidance of Prof. Bharati Ghosh, Dept. of Botany, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. Ph.D. degree was obtained in Science (Plant) in 1996 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. After that worked as Post Doctoral Fellow of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India (May 1996-March 1997) at Department of Botany, Bose Institute. Show less

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  Rockefeller Foundation Post Doctorl Fellow

  Apr 1997 - Sept 1999

  Post Doctoral Fellow, Section of Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics, Cornell University

  Worked as Rockefeller foundation Post Doctoral Fellow in Rice Biotechnology Program, in the Laboratory of Prof. Ray Wu, Section of Biotechnology, Cornell University. Developed salt and drought stress tolerant japonica rice plants by transferring polyamine biosynthetic genes arginine decarboxylase and S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.

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  CSIR Scientist

  Dec 1999 - Dec 2001

  CSIR Pool Scientist

  Genetic modification of rice plants particularly Indica rice cultivars using polyamine biosynthetic genes such as argenine decarboxylase and S-adenosylmethionine genes, analysis of transgenic plants under different environmental stress situations and working experience on DNA fingerprinting using RAPD, AFLP techniques etc.

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  DST Young Scientist

  Jan 2002 - Dec 2002

  Project leader of Department of Science and Technology (DST) Funded own Project

  Project was funded for work on molecular cloning of genes from rice,

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  Arabian Gulf University

  May 2003 - Jun 2009

  Faculty Member

  My responsibilities were to teach M.Sc. students in Biotechnology program particularly agricultural biotechnology based courses both theory and practical; conducted several research work on plant biology by establishing plant tissue culture and molecular biology laboratory; performed plant tissue culture of several legume plants together with tissue culture of several medicinally important plants; Gene transfer in legume plants particularly chickpea; Analysis of Transgenic legume plant using different molecular biology based techniques; DNA finger printing of date palm based on RAPD technique etc. Show less

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  Arabian Gulf University

  Sept 2009 - Jun 2011

  Assistant Professor

  Teaching of MS students, supervision of students project, project proposal preparation, research activities, Management of plant tissue culture laboratory related projects and supervision of green house based plant production syatem

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  Arabian Gulf University

  Sept 2011 - Aug 2014

  Assistant Professor
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  Arabian Gulf University, Department of Life Sciences

  Sept 2014 - now

  Assistant Professor

  Teaching and supervising Master Students and working in the field of Conservation Biotechnology, Plant-Insect Relationship at Molecular level, Molecular Taxonomy.