Swati Gupta Bhattacharya

Professor, Division of Plant Biology
PhD: University of Calcutta (1988

Research Interest: 

 

  • To identify and record the prevalence and distribution of common airborne pollen grains and fungal spores in different indoor and outdoor environments with reference to meteorological parameters and hospitalization data.

  • Study of pollen morphlogy and ultra structural characters in solving disputed plant taxonomical and phylogenetical problems.

  • Identification of allergenically significant pollen and spores and assessment of their allergenic potential by in-vivo and in-vitro tests

  • Isolation and purification of allergenic components of the common allergenically potent types.

  • Identification, purification, cloning, expression and study of the recombinant allergen.

  • To investigate the presence of shared allergeniciy and antigenicity among taxonomically related airborne pollen and spore types.

  • Using allergens for hyposensitization (immunotherapy) of allergic patients.

  • Study to reconstruct the palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment and their changes using both extant and fossil palynomorphs from the sediments of recent geologic past.

  • Quality control of honey samples to check adulteration and assess nutritive value through physico-chemical analysis.

 

Present & Past Members

 

 

Member

Period of stay

Working for /as

Presently at

2011 - present Ph.D. Bose Institute
Nandini Ghosh  
2011 - present Ph.D. Bose Institute
Debarati Dey  
2011 - present Ph.D. Bose Institute
Gaurab  Sircar  
2010 - present Ph.D. Bose Institute
Kavita Ghosal  
2010 - Present Ph.D. Bose Institute
Bodhisattwa Saha  
2005 - present Ph.D. and R.A. Bose Institute

Himadri S. Chakrabarti

  

2004 - 2006

RA

K.N. College, Baharampur,W.B.

Dola Boral

  

2004 - 2009

Ph.D.

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Jyotshna Mandal

      

2002 - 2004

Ph.D.

University of Alabama at Birmingham,

USA

Shaonli Das

1998 - 2004

Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati, USA

Debajyoti Ghosh

1994 - 2000

Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati, USA

Atin Adhikari

1994 - 2000

Ph.D.

University of Cincinnati, USA

Moon Moon Sen

  

1995 - 2002

RA

Allergy and asthma research Center,  Kolkata, India

Indrani Chowdhuri

  

1992 - 2005

Ph.D./ RA/ SRA

Sree Chaitanya College, W.B., India

Pampa Chakraborty

  
1988 - present Supporting staff Bose Institute

Chanchal Chakraborty

LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

 

  1. Sircar G, Chakrabarti HS, Saha B and Gupta-Bhattacharya S. 2012. Identification of Aero-allergens from Rhizopus oryzae : An immunoproteomic Approach. Journal of Proteomics, (In press). Impact Factor- 4.9 

  2. Ghosh D, Chakraborty P, Gupta J, Biswas, A,. Roy I, Das S and Gupta Bhattacharya S. 2012. Associations between Pollen Counts,

  3. Pollutants, and Asthma-Related Hospital Admissions in a High-Density Indian Metropolis. Journal of Asthma, 2012; 49(8): 792–799.Informa Healthcare USA, Inc Impact Factor- 1.5 

  4. Das S and Gupta Bhattacharya S. 2012. Monitoring and assessment of airborne fungi in Kolkata, India, by viable and non-viable air sampling methods. Environmental monitoring and assessment. 184:4671–4684 Impact Factor- 1.4 

  5. Mondal H.A., Chakraborti D., Majumder P., Roy P, Roy A, Gupta Bhattacharya S.and Das S.2011.Allergenicity Assessment of Allium sativum Leaf Agglutinin, a Potential Candidate Protein for Developing Sap Sucking Insect Resistant Food Crops. PLoS ONE 6(11): e27716. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027716 Impact Factor: 4.0 

  6. Mandal J, Roy I, Gupta-Bhattacharya S. 2011. Clinical and Immunobiochemical characterization of airborne  Peltophorum pterocarpum (Yellow Gulmohar tree) pollen:a dominant avenue tree of India. Annals of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. (Elsevier); 106, 412– 420 Impact Factor:2.8 

  7. Ghosh D, Chakraborty, P, Gupta J, Biswas A and Gupta Bhattacharya S. 2010.Asthma related hospital admissions in Kolkata, an Indian megacity: Role of ambient aeroallergens and inorganic Pollutants. Allergy.65(6)795-799 Impact Factor: 6.2 

  8. Mandal J, Manna P, Chakraborty P, Roy I and Gupta-Bhattacharya S. Clinical and immunobiochemical characterization of airborne Delonix regia (Gulmohar tree) pollen and cross reactivity studies with Peltophorum pterocarpum pollen: Two dominant avenue trees from Eastern India. Annals of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. 2009; 103(6); 515-524 Impact Factor: 2.8 

  9. Das S and Gupta-Bhattacharya S. Trichoderma harzianum: occurrence in the air and clinical significance. Aerobiologia. 2009.(25):137-145 Impact Factor -1.5 

  10. Chakraborty P, Mandal J, Sarkar E, Chowdhury I and Gupta Bhattacharya S. Clinico-immunochemical studies on airborne Areca catechu L. pollen, a probable risk factor in emergency asthma hospitalization from Eastern India. International Archives of Allergy and Immunology, Karger Publishers, Switzerland. 2009.;149:305-314 Impact Factor- 2.4 

  11. Mandal J, Das M, Roy I, Chatterjee S, Gupta Bhattacharya S and Barui NC. Immediate hypersensitivity to common food allergens - An investigation on food sensitization in respiratory allergic patients of Calcutta, India. World Allergy Organization Journal (official publication of the World Allergy Organization, USA). 2009, 2, 9-12. 

  12. Ghosh D and Gupta- Bhattacharya, S. Structural insight into protein T1, the non-allergenic member of the Bet v 1 allergen family - an in silico analysis. Molecular Immunology, Elsevier, UK. 2008, 45, 456-462. Impact Factor- 2.8

  13. Chakraborty, P., Ghosh, D., Chowdhury.I., Chatterjee, S. Chanda,S.; Gupta- Bhattacharya, S. 2005. Aerobiological and immunochemical studies on Carica papaya L. pollen: an aeroallergen from India. Allergy, 60:920-926, Blackwell Publ. Impact Factor -6.2 

  14. Adhikari, A., Sen, M.; Gupta-Bhattacharya, S. and Chanda, S. (2004). Airborne viable, non-viable and allergenic fungi in a rural agricultural area of India: a 2-year study at five outdoor sampling stations. Science of the Total Environment, 326:121-139. Elsevier, UK.  Impact Factor -3.2      

  15. Ghosh D, Roy. D and Gupta-Bhattacharya. S, 2003. Homology   Modeling of Allergenic Cyclophilins: IgE binding site and structural basis of cross reactivity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 307, 422-429. Elsevier, UK . Impact Factor -2.4     

  16. Chakraborty, P., Chowdhury, I., Gupta- Bhattacharya, S., Gupta, S., Sengupta, D.N. and Chanda S. 1999. Clinico- immunological studies on the pollen grains of Phoenix sylvestris Roxb., a common aeroallergen from Calcutta, India.   Allergy.54: 985-989. European College of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Sweden. Impact Factor -6.2   

  17. Chowdhury, I., Chakraborty, P., Gupta Bhattacharya, S. and Chanda, S. 1998. Allergenic relationship among four common and dominant airborne palm pollen grains from Eastern India. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 28:977-983. Blackwell Science Ltd., UK . Impact Factor -5.0                               

Book Chapter

  1. Ghosh D  and Gupta Bhattacharya S. Allergen Bioinformatics: Recent Trends and Developments.  Book chapter in "Bioinformatics",2011. ISBN 978-953-307-281-4.Intech open  access Publisher.

 Books

  1. Bhattacharya, K., Majumdar M.R. and Gupta Bhattacharya S. 2006.  A text book of Palynology.  New Central Book Agency (P0 Ltd. Kolkata 700 009.  pp 352. ISBN-81-7381-500-3

  2. Bhattacharya, K. and Gupta Bhattacharya S. 1999.  Pollen allergy and environment (Parag allergy o paribesh). West Bengal State Book Board. pp. 76.!SBN-81-247-0298-5. 

  3. Dutta, N.M., Gupta Bhattacharya S., Mandal, S. and Bhattacharya ,K.(Eds). 1998. Current Concepts in Pollen-Spore and Biopollution Research. (Prof. Sunirmal Chanda 60th Birth Anniversary Felicitation Volume).  Research Periodicals and Book Publishing House. Houston,Texax USA, pp. 395.  ISBN 0-9656038-1-4 

 

Contact information

Email Id:  swati@bosemain.boseinst.ac.in

Fax :  (+91)(-33) 2350-6790

Telephone No. : (033)  23031131

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