Dr. Tapan K. Dutta
Associate Professor, Microbiology

Research Interest

• Biochemical characterization and development of microbial process(s) for the efficient mineralization of various health hazard environmental pollutants.

• Genomic and proteomic approach for the characterization of catabolic pathways involved in the bacterial assimilation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

• Development of a bioreporter strain to monitor toxic and/or carcinogenic pollutants present in the environment.

• Prospecting for novel biocatalyst and drugs from metagenome.

• Evolutionary analysis and assignment of substrate specificity of phylogenetically diverse enzymes involved in the metabolism of aromatics by computational analysis.

• Structure function of oxygenase in the biosphere chemistry. 

•  Biocatalysis in the synthesis of specialty chemicals                [details]