Lopamudra Ray
Associate Professor
Lopamudra Ray obtained her PhD in Environmental Biotechnology in 2012 from KIIT University. She continued to work as post doctoral research scientist at School of Biotechnology, KIIT university looking into Characterization of Benthic as well as Littoral Microbial community of Chilika Lake . She has 8 years of post PhD research experience in the filed of Environmental Microbiology. She teaches Recombinant DNA technology, Fundamentals of Biotechnology and Forensic Sciences to BSc LLB students at School of Law and Microbiology to MSc Microbiology and MSc Biotechnology students. She has facilitated practical training for BSc LLB students by establishing a basic biotechnology lab in KIIT Law School premises. Currently her research group at School of Biotechnology, KIIT is working on “Production of industrially important chitosan and chitooligosaccharide from chitinous waste using novel Streptomyces strains. In this they are looking into various aspect by which the chitin waste can be converted biologically to industrially important products which have immense application in medical fields and agricultural fields. Her research group is also interested and working on novel microbial enzyme and bioactive from potential Streptomyces strains. They use classical microbiological as well as modern age technique for characterisation of novel species of Actinomycetes and other microorganisms. Her group is funded by DBT-BioCare, Govt of India and Govt of Ethiopia (Indo-Ethiopian Collaboration) and KIIT Deemed to be University. She has guided 1 PhD scholar successfully and currently 2 PhD scholars (CSIR UGC-NET) are working with her.
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Email :
[email protected]
Scopus Id :
57196028639
Google Scholar :
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QEgHL6AAAAAJ&hl=en
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PhD
Projects
1. DBT Biocare (2017-2020) on ""Production of chitin and chitosan oligomers by Novel Streptomyces strains isolated from Chilika lake, and their use as bio protective agent developing an economically viable process -[ 20052 ]"" 2. IBSD/A1/P(PH-2)/1 :“Bio prospecting microbial diversity in benthic and littoral regions of Loktak Lake for effective management and sustainable development
Administrative Responsibility
Course coordinator for BSc LLB 1st and 2nd semester
Awards & Honours
Qualified ICAR (NET)
Memberships
AMI
1. Behera, H.T., Mojumdar, A., Das, S.R., Jena, S. and Ray, L., 2020. Production of N- acetyl chitooligosaccharide by novel Streptomyces chilikensis strain RC1830 and its evaluation for anti-radical, anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative and cell migration potential. Bioresource Technology Reports, p.100428.
2. Ray, L. and Adhya, T.K., 2020. Energy, nutrient, and water resource recovery from agriculture and aquaculture wastes. In Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering (pp. 343-362). Elsevier.
Panda, A.N., Ray, L., Mishra, S.R. and Raina, V., 2020. Rheinheimera pleomorphica sp. nov., a Novel Alkali-Tolerant Bacteria Isolated from Chilika Lake, India. Current microbiology, 77(1), pp.158-165.
3. Mohammed, S., Behera, H.T., Dekebo, A. and Ray, L., 2019. Optimization of the culture conditions for production of Polyhydroxyalkanoate and its characterization from a new Bacillus cereus sp. BNPI-92 strain, isolated from plastic waste dumping yard. International journal of biological macromolecules.
4. Mohammed, S., Panda, A.N. and Ray, L., 2019. An investigation for recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from Bacillus sp. BPPI-14 and Bacillus sp. BPPI-19 isolated from plastic waste landfill. International journal of biological macromolecules, 134, pp.1085-1096.
5. Behera, H.T., Upadhyay, A.K., Raina, V. and Ray, L., 2019. Optimization of media components for the production of N-acetylchitooligosaccharide from chitin by Streptomyces chilikensis through Taguchi experimental design. Journal of microbiological methods, 159, pp.194-199.
6. . Mojumdar, A., Upadhyay, A.K., Raina, V. and Ray, L., 2019. A simple and rapid colorimetric method for the estimation of chitosan produced by microbial degradation of chitin waste. Journal of microbiological methods, 158, pp.66-70.
7.. Ray, L., Panda, A.N., Mishra, S.R., Pattanaik, A.K., Adhya, T.K., Suar, M. and Raina, V., 2019. Purification and characterization of an extracellular thermo-alkali stable, metal tolerant chitinase from Streptomyces chilikensis RC1830 isolated from a brackish water lake sediment. Biotechnology Reports, 21, p.e00311.
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8. Panda, A.N., Mishra, S.R., Ray, L., Das, S., Rastogi, G., Pattanaik, A.K., Adhya, T.K., Suar, M. and Raina, V., 2018. Taxonomic description and genome sequence of Halobacillus marinus sp. nov., a novel strain isolated from Chilika Lake, India. journal of microbiology, 56(4), pp.223-230.
Books :
Ray, L. and Adhya, T.K., 2020. Energy, nutrient, and water resource recovery from agriculture and aquaculture wastes. In Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering (pp. 343-362). Elsevier
Bhattacharyya, B., Behera, H.T., Mojumdar, A., Raina, V. and Ray, L., 2019. Polyhydroxyalkanoates: Resources, Demands and Sustainability. Soil Microenvironment for Bioremediation and Polymer Production, pp.253-270.
Upadhyay, A.K., Mojumdar, A., Raina, V. and Ray, L., 2019. Eco‐Friendly and Economical Method for Detoxification of Pesticides by Microbes. Soil Microenvironment for Bioremediation and Polymer Production, pp.95-113.
Mojumdar, A., Behera, H.T. and Ray, L., 2019. Streptomyces Chitinase: Diversity, Biotechnological Applications and Sustainable Bioproduction. Advances in Medicine and Biology, 155.
Raina, V., Nayak, T., Ray, L., Kumari, K. and Suar, M., 2019. A Polyphasic Taxonomic
Approach for Designation and Description of Novel Microbial Species. In Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era (pp. 137-152). Academic Press