Resume of Mayukh Banerjee:

Office: Permanent address:

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, B/11, Nandankanan,
Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics, Santoshpur,
Jadavpur, Kolkata: 700 075
Kolkata- 700032, India ((91) (33) 2416-8859
(033-2473-3491/0492 (Extn: 124) Mob: 9836251342
Fax: 91(33)2473-5179 (Attn. Dr. A.K. Giri)
e-mail:
mban@rediffmail.com
banerjeemayukh@gmail.com

Personal Data:

Date of Birth : 11/08/1980

Name of the Father: Tapan Kumar Banerjee
Nationality : Indian

Name of the
Examination University/Board Year Div/Class SUBJECT
Zoology
M.Sc Banaras Hindu 2004 First (66.5%) (Specialization in
University Entomology)

B.Sc (Hons) University of 2002 Second Zoology

Calcutta (59.63%)

Higher Secondary West Bengal 1999 First (75.60%) Biology, Chemistry,

council of Higher Physics, Mathematics
Secondary
Education 1997 First (82.13%) Bengali, English,
Madhyamik Mathematics, Physical
West Bengal Science, Life Science.
Board of
Secondary
Education

• Currently working as senior research fellow under supervision of Dr. A. K. Giri and in
Toxicogenomics of Arsenic project in Molecular and Human Genetics at Indian
Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India.
• Qualified in CSIR-NET (for both JRF and Lecturership) held in Dec-2003.
• Qualified in GATE held on February-2004 (92.37 percentile).
• Was awarded National Scholarship on the basis of the result of Madhyamik Exam,
1997.
Work Experience:

1. Epidemiological – Fieldwork including questionnaire based survey and sample collection.

2. Cytogenetics - Biomarker analysis with Chromosomal Aberration Assay and Micronuclei
formation, Comet Assay, Karyotyping.
3. Molecular Biology - Genotyping with RFLP and sequencing; SDS-PAGE, Western Blot,
Microarray, Real Time, RNA isolation from blood and skin tissue, c-DNA synthesis
4. Biochemical Techniques – Enzyme assays, including, Catalse, Myeloperoxidase,
Superoxide dismutase, etc.
5. Cell culture – Lymphocyte Culture
6. Metal estimation (As and Cu) using Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry
7. Satistical Analysis - Employing statistical tools like GraphPad etc.

Publications:

1. Banerjee M, Sarma N, Biswas R, Roy J, Mukherjee A, Giri AK. (2008), DNA repair
deficiency leads to susceptibility to develop arsenic-induced premalignant skin lesions.
Int J Cancer (in press).

2. Biswas D, Banerjee M, Sen G, Das JK, Banerjee A, Sau TJ, Pandit S, Giri AK, Biswas
T. (2008), Mechanism of erythrocyte death in human population exposed to arsenic
through drinking water. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. (in press).

3. De Chaudhuri S, Kundu M, Banerjee M, Das JK, Majumdar P, Basu S, Roychoudhury

S, Singh KK, Giri AK. (2008), Arsenic-induced health effects and genetic damage in
keratotic individuals: Involvement of p53 arginine variant and chromosomal
aberrations in arsenic susceptibility. Mutat Res. (in press).

4. Banerjee N, Banerjee M, Ganguly S, Bandyopadhyay S, Das JK, Bandyopadhay A,

Chatterjee M, Giri AK. (2008), Arsenic-induced mitochondrial instability leading to
programmed cell death in the exposed individuals. Toxicology, 246(2-3): 101-111.

5. Ghosh, P., Banerjee, M., De, Chaudhuri S., Das J.K., Sarma, N., Basu, A., Giri, A.K.
(2007), Increased chromosome aberration frequencies in the Bowen’s patients
compared to non-cancerous skin lesions individuals exposed to arsenic. Mutation
Research- Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, 632 (1-2):104-10.

6. Banerjee M, Sarkar J, Das JK, Mukherjee A, Sarkar AK, Mondal L, Giri AK. (2007),
Polymorphism in the ERCC2 codon 751 is associated with arsenic-induced
premalignant hyperkeratosis and significant chromosome aberrations. Carcinogenesis,
28(3):672-676.

7. Ghosh, P., Banerjee, M., De Chaudhuri, S., Chowdhury, R., Das, J. K., Mukherjee, A.,
Sarkar, A. J., Mondal, L. K., Baidya, K. P., Sau, T. J., Banerjee, A., Basu, A.,
Chaudhuri, K., Ray, K., Giri, A.K. (2007), Comparison of Health Effects between
individuals with and without skin lesions in the population exposed to arsenic through
 drinking water in West Bengal, India. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental
Epidemiology, 17(3): 215-223.

Meetings/Presentations:

o Awarded a prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “Arsenic Susceptibility:
Epidemiological and Cytogenetic Assessment” in the “14th Alexander
Hollaender Course on Genetic Toxicology: Genomic and Proteomic
Approaches & Special Course on Arsenic Exposure Assessment” at the Indian
Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata (December 10 – 12, 2008).

o Co-author in a poster entitled “

o Presented a poster entitled “Deficiency in DNA Repair: A Clue to Arsenic

Susceptibility”, in the “XIIIth All India Congress of Cytology and Genetics and
International Symposium on Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Decipher
the Molecular Basis of Pathogenesis” at the Osmania University, Hyderabad
(December 28 - 30, 2007).

o Co-author in the poster entitled “Arsenic contamination in ground water:

Health effects and genetic susceptibility” in “International symposium on
Chemical Biology”, at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata
(March 7-9, 2007).

o Co-author in the poster entitled “Sub-optimal DNA Repair Leads to Arsenic

Susceptibility: Evidence from Comet Assay and Chromosomal Aberrations” in
the XXXIIth Annual Conference of Indian Society of Human Genetics and
International Symposium on "Deconstructing Human Diseases: The Genomic
Advantage", at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata
(February 14-16, 2007).

o Oral Presentation for the paper entitled “Polymorphism in the ERCC2 Codon
751 is Associated with Arsenic-induced Premalignant Hyperkeratosis” in the
“Annual Congress of Society of Biological Chemists, Kolkata Chapter” at
Digha, West Bengal (May 19 – 21, 2006).

o Awarded a prize for the presentation of the poster entitled “Association of ERCC2
gene polymorphism with Arsenic Induced Hyperkeratosis” in the “XXXI
Annual Conference of Environmental Mutagen Society of India” at National
Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad (February 23 – 25, 2006).

Membership Of Academic Societies:

• Environmental Mutagen Society of India

• Indian Society of Human Genetics

Research Interests:
• Understanding the molecular basis of arsenic susceptibility.
• Learning cutting-edge technologies like Proteomics, Metabolomics, Microarray
• Epidemiology of arsenic toxicity.
Name of the three References:

1) Dr. Ashok K. Giri

Assistant Director
Molecular and Human Genetics Division
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road
Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032
India
Email: akgiri15@yahoo.com
akgiri@iicb.res.in

2) Dr. Kunal Ray

Assistant Director
Molecular and Human Genetics Division
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road
Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032
India
Email: thisiskr@rediffmail.com
kunalray@gmail.com

3) Dr. Susanta Roychoudhury

Assistant Director
Molecular and Human Genetics Division
Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
4, Raja S.C. Mullick Road
Jadavpur, Kolkata-700 032
India
Email: susanta@iicb.res.in
susanta_rc@yahoo.co.in

Mayukh Banerjee