Recent Activities

Research Activities in Zoology Department

Faculties of this department are actively involved in various research projects in the field of Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Signaling, Cancer, Entomology, Ecology etc. A number of projects are running in this department.

On- going Projects

Dr. Kaustuv Dutta Chowdhury

Study on calcium carbide

generated acetylene mediated

alteration in pulmonary tissues

and its protection by

Hexadecanoic acid, ethyl ester

-an in vivo study

Department of Science

& Technology and

Biotechnology, Government of West

Bengal

Rs. 19,99,600/-

Dr. Santi Ranjan Dey

Development of Digital Key for Neuroptera

Department of Science

& Technology and

Biotechnology, Government of West

Bengal

Rs. 10,49,000/-

Completed Projects

	Title	Funding agency
Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee	Genotoxic effect of the Betel nut extract.	INSA, New Delhi (1989-90)
	In vivo Sister Chromatid Exchange.	UGC, New Delhi (1989-91)
	*Chromosomal Polymorphism in Bufo* sp**	UGC, New Delhi (1992-94)
	Types of Sex chromosome in Amphibia.	UGC, ERO, Kolkata (1999-2001)
	Dissimilarity in Constitutive heterochromatin.	UGC, ERO, Kolkata (2002-04)
	Familial association of Cervical Cancer- is it hereditary?	UGC, ERO, Kolkata (2005-07)
	Nucleolar organizer region polymorphism	UGC, ERO, Kolkata (2009-11)
	Preclinical assessment of 2- Methoxyestradiol (2-ME) as anti-angiogenic compound: Effect of 2ME on experimental tumour growth	UGC, New Delhi (2013-17)

Research Scholars:

Supervisor	Scholar
Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee	Dr. Srabantika Mallick (Awarded) Ms. Anasua Banerjee Mr. Sudipta Chowdhury
Dr. Kaustuv Dutta Chowdhury	Ms. Pujita Ghosh, JRF, WB-DST Ms. Soumi Banerjee, JRF, WB-DST
Dr. Santi Ranjan Dey	Ms. Subhasree Dutta, JRF, WB-DST

Summer Training /Dissertation Guided by Faculty:

Name of the Supervisor

Name of the student

Institution

Area of the work

Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee

1. Jinita Banerjee

2. Mandira Ghosh

3.Manami Banerjee

4.Piyali Ghosh

5.Mousami Dey

6. Riddhi Mahapatra

7.Dipanjan Ray

8.Priyanka Ghosh

9.Rusha Basu Ray

10.Sudeshna Banerjee

11.Ankita Pal

12.Shreya Sengupta

13.Manjima Pal

14. Anneswa Banerjee

15. Dipika Agarwal

16. Suchandra Basu

17.PujaKarmakar

19. Raggi Mukherjee

20. Sriparna Pal-

chowdhury

21. Arkadeep Karmakar

22. Sharmistha Maji

Bethune College

PG Department, Vidyasagar College

″

Ex-student Manchester Univ. U.K

VIT University, Vellore

PG Physiology Rammohan College

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Presidency University

PG Dept, Vidyasagar College

PG Dept of Zoology, Srirampur College

PG Dept of Zoology, Gurudas College

Cytogenetics

Tumour genetics

Amphibian Cytogenetics

Tumour Biology

Tumour genetics

Tumour Chromosme

Tumour genetics

Tumour Genetics

Tumour Biology

Lung Cancer

Anti-angiogenic Therapy

Protective efficacy of Adenanthera pavonima

Tumour Biology

. Shantanu Das

1.Sm. Amrita Datta

Presidency University

Fish Biochemistry

2.Sm.Soumasree Sasmal

Presidency University

Fish Biochemistry

3. Tanbira Khatun

Vidyasagar University

Biodiversity

Dr. Kaustav Dutta Chowdhury Dr. Kaustav Dutta Chowdhury	Udipta Chakraborti	An alternative prospective therapy with Berberine against Hepatocarcinoma – an in vitro study.	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Sujan Chatterjee	Regulation of Hepatocarcinoma by S-Allyl Cysteine (SAC) – an in vitro study	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Priya Bhowmick	Mechanisms responsible for the SAC and Berberine mediated cell death –An in vitro study.	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Kabita Kumari Keshri	Role of S-Allyl Cystine as an active compound of garlic on inhibiting Pb2+ induced early death of erythrocyte –an in vivo study.	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Dipanjan Bhattacharjee	Role of allicin in ameliorating Pb²⁺ induced oxidative stress and hypercholesterolemia in erythrocyte of mice –an in vivo study.	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Deblina Mishra	DADS+ Chelerythrine mediated hepatoprotection after DEN+CCL4 exposure – an in vivo study.	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Payel Bhadra	Effect of chronic lead exposure on spleen –an in vivo analysis	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Debajyoti Patra	Instrumental role of calcium carbide generated acetylene in the induction of lung carcinoma	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Subhadip Kundu	Generation of tumorigenic growth with creation of stressful environment in swiss albino mice after chronic transfluthrin exposure	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Pujita Ghosh	Generation of lung carcinoma along with creation of stressful environment in swiss albino mice after diethyl nitrosamine exposure	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Chayan Banerjee	Effect of Phthalic acid on mice-an in vivo study	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Vidyasagar College
	Prasenjit Roy	Effect of chronic calcium carbide exposure on pulmonary tissue of mice – an in vivo study	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Gurudas College
	Abinash Mishra	Study on pulmonary stress parameters as an effect of chronic exposure to calcium carbide in mice	Department of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata
	Ishita Chatterjee	Effective redox imbalance and structural alterations in pulmonary tissue of mice after calcium carbide exposure	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Gurudas College
	Ankita Rej	Structural alterations along with regulation of apoptotic factors in DEN exposed mice- an in vivo study	Post Graduate Zoology Department of Gurudas College

Award Received

Name	National/International Award Received
Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee	FZS Awarded by the Zoological Society, Kolkata
	UGC Travel Grant Award to deliver lecture and act as Co-chairperson in the 10^th World Congress on Cancer in Crete, Greece 2005.
	UGC Travel Grant Award to attend and present Paper in the 18^th International Chromosome Conference in Manchester, U.K. 2011
	UGC Travel Grant Award to deliver talk in International Conference 5^th Chromosome Colloquiam in Kesertsart University, Thailand. 2015.
Dr Santi Ranjan Dey	B B Sarkar Memorial Gold Medal, 2014. Physiological Society of India
Prof. Chayanika Roy	Best Poster Award, National Seminar organized by SEBA, India, 2019
Ms. Subhasree Dutta, JRF	Best Paper Award, International Conference, Linkon University, Malayasia
Ms Soumi Banerjee, JRF	Awarded in National Slogan writing e-competition organized by Environment and Social Development Association (ESDA), Delhi in association with Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Delhi; CSIR-NEERI, Delhi; Amity University, Gurugram; IET Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, UP; Alumni Association of JNU; GRC India

Student’s Award

Name	Award Received from National Body
Priti Pandey, 4^th Semester	Book Chapter, COVID 19: A Pandemic Disease, Published by Berhampore Girls’ College. 2020
Ipsita Jena, 4^th Semester	1^st in National Doodle art competition, Goswami Ganesh Dutta sanatan Dharam College

Collaborations:

Departmen of Infertility, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata (Dr. Kaustuv Dutta Chowdhury)
UnitàStudi e Strategie, Government of Italy (Dr. Santi Ranjan Dey)

Excursion and Field Training

Zoology Department conducts field training and excursion for the students as per requirement of the syllabus at regular interval. Memories of field training and excursion are shown here:

Excursion at Digha and adjoining areas: 2017 and 2018 passed out students

Survey based field studies at Zoological Garden, Alipore with 2022 passed out students

Estimation of ethological parameters of the animals under captive condition at Zoological Garden, Alipore, Kolkata

Extra-Curricular Activities

Volunteer of World Wide Fund for Wild Life (WWF): Rammohan College officially registered for the partnership with WWF- India since 2018. Students of Zoology Department participated as WWF-volunteers to resolve environmental issues in their college, community and Kolkata. In 2019, students of Zoology department took part in WWF-India’s youth volunteer programme, ECHO that aims to create Environment Conservation Heroes in colleges across the country through bridging the gap between environmental awareness and conservation action. Their work on this ECHO project praised a lot by WWF. They build awareness among people of their city about plastic pollution and finding of the path to minimize the use of plastic. In November 2019, at the venue, Offbeat CCU (36/F, Topsia Rd, Topsia, Kolkata- 700039) students join the ECHO workshop. In 2020, students of participated in a program named Tide Turners Plastic Challenge arranged by WWF in partnership with UN environment to engage youth in conversation, action and advocacy around reducing the use of single-use plastic from our day-to-day life and have got certificates fromUNEP (UN Environment Programme), National Geographic, WWF and CEE (Centre for Environment Education).

Environmental Audit: Students of Zoology Department performed assessment of Butterfly Diversity and Bird Diversity of adjacent area. Students also worked on Peoples Biodiversity Registrar Project of West Bengal Biodiversity Board, Government of West Bengal under instruction of National Green Tribunal. Some of the representative Butterfly and Avifauna in and around Rammohan College are shown here.

Graphium agamemnon (Linnaeus)

Papilio polytes Linnaeus

Atrophaneura aristolochiae (Fabricius)

Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus)

Euploea core (Cramer)

Mycalesis perseus (Fabricius)

Ariadne merione (Cramer)

Junonia atlites (Linnaeus)

Junonia atlites (Linnaeus)

Tarucus nara Kollar

Zizeeria karsandra (Moore)

Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius)

Drongo

Oriole

Blue Rock Pigeon

Kingfisher

Students Seminar, Sports and cultural Activities: The students of Department of Zoology are encouraged to participate in seminars, sports, NCC, NSS and cultural activities. Photographs of students’ activities:

Students’ Seminar 2019

Student’s performance in college sports, 2016

Teachers’ Day celebration, 2017

Departmental Seminar: Students’ seminar, 2022: conducted by Dr. Shantanu Das, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Rammohan College

Participant students were felicitated by Principal Dr. Saswati Sanyal, Rammohan College at Department of Zoology, Rammohan College

College Seminar

1. Dr. Kuladeep Roy, Assistant Manager, WWF-India, West Bengal on ‘Future as an outdoor biologist: an informal discussion’

2. Dr. Anup Palit, Deputy Director, NICED, India on ‘Global climate change: health risks and preventive strategies’

3. Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee, Associate Professor, Rammohan College on ‘The study of Zoology is more important in the 21st century than ever’

4. Dr. Prasun Guha, Research Associate, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA on ‘Life and death of a cell-a global perview’

5. Dr. Anirban Basu, Professor, Scientist VII, National Brain Research Centre, Maneswar, Hariyana, India on ‘Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Diseases: Host Immunity and Therapeutic Interventions’

Knowledge sharing:

Department participates in knowledge sharing programmes and students from many colleges (both from Under graduate and Post graduate section) visit our college to be familiar with Animal House Infrastructure and to get hands on experience on macular techniques:

Visit from Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Vivekananda College, Behala, Kolkata

Academic Results of Department of Zoology (2010 -2019)

One day visit to Genetics Department, University of Calcutta on 19^th March, 2023

It is a proud moment for Department of Zoology, Rammohan College because we are invited by Dr. Mainak Sengupta’s laboratory, Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta for a one day visit programme. The session includes a discussion on molecular genetic approach associated with identification and characterization of hidden mutations in oculo-cutaneous albinism in Indian population. Students also get exposure on modern genetic tools and experiments like PCR followed by sequential data analysis that finally help them to achieve a fruitful learning experience. Workshop has been ended after an interactive conversation and students come back with a dream of researcher as a take home message which is probably the ultimate success of the said visit.

Welcome message from Dr. Mainak Sengupta