Dalia Dasgupta Mandal
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India
Biography
Dalia Dasgupta Mandal is an Associate Professor in Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India. She did her MSc in Biochemistry from BHU, Varanasi, MTech in Biotechnology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and PhD in 2001 from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her PhD thesis was entitled, “Host-parasite interaction studies specifically on signal transduction mediated alternative pathway to combat Leishmaniasis”. She is presently working on “Host-pollutant interaction with respect to cytotoxicity and DNA damaging effects of pollutants on plant, animal and bacterial system and to find out bioremediation strategies to combat these deadly pollutants hazardous effect on ecosystem”.