Alok Bhattacharya was born on 1951 and is an Indian parasitologist, academic and a professor at the School of Life Sciences of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
19 Facts About Alok Bhattacharya
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Alok Bhattacharya is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and is known for his studies on Entamoeba histolytica and species-specific calcium binding protein and its gene.
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Alok Bhattacharya, born on 2 February 1951, did his graduate studies in science at Hansraj College of the University of Delhi and obtained a master's degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1972.
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In 1986, Bhattacharya had a short stint at the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases of the National Institutes of Health as a guest researcher, after which he joined his alma mater, Jawaharlal Nehru University, as an associate professor at their School of Life Sciences, where he is the incumbent professor and adjunct faculty.
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Alok Bhattacharya is a professor of life sciences at Shiv Nadar University, Dadri and a visiting faculty at Banaras Hindu University.
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Alok Bhattacharya is married to Sudha Bhattacharya, a known parasitologist.
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Alok Bhattacharya is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University and is a co-author of some of his publications.
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Alok Bhattacharya's researches were focused on parasitology, computation biology and bioinformatics, with special focus on the biology of Entamoeba histolytica, an anaerobic parasitic protozoan causing amoebiasis.
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Alok Bhattacharya's studies elucidated the molecular mechanisms during the opsonization process of the pathogen and identified new proteins such as EhCaBP1, EhCaBP3 and EhC2PK which play a role in the phagocytosis and actin dynamics of the parasite.
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Alok Bhattacharya's team developed new genomic tools and proposed new algorithms for the identification of genomic variations.
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Alok Bhattacharya has worked on the pathogenesis of malaria and visceral leishmaniasis and his researches are documented in a number of articles of which 188 have been listed by ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles.
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Alok Bhattacharya is associated with the Department of Science and Technology and is the chairman of two of DST's initiatives.
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Alok Bhattacharya is a member of Guha Research Conference and a former vice president of the Indian National Science Academy.
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Alok Bhattacharya serves as a member of the governing council of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, as a member of CSIR Society and as a member of the research councils of Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology and Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, both constituent laboratories of CSIR.
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Alok Bhattacharya sits in the USER committee of the Department of Science and Technology and chairs the Task force on Bioinformatics, Computation Biology and Systems Biology of the Department of Biotechnology.
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Alok Bhattacharya is the managing trustee of GNE-Myopathy International, a forum of patients who suffer from GNE-Myopathy, a genetic disorder affecting young people and is associated with several science journals including Parasitology International, Journal of Biosciences, Genome Analysis, Bioinformatics: From Molecules to systems, International Journal of Integrative Biology, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and Nature.
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Alok Bhattacharya is a former vice president of the Society of Biological Chemists, a science society based at the Indian Institute of Science, serves as a member for internal expert panel of the Council of Indian Institutes of Technology and is involved with the Project AMOEBAC of the Infect-ERA, a global organization for researches on human infectious diseases.
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Alok Bhattacharya has mentored research scholars in their doctoral researches.
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Alok Bhattacharya received the Aryabhatta Medal of the Indian National Science Academy in 2015.