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Dr. Soma Chaki
Professor, Associate Dean - Academics
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School/College
Faculty of Life and Allied Health Sciences
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Department
Department of Biotechnology
Dr Soma Chaki joined as an Assistant Professor in 2018 and heads the Department of Biotechnology, FLAH, RUAS. She is a member of the Indian Science Congress Association and Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists, India. She began her illustrious career as a Lecturer at Acharya Institute of Sciences, Bangalore (2006 – 2008). She started work as an Assistant Professor and eventually became a Professor and Head of the Department at Acharya Bangalore B School (2009 – 2018).
Having earned degrees in BSc (Hons) Zoology (1995) and MSc (Zoology) (1997) from the University of Calcutta, she went on to study for her PhD degree in Immunology at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2005). She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at DHLRI, Ohio State University, Columbus in USA between March 2004 to May 2005.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Life Sciences
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, W.B, 2005
- M.Sc. in Zoology
University of Calcutta, Kolkata, W.B, 1997
- B.Sc (Hons) Zoology with Chemistry, Physiology
University of Calcutta, Kolkata, W.B, 1995
Experience
Total Years of Experience
14 Years
Academic Experience
- Lecturer in Dept of Biotechnology and Genetics — Acharya Institues of Sciences — Banglore — 1 Year 7 Months (July 2006 – Jan 2008)
- Assistant Professor — Acharya’s Bangalore B School — Bangalore — 1 Year (August 2009 – August 2010)
- Professor and HOD ‑Acharya’s Bangalore B School — Bangalore — 8 Years (Sep 2010 — March 2018)
- Assistant Professor and HOD, Department of Biotechnology, FLAHS — Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences — Bangalore — 2 Year 5 Months ( April 2018 ‑Present)
Industry Experience
- Post Doctoral research — Ohio State University, Columbus — USA — 1 Years
- Months (March 2004 — May 2005)
Training Experience
- Molecular Diagnostics-Techniques and Applications” at ABBS, Bangalore on 15th September 2012
- Literacy survey: A community work to upgrade quality culture in higher education” in National Conference on Quality Management in Higher Education- Role of IQAC, organized by KristuJayanti College Bangalore on Nov 11th & 12th 2010
- Metagenomics CAPS analysis and Multigeneric bacterial detection” on 9th to 11th Sep 2011, organized by School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT,Vellore
- Workshop on “Advanced PCR techniques” in association with Bhat Biotech Pvt Ltd, Bangalore for MSc Biotechnology students on 28th & 29th June 2011.
- Immunology, Immunotherapy, Allergy, Cell and Molecular Biology in Cancer and diabetes
Research Expertise
- Molecular Biology
- Immunology
- Proteomics
- Cell Biology
Keywords
- Cell and Molecular Biology
- Immunology
- Diabetes
- Proteomics
- COVID 19 Vaccine: The bright side of human creativity COVID-19:Many Facets and Dimensions. A Multidisciplinary Compendium of Current Evidence and Experience, book chapter (26), 2020
- State Level Eligibility Test (SLET), 1999
Ph.D. Dissertation
- Molecular and immunological characterization of IgE-binding component(s) in Indian major carp and study of its crossreactivity with other such food componenets
National Journals
- Isolation and purification of lectin from Punica granatum, Bhavna Bhat, Shraddha K J, Soma Chaki*. J.Bio.Innov7(1),pp: 86-95, 2018 | ISSN2277-8330
- Optimization of production and molecular characterization of pectinase enzyme produced from Penicilliumchrysogenum..SoumitaLaha, Diptendu Sarkar, Soma Chaki and DM Mahishi. Scholars Academic Journal of Biosciences Vol.-2, Issue-5 (May-2014).
- Cellular Effects of Microwave Radiations OnEscherichia Coli. Biotechnology: An Indian Journal Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2009. Harmeet Kaur Uppal, Soma Chaki, Monika, SujoyDey
- Effect of carmoisin in onion root tip cells. Biospectra, 2009. Devapriya Sinha, Kaberi Das,D.M. Mahishi and Soma Chaki.
International Journals
- Exploring the molecular diversity of lectins: Leveraging bioinformatics for gene characterization and phylogenetic insights. Nivedita Patil, Soma Chaki. International Journal of Science and Research, 2023. ISSN:2319-7064
- Immunomodulatory role of lectin from Phaseolus vulgaris (Rajma beans/ Red Kidney beans). Soma Chaki* and Sayantani Bhattacharjee. International journal of Pharma and Biosciences, Volume 7, Issue 1, Jan 2016,B.
- Isolation and Characterization of Lectin from Carica papaya and Manilkara zapota”. Soma Chaki*, Tejas Shah and Reshmi Dutta. International Journal of Pharmacy & Biological Sciences Vol 5, Issue 4, 31-39, Oct 2015.
- Studies on antifungal activity of a bacterial Strain on some food spoilage fungus. Int J Pharm Bio Sci 2013 Oct; 4(4): (B) 299 – 303 ,2013 Diptendu Sarkar and Soma Chaki.
- Isolation, purification and characterization of xylanase, Produced by a new soil born bacillus sp. Int J Pharm Bio Sci, 2013 Oct; 4(4): (B) 571 – 576 Diptendu Sarkar, SoumitaLaha and Soma Chaki.
- Studies on antifungal activity of a bacterial strain on some food spoilage fungus. Int J Pharm Bio Sci 2013 Oct; 4(4): (B) 299 – 303, Diptendu Sarkar and SomaChaki.
- Neuroprotective properties of the natural vitamin E alpha-tocotrienol.Stroke. 2005 Oct; 36(10):2258-64.Khanna S, Roy S, Slivka A, Craft TK, Chaki S, Rink C, Notestine MA, DeVries AC, ParinandiNL, Sen CK.
- Mucin binding mitogeniclectin from freshwater Indian gastropod Belamyiabengalensis: Purification and molecular characterization ,S. Banerjee, S. Chaki, J. Bhowal and B. P. Chatterjee, Arch. Biochem. Biophys, 421(1): 125-134,2004.
Conference
- Purification and Characterization of IgE-binding protein from Rohu Fish Muscles. In Proceedings of Sixth International Sympoium on Biochemical Roles of Eukaryotic cell surface macromolecules, Jan 16 – 18, 2003, Kolkata, India
- Role of Bound Calcium and Carbohydrates in IgE-Binding Capacity of Protein in Rohu (Labeorohita) Fish Extract. In Proceedings of 6th Orissa Bignan Congress, Dec 24-25, 2002, Berhampur, Orissa, India.
- Presented paper titled “ Literacy survey: A community work to upgrade quality culture in higher education” in National Conference on Quality Management in Higher Education- Role of IQAC, organized by KristuJayanti College Bangalore on Nov 11th& 12th2010.
- PM-30, A non GM variety‑A fair verdict” in UGC sponsored one day state level conference on Emerging Trends in BIOSCIENCES & BIOINDUSTRIES, organized by Dept of Biotechnology, KLE college on 20th February 2016
- Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA); Association of Carbohydrate Chemists and Technologists,India
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