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Souvik Bhattacharjee

Souvik Bhattacharjee

Souvik Bhattacharjee
Souvik Bhattacharjee
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for Molecular Medicine
Off. Phone
011-26704559
Email
souvik@jnu.ac.in , sbh174@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

2004: Ph.D. Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India. 
1997: M.Sc. Biotechnology. Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. 
1995: B.Sc. (Honors) Biochemistry, Delhi University. 

Areas of Interest/Specialization
Biology of Plasmodium falciparum infection 
Protein trafficking pathways in malaria infected erythrocytes
Molecular mechanism for antimalarial drug-resistance 
Experience
July, 2015- present: Associate Professor, Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
2010-2015: Research Assistant Professor, Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. 
2008-2010: Research Associate, Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
2006-2008: Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory of Prof. Kasturi Haldar, Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.
2004-2006: Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratory of Prof. Kasturi Haldar, Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. 
Awards & Honours

2007: Travel Grant awarded by the Center for Genetic Medicine, Northwestern University to attend Gordon Red Cell Meeting (GCM) at Aussois, France.
2004: Northwestern University award for Best Poster presentation at the Department of Pathology, Chicago.
1999-2002: CSIR/UGC National Eligibility Test Senior Research Fellowship (SRF). Government of India.
1997-1999: CSIR/UGC National Eligibility Test Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). Government of India.
1995-1997: M. Sc. Biotechnology Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Alassane Mbengue*, Souvik Bhattacharjee*, Trupti Pandharkar, Haining Liu, Guillermina Estiu, Robert V. Stahelin1, Shahir Rizk1, Dieudonne L. Njimoh, Yana Ryan, Kesinee Chotivanich, Chea Nguon, Mehdi Ghorbal, Jose-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Michael Pfrender , Scott Emrich, Narla Mohandas, Arjen M. Dondorp, Olaf Wiest and Kasturi Haldar. A molecular mechanism of artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Nature 520, 683–687 (30 April 2015). *Equal contributing first author.

Bhattacharjee S, Stahelin RV, Speicher KD, Speicher DW, Haldar K. Endoplasmic Reticulum PI(3)P lipid binding targets malaria proteins to the host cell. Cell. 2012 Jan 20; 148(1-2): 201-12.

Bhattacharjee S, van Ooij C, Balu B, Adams JH, Haldar K. Maurer`s clefts of P. falciparum are secretory organelles that concentrate virulence protein reporters for delivery to the host erythrocyte. Blood Feb 15, 2008; 111(4): 2418-26. 

Bhattacharjee S, Hiller NL, Liolios K, Win J, Kanneganti TD, Young C, Kamoun S, Haldar K. The malarial host-targeting signal is conserved in the Irish potato famine pathogen. PLoS Pathog. 2006 May; 2 (5): e50.

Hiller NL, Bhattacharjee S, van Ooij C, Liolios K, Harrison T, Lopez-Estrano C, Haldar K. A host-targeting signal in virulence proteins reveals a secretome in malarial infection.Science 2004 Dec 10; 306 (5703): 1934-7. 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Kasturi Haldar, Narla Mohandas, Souvik Bhattacharjee, Travis Harrison, N. Luisa Hiller, Konstantinos Liolios, Sean Murphy, Pamela Tamez, and Christiaan van Ooij (2005) Trafficking and the TVN. Molecular Approaches to Malaria. ASM press. Ed. Sherman, I. W. 

Patents (if any)
‘Compositions and Methods for treatment, research and therapeutic applications for malaria. Filed on 10/22/2008. US Patent No. 8,465,746, Issued: June 18th, 2013. (Inventors: Kasturi Haldar, Pamela Tamez and Souvik Bhattacharjee, Notre Dame, IN. Assignee: Northwestern University, 633 Clark Street, Evanston, IL 60208). 

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.