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Dr. Samanta, a Marine Microbiologist, is inquisitive about studying microbial interactions to understand microbial diversity, metabolic potential, & evolution from marine ecosystems. He earned PhD from IISER-Kolkata, on the diversity & ecology of phytoplankton from Sundarbans mangrove ecosystem. In Post-Doc at Mount Allison University, Canada, he worked on the reproduction & molecular evolution of diatoms. He presently leads the marine microbial ecology research group at GITAM.
Research Publications
- Samanta*, B., Sharma, S., Budhwar, R. (2023) Metagenome analysis of speleothem microbiome from subterranean cave reveals insight into community structure, metabolic potential, and BGCs diversity. Current Microbiology 80: 317. *Corresponding author.
- Samanta*, B. (2021) Structural evolution of SLA promoter in mosquito-borne flaviviruses: a sequence-structure based phylogenetic framework. Virology 562: 110-120. *Corresponding author.
- Samanta*, B., Kaczmarska, I., & Ehrman, J.M. (2020) Auxosporulation in Biddulphia tridens (Ehr.) Ehrenberg (Mediophyceae, Bacillariophyta). European Journal of Phycology 55: 296-309. *Corresponding author.
- Samanta*, B., Ehrman, J.M. & Kaczmarska, I. (2018) A consensus secondary structure of ITS2 for the diatom Order Cymatosirales (Mediophyceae, Bacillariophyta) and reappraisal of the order based on DNA, morphology, and reproduction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129: 117–129. *Corresponding author.
- Samanta, B. & Bhadury, P. (2014) Analysis of diversity of chromophytic phytoplankton in a mangrove ecosystem using rbcL gene sequencing. Journal of Phycology 50: 328–340.
Ongoing Research Projects
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Metagenome mining of marine macroalgal epiphytic microbiome for novel drug targets (2021-2023) [funded by DST-SERB-SRG]
Expertise
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Marine Microbiology,
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Microbial Ecology and diversity
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Diversity, Ecology, and molecular evolution of Marine diatoms
