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Saswat Sourav Mohapatra

Dr. Saswat Sourav Mohapatra

Designation: Assistant Professor

Qualification: Ph.D. (Life Science)- DBT- Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (2010) M.Sc. (Microbiology)- Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar (2003)

Phone No.: 7077200104

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2776-1363

VIDWAN ID: https://buodisha.irins.org/profile/184838

Google Scholar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1mz_OBEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

E-mail ID: ssm.bt@buodisha.edu.in; saswatsmohapatra@gmail.com

Biosketch

Dr. Saswat S. Mohapatra completed his MSc in Microbiology from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar in 2003, and obtained PhD in Life Science from the DBT-Institute of Life Sciences (Utkal University), Bhubaneswar in 2010....

He did his postdoctoral research at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), Kansas City, USA (2009-2012) and the Interdisciplinary Research Institute, CNRS, France (2012- 2014). After returning to India, he served briefly at the CSIR- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and DBT- Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad. He started his teaching career as an Assistant Professor at the SRM University, Chennai in 2016, and then moved to Khallikote University in 2018. Dr. Mohapatra has more than ten years of research/ teaching experience. His current research focus includes Antimicrobial Resistance and Epigenetic Regulation of the Bacterial Cell Cycle. Dr. Mohapatra has published several research articles in journals of international repute. He is a life member of the Association of Microbiologists of India (AMI) and Biotech Research Society, India (BRSI), and a member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC). He is also serving as Editor of the journals Frontiers in Microbiology and PLoS One and a reviewer of several journals.

Bacterial Genetics and Genomics, Antimicrobial Resistance, Bacterial Epigenetics

  • Assistant Professor- Department of Biotechnology, Berhampur University, Berhampur (Oct 2021- till date)
  • Assistant Professor- Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics Khallikote University, Berhampur (May 2018 – Sep 2021)
  • Assistant Professor- Department of Genetic Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (Aug 2016 – May 2018)
  • Research Associate- Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad (Dec 2015 – Aug 2016)
  • Research Associate- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad (Apr 2015 – Oct 2015)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow- Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, CNRS USR 3078, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France (Mar 2012 – Sep 2014)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA (Sep 2009 – Jan 2012)

Journals-

  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Sambit K. Dwibedy & Indira Padhy. Polymyxins, the last-resort antibiotics: Mode of action, resistance emergence, and potential solutions. Journal of Biosciences 2021; 46(3). 85.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Antonella Fioravanti, Pauline Vandame, Corentin Spriet, Francesco Pini, Coralie Bompard, Ralf Blossey, Odile Valette & Emanuele G. Biondi. Methylation-dependent transcriptional regulation of crescentin gene (creS) by GcrA in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular Microbiology 2020; 114(1): 127-139.
  • Pratick Khara, Saswat S. Mohapatra & Indranil Biswas. Role of CovR phosphorylation in gene transcription in Streptococcus mutans. Microbiology 2018; 164: 704–715.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri, Tilothama Bhotra & Durg V. Singh. Characteristics of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolated from water of the River Ganga, Varanasi, India. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 2015; 33(4): 507-515.
  • Manoharan Shankar, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Saswati Biswas & Indranil Biswas. Gene regulation by the LiaSR two-component system in Streptococcus mutans. PLoS ONE 2015; 10(5):
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Antonella Fioravanti & Emanuele G. Biondi. DNA Methylation in Caulobacter and other Alphaproteobacteria during cell cycle progression. Trends in Microbiology 2014; 22(9): 528-535.
  • Francesco Pini, Benjamin Frage, Lorenzo Ferri, Nicole J. De Nisco, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Lucilla Taddei, Antonella Fioravanti, Frederique Dewitte, Marco Galardini, Matteo Brilli, Vincent Villeret, Marco Bazzicalupo, Alessio Mengoni, Graham C. Walker, Anke Becker & Emanuele G. Biondi. The DivJ, CbrA and PleC system controls DivK phosphorylation and symbiosis in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Molecular Microbiology 2013; 90: 54-71.
  • Antonella Fioravanti, Coralie Fumeaux, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Coralie Bompard, Matteo Brilli, Antonio Frandi, Vincent Castric, Vincent Villeret, Patrick Viollier & Emanuele G. Biondi. DNA binding of the cell cycle transcriptional regulator GcrA depends on N6-adenosine methylation in Caulobacter crescentus and other Alphaproteobacteria. PLoS Genetics 2013; 9(5): e1003541.
  • Indranil Biswas & Saswat S. Mohapatra. CovR alleviates transcriptional silencing by a nucleoid-associated protein HLP in Streptococcus mutans. Journal of Bacteriology 2012; 194: 2050-2061.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri, MHU Turabe Fazil & Durg V. Singh. Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strains isolated in 1992 from Varanasi, India harboured El Tor CTXΦ and classical ctxB on the chromosome-I and classical CTXΦ and classical ctxB on the chromosome-II. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2011; 3: 783-790.
  • Partho Chattoraj*, Saswat S. Mohapatra*, JL Uma Maheshwar Rao* & Indranil Biswas. Regulation of transcription by SMU.1349, a TetR-family regulator, in Streptococcus mutans. Journal of Bacteriology 2011; 193: 6605-6613. (*Equal Contribution)
  • Alexander Dmitriev, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Patrick Chong, Melody Neely, Saswati Biswas & Indranil Biswas. CovR-controlled global regulation of gene expression in Streptococcus mutans. PLoS ONE 2011; 6(5): e20127.
  • Chinmay K. Mantri, Saswat S. Mohapatra & Durg V. Singh. Effect of storage and sodium chloride on excision of CTXΦ or pre-CTXΦ and CTXΦ from Vibrio cholerae O139 strains. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 2010; 10: 925-930.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri, Harapriya Mohapatra, Rita R. Colwell & Durg V. Singh. Analysis of clonally related environmental Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor isolated before 1992 from Varanasi, India reveals origin of SXT-ICEs belonging to O139 and O1 serogroups. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2010; 2: 50-57.
  • Chinmay K. Mantri, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Rita R. Colwell & Durg V. Singh. Sequence analysis of Vibrio cholerae orfU and zot from pre-CTXΦ and CTXΦ reveals multiple origins of pre-CTXΦ and CTXΦ. Environmental Microbiology Reports 2010; 2: 67-75.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Dhanya Ramachandran, Chinmay K. Mantri, Rita R. Colwell & Durg V. Singh. Determination of relationships among non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strains from housekeeping gene sequences and ribotype patterns. Research in Microbiology 2009; 160: 57-62.
  • Harapriya Mohapatra, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri, Rita R. Colwell & Durg V. Singh. Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains isolated before 1992 from Varanasi, India are multiple drug resistant, contain intSXT, dfr18 and aadA5 Environmental Microbiology 2008; 10: 866–873.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra, Dhanya Ramachandran, Chinmay K. Mantri & Durg V. Singh. Characterization of the genetic background of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor serotype Inaba strains isolated in Trivandrum, southern India. Journal of Medical Microbiology 2007; 56: 260–265.
  • Chinmay K. Mantri, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Raikamal Ghosh, Rita R. Colwell & Durg V. Singh. Septaplex PCR assay for rapid identification of Vibrio cholerae including detection of virulence and intSXT FEMS Microbiology Letters 2006; 265: 208–214.

Book Chapters-

  • Saswat S. Mohapatra & Emanuele G. Biondi. DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes: Regulation and Function. In Cellular Ecophysiology of Microbe, Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology, pp 487-507, 2018, ed. Tino Krell. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
  • Saswat S. Mohapatra & Indranil Biswas. Microbial community interactions of the cariogenic organism Streptococcus mutans. In Oral Microbial Ecology Current Research and New Perspectives, pp 133-152, 2013, eds. Nicholas S. Jakubovics & Robert J. Palmer Jr. Caister Academic Press, Norfolk, United Kingdom.
  • Harapriya Mohapatra, Saswat S. Mohapatra, Chinmay K. Mantri & Durg V. Singh. Horizontal gene transfer and ICEs: a perspective with reference to SXT ICEs in Vibrio cholerae. In New Horizons in Biotechnology, pp 388-403, 2008, eds. Ashok Pandey, Christian Larroche, Carlos Ricardo Soccol & C-G Dussap, Asiatech Publishers, Inc, Delhi.

  • D. Students- 03 (Ongoing)
  • Sc. Students: 12

Ongoing-

  • R & D Project Grant on Biotechnology from the Science and Technology Department, Govt. of Odisha titled “Genetic determinants of colistin resistance among bacterial isolates from the environmental sources in Odisha” Sanction No- ST-BT-MISC-0005-2023-2463/ST.

Completed-

  • DST- SERB Startup Research Grant (SRG) titled “Investigation into the role of bacterial two-component signaling systems in the development of resistance to polymyxins, the last resort antibiotics” Sanction No- SRG/2019/001703,
  • Odisha State Higher Education Council Seed Fund under OURIIP- 2019 (Odisha University Research Innovation and Incentivization Plan) scheme titled “Genetic Mechanisms of Polymyxin Resistance Mediated via Bacterial Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems” Sanction No- 989/61/OSHEC.

Microbiology, Genetics, Genomics & Proteomics, Molecular Diagnostics, Emerging Technologies, Bacterial Genetics & Genomics etc.

  • CSIR-UGC NET Lectureship qualified (2002)
  • CSIR- Junior Research Fellowship (2003)
  • Arnold Ravin-Muriel Rogers Fellowship (Travel Grant) for the 55th Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology, Colorado, USA (2011)
  • EMBO Travel grant for Workshop on Stalked Alpha-Proteobacteria and Relatives: From Genes to Structure, Marburg, Germany (2014)
  • Best Oral Presentation at the AMI-2019 Conference, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, Haryana (2019)