Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy

Phytochemical analysis and metabolomics

Elicitation of important plant secondary metabolites

Bioactivity of plant extracts and constituents

Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy

1. Awarded National Scholarship for B.Sc. result

2. Awarded Silver Medal by University of Calcutta for 2nd position in M.Sc.

3. Awarded State Scholarship by the Government of West Bengal for doing Ph.D. in U.K.

4. Selected as visiting faculty for short term Assignment (28 days) and visited Yangon University, Myanmar for conducting seminars / lectures / training to Ph.D. scholars under a Memorandum of Understanding signed between Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, Union of Myanmar and Educational Consultants India Limited in 2004.

5. Awarded 2008 Endeavour Executive Award by Australian Government.

1.Life member, Indian Science Congress Association

2. Fellow, Indian Association of Biological Sciences

3. Life Member, Indian Science News Association

1. Nabasree Dasgupta and Bratati De. Antioxidant activity of some leafy vegetables of India: A comparative study. Food Chemistry 101(2), 471-474, (2007)

2. Nabasree Dasgupta and Bratati De. Antioxidant activity of Azadirachta indica A. Juss. (neem) Leaf. In V.K. Singh, J.N. Govil and C. Arunachalam (ed.) "Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants", Volume 17, 449-457, Phytochemistry and Pharmacology III, (2007) STUDIUM PRESS LLC, Houston, Texas

3. Debjani De and Bratati De. Elicitation of diosgenin production in Dioscorea floribunda by ethylene generating agent. Fitoterapia , 76(2), 153-156, (2005). Archana Banerjee, Nabasree Dasgupta and Bratati De. In vitro study of antioxidant activity of Syzygium cumini fruit. Food Chemistry, 90(4), 727-733, (2005).

4. Nabasree Dasgupta and Bratati De. Antioxidant activity of Piper betle L. leaf extract in vitro. Food Chemistry, 88(2), 219-224 (2004).

5. J. Bandopadhyay and B. De, Seasonal variation of the minor tertiary indole alkaloids in vegetative parts of Styrchnos nux-vomica, Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, 25, 41-45 (2003).

6. Debjani De and Bratati De, Effect of ethephon on antioxidant enzymes and diosgenin production in seedlings of Trigonella foenum-graecum, Food Chemistry 82(2), 211-216 (2003).

7. Bratati De, Steroidal compounds from in vitro regenerated shoots of Datura metel, Fitoterapia, 74(1-2), 14-17 (2003)

Ongoing Research Projects

"GLYCOSIDASE INHIBITORY PROPERTIES OF PLANT EXTRACTS" by sponsored by University Grants Commission

Ms Gargi Nag
Ms Sonali Roy

IIT, Kharagpur
CDL, Kolkata