Email-Id: kajarilahiri@yahoo.com

Name of the Colleges served till date:

• Krishnanagar Goverment College.
• Bethune College
• Barasat Goverment College
• Bidhannagar College

No. of Published papers in Peer-reviewed Academic Journals:06

Area of Specialization:Physiology and Biochemistry specially biochemistry of protein and polyamines in plants.

Research Interests: Polyamine metabolism in plant microbe interacting system, especially on the role of polyamines in growth development and senescence of nitrogen fixing legume root nodules, role of dietary polyamines in scavenging of reactive oxygen species in protection and cure of non communicable diseases in human.

Research Activities:

Completed Project:

1. Woked on UGC sponsored project entitled “EVALUATION OF NUTRITIONAL VALUE AND ANTIOXIDANT POTENTIAL  IN RELATION TO DIETARY POLYAMINES OF  SOME GREEN LEAFY VEGETABLES COMMONLY USED BY THE RURAL PEOPLE OF EASTERN INDIA”
2. Worked on UGC sponsored project entitled “Regulation of Ornithin decarboxylase activity by phytochemicals

Postdoctoral Research:

1. Worked as Research Associate in DSA-SAPII, UGC, Department of Botany, University of Burdwan.

Awards & Achievements:

1. Awarded Adhoc Reserch Associateship from CSIR, New Delhi.

Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals:

1. Lahiri K, Chattopadhyay S, Chattopadhyay S, Ghosh B (1992) Polyamine metabolism in nodules of Vigna mungo during senescence. Phytochemistry 31:4087–4090.
2. Lahiri K, Chattopadhyay S, Chatterjee S, Ghosh B (1993) Biochemical changes in nodules of Vigna mungo L. during vegetative and reproductive stages of plant growth in the field. Annals of Botany 71: 485-488.
3. Chattopadhyay S,  Maitra N, Lahiri K, Ghosh B (1996) Retardation of photosynthesis by polyamines during stipule and pod development in pea. Photosynthetica 32: 629-633.
4. Lahiri K, Chattopadhyay S, Chatterjee S, Ghosh B (1999) Spermine induced changes in nitrogenase and ∞-amylase during nodule senescence of Vigna mungo L. Indian Journal of Plant Physiology 4(NS): 254-257.
5. Chattopadhyay S, Lahiri K, Ghosh B (2002) Changes in free polyamines and related enzymes in stipule and pod wall development in Pisum sativum. Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 40: 945-949.
6. Lahiri K, Chattopadhyay S, Ghosh B (2004) Correlation of endogenous free polyamine levels with root nodule senescence in different genotypes of Vigna mungo L. Journal of Plant Physiology 161: 563-571.

 

Symposium / Seminar Papers:

1. Lahiri K, Chattopadhyay S, Ghosh B (1994) Senescence dependent changes on leghemoglobin components in nodules of Vigna mungo L. cv. T-9. In: XIIth IUBMB India, Satellite Symposium on Protein structure, function, engineering held at Bose Institute, Calcutta on September 16-17 (poster).
2. Gangopadhyay M, Bhattacharya R, Lahiri K. and Bhattacharya S.(2007).The prospect of Cultivating Colchicum luteum in gangetic West Bengal-a feasibility report based on in vitro culture study in National Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Rural Economic Development. Organized by Ramkrishna Vivekananda Mission Institute of advanced studies, Kolkata in collaboration with Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.(poster)
3. Lahiri K, Mullick B. and Mukherjee S (2005). Micropropagation and acclimation of Artemissia nilagirica in 92nd session of Indian Science Congress Ahmedabad page201-202. Part 4(poster).
4. Saha P, Biswas S, Dey J. and Lahiri K, (2010) An improved method for micropropagation of Eclipta alba. In 98 session of Indian Science Congress Thiruvanthapuram (poster).
5. Ghosh D, Das K and Lahiri K (2011) Comparative study of nutritional value and antioxidant potential of Amaranthus viridis, Amaranthus tricolor, Boerhavia repensand Ipomoea reptans– the commonly used foliage vegetables. In UGC sponsored national level seminar on Bioresource and human welfare. Organized by Department of Botany and Zoology, Lady Brabourn College, Kolkata in collaboration with BSI, ZSI and Ministry of Environment and Forests. (poster)

Extracurricular Activity: Completed certificate course from Sangit Bhavan, Visva- Bharati. Interested in recitation, Science model making.