Dr. Pratima   Gupta

Department Bio Technology
Designation Associate Professor
Educational Qualification Ph.D. in Microbiology
E-Mail pgupta.bt@nitrr.ac.in
Contact Number 9229557174
Areas of Interest

Bioprospects of microorganisms: Microbial biofilms, Microbial products and process technology. Microbial electrochemical technology for biotechnological applications, BioMicrofluidics.

Publications
  1. A Kulshrestha, P Gupta. Secreted aspartyl proteases family: a perspective review in the regulation of fungal pathogenesis. Future microbiology. (2023)
  2. Mukhopadhyay D, Chang C, Kulsreshtha M, Gupta P. Bio-separation of value-added products from Kraft lignin: A promising two-stage lignin biorefinery via microbial electrochemical technology. Int J Biol Macromol. 2023 Feb 1;227:307-315. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.12.055. Epub 2022 Dec 9. PMID: 36509205.
  3. Kulshrestha A, Gupta P. Polymicrobial interaction in biofilm: mechanistic insights. Pathog Dis. 2022 Jun 22;80(1):ftac010. doi: 10.1093/femspd/ftac010. PMID: 35481543.
  4. Chang, C.Gupta, P. Economical and sustainable microbial peroxide-producing cell utilizing domestic sewage water and its contemporaneous treatment  Fuel Cells 202222186
  5. Diwan B, Gupta P. Key media microsupplements for boosting de novo lipogenesis in an oleaginic yeast isolate. J Biosci Bioeng. 2022 Aug;134(2):95-104. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2022.03.008. Epub 2022 May 31. PMID: 35659719.
  6. Dhruva Mukhopadhyay, Nawaz Khan, Neha Kamal, Sunita Varjani, Shivani Singh, Raveendran Sindhu, Pratima Gupta, Preeti Chaturvedi Bhargava, Degradation of β-lactam antibiotic ampicillin using sustainable microbial peroxide producing cell system, Bioresource Technology, Volume 361, 2022, 127605, ISSN 0960-8524, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2022.127605. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960852422009348)
  7. Mukhopadhyay D, Gupta P, Patidar R, Srivastava VC. Microbial peroxide producing cell mediated lignin valorization. Int J Biol Macromol. 2022 Mar 31;202:431-437. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.12.126. Epub 2022 Jan 6. PMID: 34999046.
  8. Dhruva Mukhopadhyay, Pratima Gupta, Ritesh Patidar, Vimal Chandra Srivastava, Microbial peroxide producing cell mediated lignin valorization, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Volume 202, 2022, Pages 431-437, ISSN 0141-8130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.12.126.
  9. Rohatgi A, Gupta P. Natural and synthetic plant compounds as anti-biofilm agents against Escherichia coli O157:H7 biofilm. Infect Genet Evol. 2021 Nov;95:105055. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.105055. Epub 2021 Aug 28. PMID: 34461310.
Other Info.

Patent:

1. Real-time MicrochannelOptopotentiometric Biofilm System. Anmol Kulshrestha, Pratima Gupta, Anuj Rohatgi. 04/01/2023 (No.- 376815-001)

2. Biofilm Infection Simulator System. Anuj Rohatgi, Pratima Gupta. 02/11/2022 (No.- 373428-001)

Projects:

1. DST-SERB sponsored project "In situ application of microbial peroxide producing cell for oxidative depolymerization of lignin and its subsequent valorisation" is ongoing.

S.No.

Title

Duration

Role as PI/Co-PI

Agency

1

In situ application of microbial peroxide producing cell for oxidative depolymerization of lignin and its subsequent valorisation

March 2021 – May 2024

PI

SERB

2

Design of a microbial electrolytic cell reactor for economic and energy efficient biohydrogen production from leafy biomass by electrohydrogenesis.

February

2015-

February

2018

PI

Ministry of

New and

renewable

Energy, New

Delhi

3

Enzymatic hydrolysis of rice husk and

straw and its conversion into biohydrogen

by dark fermentation.

March

2013-

March

2015

PI

CCOST

Chhattisgarh