Group Members

Dr. Samanta's Research Group

Dr. Sintu Kumar Samanta (Mentor)
Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Sciences (Go to Department)
Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj (Go to IIIT-A Homepage)
Email: samantasintu@iiita.ac.in
Phone: +91-532-292-2426 (O), +91 9742183658 (M)
Google Scholar ResearchGate

Education

Ph. D. – Molecular Parasitology from IIT Kharagpur (2012)

M. Sc – Biotechnology from Bangalore University (2006)

Position held

Assistant Professor (March 2016–present): Dept. of Applied Sciences, IIIT Allahabad

Dr. D. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow (March 2013- February, 2016): Dept. of MRDG, IISc, Bangalore

Research associate (December 2012-February, 2013): Dept. of MRDG, IISc, Bangalore

Awards and Achievements

UGC-Dr. D. S. Kothari Post Doctoral Fellow by UGC, New Delhi, Govt. of India (2013)

Institute Scholarship at IIT Kharagpur by MHRD, New Delhi, Govt. of India (2010)

SRF in ICMR project (2009)

JRF in ICMR project (2009)

Qualified GATE in Life Sciences (2006)

National Scholarship by Govt. of West Bengal (1995)

Visiting Researcher

School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK (May-June, 2014)

Current PhD Students

Sl. No.	Name	Picture & Profile	Topic	Duration
1.	Mr. Sachin Kumar Gupta	ResearchGate	Identification of potential Antimicrobial Peptides targeting the global transcriptional regulator Amp4 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	2023-Ongoing
2.	Ms. Ananya Anurag Anand		Finding potent AMPs to overcome the drug-resistance in P. aeruginosa through in silico approaches	2022-Ongoing
3	Mr. Ayush Amod	Google Scholar ResearchGate	Advanced nanocarrier of C-dots and Cu NCs against bacterial biofilm infections on implanted medical devices	2021-Ongoing

Past Students

Post Doctoral Fellow	PhD Students
Dr. Pavan Kumar Gautam (SERB-National Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2017-19) Google Scholar ResearchGate	Dr. Anirudh Singh (PhD awarded in 2023) Google Scholar ResearchGate	Dr. M. Shivapriya Pingali (PhD awarded in 2022) Google Scholar ResearchGate	Dr. Arushi Verma (PhD awarded in 2021) ResearchGate

M. Tech Thesis

Mr. Yashwant Panchal (2022)

Mr. Akash Singh (2022)

Mr. Druval Cr (2021)

Ms. Uzini Devi Daimary (2019)

Ms. Debjani Banerjee (2018)

Ms. Aparajita Basu (2018)

Ms. Anamika Jaiswal (2018)

Mr. Shubham Saxena (2018)

Mr. Puneet Kumar (2018)

Mr. Ankit Porwal (2017)

Ms. Prerna Pant (2017)

Interns

Jayshaan Baibhav (Winter, 2022), IISER Berhampur

Shivmuni Sarup (Winter, 2022), IIT INDORE

Ms. Ananya Anurag Anand (Summer, 2022), M S Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru

Ms. Geethu E G (Summer, 2021), MACFAST, Thiruvalla

Ms. Antara Dalal (Summer, 2021), Adamas University, Kolkata

Mr. Pranay Bose (Summer, 2021), KIIT, Bhubaneswar

Apoorv Kirti (Summer, 2021), KIIT, Bhubaneswar

Mr. Priyanshu Pandey (Winter, 2020), NIT Durgapur, West Bengal

Mr. Gaurav Augustine (Winter, 2020), SHUATS, Prayagraj

Ms. Nandini (Winter, 2020), Gargi College, Delhi University, New Delhi

Ms. Anam Tanveer (Summer, 2020), Integral University, Lucknow

Mr. Jagannath Padhy (Summer, 2020), Integral University, Lucknow