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Amrita Chakraborty, Ph.D.
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Education

  • 2010 - 2014           PhD in Microbiology, Calcutta University, India. PhD thesis "Studies on genomic and                                              functional diversity of soil bacteria in agricultural ecosystems "
  • 2005 - 2007           M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Kalyani, India.
  • 2002 - 2005           B.Sc. in Microbiology, Calcutta University, India.

Professional Experience

  • 2018 - Present      Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life                                      Sciences (CULS), Prague.
  • 2014 - 2018          Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of                                                 Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden.
  • 2007 - 2010          Project Assistant, Dept. of Microbiology, Calcutta University, India.


Research Interest

Contribution of microbes underlying the evolutionary success of insects.

Teaching Experience

  • Teaching assistance in Organic Chemistry at the undergraduate level at SLU, Sweden (2017).
  • Guest lecturer in Environmental Microbiology at the Undergraduate Level at Halmstad University, Sweden (2014). 
  • Organized Practical Classes in Soil Microbiology at Masters Level at the Department of Microbiology, University of Calcutta, India (2009-2013).

Invited Talks and Presentations

  • Invited talk at the InternationalSociety of Chemical Ecology, July 2023, Bengaluru, India
  • Poster Presentation at the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 2019, Manchester, UK
  • Poster Presentation at the Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting, November 2018, Vancouver, Canada. 
  • Invited talk at the European Congress of Entomology, July 2018, Naples, Italy. 
  • Invited talk in Pherodays, October 2016, SLU, Sweden.
  • Poster Presented in Insect Chemical Ecology Graduate course (ICE - 2015), SLU, Sweden. 
  • Presented in poster Pherodays, October 2014 and October 2015, SLU, Sweden. 
  • Invited talk in the International Conference on Climate Change, Forest Resource and Environment (ICCFRE) and the National Environmental Congress, December 2011, India. 
  • Poster presentation in the International Symposium on "System of Intensification towards Food and Environmental Security", February 2011, India.

Professional  Courses attended 

  • "Teaching Course in Higher Education-Step 2", Advanced Course on Sept-Nov 2017 at SLU, Sweden. 
  • "Teaching in Higher Education Course", Basic course on Sept-Nov 2016 at SLU, Sweden.
  • "Introduction to Bioinformatics using NGS" course on 19-23 Sept 2016 at SciLife lab, Sweden.
  • "Pharmacy Quality Assurance and Quality Control", Diploma course (distance) on Jun 2015-Jul 2016, IGMPI, India 
  • "Quantitative PCR" course on 23-27 Nov 2015 at Lund University, Sweden. 
  • "Transcriptomic Analysis" course on 16-21 Nov 2015 at Lund University, Sweden.
  • "Drosophila Genetics and Non-Drosophila Genetic Mapping" at ICE-15 on 8-24 May 2015 at SLU, Sweden.
  • "Databases for Genomics and Transcriptomics" course on 3-7 Nov 2014 at Lund University, Sweden.