Sulagna Basu
Scientist
Bacteriology
National Institute of Cholera and Enteric diseases
India
Biography
Sulagna Basu is a Scientist at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata. She joined the Institute in 2006. Her current research focuses on the colonization of the neonatal gut with Gram negative bacilli and bacterial resistance to antimicrobial agents in neonatal infections. Her laboratory has identified some of the currently widely disseminated antibiotic resistance determinants in bacteria causing neonatal infections. Sulagna Basu graduated from the University of Calcutta with B.Sc. in Chemistry. She earned her M.Sc. from the Department of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta. Dr. Basu received her Ph.D in 2003 from The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh . During this period her research revolved around the purification and characterization of a lectin from Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli . She received the ACBICON 2003 award for the work on Enteroaggregative E.coli.
Research Interest
Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry
