Debayan Bose, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

 Conducting Viability Assessment Projects for European SMEs planning to make inroads into Indian market space. Performing competitive landscaping, technology co-creation and uptake, compliance verification, business prospection trips and PESTLE (Political, Economic, Social, Technological and Legal) analysis for Indian and Global SMEs working in Cleantech, Greentech, Biotech and Healthcare industry interested in outbound and inbound market expansion. Challenge identification and validation for EV micromobility industry to facilitate UK SMEs gain market access in India. Key skills: Business Development, Event Management, Technology due diligence, Budget proposal preparation, Competitive landscaping, Technology match-making for European SMEs planning to make inroads into Indian market by facilitating B2B meetings, partner, OEM and distributor identifications.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

 Product development and performing bioassays in commercially important crops to check the growth stimulating effects of novel red seaweed formulations leading to publication in peer reviewed journal (Frontiers in Plant Science, 14:1136563). Analytical characterization of seaweed formulations using Dionex and HPLC. Large scale purification of commercially important proteins extracted from seaweed using membrane filtration. Key skills: HPLC, Ion-Exchange Chromatography, Product Development, Assay Development, Project Management (SWOT analysis, risk assessment, project scheduling and building project scope), Product commercialization.

Charleston, West Virginia, United States

Studying carbon metabolism and biofuel production from photosynthetic systems. Key skills: qRT-PCR; plant transformation and subsequent screening; TLC-GC basedquantification of lipids and fatty acid methyl esters; enzyme assays.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Elucidated roles of lipid metabolic enzymes in modulating plant reproductive growth anddevelopment (Plant J. 106(2):409-418). Key skills: Confocal microscopy, cloning, creating stable and transient transformationsystems in plants, microsomal protein purification, SCX fractionation, and quantificationusing LC-MS/MS; western blot.

Taipei City, Taiwan

Screened and evaluated the efficacy of plant polyphenols modulating cognitive decline. Key skills: Dissection and histochemical staining of mouse brain, animal cell culture,assay development for high-throughput screening of plant polyphenols.

Bangalore

Conceptualized, designed and characterized the role of a novel neuropeptide receptormediating reproductive process in a model platyhelminth organism. Key skills: in-Situ hybridization, RNAi.

Hyderabad Area, India

Acted as a cross functional liaison between Indian and French collaborators comprisingacademic, business and key opinion leaders. Key skills: Project management, negotiating, budgeting and installment of scientificapparatus and consumables from logistics suppliers.

Bangalore

Created site specific mutants of human serotonin receptor subtype2a for identifying it's ligand binding hot-spots. Key Skills: Western Blot, Internalization assays and Calcium Imaging.

Bangalore

Worked under the renowned Neurogeneticist the late Prof.Obaid Siddiqi on Imaginal conditioning of Drosophila melanogaster; designed behavioral paradigms for comparing the olfactory responses of the fruitfly(wild-type and p-insertional mutants) after conditioning them with specific attractant and repellant; data processing and computation mainly involving MATLAB; work presented at AICBC-2010 and NEUROCON-2011.

Ph.D., Biotechnology

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Biotechnology

Activities and Societies: Chosen student representative-School of Biosciences and Technology(VIT-University) in Warwick University