Meet the Team
Our team members are at the core of what makes Maitra Lab such a unique and fulfilling place to work. We take pride in the diversity of our group, with each member contributing their unique skills to the projects we are working on.
Prof. Arindam Maitra
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Arindam Maitra is the Associate Director and Professor at the Biotechnology Research and Innovation Council-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (BRIC-NIBMG), Kalyani, India. His major interests are -
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Unraveling the transcriptomic diversity of the OSCC tumor ecosystem
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Deciphering the functional genomics of preterm birth
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Understanding gene regulation in human health
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Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens
Arunima Acharya
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Arunima Acharya is a PhD student in Maitra Lab. Her research focuses on navigating the intricate landscape of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) to delineate the transcriptomic distinctions between OSCC associated with oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) and OSCC without the pre-malignant lesion to facilitate early triaging of high risk cases utilizing single-cell RNA sequencing. She is also involved in multiple ongoing projects on single cell transcriptomics.
Piyali Mondal
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Piyali Mondal is PhD student in Maitra Lab. Her research area focuses on study the variations in cell type diversity and materno-fetal interactions in the placenta at different periods of gestation at delivery using single cell transcriptomic approaches.
Supratim Ghosh
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Supratim Ghosh is a Ph.D. student in Maitra Lab. His primary research objective is to understand the role of genomic variants in regulating cell-type-specific gene expression in human health and disease. He is also involved in multiple ongoing single-cell projects.
Divyank Varshney
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Divyank Varshney is a Ph.D. student in Maitra Lab. His work focuses on understanding the role of genetic variants in regulating molecular mechanisms in preterm birth. He is also involved in various ongoing projects in Maternal and Child Health group
Rishika Maji
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Rishika Maji is a PhD student in Maitra lab. Her research area focuses on the use of Long Read Sequencing platform like Oxford Nanopore for identifying genomic and epigenomic variations in early preterm birth.
Arpita Kabasi
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Arpita Kabasi is a PhD student in Maitra Lab. Her primary focus is on understanding oncofetal reprogramming in the tumour ecosystem of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).
Samridhi Singh
RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Samridhi Singh is the i3c BRIC DBT PhD student in Maitra Lab. She is exploring cancer genomics, chemoresistance, and innovative cancer therapies in colorectal cancer (CRC) for a focused understanding of the key challenges in CRC treatment.
Sahana Ghosh
SENIOR DATA ANALYST
Sahana Ghosh is a Senior Data Analyst in Maitra Lab. Her primary focus is on the development of de novo tools and pipelines to decode genomic data efficiently. Her research in computational oncology involves integrating multi-omics data to understand the pathogenesis and prognosis of oral cancer.
Dr. Anuradha Gautam
PROJECT PERSONNEL
Dr. Anuradha Gautam is a research associate in Maitra Lab. Building on the insights from single-cell sequencing, she is working towards identification and functional characterization of novel immune cell subsets from tumor tissue. This would aid in understanding of the tumor–immune interactions in OSCC and identify actionable therapeutic targets.
Argha Dutta
JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Argha Dutta is a research student in Maitra Lab. He is exploring the genomic landscape of colorectal cancer (CRC) using bulk and single-cell sequencing approaches. His work aims to support a clearer understanding of cancer biology through modern genomics.
Sayandeep Bhunia
JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Sayandeep Bhunia is a research student in Maitra Lab. He is involved in understanding the genetic and epigenetic drivers of chewing tobacco habited women oral cancer patients. He is also involved in performing high-throughput low pass whole-genome sequencing.