Dr Arnab Roy Chowdhury
Senior Scientist
Discipline: Agricultural Chemicals
ERP No. 014128
Ph. 8292462566
arnab.chowdhury@icar.gov.in
Field of Specialization:
- Derivatization of natural resins and gums
- Isolation and characterization of natural gum based dietary fibre
- Green synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanoparticles
- Encapsulation of nutraceuticals for its sustained release application
- Natural gum-based nanocomposite film
Ph.D. (Agricultural Chemicals) ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (2012)
M.Sc. (Agricultural Chemicals) ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (2008)
B.Sc. Ag (Hons) Bidhan Chandra Krishi ViswaVidyalaya, Mohanpur, West Bengal (2006)
Research/ Review papers (First or corresponding authors only)
- Roy Chowdhury A, Kumar Jitendra, Shakil N.A., Walia S., Srivastava Chitra, Jha A.N (2012) Evaluation of Repellency and Oviposition Deterrence of Anthocyanin and Azadirachtin Based Coloured Polymeric Seed Coats Against Storage Pest of Soybean. Annals of plant protection sciences 20(1):42-46.
- Srivastava S., Roy Chowdhury A. and Maurya S (2017) Antimicrobial Efficacy of Methylated Lac Dye, an Anthraquinone Derivative. Indian Journal of Microbiology 57(4) :470–476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12088-017-0682-0
- Roy Chowdhury A, Siddiqui, MZ and Prasad N. (2018) Thermal behaviour of Buchanania lanzan collected from different places. International journal of Bioresource Science 5(2):117-122.
- Roy Chowdhury A and Gupta RL (2019) Synthesis and fungitoxicity evaluation of schiff bases of 4-amino-3-mercapto-5-phenyl-1,2,4-triazole. International Journal of Chemical Studies 7(6):3-8.
- Chowdhury, A.R., Siddiqui, M.Z., Maurya, S. Mate, C.J. and Ali, M. (2021) Synthesis, characterization and inhibition effects of Jhingan gum-induced silver nanoparticles against powdery mildew of pea. Indian Phytopathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-021-00434-z
- Pankaj, Shakil, N. A., Kumar, J., Singh, M. K., Loha, K.M., Adak, T., Prashant, K., Roy Chowdhury A., Sarkar D. J. (2017) Development of slow release nano formulations of bioactive molecules and method of preparation thereof. Indian Patent no. 290155. Indian Patent Office, New Delhi.
- Roy Chowdhury, A., Kumar, J., Shakil N. A., Adak, T., Sarkar, D. J. (2018) Development of polymeric formulations of bioactive molecules and method of preparation thereof. Indian Patent no. 295150. Indian Patent Office, New Delhi.
- Srivastava, S., Chowdhury, A. R., Sarkar, B., Bhattacharjee, S., Sharma, K.K. (2020) Natural gum based nanocomposite hydrogel having antibacterial and wound healing effects and a method of preparation thereof. Indian Patent Application no.201931008616. Indian Patent Office, Kolkata.
- Srivastava, S., Chowdhury, A. R., Lohot, V. D., Walia, S., Saha, S. (2022) Lac wax policosanol –a natural plant growth regulator. Indian Patent no. Indian Patent Office, Kolkata.
- Sarkar B., Roy Chowdhury A., Bhattacharjee S., Sen A. and Pattanayak A. (2022) Alcoholic nano-silver having anti-viral and anti-biofilm efficacy and method of preparation thereof. Indian Patent Application no. 202111061283. Indian Patent Office, Kolkata.
- Young Scientist Award in the field of Agricultural Chemicals by Science & Tech society for integrated Rural Improvement, Telengana during the 2nd National Conference on Doubling Farmers Income for Sustainable & Harmonious Agriculture ‘DISHA-2018 held on 11-12th August, 2018.
- Distinguished Worker Award 2019 of the Institute in the scientific category by ICAR-IINRG, Ranchi on the occasion of the 96th Institute foundation day ceremony on 20th September, 2019.
- Distinguished Scientist Award -2022 in field of Agrosciences by Institute of Ecotoxicology & Environmental Science (IE &ES) during Bilateral International Conference on Ecotoxicology & Environmental Science (ICEES-2022) held on 19-20th October, 2022 at Khulna University, Bangladesh (by Online Mode).