Biotechnology and Biological Sciences-Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (BIOSPECTRUM 2019), August 8-10, 2019, Kolkata, India

Table of contents
Introduction xi
Preface xiii
Committees xv
Editors Biographies xvii
Acknowledgement xix
Biomaterials in the advancement of biotechnology research
Effect of doping and surface functionalization on the conformational changes of protein upon interaction with hydroxyapatite nanoparticles 3
K. Kadu, M. Kowshik & S.R. Ramanan
Mathematical modeling of cardiovascular muscle dynamics using lumped parameter approach 9
S. Bhattacharjee & B. Neogi
Influence of physical activity on electrodermal response 18
M.N. Valli, S. Sudha & R. Kalpana
Microstrip patch antenna with fractal structure for on-body wearable medical devices 25
S. Manna, T. Bose & R. Bera
Identification of medical disorders in eye and biometric authentication analysis with iris retina scan using machine learning 29
S. Roy, P. Dutta, A. Bhowmik, B. Roy, K. Sourav & L. Kumari
Development of 2D biocompatible composite matrix for tissue engineering applications with antifungal properties 34
S. Roy Chowdhury, D. Deb, S. Sen & B. Chaudhuri
Fabrication of alginate/poly (γ-glutamic acid) 3D-bioprinted scaffolds and investigating their mechanical physicochemical and biological properties 42
S. Datta, R. Barua, A. Das, A. Roy Chowdhury & P. Datta
Fabrication of beta-tricalcium phosphate/crystalline silica-aluminium metal matrix composites: physical, mechanical, and in vitro biological evaluations 48
S. Debnath & A.K. Pramanick
Multidisciplinary research in the field of biochemistry for human need
Identification and characterization of an industrially important enzyme laccase from Fusarium sp. FW2PhC1 57
R. Debnath & T. Saha
Unprecedented redox scavenging signature along with antioxidant action of silver nanoparticle coupled with Andrographis paniculata (AP-Ag NP) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced toxicity in mice 64
S. Darbar, A. Chattopadhay, K.S. Pramanik & S. Saha
A study on different biochemical components of papaya (Carica papaya) leaves consequent upon feeding of citrus red mite (Panonychus citri) 69
S. Karmakar
Effect of roasting on antioxidants and related compounds in green coffee beans 74
S. Tripathi, R. Srivastava, S. Agarwal, S. Shrimali & N. Mishra
Cytotoxic investigation and photophysical analysis of serum protein binding with betacarboline
alkaloids 79
T. Ghosh & K. Bhadra
A survey on control theoretic research paradigms of insulin signaling pathways study 85
D.M. Joshi & J. Patel
Preparation and characterization of sweetened pineapple cheese ball (rasgulla) 92
T. Sarkar, P. Nayak, M. Salauddin, S.K. Hazra & R. Chakraborty
A comparative analysis of how biochemically varied commonly consumed allergic foods are 98
S. Sengupta, A. Roy, N. Chakraborty & M. Bhattacharya
Phenotypes of vitamin D binding protein in healthy sybjects of Kuwait 102
A.S. Mustafa, S.A. Shammari & A. Bhattacharya
Structure, salt-bridge’s energetics and microenvironments of nucleoside diphosphate kinase from halophilic, thermophilic and mesophilic microbes 107
D. Mitra, A.K. Bandyopadhyay, R.N.U. Islam, S. Banerjee, S. Yasmeen & P.K.D. Mohapatra
Advances in biomedical entity identification: A survey 114
J. Sankhavara & P. Majumder
Study on physicochemical and antioxidant properties of blend of fish skin (Labeo rohita) oil and chia seed (Salvia hispanica) oil 121
N. Ghosh, M. Roy, M. Ghosh & D.K Bhattacharyya
Cadmium induced deterioration of sperm quality: Protective role of coenzyme Q10 in rats 127
R. Saha, S. Roychoudhury, A. Varghese, P. Nandi, K. Kar, A.P. Choudhury, J.C. Kalita,
N. Lukac, P. Massanyi & A. Kolesarova In-silico assessment of various parameters / componenets pertaining to human welfare Assessment of anticancer properties of selected medicinal plants 135
S. Vora
SSR markers for the assessment of stress and genetic diversity in legumes 142
T. Agarwal
Improvement of drug by descriptors and docking criteria: Benzoazetinone-P450 system as a paradigm 147
S. Banerjee, A. Goswami, D. Mitra, S. Bhattacharyya, A.K. Bandyopadhyay, S. Yasmeen, R.N.U. Islam & I. Ansary
Salt-bridge, aromatic-aromatic, cation-π and anion-π interactions in proteins from different domains of life 152
R.N.U. Islam, C. Roy, D. Mitra, A.K. Bandyopadhyay, S. Yasmeen & S. Banerjee
Integrated transcriptional meta-analysis of pigmentation disorders 159
R. Chakraborty, S. Kedia & Y. Hasija
Systems biology approach to predict novel microbial enzymes towards functionalization of piperine biosynthetic pathway in microbial host 165
D. Ghosh, I. Banerjee, S. Sarkar, S. Saha, A. Chakraborty & B. Sarkar
BmNPV late expression factor (lef-1) a potent target for inducing virus resistance against Grasserie infected Bombyx mori by RNA interference technology 169
S. Ismail, K.S.Tulsi Naik, K.M. Ponnuvel, R.K. Mishra & M.V. Rajam
Cell-free mature miR-100-5p expression in plasma and its correlation with the histopathological markers in oral squamous cell carcinoma 176
R.D. Ghosh, A. Bararia, S.G. Majumder, A. Manickam, T.Y. Bhutia, P. Jain, K. Manikantan, R. Sharan & P. Arun
Structure prediction and functional characterization of uncharacterized protein Rv1708 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Strain ATCC 25618/H37Rv) 179
S.K.Paul, T.A. Hasib, P. Ray, L. Kabir & A.B.R Khalipha
Exploration of molecular docking and dynamic simulation studies to identify the potential of CID 50906864 as a potential anti-angiogenic molecule 185
F. Ahmad & P.T.V Lakshmi
Statistical design in accelerated downstream processing 189
A. Jawed, M. Wahid, P. Chaudhury, S. Haque, S.A.Dar & S. Joon
Recent advancement on environmental biotechnology research to provide greener & safer earth 
Study on antioxidant properties of bioconverted agricultural waste 203
D. Roy & S. Chakraborty
Evaluation of hypolipidemic and antioxidant potential of Ketoki joha, an aromatic rice of Assam, India 207
S. Sen, R. Chakraborty & P. Kalita
Characterization of soil - extracted arsenic tolerant bacteria from arsenic belt of West Bengal 214
U. Bhattacharyya, S.K. Sarkar & B. Roychoudhury
Monsoonal variability of phytoplankton in a tide dominated river of Sundarban 219
S. Chakraborti, T. Das, G.K. Sen & J. Mukherjee
Evaluation of biomolecular characteristics and phytotoxic effects of organic fish co-composts developed from fish industrial processing wastes 224
L. Aranganathan, Radhika Rajasree. S.R., R.R. Remya, T.Y. Suman & S. Gayathri
Effect of soil arsenic on stress markers of plant – The analysis between a hyper and non-hyper accumulator plant of West Bengal, India 230
S. Paul, T. Tarafdar, A. Dutta, M. Roy & S. Mukherjee
A comparative study on the effect of metal induced stress in two major vegetable crops of West Bengal, India – Brinjal (Solanum melongena) and Chili (Capsicum annuum) 235
S. Mukherjee, S. Agarwal, A. Chakraborty, S. Mondal, A. Haque, D. Bala, A. Ghosh, S. Singh & P. Talukder
Challenges & advancement in microbial biotechnology
Study on efficacy of nano-antimicrobials using automated susceptibility testing device 243
A. Ghosh, M.G. Chaudhuri & P.K. Maiti
Microbial cellular machinery for process intensification in production of nutraceuticals 250
S. Sengupta & S. Chatterjee
Inhibitory characteristics of environmentally preformed biofilm to colonization of other biofilm producers by an in vitro study 255
A.S. Mandal, K. Bhattacharryya & P.K. Maiti
Assessing mycoparasytic activity exhibited by phyto-friendly-fungi (PFF) in combating phytopathogenic fungi by producing various glucanases 259
D. Patel, S. Patel, S. Tekwani, M. Patel, S. Menon, S. Vadakan, D. Acharya & D. Goswami
Study of the effectiveness of antibiotics in management of bacterial wilt in plants 264
S. Sarkar
In-vitro antibiofilm activity of ethyl acetate fraction of Monochoria hastata (L.) Solms 269
D. Misra, M. Mandal, S. Mandal & V. Mandal
A comparative assessment of silver nanoparticles synthesised using aqueous and hydromethanolic Licorice extracts for its antimicrobial and cytotoxicity potential 275
A. Gheewala & S. Menon
Crude polysaccharides from two Russuloid myco-food potentiates murine macrophage by tuning TLR/NF-κB pathway 281
S. Khatua & K. Acharya
Establishment of microbial electrochemical systems as microbial peroxide producing cells for oxidative depolymerization and dye decolorization 287
D. Mukhopadhyay & P. Gupta
Isolation and characterization of lipase producing microbial strain from coastal banks of Bhavnagar 292
R. Panchal, J. Prajapati, D. Patel & D. Goswami
Far ranging antimicrobial and free radical scavenging activity of Himalayan soft gold mushroom; Cordyceps sp. 297
L. Deshmukh, R. Singh & S.S. Sandhu
Extraction and characterization of siderophores from Pseudomonas sp. and assessing the PGPR activity of Pseudomonas sp. 303
D. Patel, M. Patel, S. Patel, B. Kansara & D. Goswami
Parametric optimization for production of chromate reductase from Bacillus sp. under solid state fermentation using by-products of food and feeds 309
B.P. Rath, A.N. Acharya & H. Thatoi
Evaluations of the VITEK 2 BCL card for identification of biosurfactant producing bacterial isolate SPS1001 315
V. Singh, P. Padmanabhan & S. Saha
In-vitro study of the efficacy of ethanolic extract of Zingiber officinale on biofilm formed by pharyngeal isolate 320
D. Lahiri, M. Nag, B. Dutta, I. Mukherjee, S. Ghosh, S. Dey, S. Dash & R.R. Ray
Management of polythene waste through biodegradation by using few species of Aspergillus: An environment friendly approach 325
N. Verma & S. Gupta
Protoplast fusion of yeast strains for strain improvement to enhance mixed substrate utilization range 333
S. Sharma, A. Arora & D. Paul
Green synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles using aqueous extract of microalga Desmococcus Olivaceus and its biological activities 337
K. Sangeetha & U. Ramaswamy
Newer strategies of increasing plant yield and combating with abiotic stresses 
Rapid mass propagation and conservation of Rhododendron leptocarpum Nutt 345
M. Singh, O. Rai & K.K. Singh
In vitro micropropagation of rose apple and assessment of plantlets through biochemical analysis and DNA fingerprinting 350
P.K Das, A. Chakraborty & S. Chakraborty
Antioxidant and nutritional properties of Hydrocotyle javanica Thunb 356
M. Mandal, D. Misra & V. Mandal
Production and characterization of xanthan gum by Xanthomonas campestris using sugarcane bagasse as sole carbon source 363
J. Prajapati, R. Panchal, D. Patel & D. Goswami
Development of bio-process strategy for production of Pleurotus eryngii mycelium with improved ergosterol content 368
U. Singh, A. Gautam, V. Sahai & S. Sharma
Isolation of pectinolytic fungi from rotten tomato, brinjal and banana 374
U. Bhattacharyya, P. Paul, S. Mustafi, C. Sen, M. Gupta & B. Roychoudhury
Phyto chemical abundance (in %) and in silico based molecular target interaction aptitude of essential oil components 378
S. Pattnaik, A.K. Das & Mohapatra
Toxicity assessment of naphthalene on Anabas testudineus 385
S. Nayak, D. Raut & L. Patnaik
In-vitro study of antifungal activity of Lentinus edodes mushroom extract against Alternaria triticina 392
P. Kumari, S.K. Choudhary & A. Kumar
In-vitro antioxidant, LC-MS analysis for bioactive compounds of Artemisia nilagirica 396
P. Parameswari & R. Devika
Screening, evaluation and in silico modelling and docking studies of isolated fungal cellulases for enhanced saccharification of lignocellulosic grass (Pennisetum sp.) biomass for biofuel production 401
H. Thatoi, S. Mohapatra & M. Paul
Attempts for genetic transformation of cotton through ternary transformation system in Agrobacterium mediated transformation- a strategy for improvement of gene transfer method 408
N. Bandyopadhyay
Longevity promoting effect of Catharanthus roseus(L.) G. Don in C.elegans is modulated by daf-16 and other genes 417
S. Doshi & V. Braganza
Effect of freeze drying on anti-oxidant properties of bael fruit (Agle marmelos) 426
S.K. Hazra, M. Salauddin, T. Sarkar, A. Roy & R. Chakraborty
Author index 431