Bidhan Chandra De
bidhande [at] illinois.edu
Ph.D. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
B.Sc. Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India
Bidhan was born and raised in India. Bidhan completed his Ph.D. in Marine Chemical Biology from University Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) under supervision of Prof. Changsheng Zhang. His Ph.D. research was focused to marine Streptomyces derived natural products. Bidhan joined UIUC, Prof. Angad P. Mehta Lab in October 2022. His current research focuses on engineering and evolving robust endosymbiosis between eukaryotes and cyanobacteria as well as engineering the endosymbiotic chimera for photosynthetic metabolic engineering. He is also working in a collaborative effort to obtain high resolution images of yeast/cyanobacteria chimeras. In his free time, Bidhan likes to spend time with family, observe night sky, shopping and listen podcast etc.
Publications
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De B. C.; Cournoyer J. E.; Gao Y.; Wallace C. L.; Bram S.; Mehta A. P.* Photosynthetic, directed endosymbiosis to investigate the role of bioenergetics in chloroplast function and evolution. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 10622 🔗
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Gao Y. L; Cournoyer J. E.; De B. C.; Wallace C. L.; Ulanov A. V.; La Franonb M. R.; Mehta A. P.* Introducing carbon assimilation in yeasts using photosynthetic directed endosymbiosis. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15 (1), 5947 🔗
Awards
2024 C. S. Marvel Voorhees Travel Award from UIUC
2022 Top ten research of Oceanology and Limnology, China
2022 Outstanding International Graduate 2022 UCAS, China
2018 Excellent International student SCSIO, China
2016 CAS-TWAS Presidents Doctoral Fellowship
