Education
M.Sc.
Research Interest
Plant Biology, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Kuntal Patra
kuntalp at ncbs dot res dot in
I completed my bachelors in Botany from Midnapore College, West Bengal. For my Masters, I headed to Presidency University, Kolkata and developed my research interest in plant-microbe interactions. During my Master´s dissertation, I identified three GPI-anchored proteins from the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae,  predicted their structure and also probable functions in disease development. Currently, I am a graduate trainee in the Root Microbiology Lab at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and working on a project to understand how fungi establish compatibility with plant roots. I have also qualified NET-JRF which is jointly conducted by UGC and CSIR.