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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Dipshikha Chakravortty
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| birth_place = [[Jabalpur]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], India
| death_date =
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| residence = [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]], India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = {{ublist | [[Microbiology]] | [[Molecular pathology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Institute of Science]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | LAD College for Women | [[Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University]] | [[National Centre for Cell Science]] | [[Savitribai Phule Pune University]] | [[Aichi Medical University]] | [[Friedrich Alexander University]] }}
| doctoral_advisor = {{ublist |K. S. Nandakumar|U. V Wagh | Takashi Yokochi| Michael Hensel }}
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[Salmonella]], [[antibacterial resistance]]
| awards = {{ublist| 2010 [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}
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'''Dipshikha Chakravortty''' is an Indian microbiologist, molecular pathologist and a professor at the department of Microbiology and Cell Biology at the [[Indian Institute of Science]]. Known for her studies on [[Salmonella]] and [[antibacterial resistance]], Chakravortty is an elected fellow of the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] and the [[Indian National Science Academy]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded her the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences, in 2010.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>

== Biography ==
[[File:University of Pune -Main Building 1.JPG|thumb|left|University of Pune]]
Dipshikha Chakravortty was born in 1968<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=C |title=NASI fellows |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> at [[Jabalpur]], in the second largest Indian state of [[Madhya Pradesh]] to Santosh Kumar Chakravortty and Bani Chakravortty.<ref name="Virulence profile">{{Cite journal |title=Virulence profile |date=2018-01-25 |pmc=3956508 | pmid=24504093 |doi=10.4161/viru.27047 |volume=5 |issue=2 |journal=Virulence |pages=321–5 |author=Chakravortty D}}</ref> Her early schooling was in Mumbai where the family had moved soon after her birth. After earning a bachelor's degree in [[microbiology]] from LAD College for Women of [[Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University]], and a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Nagpur. She did her doctoral studies, assisted by junior and senior research fellowships, under the guidance of K. S. Nandakumar at the [[National Centre for Cell Science]] which secured her a PhD from [[Savitribai Phule Pune University]].<ref name="Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/dipshikha-chakravortti.html |title=Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology |date=2018-01-25 |website=DMCB - IISc |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> Thereafter, she moved to Japan for her post-doctoral studies and completed it under the supervision of Takashi Yokochi of [[Aichi Medical University]]. Subsequently, she took up a research position at the laboratory of Michael Hensel in [[Erlangen]], Germany and worked there on an [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow|Alexander von Humboldt fellowship]]. On her return to India in 2004, she joined the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology of the [[Indian Institute of Science]] (IISc) as a faculty,<ref name="Faculty profile">{{Cite web |url=http://bio.iisc.ac.in/?q=faculty/dipshikha-chakravortty |title=Faculty profile |date=2018-01-25 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> where she holds the position of a professor.<ref name="Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology" /> At IISc, she has established her laboratory, ''Molecular Pathogenesis Lab''<ref name="Molecular Pathogenesis Lab">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/Welcome%20to%20MCBL/Faculty/Dipshikha/Dipshikha.htm |title=Molecular Pathogenesis Lab |date=2018-01-25 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> and hosts a number of researchers and scholars.<ref name="Molecular Pathogenesis Lab - People">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/Welcome%20to%20MCBL/Faculty/Dipshikha/people.html |title=Molecular Pathogenesis Lab - People |date=2018-01-25 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref>

Chakravortty resides at IISc Campus, in [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]].<ref name="NASI fellows" />

== Professional profile ==
[[File:SalmonellaNIAID.jpg|thumb|[[Salmonella]].]]
Chakravortty's research focus is on [[antibacterial resistance]] with special emphasis on [[Salmonella]]<ref name="Faculty profile" /> and she is known to have done work on the [[pathogenesis]] of [[Salmonella typhimurium]], a [[gram negative bacterium]] pathogen.<ref name="Research Interests">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mcbl.iisc.ernet.in/dipshikha-chakravortti.html |title=Research Interests |date=2018-01-25 |website=Indian Institute of Science |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> Her laboratory works on diseases such as [[Typhoid]], and the host-pathogen interaction with regard to the disease, with a view to develop a vaccine with a long-time memory against the pathogen.<ref name="Molecular Pathogenesis Lab" /> The team led by her has been successful in developing a treatment protocol for [[sepsis]] which uses a [[Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein]], a type of [[glycoprotein]], which has been found to neutralize the bacterial [[endotoxin]], one of the primary causative factors of [[sepsis]].<ref name="IISc scientists design cost-effective treatment for sepsis">{{Cite news |url=https://researchmatters.in/article/iisc-scientists-design-cost-effective-treatment-sepsis |title=IISc scientists design cost-effective treatment for sepsis |date=2016-12-05 |work=Research Matters |access-date=2018-01-25 |language=en}}</ref> Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=b978y2oAAAAJ&hl=en |title=On Google Scholar |date=2018-01-20 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 169 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dipshikha_Chakravortty |title=On ResearchGate |date=2018-01-20 |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref> Besides, she has contributed chapters to books edited by others.<ref name="BonazzaRanjan2015">{{cite book|author1=Riccardo Bonazza|author2=Devesh Ranjan|title=29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GgnCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA877|date=10 July 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-16838-8|pages=877–}}</ref> She has also mentored many research scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Molecular Pathogenesis Lab - People" /><ref name="Wellcome DBT - View Main - Profile">{{Cite web |url=http://wellcomedbt.org/fellowsprofile/dr-sandeepa-eswarappa-233 |title=Wellcome DBT - View Main - Profile |date=2018-01-25 |website=wellcomedbt.org |language=en |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Prof Dipshikha Chakravortty, received the prestigious Tata Innovation Fellowship, 2020-21, for her overall research excellence.The [[Department of Biotechnology]] (DBT) of the Government of India awarded her the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2010.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> The [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] elected her as a fellow in 2012<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> and she became an elected fellow of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2017.<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P17-1741 |title=Indian fellow |date=2018-01-25 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref> The [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected her as a fellow in 2021.<ref name="Indian Institute of Science fellows 2021">{{Cite web |title=Indian Institute of Science fellows 2021 |url=https://www.iisc.ac.in/events/prof-dipsshikha-chakravortty-has-been-elected-as-a-fellow-of-indian-academy-of-sciences-bangalore/ |access-date=2021-02-01 |language=en}}</ref> She is also a recipient of Prof S. K. Chatterjee award of the [[Indian Institute of Science]] (2021),<ref name="Indian Institute of Science Prof S. K. Chatterjee award">{{Cite web |title=Indian Institute of Science Prof S. K. Chatterjee award |url=https://www.iisc.ac.in/events/prof-dipshikha-chakravortty-receives-prof-sk-chatterjee-award-of-iisc/ |access-date=2021-02-01 |language=en}}</ref> NASI-Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award (2015),<ref name="Part 4 - IISc">{{Cite web |title=Part 4 - IISc |url=https://www.iisc.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/part-4.pdf |access-date=2021-02-01 |website=Indian Institute of Science}}</ref> DAE SRC Outstanding Investigator Award (2015),<ref name="Europe PMC">{{Cite web |title=Europe PMC |url=http://europepmc.org/article/med/26610300 |access-date=2021-02-01 |website=europepmc.org}}</ref> [[Alexander von Humboldt Fellow|Alexander von Humboldt fellowship]]<ref name="Women in Science – Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty">{{Cite web |title=Women in Science – Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty |url=https://www.iisc.ac.in/women-in-science-prof-dipshikha-chakravortty/ |access-date=2021-02-01 |language=en}}</ref> and was a member of the [[IISc]] Team that won gold medal at iGEM 2017 and iGEM 2018 contest, held in [[Boston]].<ref name="iGEM 2017 Team Information">{{Cite web |title=iGEM 2017 Team Information |url=https://igem.org/Team_List?year=2017 |access-date=2021-02-01 |website=igem.org}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
=== Chapters ===
* {{cite book|author1=Riccardo Bonazza|author2=Devesh Ranjan|title=29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6GgnCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA877|date=10 July 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-16838-8|pages=877–}}

=== Articles ===

Bhosle A, Datey A, Chandrasekharan G, Singh D, Chakravortty D, Chandra N.A, 2020, Strategic Target Rescues Trimethoprim Sensitivity in Escherichia coli.
iScience. 2020 Mar 16;23(4):100986. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.100986. [Epub ahead of print

Datey A, Thaha CSA, Patil SR, Gopalan J, Chakravortty D.,2019, Shockwave Therapy Efficiently Cures Multispecies Chronic Periodontitis in a Humanized Rat Model. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2019 Dec 13;7:382. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00382. eCollection

Nagarajan D, Roy N, Kulkarni O, Datey A, Ravichandran S, Thakur C, Sandeep T, Aprameya IV, Sarma SP, Chakravortty D*, Chandra N*, 2019, Omega76: A designed antimicrobial peptide to 1 combat carbapenem and tigecycline resistant ESKAPE pathogens Science Advances,5(7):eaax1946.

Balakrishnan A, Chakravortty D, 2017, Bactericidal/permeability increasing- Epithelial cell damage activates protein expression in epithelial cells, Frontier in Microbiology, 2017 Aug 15;8:1567. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01567.

Datey A, Janardhan Gm Gopalan J, Chakravortty D,2017, Mechanism of transformation in Mycobacteria using a novel shockwave assisted technique driven by in situ generated oxyhydrogen, Sci Rep, 2017 Aug 17;7(1):8645. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08542-5.

Balakrishnan A, DasSarma P, Bhattacharjee O, Kim JM, DasSarma S, Chakravortty D. 2017, Halobacterial nano vesicles displaying murine bactericidal permeability-increasing protein rescue mice from lethal endotoxic shock., Sci Rep. Sep 20;6:33679.

Balakrishnan A, Schnare M, Chakravortty D. 2016 Of men not mice: Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) expressed in human macrophages acts as a phagocytic receptor and modulates entry and replication of Gram-negative bacteria., Frontiers in Immunol. 7,455.

Das P, Lahiri A, Chakravortty D,2010, Modulation of the arginase pathway in the context of microbial pathogenesis: a metabolic enzyme moonlighting as an immune modulator. PLoS Pathog, 6, e1000899.

== See also ==
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* [[Nanocarriers]]
* [[Drug delivery]]
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{{portal|India|Biology|Medicine}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite journal |title=Smart Evasion Strategies by Salmonella |journal=Virulence |doi=10.4161/viru.27047 |pmid=24504093 |pmc=3956508 |volume=5 |year=2014 |pages=321–5 |author=Chakravortty D}}

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