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| name = Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1944|12|2}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata, West Bengal]], India<br />
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Structural biology]] | [[Biochemistry]]}} <br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science]] | [[Bose Institute]]}} <br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Rajabazar Science College]] | [[Calcutta University]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[National Institutes of Health]]}} <br />
| doctoral_advisor = Uma Shankar Nandi<br />
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| known_for = [[Fluorescence]] of [[colchicine]]<br />
| awards = {{ubl|1988&nbsp;[[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]|P. S. Sharma Memorial Award|[[Bose Institute]] Foundation Day Award}}<br />
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'''Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya''' (born 2 December 1944), popularly known as '''Bablu Bhattacharyya''', is an Indian structural biologist, biochemist and academic, known for his studies on the [[colchicine]]-[[tubulin]] interaction.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=406 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref> He is a former professor and the head of the department of biochemistry at the [[Bose Institute]], Kolkata and an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[Indian National Science Academy]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] and [[The World Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Indian Fellow - Bhattacharya">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N96-1196 | title=Indian Fellow - Bhattacharya | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=30 September 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1988, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Born on 2 December 1944 in [[Kolkata]], in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] to Bhabaranjan-Malancha couple, Bhattacharyya graduated in chemistry from the [[University of Calcutta]] and secured his master's degree in physical chemistry from [[Rajabazar Science College]] campus of the same university.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Bhattacharya" /> Subsequently, he joined the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata and pursued his doctoral studies to secure the degree under the guidance of Uma Shankar Nandi of the [[Indian Institute of Science]]. Moving to the US, he completed his post-doctoral studies at the laboratory of Jan Wolff of the [[National Institutes of Health]]. He returned to India in 1976 to join [[Bose Institute]] as a [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research|CSIR]] pool officer where he shifted to academics as a lecturer in 1978 and continued his service until his superannuation as a professor and head of the department of biochemistry.<ref name="Fellow profile - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Bhattacharyya,_Prof._Bhabatarak | title=Fellow profile - Indian Academy of Sciences | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=30 September 2016}}</ref> He has also been associated with [[Presidency College, Calcutta]] as a professor at their Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.<ref name="Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry">{{cite web | url=http://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/chemistry.php | title=Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry | publisher=Presidency University | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref><br />
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Bhattacharyya's early work during his post-doctoral studies at Jan Wolff's laboratory were on [[tubulin]] and its binding mechanism with [[antimitotic]] drugs.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Bhattacharya" /> Later, he focused his researches on colchicine-tubulin interaction and elucidated the effect of the ''carbonyl group on the side chain of B-ring'' in the irreversible binding of [[colchicine]].<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=28 September 2016 | pages=29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He demonstrated the fluorescence of colchicine-tubilin bind which is reported to have offered an alternative to radio-labeled colchicine in pharmacological [[assays]] and made the study of the kinetics of colchicine binding easier. He studied the ''mechanism of chaperone-like activity of tubulin and microtubule associated proteins'' and his studies have known to be of significance in the design of lead compounds as well as new drugs for the treatment of cancer.<ref name="Faculty Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya">{{cite web | url=http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/biochem/bablu.html | title=Faculty Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya | publisher=Bose Institute | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005105347/http://bic.boseinst.ernet.in/biochem/bablu.html | archive-date=5 October 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He has published several articles detailing his research findings,<ref name="Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya on Microsoft Academic Search">{{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/11083556/bhabatarak-bhattacharyya | title=Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya on Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> has registered patents for his work<ref name="Patents by Inventor Abhik Saha">{{cite web | url=http://patents.justia.com/inventor/abhik-saha | title=Patents by Inventor Abhik Saha | publisher=Justia Patents | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref> and has mentored many scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Dr. Gopa Mitra">{{cite web | url=http://www.sjri.res.in/mmkeyperson/560 | title=Dr. Gopa Mitra | publisher=St. John's Research Institute | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref><ref name="About Fellow">{{cite web | url=http://www.wellcomedbt.org/fellowsprofile/dr-abhik-saha-222 | title=About Fellow | publisher=Wellcome Trust | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref> His scientific career has been documented in an article, ''Dr. Bablu Bhattacharyya: A Journey of Four Decades with Tubulin'', published in 2015.<ref name="Dr. Bablu Bhattacharyya: A Journey of Four Decades with Tubulin">{{cite journal | url=http://www.jpp.org.in/index.php/jpp/article/view/133 | title=Dr. Bablu Bhattacharyya: A Journey of Four Decades with Tubulin | author=Dulal Panda, Tapas K Manna | journal=Journal of Proteins and Proteomics | year=2015 | volume=6 | issue=3}}</ref> He has also been associated with the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], [[Department of Science and Technology (India)|Department of Science and Technology]],<ref name="Isothermal Titration Calorimetry">{{cite web | url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/seminar/Workshop_Proteomics.pdf | title=Isothermal Titration Calorimetry | publisher=Calcutta University | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref> [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] as a member of their various technical committees.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Bhattacharya" /><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 1988. He is an elected fellow of several science academies including the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]<ref name="NASI fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=B | title=NASI fellows | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717005033/http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=B | archive-date=17 July 2015 }}</ref> and [[The World Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="TWAS fellow">{{cite web | url=http://twas.org/member/bhattacharyya-bhabatarak | title=TWAS fellow | publisher=TWAS | date=2016 | access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref> He is also a recipient of the P. S. Sharma Memorial Award of the Society for Biological Chemists, India and the Foundation Day Award of Bose Institute.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Bhattacharya" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Colchicine]]<br />
* [[Tubulin]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{cite journal | url=https://eurekamag.com/research/008/062/008062499.php | title=A partially folded Intermediate during tubulin unfolding: Its detection and spectroscopic characterization |author1=Guha, Suranjana |author2=Bhattacharyya, Bhabatarak | journal=Biochemistry | year=1995 | volume=34 | issue=21 | pages=6925–6931 | doi=10.1021/bi00021a003| pmid=7766601 | url-access=subscription }}<br />
* {{cite journal | title=Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of taxol-induced polymerization of purified tubulin |author1=Goutam Ghosh Choudhury |author2=Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya |author3=Birendra Bijoy Biswas | journal=Biochemistry and Cell Biology | year=1987 | volume=65 | issue=6 | pages=558–564 | doi=10.1139/o87-072|pmid = 2892503}}<br />
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