Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Umesh Thapa Professor Department of Vegetable Crops Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya Mohanpur, Nadia, Pin-41252 Contact: 09830234577 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Date of joining in BCKV : 30th November -0001

• Assistant Professor July 2009- June 2016, at Center for Biotechnology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

• In vivo bacterial biofilms (tissue as well as device associated), Phase variation and persistence in bacteria and its role in virulence, Antibiofilm and anti-persister strategies, Anti-biofilm vaccines, Hostpathogen interactions
• Broad Area of Research Functional Analysis, Sequence spaces, Series, Summability Theory, Topology, Fuzzy Set Theory.
• Different classes of sequences (crisp and fuzzy), Characterization of Matrix Classes, Duals of some sequence spaces, Spectra of different matrix Operators, Acceleration convergence of sequences, Some classes of series.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

• A.P. Das. Bioleaching of Manganese from mining waste materials. International Conference on Material Science (ICMS2017) held at Department of Physics, Tripura University, 16-18 February, 2017.

• Received Odisha Young scientist award from Odisha Bigyan Academy, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of Odisha in 2015
• Received International Travel Support from Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, Department of Science and Technology to attend The 3rd IWA Asia Pacific Regional Young Water Professionals Conference 2010 at National University of Singapore
• Received Young Scientist award from Rajib Gandhi foundation, Odisha in 2012.

• A. P. Das, Bio processing of manganese based mining and industrial residues for recovery of inorganic manganese. New Frontiers in Chemistry-from Fundamentals to Applications (NFCFA2015), 18th-19th December, 2015, BITS Pilani, Goa
• A. P. Das, Molecular phylogenetic of Indian horseshoe crab. National seminar on Biology, Biotechnology and Conservation of Indian Horseshoe crab, 29- 30th, Nov-2015, Amarda college, Balasore, Odisha.
• A. P. Das, Chromogenic biosensors for detection of food pathogens and toxins, National conference on nutritional, functional and safety challenges of food, 26- 27, March, 2015 SRM University, Chennai.

• Morphological and biochemical studies of Haemolymph of India Horseshoe Crab from Chandipur Beach, Odisha, of East India
• Bioreduction based bioremediation of hexavalent chromium Cr (VI) through potential indigenous microbes

• Participated in the International Conference on "Recent Developments in Mathematical Analysis with Application to Industrial Problems " organized by Banaras Hindu University during March 2-5, 1998 and presented a paper entitled " On Statistically Convergent Sequences ".
• Delivered an invited talk entitled "On Convergence Preserving Matrix Maps" at IIT Guwahati on October 15, 1998
• Attended the 14th Annual Conference of Banaras Hindu University Mathematical Society during November 30 - December 1, 1998 and presented a paper entitled "On Sequence Spaces and Densities of Subsets of Natural Numbers "