Background
Doctor Chakravorty was born in 1937 in Kolkata.
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Maharani Chakravorty
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She matriculated in 1950, graduated with a B.Sc from Presidency College, Kolkata, obtained her M.Sc from the University of Calcutta and he Doctor of Philosophy from the Bose Institute, Kolkata. Doctor Chakravorty did her Doctor of Philosophy on microbial protein synthesis from Bose Institute, Kolkata under the mentorship of Doctor Debi Prosad Burma.
Career
She organized the first laboratory course on recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid techniques in Asia and Far East in 1981. As a part of her thesis work, she demonstrated cell free protein synthesis with a particulate preparation from Azotobacter vinelandii. She did her post-doctoral training in enzyme chemistry in the laboratory of B.L Horecker at the New York University school of medicine.
Her specialized training in "bacterial genetics and virology" was completed at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, United States.A. From 1968 to 1969, she worked in the laboratory of Professor
Myron Levine in the Department of Human Genetics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America. She established that the membrane complex of Salmonella typhimurium having a sedimentation constant of 1000S, is the site of not only deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis but also of Ribonucleic acid synthesis. After the research, she returned to India and joined the Bose Institute.
She undertook research on the regulations of metabolism in unicellular organisms. Later, she joined the Department of Biochemistry at Banaras Hindu University.
At Banaras Hindu University, she undertook research for understanding the biochemical differences between cells undergoing lysogeny and those undergoing lysis.
She inferred that following viral infection protein synthesis is controlled at the level of translation. She isolated an RNase I deficient mutant of South. typhimurium during the course of her research. She also helped to establish the Molecular Biology Unit at the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, with Doctor
Achievements
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Certificate of Merit of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (1975-1976) Best Research Award of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (1979) Kshanika Oration Award (1979) by the Indian Council of Medical Research Y.S Narayan Rao Award (1981) by the Indian Council of Medical Research Hari Om Ashram Alembic Research Award (1981) by the Medical Council of India J.C Sengupta Memorial Award Professor Darshan Ranganathan Memorial Award (2007) of Institut National des Sciences Appliquées. She was married to fellow scientist Doctor Debi Prosad Burma and is survived by two children.
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Indian