• Lecturer (3/9/2008 - 16/9/2009), Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal
• Lecturer (18/9/2009 - 19/11/2010), Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand
• Assistant Professor (20/11/2010 - 30/5/2012), Waljat College of Applied Sciences, Muscat Centre, Sultanate of Oman
• Assistant Professor (1/6/2012 - Till date),Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand

• Enzyme technology and Informatics
• Computational Biology
• Drug Designing & delivery system,
• MD simulation,
• DNA-Protein interaction study
• Nanobiotechnology

Awards

1. Received International Travel Grant for presenting paper in International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2016, Singapore from SERB, (ITS/3193/2016-17).

Honours

1. Invited speaker in One Week Short Term Course on Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources and their Healthcare Applications January 8-14, 2018, NIT Durgapur, organised by Department of Biotechnology and Department of Chemical Engineering.

2. Supervised a project (“Therapeutic Switching: A dawn in cancer treatment”) presented on behalf of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra in ANVESHAN (East Zone, organized by AIU, February 2017), and ranked first in Basic Science section to compete in National Level.

3. Invited speaker (Resource Person) in BTISNet sponsored Workshop on “Emerging Techniques in Bioinformatics and its Application” in Bio-Engineering Department, BIT Mesra held from 30th November–4th December, 2015.

4. Observation of Womens’ Day (AMI Jharkhand chapter) as speaker

5. Invited lecture in TEQIP sponsored program in Pharmaceutical Science and Technology department, BIT Mesra

6. Invited lecture as guest faculty for ‘Techniques in Biology’ in V.B. University, St. Columba's College Campus, Hazaribagh.

7. Invited guest faculty for ‘Introduction to Bioinformatics’ in Waljat College of Applied Sciences, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Webinar/Workshop Organized

• One day online webinar on “COVID19: Challenges and Interventions”, 27 June 2020, sponsored by TEQIP III, BIT Mesra
• Five days workshop on “AI and ML in healthcare”, 27–31 July 2020, sponsored by TEQIP III, BIT Mesra
• AICTE-ATAL sponsored 5 days online workshop on “Artificial Intelligence”, 25–29 January 2021.

Published

• Avirup Malla, Koel Mukherjee, Mukulika Mandal, Aishwarya Mukherjee, Runa Sur, Suvroma Gupta. An Insight to the Toxic Effect of Sulfamerazine on Porcine Pancreatic Amylase and Lactate Dehydrogenase Activity: An In Vitro Study. Current Chemical Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2174/2212796815666210216101221 (2021)
• Vaccine race to become a reality against the highly infectious coronavirus (COVID19), Mukherjee K and Sahu A. Ensemble Journal (UGC CARE approved), Accepted (21010800473VS), 2021.
• An insight to flux balance analysis for biochemical networks, Shreya Anand, Koel Mukherjee, Padmini Padmanabhan. Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, doi: 101080/02648725.2020.1847440, 2020 [IF: 4.375].
• Morphological analysis of Spirulina sp. NCIM 5143 and Nostoc ellipsosporum NCIM 2786 and comparative characterization of associated enzymes. Anand S., Mukherjee K., Padmanabhan P. Biologia. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00526-7 (SCIE, IF: 0.811) 2020.
• Tossing the word “Social Distancing” to “Human Distancing” for COVID-19 in India, Mukherjee K., Prasad M., Mukherjee S., & Mukherjee S. Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 8(3), 58-63. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8072 (2020).
• Identification of miRNA, their targets and miPEPs in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). Mousam Kumar Ram, Koel Mukherjee, Dev Mani Pandey. Computational Biology and Chemistry 83 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2019.107100 [I.F 1.331]
• Xylan from bambara and cowpea biomass and structural elucidation. Nanthakumar Arumugam et al., including Koel De Mukherjee. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules (Accepted: IJBIOMAC_2019_710). [I.F 3.99]
• Molecular aspect of Silver nanoparticles regulated embryonic development in Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Biplab Sarkar et al., including Koel Mukherjee. Chemosphere, 206, 560–567 (2018). [I.F 4.427]
• Computational profiling and characterization of Nitrate Reductase in silver nanoparticle production by Bacillus clausii. Koel Mukherjee et al. Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Accepted: JGEB_292), 2018.
• Inhibition of Porcine Pancreatic Amylase Activity by Sulfamethoxazole. Sujan Maity et al., including Koel Mukherjee. The Protein Journal 35(3) 237–246. DOI: 10.1007/s10930-016-9668-8 (2016)
• Diversity Study of Nitrate Reducing Bacteria: A Metagenomics Approach. Priyanka Jha and Koel Mukherjee. Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology, 8(4) 191–198 (2015)
• Homology modeling and docking studies of human chitotriosidase. Deepsikha Roy and Koel Mukherjee. Journal of Proteins and Proteomics 6(2), 183–196 (2015)
• In silico Characterization and Analysis of RTBP1 and NgTRF1 Protein. Koel Mukherjee et al. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12539-014-0237-6 (2014)
• Sequence analysis and physicochemical characterization of Nipah virus proteins. Dipika Rungta and Koel Mukherjee. International Journal of Computational Bioinformatics and In Silico Modeling 3(3) 398–406 (2014)
• Identification of HIV-1 protease inhibitors via virtual screening. Dipika Rungta et al., including Koel Mukherjee. Journal of Advanced Bioinformatics Applications and Research 5(3) (2014)
• In silico characterization of nitrate reductase involved in gold nanoparticles synthesis. Rashmi Gupta, Koel Mukherjee, Sneha Singh. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences 5(3) 376–388 (2014)
• 3D structure modeling of human telomere repeat binding factor 2. Koel Mukherjee et al. British Biotechnology Journal 4(1) 81–95 (2013)
• SVM based model for binding site prediction on helix-turn-helix transcription factors. Koel Mukherjee et al. Bioinformation 9(10) 500–505 (2013)
• Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Rap1 Myb-type domain. Koel Mukherjee et al. Bioinformation 8(18) 881–885 (2012)
• Molecular dynamics simulation of DNA binding domain of hTRF2. Koel Mukherjee et al. JABAAR 3(2) 324–327 (2012)
• Study of Rice Telomere Binding Protein1 (RTBP1): An In Silico Approach. Koel Mukherjee et al. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research 10(1) (2011)
• Homology Modelling of Polyphenol Oxidase from Solanum Melongena. Medhavi Mallick, Koel Mukherjee, Neetha A. Udayakumar. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences 2(3) (2011)
• Comparison of global and local motional properties of hTRF2 in vacuum and water. K. Mukherjee*, A.K. Bothra, A.S. Vidyarthi. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research 2(3) 587–592 (2010)

Conference Proceedings

1. Identification of Groundnut miRNA and their targets, Mousam Kumar Ram, Koel Mukherjee, Dev Mani Pandey. Canadian Journal of Biotechnology, Volume 1 (Special Issue), p.194. https://doi.org/10.24870/cjb.2017-a180.

Poster Presentations

• CHEMCON Conference, Dec 27–30, 2017, Haldia Institute of Technology
• National Conference “Breaking Barriers through Bioinformatics and Computational Biology”, IIT Delhi, July 31–Aug 1, 2017
• International Conference “NexGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies”, Kerala, Oct 3–5, 2016
• 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2016), Singapore
• Oral presentation, COALESCENCE’16, BIT Mesra, April 2, 2016
• National Conference on Biotechnology for Sustainable Development, BIT Mesra, Dec 17–19, 2015
• Proteomics Society of India, PSI-2014, IIT Bombay
• Frontiers in Biomedical Research, Delhi University, April 14–16, 2014
• BIOSANGAM, MNNIT Allahabad, Nov 21–23, 2013
• International Conference on “Recent advances on Computational Drug Design”, IISc Bangalore, Sept 16–17, 2013
• International Conference, KIIT Bhubaneswar, Sept 2010
• National Seminar on “Applications of Biotechnology”, Central University of Bihar & BIT Patna, March 22–24, 2010

1. Seed Money Scheme, BIT Mesra (Completed) 2015-2016

2. BIT Mesra UG/PG Grant (Completed), 2017-2018

• Book Chapter “Spirulina: A Cyanobacteria with Numerous Valuable Properties” Shreya Anand, Koel Mukherjee and Padmini Padmanabhan in Spirulina and its Health Benefits. ISBN: 978-1-68507-018-2, https://doi.org/10.52305/ULEL1652 2021.

2. Data Analysis and Network Study of Non-small-cell Lung Cancer Biomarkers. Koel De Mukherjee, Aman Vats, Deepshikha Ghosh and Santhosh Kumar Pillai. Advances in Computational Intelligence. ISBN 978-981-13-8222-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8222-2 (2018)

3. Book chapter for "Gene Expression Profiling of Cervical Cancer Using Statistical Method". Deepak Kapse, Koel Mukherjee and Debadyuti Banerjee in Advances in Computational Intelligence. ISBN 978-981-10-2525-9, © 2017.

4. Book chapter in "Application of Biotechnology for Sustainable Development" for Identification and screening of potent inhibitors against spore wall proteins of Flacherie infected B. mori through molecular modelling and docking studies. Debadyuti Banerjee and Koel Mukherjee. DOI:10.1007/978-981-10-5538-6, ISBN 978-981-10-5537-9, 2017.