Gender: Male

Religion: Hinduism

Nationality: Indian

Doctorate in Zoology with 15 yrs. experience in PG Teaching & with 19 yrs experience in Research

Key Skills: Teaching and Research in the area of Environmental Physiology, Nutritional
Physiology, Lipid Biochemistry, Membrane Adaptability (both teaching and
research) Comparative Anatomy of Non Chordates and Chordates & Developmental
Biology (teaching)

Current Industry: Goa University

Current Functional Area: Education / Training / Teaching / Research

Current Monthly Salary: Total approx. 4.0 lakh per annum

Current Job: Reader, Dept. of Zoology, Goa University, Goa, India.

Current Location: Panaji - India

Years of Experience: 19 years

Previous Job: Research Associate

Preferred Work Location: Goa / W. Bengal / Bangalore

Languages Known: English, Hindi, and Bengali

Education

Ph.D. (Zoology): From Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 731235, West Bengal, India in the
year of 1987.

M.Sc. (Life Science, Zoology): Specialization in Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry

from Visva Bharati University in the year of 1982.

B.Sc. (Hons.) in Zoology: with Botany and Chemistry as supplemented subject from University
of Calcutta, Calcutta, West Bengal, India in the year of 1979.
 Summary of Skills and Experience

Name : Dr. Ramaballav Roy

Highest qualification: Ph. D.

Experience in following research fields: Adaptational Physiology with regards to membrane

homeoviscous adaptation.
Nutritional Physiology with respect to animal lipid and
human health (hepatitis).
Lipid Biochemistry a relation between prokaryotic and
eukaryotic system.

Date of Birth: July27, 1959

Marital Status: Married

Passport; Indian passport valid till 2018

Visa Status for Current Location: Citizen Indian

Mailing Address: Department of Zoology, Goa University,

Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403206, India.
Fax. No. 91-832-2456133
Tel. (0832) 6519365
(0832) 2452001
E. mail : rroy@unigoa.ac.in
 Curriculum vitae
Personal

Name : Dr. Ramaballav Roy

Father's name : (Late)Dr. Haripada Roy
Current designation : Associate Professor
Date of birth : July27, 1959
Nationality : Indian
Marital status : Married
Spouse name : Ishani Roy
Spouse designation : Assistant Lecturer (Geography)
No. of Kids : Two
Residential address : Flat no. S1, Block A2,
“Martin Enclave” Caranzalem
Goa 403002, India.
Tel. (0832) 2465912; Mob: 9421241643
E.mail : chino42roy@yahoo.co.in
Whether SC/ST/OBC/PHC: No

Languages known: Can read, write & speak English, Hindi & Bengali

Academic

Present official address with

designation and email address: Dr. R. Roy, Associate Professor
Department of Zoology, Goa University,
Taleigao Plateau, Goa - 403206, India.
Fax. No. 91-832-2456133
Tel. (0832) 6519365 / 2452001
E. mail : rroy@unigoa.ac.in

Educational Qualification:

Obtained Ph.D. degree in Zoology from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, 731235, West
Bengal, India in the year of 1987.

Completed Post Graduated Course (M.Sc.) in Life Science (Zoology) with specialization in
Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry from Visva Bharati University in the
year of 1982.

Completed Under Graduated Course ( B.Sc. Hons.) in Zoology with Botany and Chemistry as
supplemented subject from University of Calcutta, Calcutta, West Bengal, India in
the year of 1979.
Professional career up to date in chronological order

a) Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Goa University, Goa w.e.f.

January 2006.

b) Reader in Zoology, Department of Zoology, Goa University, Goa, w.e.f. August 1998.

c) Lecturer in Zoology, Department of Zoology, Goa University, Goa w.e.f. February 1993.

d) Research Associate of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Department of

Chemistry, Bose Institute, Calcutta, West Bengal (1989-1993).

e) Senior Research Fellow of C.S.I.R. at Department of Zoology, Visva Bharati University,

Santiniketan (1987-1989).

Awards and Prizes won:

Received INSA visiting fellowship to have an academic programme at CCMB, Hyderabad in

2006.

Visited Hungary as a Collaborative Scientist under Bilateral Exchange Programme between

INSA and Hungarian Academy of Science in 1995-96.

Received Young Scientist Research Project Award of DST, Govt. of India in 1994.

Received UNESCO fellowship for One year International Training Course in Hungary
on“Selected Topics of Modern Biology” in 1987.

Teaching

Courses offered:

Comparative Anatomy of Non Chordates and Chordates;

Developmental Biology;
Biochemistry,
Biochemical Techniques etc.

Professional Training obtained:

Attended 21-days Orientation Course at Goa University (1994).

Attended 21- days Refresher Course in Zoology at Goa University (1998)
Attended 21-days Refresher Course in Life Sciences at Visva Bharati University (1999).

Research
Area of Research:

Adaptational biochemistry with respect to membrane structure & cellular functions.

Nutritional biochemistry with respect to lipid metabolism.
Role of PUFA with respect to well being state of orangnism.
Lipidomics of fishes.

Research Training:

Attended 11-months course on Selected Topics in Modern Biology (1987) at Biological

Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary.
Attended 10-days Course on Nutrition in Aquaculture at CIFA, Bhubaneshwar (1997).
Attended 15- days Course on Marine Microbiology at Goa University, Goa (1998).
Attended 10- days Marine Cruise Programme of Department of Ocean Development,
Govt. of India (1999).

Research Project Completed / Ongoing:

a) Project title: Adaptive modulation of protein metabolism in Channa punctatus during

an annual cycle.
Funding agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Duration: 1987-1989.
Grant: Rs.20,000/- (+salary for self).

b) Project title: Regulation of membrane structure and function during seasonal

adaptation in Channa punctatus.
Funding agency: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Duration: 1989-1993.
Grant : Rs. 40,000/- (+salary for self).

c) Project title : Efficiency of alpha linoleic acid metabolism in Indian fresh water fishes.
Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.
Duration: 1994-1996.
Grant: Rs. 2,65,100/- ( no salary grant).

d) Project title: Lipids of microorganisms from Arabian sea.

Funding agency: University Grants commission (Minor Res. Project)
Duration: 1995-1997.
Grant: Rs. 30,000/- (no salary grant).

e) Project title: Marine bacteria as a source of linolenic acid for the farmed animals
Funding agency: Department of Ocean Development
Duration: 1999- 2003.
Grant : Rs. 14, 85,000/- (including the salary for one student).

f) Project title: Mechanism of homeoviscous adaptation in perturbed environment.

Funding agency: University Grants Commission.
Duration: 1999- 2002.
Grant : Rs. 7,35,000/- (including the salary for one student).

g) Project title: Membrane lipid phase behaviour during adaptational process: A

comparative approach between poikilothermic and homeothermic
organism.
Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology.
Duration: 2004 – 2007.
Grant : Rs. 14,35,000/- (including the salary for one student)
h) Project title: Role of dietary fish and meat, as a source of lipid, in alcohol induced liver
cirrhosis in mice, Mus musculus.
Funding agency: Department of Science, Technology & Environment, Govt. of Goa.
Duration: 2007 -2008.
Grant : Rs. 4,20,000/- (including the salary for one student).

i) Project title: Membrane lipid bilayer and osmoregulation : A study with gill
epithelial cells of mud crab, Scylla serrata.
Funding agency: University Grants Commission.
Duration: 2008 -
Grants : Rs. 7,45,000/- (including the salary for one student).

k) Project title: Lipidomics of some fishes : Control of inflammatory diseases.

Funding agency: Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi.
Duration: 2009 -
Grants : Rs. 28, 9300/- (including the salary for one student).

Publication with titles of articles, names of journals:

1) Role of capsulate and foliate fat body in thermal adaptation of the cockroach, Periplanata
americana (L) : Part I. Changes in the total lipid content and iodine number.
Roy R., Das A. B. (1985) Indian J. Exp. Biol. 23:497-499.

2) Endogenous nitrogen excretion of an Indian air breathing teleost, Channa punctatus (Bloch).
Roy R. and Das A. B. (1986) Indian J. Exp. Biol. 24:132-133.

3) Season specific effects of starvation on the rates of oxygen consumption and ammonia - N
excretion in Channa punctatus (Bloch).
Roy R. and Das A. B. (1987) Indian J. Com. Anim. Physiol. 5:34-39.

4) Seasonal variation of ammonia quotient in an Indian air breathing teleost, Channa

punctatus.
Roy R. (1988) Acta Biologica Hungarica 39:449-454.

5) Temperature mediated restructuring of phosphatidylethanolamines in liver of freshwater

fishes.
Farkas T. and Roy R. (1989) Comp.Biochem. Physiol. 93B: 217-222.

6) Seasonal reorganization of protein metabolism in an Indian air breathing teleost, Channa

punctatus (Bloch).
Roy R. and Das A. B. (1989) J. Biosci. 14 : 183-187.

7) The effect of thermal adaptation on the level of nitrogenous excretion of Channa punctatus.
Roy R.and Das A. B. (1990) J. therm. Biol. 15: 251-254

8) Role of environmental temperature in seasonal adaptation in an air breathing fish,

Channa punctatus (Bloch): Dynamics of tissue protein ,free amino acids and RNA
contents.
Roy R., Dutta H. and Das A. B. (1991) Proc. Indian natn. Acad. Sci. 57B :147-152.
9) Role of environmental thermal fluctuation in seasonal variation of fatty acid composition of
total lipid in fat body of cockroach, Periplanata americana (Linn.)
Roy R., Das A. B. and Farkas T. (1991) J. therm. Biol. 16: 211-215.

10) Homeoviscous adaptation of different membranes in the brain of an air breathing Indian
teleost , Channa punctatus during seasonal variation of environmental temperature.
Roy R., Ghosh D. and Das A. B. (1992) J. therm. Biol. 17 : 209-215.

11) Regulation of membrane structure and function during thermal acclimation.

Roy R. (1993) Indian J. Com. Anim. Physiol. 11 : 1-6.

12) Rapid temperature induced changes in physicochemical properties of fish, Cyprinus carpio,
erythrocyte subcellular membranes.
Roy R. and Farkas T. (1997) Proc. Indian natn.sci. Acad. B63 : 437-446.

13) Seasonal dynamics of tissue levels of total protein, free amino acid and ribonucleic
acid in an Indian air breathing teleost, Channa punctatus.
Das A. B. and Roy R. (1995) Acta Biologica Hungarica 48 : 135-144.

14) Regulation of membrane lipid bilayer structure during seasonal variation: A study with the
brain membranes of Clarias batrachus.
Roy R., Das A. B. and Ghosh D. (1997) Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1323 : 65-74.

15) Fatty acid composition of the ingested food only slightly affects physicochemical properties
of liver total Phospholipid and plasma membranes in cold adapted freshwater fish.
Roy R. Fodor E., Kitajka K. and Farkas T. (1999) Fish Physiol. Biochem. 20 : 1-11.

16) Screening of bacteria from sediments of coastal ecosystem, as potential source of alpha
linolenic acid.
Pujari S., Roy R. and Bhosle S. ( 2004) Indian J. Marine Sci. 33:243-247.

Regulation of membrane lipid bilayer in salinity adaptation: A study with the gill epithelial cell
membranes of Oreochromis nilotica
Shivkamat P. and Roy R. ( 2005) Comp. Biochem. Physiol B. 142:28-36.

18) Dietary fish oil as hepato protective agent in Mus musculus.

Roy R., Chandrasekhar D. and Pujari P. (2007) Indian J. Exp. Biol. 45: 367-370.

19) Lipid metabolism of growing bird, Gallus domesticus during post hatching
Development.
Pujari S. and Roy R. (2007) Proc. Indian natn. Acad. Sci. B 73:37- 42.

20) Effect of dietary oil on the health of the growing birds, Gallus domesticus.
Pujari S, and Roy R ( 2007) Indian J Comp. Anim. Physiol. 25:12-18.

21) Role of omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid on the growth of poultry birds, Gallus
domesticus ( Broiler strain).
Roy R, Singh S and Pujari S ( 2008) Int. J. Poult. Sci. 7:360-367.

22) Diets rich in n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are associated with amelioration of D-
Galactosamine induced hepatitis in mice.
Pujari P D and Roy R (2010) Rec. Res. Sci. Tech. 2: 69-77.

23) Effect of dietary manipulation of lipids on mice, Mus musculus.

Pujari P, Vajreswari A and Roy R (2010) Advan. Biol. Res.,4(3): 146-153.
 Book :

1) Diversity and Life Processes from Ocean and Land

Desai P V and Roy R (2007) Goa University Publication, Goa University, Goa.

Articles in Book:

1) Marine Bacteria as source of essential fatty acid : Its application in poultry feed.
Pujari S and Roy R (2007) In: Diversity and Life Processes from Ocean and Land.
Desai P V and Roy R (eds), Goa University, Goa. Pp. 23-35.

No. of Ph.D. Students guided:

1 (awarded) + 1 (submitted) +2 (in progress)

Additional Information

i) Passed a certificate course in FORTRAN IV Computer Language from Visva Bharati.

ii) Passed a certificate course in German language from Visva Bharati.

iii) Proficient in operation of 'WINDOWS'

iv) Proficiency in operation of sophisticated analytical instruments like, Spectrophotometer,

Spectro fluoremeter, Gas chromatograph, Liquid Scintillation counter, HPLC, Ultra centrifuge

v) Attended many International and National Conferences/ Seminars / Symposium/ Workshop as

resource person / subject expert and presented papers and given plenary talks.

vi) Organized National level seminars in the area of Modern Zoology, Comparative Animal
Physiology.

vii) Coordinated UGC sponsored Refresher Course on Environmental Sciences

Contribution to Institutional/ Corporate/ Extension activities:

Member of Departmental Council

Member of Academic Council (1996-1998)
Member of University Court (2006-2008)
Member of BOS, Zoology, Goa University (1999-2002; 2009- )
Member of Faculty Board, Life Sciences, Goa University ( 2003-2006)
Life member of Indian Society of Comparative Animal Physiology,
Life member of Asian Fisheries Forum.