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United Kingdom

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Consultant Scientist/Bioengineer | Expert in Python, MATLAB, C++ | Expert in Lab Automation, Hardware Prototyping

Profile Summary

Scientist turned Engineer! Trained in Evolutionary Microbiology, Biophysics and Computational Biology. Now developing new hardware, software and analysis pipelines for Biotech. Currently, developing a Smartphone-based Fluorescent Microscopy Platform for PicturaBio, Oxford, UK, as a Consultant Prototype Engineer. Worked on the Biosecurity implications of Synthetic Biology and AI for non-humans as an R&D Fellow for Defra, UK Gov. Worked on the Biophysics of Phage spread in bacterial biofilms as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter, UK. As a PhD Student at IIT Bombay, India, worked on developing stochastic models to explain how bacterial cells cooperate by exchanging metabolites.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Computational Biology
• ★ Biophysics
• ★ Python
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ☆ Biological Systems Engineering
• ☆ Microscopy
• ☆ Light Microscopy
• ☆ Fluorescence Microscopy
• ☆ Biological Engineering
• ☆ Automation
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Systems Biology
• ☆ Synthetic Biology
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ Drug Discovery
• ☆ High Throughput Screening (HTS)
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ Antibiotic Resistance Research
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Concept Development, Prototyping, Reverse Engineering

Work Experience

Consultant Prototype Engineer

PicturaBio

March 2025 - Present

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Exeter

August 2021 - Present

Senior Scientific Officer/ R&D Fellow

DEFRA

August 2024 - March 2025

PhD Student

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

December 2015 - July 2021

PhD Student

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

July 2014 - March 2015

Education

M.Sc (5 years Integrated) in Systems Biology (School of Life Sciences)

University of Hyderabad

July 2009 - June 2014

Certifications

• EMBO Training: Laboratory Leadership Course

  EMBO Lab Leadership

  November 2023 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Dibyendu Dutta and Supreet Saini(2021). Cell Growth Model with Stochastic Gene Expression Helps Understand the Growth Advantage of Metabolic Exchange and Auxotrophy . mSystems. 6. (4). American Society for Microbiology

Dibyendu Dutta, Supreet Saini, James C. Stegen (2021). Cell Growth Model with Stochastic Gene Expression Helps Understand the Growth Advantage of Metabolic Exchange and Auxotrophy . mSystems.

Dibyendu Dutta, Mouboni Dutta, Mazahar Moin, Anusree Saha, Achala Bakshi, P. B. Kirti (2021). Gain-of-function mutagenesis through activation tagging identifies XPB2 and SEN1 helicase genes as potential targets for drought stress tolerance in rice . Theoretical and Applied Genetics.

Mouboni Dutta and Mazahar Moin and Anusree Saha and Dibyendu Dutta and Achala Bakshi and P. B. Kirti(2021). Gain-of-function mutagenesis through activation tagging identifies XPB2 and SEN1 helicase genes as potential targets for drought stress tolerance in rice . Theoretical and Applied Genetics. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Dutta, M., Moin, M., Saha, A., Dutta, D., Bakshi, A., Kirti, P.B.(2021). Gain-of-function mutagenesis through activation tagging identifies XPB2 and SEN1 helicase genes as potential targets for drought stress tolerance in rice . Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 134. (7). p. 2253-2272.

Dutta, D., Saini, S.(2021). Cell growth model with stochastic gene expression helps understand the growth advantage of metabolic exchange and auxotrophy . mSystems. 6. (4).

Dibyendu Dutta, Pratap Vydyam, Niranjan Sutram, Sunanda Bhattacharyya, Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya (2019). A small-molecule inhibitor of the DNA recombinase Rad51 from Plasmodium falciparum synergizes with the antimalarial drugs artemisinin and chloroquine . Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Dibyendu Dutta, Pratap Vydyam, Niranjan Sutram, Sunanda Bhattacharyya, Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya (2019). A small-molecule inhibitor of the DNA recombinase Rad51 from Plasmodium falciparum synergizes with the antimalarial drugs artemisinin and chloroquine . Journal of Biological Chemistry.

Dibyendu Dutta, Supreet Saini (2019). Phenomenological models as effective tools to discover cellular design principles . Archives of Microbiology.

Vydyam, P., Dutta, X., Sutram, N., Bhattacharyya, S., Bhattacharyya, M.K.(2019). A small-molecule inhibitor of the DNA recombinase Rad51 from Plasmodium falciparum synergizes with the antimalarial drugs artemisinin and chloroquine . Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294. (20). p. 8171-8183.

Brajesh, R.G., Dutta, D., Saini, S.(2019). Distribution of fitness effects of mutations obtained from a simple genetic regulatory network model . Scientific Reports. 9. (1).

Dutta, D., Saini, S.(2019). Phenomenological models as effective tools to discover cellular design principles . Archives of Microbiology. 201. (3). p. 283-293.

Gerald, N., Dutta, D., Brajesh, R.G., Saini, S.(2019). Mathematical modeling of movement on fitness landscapes . BMC Systems Biology. 13. (1).

PREPRINT

Dibyendu Dutta, Emma Tollafield, Wolfram Moebius (2021). Streaking bacteria on a Petri Plate from -70C frozen culture v1 .

Dibyendu Dutta, Supreet Saini (2020). Cell growth model with stochastic gene expression helps understand the growth advantage of metabolic exchange and auxotrophy .