**Author details**

Shaon Ray Chaudhuri1,2\*, Indranil Mukherjee3 , Debabrata Datta4 , Chaitali Chanda3 , Ganesh Prasath Krishnan2 , Swati Bhatt2 , Paulami Datta2 , Shashi Bhushan2 , Sourav Ghosh1 , Pinaki Bhattacharya6 , Ashoke Ranjan Thakur7 , Debanik Roy5 and Parthasarathi Barat3

\*Address all correspondence to: shaonraychaudhuri@tripurauniv.in, shaon.raychaudhuri@gmail.com

1 Department of Microbiology, Tripura University, Suryamaninagar, Tripura West, India

2 Department of Biotechnology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), Salt Lake, Kolkata, India

3 Centre of Excellence in Environmental Technology and Management, Maulana Abul Ka‐ lam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (formerly known as West Bengal Universi‐ ty of Technology), Salt Lake, Kolkata, India

4 Computational Radiation Physics Section, Health Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Re‐ search Centre, Mumbai, India

5 Scientist (Robitics) & Chief Program Co-ordinator, Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Department of Atomic Energy, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

6 Department of Chemical Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

7 Formerly at West Bengal State University, Barasat, Berunanpukuria, P.O. Malikapur, Kol‐ kata, West Bengal, India
