Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

The Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) was established in November 2002 to contribute the fascinating and emerging area of biological sciences. It has both undergraduate (B.Tech.) and postgraduate (M.Tech. and Ph.D.) academic programmes. The Department is unique in North-Eastern India, imparting quality education and providing an excellent research environment through its ongoing programmes. It imparts training for students to make them competent, motivated engineers and scientists.

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Prof Biman Mandal has been selected for Prestigious BM BIRLA SCIENCE PRIZE 2018 in BIOLOGY . The award comes with a citation and 1 lakh cash prize. New

13-01-2020

Dr. Pranjal Chandra listed in the HIGHLY CITED Corresponding authors in The ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY, Cambridge, London His work has also appeared in Top 10% cited articles in the General Chemistry section New

18-10-2019

Dr. Pranjal Chandra joined as ASSOCIATE EDITOR in the journal, "Sensors International" by Elsevier and CSPM (Chinese Academy of Sciences) New

18-10-2019

Prof. Pranab Goswami has been selected as a Visiting Professor in University of Alberta, Canada New

06-10-2019

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First Dept Department Retreat- Biotech Express
Jan 13, 2020

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Notification

Applications are invited for a Walk in interview for JRF(GATE) in the project entitled, "Deciphering the assembly of RNPS1 into the spliceosomal machinery" at the Department of Biosciences & Bioengineering. New
Mar 20, 2020

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Academic Programmes

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Recent Publications

1. Anshuman Mohapatra, Sowmya Bekshe Lokappa* and Nitin Chaudhary*
Interaction of cavin-1/PTRF leucine zipper domain 2 and its congenital?generalized?lipodystrophy mutant with model membranes,
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications vol.521, no.3 , pp.732-738, [2020]

2. Pathak S, Tripathi S, Deori N, Ahmad B, Verma H, Lokhande R, Nagotu S, Kale A
Effect of Tetracycline family of antibiotics on actin aggregation, resulting in the formation of Hirano bodies responsible for neuropathological disorders,
Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics vol.DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1717629, no. , pp.-, [2020]

3. Mohd. Ziauddin Ansari, Rajaram Swaminathan
Structure and dynamics at N- and C-terminal regions of intrinsically disordered human c-Myc PEST degron reveal a pH-induced transition. ,
Proteins: Structure Function and Bioinformatics vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

4. Debika Datta, Ramakrishnan Nagaraj and Nitin Chaudhary
Water-Alcohol Bigels from Fatty Acylated Dipeptides,
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol.124, no.3 , pp.577-588, [2020]

5. P Baruah, A Singh, L Rangan, AK Sharma, A Khare
Elucidation of size, structure, surface plasmon resonance and photoluminescence of Ag nanoparticles synthesized by pulsed laser ablation in distilled water and its viability as SERS substrate,
Applied Physics A vol.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-3375-1, no. , pp.-, [2020]

6. Dimple Chouhan and Biman B Mandal
Silk biomaterials in wound healing and skin regeneration therapeutics: From bench to bedside,
Acta Biomaterialia vol.103, no. , pp.24-51, [2020]

7. Ashutosh Bandyopadhyay, Biman B. Mandal
3D Printed Silk-based Biomimetic Tri-layered Meniscus for Potential Patient Specific Implantation,
Biofabrication vol.12, no. , pp.015003-, [2020]

8. Joseph Christakiran Moses, Triya Saha, and Biman B. Mandal
Chondroprotective and osteogenic effects of silk-based bioinks in developing 3D bioprinted osteochondral interface,
Bioprinting vol.17, no. , pp.e00067-, [2020]

9. Amrendra Kumar, Dileep Ahari, Anurag Priyadarshi, Mohd. Ziauddin Ansari and Rajaram Swaminathan
Weak Intrinsic Luminescence in Monomeric Proteins Arising From Charge Recombination,
Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

10. RG Shelke, L Rangan
Isolation and characterisation of Ty1 copia retrotransposons from Pongamia pinnata,
Trees vol.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-019-01878-7, no. , pp.-, [2019]

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Awards and honours

Prof Biman B. Mandal , "BM BIRLA SCIENCE PRIZE in BIOLOGY for the year 2018", [2020]
Dr. Ajay Kunnumakkara, "Appointed as visiting scientist AIST, Japan, 2019", [2019]
Dr. Souptick Chanda, "Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship 2019-20 to carry out research at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA", [2019]
Prof. Arun Goyal, "Nominated as member, technical expert committee for DBT-NER by DBT in the area energy, environment and biodiversity for 3 years", [2018]
Dr. Biman B. Mandal, "Cover pages (03) in “ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering”, “ACS applied Bio materials” and “JMC-B” for work on silk based tissue engineering.", [2018]
Debika Dutta, "Travel grant by American peptide society to attend the American peptide symposium 2019 at Monterey, California. ", [2019]
Phurpa Dema Thungon, "Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF) from SERB (DST)-UAlberta Partnership scheme to carry out her thesis work at University of Alberta, Canada for a period of one year (May 2019-April 2020)", [2019]
Sanjay M, "1st position and received a cash prize of Rs 25000 for his model “Optisense- a smartphone based malaria detection platform” in the Redstart-All India Startup Challenge, Research Conclave 2019, organized by IIT Guwahati", [2019]
Ishani Chakrabartty, "1st prize in Oral presentation during Indo-Japan Bilateral Symposium for Future Perspectives of Bioresource Utilization in North East India (IJBS’17)held at IIT Guwahati from 1st-4thFebruary 2018 for her paper titled “Alpinia nigra: The unexplored ore of Zingiberaceae for future therapeutics”. (Springer award included 200 Euros)", [2018]
Mr. Angshu Dutta (Roll No.: 166106020), PhD Student, "BEST POSTER AWARD at Research Conclave –2018, IIT Guwahati.", [2018]

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