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.

News

Information on COVID-19

Congratulations to Prof. Biman B Mandal, for being selected for S. Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for Career development 2020-21 by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. New

24-02-2021

Congratulations to Dr. Sachin Kumar, Associate Professor, for being selected for the ICMR Award for his research in virology in India New

31-12-2020

Prof Ajaikumar B Kunnumakkara has recently edited the Book titled "Inflammation and Natural Products" published by Elsevier New

17-12-2020

Prof. Biman B. Mandal has been awarded the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, India for the year 2019-2020 in the "Life Science" subject. New

09-11-2020

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Events

TE-QIP On Modern Analytical Tools For Bio-medical Research And Teaching. New
Feb 22, 2021
First Dept Department Retreat- Biotech Express
Jan 13, 2020

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Notification

Applications are invited for Special Ph.D. Admission Programme Under CSIR/UGC/DST Inspire/DBT-JRF Scheme for Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering of the Institute New
Feb 12, 2021
Time Table for Even Semester (January -April, 2021) New
Dec 16, 2020
Members of Industrial Interaction Advisory Committee for Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering New
Dec 1, 2020
Changing of the name of the programme B.Tech In Biotechonology to B.Tech in Biosciences and Bioengineering New
Sep 25, 2020
Information on JAM 2021 New
Sep 14, 2020
Information on GATE 2021 New
Sep 14, 2020

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Academic Programmes

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Recent Publications

1. Mohd. Ziauddin Ansari, Shah Ekramul Alom and Rajaram Swaminathan
Ordered structure induced in human c-Myc PEST region upon forming a disulphide bonded dimer,
Journal of Chemical Science vol., no. , pp.-, [2021]

2. Dhara A , Hussain M S , Kanaujia S P, Kumar M
Acyldepsipeptide activated ClpP1P2 macromolecule of Leptospira, an ideal Achilles’ heel to hamper the cell survival and deregulate ClpP proteolytic activity,
Research in Microbiology vol., no. , pp.-, [2021]

3. Glingston, S., Rajpoot, J., Deori, N.M., Deb, R., Kumar S and Nagotu S
Characterization of nucleocapsid and matrix proteins of Newcastle disease virus in yeast.,
3 Biotech (2021) 11:65 vol., no. , pp.-, [2021]

4. A Singh, G Bhatt, N Gujre, S Mitra, R Swaminathan, AM Limaye, L Rangan
Karanjin,
Phytochemistry vol., no. , pp.-, [2021]

5. N Gujre, L Rangan, S Mitra
Occurrence, geochemical fraction, ecological and health risk assessment of cadmium, copper and nickel in soils contaminated with municipal solid wastes,
Chemosphere vol.271: 129573, no. , pp.-, [2021]

6. Harshini S P, Ghosh K K, Kumari R R, Kumar P, Kumar M
Evaluation of sporozoite and macroschizont antigen (Spm2) of Theileria annulata for its diagnostic potential ,
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases vol., no. , pp.-, [2021]

7. Prakash Kishore Hazam, Chimanjita Phukan, R. Akhil, Anjali Singh & Vibin Ramakrishnan
Antimicrobial effects of syndiotactic polypeptides,
Scientific Reports vol.11, no. , pp.1823-, [2021]

8. Aparna Rai, Vikas Kumar, Gaurav Jerath, C. C. Kartha & Vibin Ramakrishnan
Mapping drug-target interactions and synergy in multi-molecular therapeutics for pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy,
npj Systems Biology and Applications vol.7, no. , pp.11-, [2021]

9. IH Mondal, L Rangan, R Uppaluri
Process-product characteristics of tray dried Benincasa hispida,
Journal of Food Processing and Preservation vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

10. N Gujre, S Mitra, A Soni, R Agnihotri, L Rangan, ER Rene, MP Sharma
Speciation, contamination, ecological and human health risks assessment of heavy metals in soils dumped with municipal solid wastes,
Chemosphere vol.128013 , no. , pp.-, [2020]

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Awards and honours

Prof. Biman B. Mandal, "S. Ramachandran-National Bioscience Award for Career development 2020-21 by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India", [2021]
Prof Biman B. Mandal , "BM BIRLA SCIENCE PRIZE in BIOLOGY for the year 2018", [2020]
Prof. Biman B. Mandal, "Swarnajayanti Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, India for the year 2019-2020 in the "Life Science" subject", [2020]
Sachin Kumar, " ICMR Award for research in virology in India", [2020]
Dr. Ajay Kunnumakkara, "Appointed as visiting scientist AIST, Japan, 2019", [2019]
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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