Dr. Sanjukta Patra
Professor, Room No. IN-105, O-Block, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering
Head, Centre for Rural Technology (CRT)
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India
Email- sanjukta@iitg.ac.in | Phone- +91 (0361) 258 2213
Education
PhD in Biotechnology
Central Food Technological Research Institute
Mysore
Research Interests
Enzyme and Microbial Technology
Environmental Biotechnology
Biosensors
Life Membership
Indian Association for Cancer Research, Association of Microbiologists of India, Society of Biological Chemists, Association of Food scientists and Technologists, Biosensor Society
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Teaching & Research Position
POST PHD
Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati from 02-06-2018 till date.
Associate Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati from 24-01-2014 till 02-06-2018
Assistant Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati from 13-8-2008 till 24-01-2014
Senior lecturer at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati from 01-10-2007 till 13-8-2008.
PRE PHD
Senior Research Fellow at the Fermentation technology and Bioengineering Department of CFTRI Mysore from 2003 – 2007.
Research Assistant at Fermentation technology and Bioengineering Department of CFTRI Mysore from 2001 – 2003.
Course Taught
BT 520 Applied Biology and Bio-engineering Lab (PG) | BT 600 M.Tech Seminar (PG) | BT 380 Molecular Biotechnology Lab (UG)
BT 501 Analytical Biotechnology(PG) | BT 510 Analytical Biotechnology Lab(PG) | BT 101 Modern Biology(UG)
BT 202 Microbiology(UG) | BT 290 Biomolecular Analysis Lab(UG) | BT 320 Biochemical Engineering Lab (UG)
BT 306 Bioinformatics (UG) | BT 405 Bio-safety, Ethics and IPR (UG)
Laboratory Set Up- Developed course for Analytical Biotechnology Lab
Teaching Material Development
Development of a web course on Cell Biology for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) Phase II.
Development of a web course on Intellectual Property Rights for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) Phase II.
Administrative Responsibilities
Institute level- Member Institute IPPC committee 2013 onwards | Member Institute Placement committee 2009-2011
Departmental level- DUPC member 2008-2010 | Placement coordinator 2009-2011
Ph.D Supervision
P.Saravanan
Studies on understanding and exploiting potential of lipases.
Bhaskar Das
Isolation, purification and characterization of phenol metabolizing enzyme from microalgae.
Sonali Seth
Unravelling solvent and pH stability of enzymes.
Debamitra Chakravorty
Attaining protein thermostability-A rationalised approach.
Nivedita Singh
Imaidazole based compounds as therapeutic molecules.
Faheem Khan
Studies on behaviour and application of extremophilic enzymes.
Nitendra Yadav
Exploring Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteome for therapeutics and diagnosis.
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Co-Supervisor
Anil Shukla-Targeting redox metabolism of Leishmania parasite for potential chemotherapy of Leishmaniasi. (Awarded)
Priyamvada Jain-Biosensors for malaria detection (Awarded)