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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Congratulations to our PhD students: Shirish Bhagwan Kathane, Sam P Mathew, Atreeye Borthakur, Chinmaya Panda, Jyoti Prakash Ray, Kodieswaran M, Sujisha S Nambiar, Naveen Kumar, Smrity Sonbhadra for receiving the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) in May 2022 session. New

Nov 23, 2022

Congratulations to Ms. Plaboni Sen, Ph.D. student under the guidance of Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh, for receiving the 'Asima Chatterjee Memorial Award' for the Best Researcher in "7th World Cancer Congress" held in Bangalore during 19-20 November 2022 New

Nov 23, 2022

Congratulations to Kamal Shokeen, PhD scholar under the supervision of Prof. Sachin Kumar, for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award at the International Conference of the Indian Virological Society (VIROCON-2022), held in Srinagar (Nov 5-6th, 2022) New

Nov 16, 2022

Congratulations to Parmeshwar Gavande for winning the Best Oral Presentation Award at the International Conference on Biotechnology for Better Tomorrow (ICBBT-2022) conducted by Universitas Udayana, Vidya Pratishthan Baramati, India and Microbiologists Society India (MSI) at Bali, Indonesia during 29-30th October 2022. He also received the DBT-International Travel Grantfrom Department of Biotechnology (DBT), GOI to attend the Conference. New

Nov 9, 2022

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Important Information regarding Hostel accommodation for PhD applicants New
Nov 24, 2022
Call Letter for Interview for admission into the PhD programme for the session Dec 2022. New
Nov 11, 2022
PhD Admission December 2022 New
Oct 12, 2022
List of Courses offered in July-Nov, 2022 semester New
Jun 1, 2022

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Recent Publications

1. Gaurav Bhatt, Akshita Gupta, Latha Rangan, Anil Mukund Limaye
Global transcriptome analysis reveals partial estrogen-like effects of karanjin in MCF-7 breast cancer cells,
Gene vol.830, no. , pp.146507-, [2022]

2. Anand V, Harshini SP, Gogoi P, Kanaujia SP and Kumar M
Structural and functional characterization of Cas2 of CRISPR-Cas subtype I-C lacking the CRISPR component,
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences vol.988569, no.9 , pp.-15, [2022]

3. Das M, Maiti SK
Current knowledge on cyanobacterial biobutanol production: advances, challenges, and prospects,
Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology vol.21, no.2 , pp.483-516, [2022]

4. Rumela Mitra, Ayushi Rehman, Kusum Kumari Singh*, Bithiah Grace Jaganathan*
Multifaceted Roles of MAGOH Proteins,
Molecular Biology Reports vol., no.MOLE-D-21-06677R1 , pp.-, [2022]

5. Vivek Prakash, Mukesh B, Sajitha Sasidharan, Amay Sanjay Redkar, Abhishek Roy, R. Anandalakshmi and Vibin Ramakrishnan
Syndiotactic hexamer peptide nanodots,
European Biophysics Journal vol., no. , pp.-, [2022]

6. Gaurav Jerath, Pramod Darvin, Yvonne Christian, Vishal Trivedi, T. R. Santhosh Kumar and Vibin Ramakrishnan*
Delivery of Small Molecules by Syndiotactic Peptides for Breast Cancer Therapy,
Molecular Pharmaceutics vol., no. , pp.-, [2022]

7. Vivek Prakash, Yvonne Christian, Amay Sanjay Redkar, Abhishek Roy, R. Anandalakshmi and Vibin Ramakrishnan*
Antibacterial Hydrogels of Aromatic Tripeptides.,
Soft Matter vol., no. , pp.-, [2022]

8. Bhagyashree Deka, Pratap Chandra, Priyanka Yadav, Ayushi Rehman, Sweta Kumari, Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara and Kusum Kumari Singh
RNPS1 functions as an oncogenic splicing factor in cervical cancer cells,
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology vol., no. , pp.-, [2022]

9. Hussain MS, Kumar M
Assembly of Cas7 subunits of Leptospira on the mature crRNA of CRISPR-Cas I-B is modulated by divalent ions,
Gene vol., no. , pp.-, [2022]

10. Amrendra Kumar, Shah Ekramul Alom, Dileep Ahari, Anurag Priyadarshi, Mohd. Ziauddin Ansari and Rajaram Swaminathan
Role of Charged Amino acids in Sullying the Fluorescence of Tryptophan or conjugated Dansyl probe in Monomeric Proteins,
Biochemistry vol.61, no.5 , pp.339-353, [2022]

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Awards and honours

Prof. Utpal Bora, "Appointed as a Member, Board of Research Studies, Mizoram University for 2 years", [2022]
Prof. Biman B Mandal, "Featured in the book published by Vigyan Prasar titled 75 under 50: Scientists Shaping Today's India", [2022]
Prof. Shankar Prasad Kanaujia, "Adjunct Faculty at the Centre of Biotechnology, University of Allahabad", [2022]
Prof. Rakhi Chaturvedi, "Featured in the book titled “She Is: 75 Women in STEAM” is released by the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India and British High Commission, New Delhi.", [2022]
Prof. Sachin Kumar, "F.M.Burnett award from INDIAN SOCIETY FOR VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (ISVIB) Year 21-22.", [2022]
H Krishna Kumar, "Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR) Award 2021 ", [2022]
Sandra Jose, Arisha Arora, Sandhya S, "Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)", [2022]
IMNANARO, "Assam Bio-Innovation Fellowship (ABF) Award by the Assam Biotechnology Council (ABTC) under Department of Science, Technology and Climate Change, Govt. of Assam", [2022]
Parmeshwar Gavande , "InSc Young Researcher Award 2022 by Institute of Scholars (InSc), Bangalore.", [2022]
Jaideep Singh Bhardwaj, "Prime Minister Fellowship for Doctoral Research with industry partner Orthotech India Private Limited", [2022]

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