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 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 "The Chemistry and Bioactive Components of Turmeric " 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

Prof Pranab Goswami has recently edited the Book titled "Advanced Materials and Techniques for Biosensors and Bioanalytical Applications" New

07-10-2020

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Events

First Dept Department Retreat- Biotech Express
Jan 13, 2020

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Notification

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

Undergraduate

Postgraduate

Doctoral

Post Doctoral

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

5. 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]

6. NN Gujre, A Soni, L Rangan, DTW Tsang, S Mitra
Sustainable improvement of soil health utilizing biochar and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: A review,
Environmental Pollution vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

7. IH Mondal, L Rangan, R Uppaluri
Parametric optimality of tray dried Musa balbisiana Colla blossom,
Journal of Food Science and Technology vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

8. IH Mondal, L Rangan, R Uppaluri
Symphony of kinetics and statistical design approaches for response analysis during tray drying of Lagenaria siceraria leaves,
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

9. R Das, L Rangan
Correlation of genome size with cell phenotypic traits in non-edible oil crops,
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

10. P Borah, N Gujre, ER Rene, L Rangan, RK Paul, T Karak, S Mitra
Assessment of mobility and environmental risks associated with copper, manganese and zinc in soils of a dumping site around a Ramsar site,
Chemosphere vol., no. , pp.-, [2020]

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Awards and honours

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]
Dr. Souptick Chanda, "Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship 2019-20 to carry out research at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA", [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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