PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
Period May ’19 – July ‘19
Guide Prof. Biman B. Mandal (Professor, IIT Guwahati).
Project Title Silk based bioengineered small diameter vascular conduits.
Junior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
Period January ’19 – March ‘19
Guide Prof. Biman B. Mandal (Professor, IIT Guwahati).
Project Title Use of silk from northeast India for culture and transplantation of corneal endothelial cells.
Project Trainee, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
Period December ’17 – December ‘18
Guide Prof. Biman B. Mandal (Professor, IIT Guwahati).
Project Title Design and fabrication of silk-based 3D-printed annulus fibrosus for low back pain management.
Summer Research Intern, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Period May ’17 – July ‘17
Guide Prof. Biman B. Mandal (Professor, IIT Guwahati).
Project Title Development of Silk-based Bioinks for Tissue Engineering Applications.
EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS
Mammalian/ Plant/ Microbial Cell Culture handling, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (IPSCs) handling and maintenance, Primary/Stem Cell isolation and maintenance, Tissue and Organ harvesting, 3D Bioreactor culture
3D matrix development: 3D Bioprinting, Conventional Techniques: Porous and lamellar scaffolds, tuneable & injectable hydrogels, flat/patterned films.
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM), Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDAX), Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Rheology, Mechanical Testing, Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy (CD), Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Polymerase chain reaction/ Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (PCR/RT-PCR), Histopathology.
Immunohistochemistry, Immunocytochemistry, Biochemical assays, ELISA.
Animal handling: Mice model experimentations.
Dissection procedures of Periplaneta americana, Channa punctatus and Rattus norvegicus, study of meiosis from Caelifera sp. (staining and identification of different stages of meiotic division) and gut content of Galloanserae sp. and Capra aegagrus hircus.
Identification of bones of Columba sp. and Cavia sp and identification of several Chordates, Non-Chordates and Larval forms.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
3D Printing Softwares: AutoCAD, 3D Builder, Repetier Host, Slic3r, Cura, Chitubox.
Simulation Software: Ansys Fluent
Data Analysis Tools: Origin, ImageJ, SnapGene, GraphPad Prism, CodonW.
Insilico Data Analysis Tools: SIFT, PANTHER, Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools (RSAT), ALGGEN PROMO, Tfsitescan, Sitecon, ORFfinder, Sequence Editor, Tm Calculator, Snapgene.
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Macintosh.
WORKSHOPS
Participated in 2-weeks comprehensive online “Patent Information Course” organized by Turnip Innovations, India.
Participated in 2 days online workshop on “Flow Cytometry Techniques and Applications” organized by North East Centre for Biological Sciences and Healthcare Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam in collaboration with Becton, Dickinson and Company -BD.
Participated and presented poster in One day-long Workshop “IITG-Society-And-Northeast India (ISANI- an Introspection)” organized by IIT Guwahati, celebrated as a part of Silver Jubilee Celebration, IIT Guwahati (2020).
Participated in qPCR One day-long Workshop by “genesig” organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore (2016).
INTERNSHIPS
Summer Internship at IIT Guwahati under the guidance of Prof. Biman B. Mandal (2017).
Got selected and participated in DST-INSPIRE Internship Science Camp (one week) organized jointly by Department of Science and Technology (DST, Govt. of India) and Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS, Govt. of West Bengal) (2011).