Awards and Recognitions

Miss. Deepi Deka, AcSIR Ph.D. student has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis work on 29.03.2023 in CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat Campus. The title of the thesis work is “Exploring biotechnological tools for strain improvement in microalgae for enhanced lipid production”

Mr. Shashanka Sonowal, AcSIR Ph.D. student has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis work on 24.01.2023 in CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat Campus. The title of the thesis work is “Characterization of Paris polyphylla and its associated endophytes for crop production in Arunachal Pradesh”

Best Poster Award to Mr. Diganta Kumar Saikia (Project Fellow) at conference on "CRISPR/Cas based plant functional genomics and computational modeling (ISWCPC-2023)" at CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (CSIR-NEIST), organized at CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat, 2023

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Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for DST-Scheme for Young Scientists and Technologists (DST-SYST) Grant Award, provided by DST-SEED Division, Government of India.

Best Paper Award to Ms. Deepi Deka (AcSIR Ph.D. Student) at conference on “Carbon Capture and its Utilization” at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL) jointly organized with Royal Society of Chemistry-UK (RSC), organized at CSIR-NCL-Pune, 2018.

Mr. Shashanka Sonowal (AcSIR Ph.D. Student) selected for DST-sponsored GEMTAX-2019 workshop in NIT Rourkela, 2019.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for SERB-Early Career Research (ECR) Grant Award-Life Sciences Division, provided by SERB, Government of India.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award-Life Sciences Division, provided by DST, Government of India.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for MPGI Travel Grant Award to attend Algal Biomass Summit 2015 (ABS 2015) held in Washington D.C., award provided by Microbial and Plant Genomic Institute, MN.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for Best Poster Award in 3rd Asian-Oceania Algae Innovation Summit – AOAIS 2014 held in Daejeon, South Korea.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for Best Poster Award in Young Asian Biochemical Engineers Conference – YABEC 2012 held in Tokushima, Japan.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for CityU-Molitoris Scholarships for Marine Mycology (2011), provided by City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for Outstanding Poster Award in Asian Mycological Congress 2011 and 12th International Marine and Freshwater Mycological Symposium (AMC and IMFMS 2011) held in Incheon, South Korea.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for BK21 Post Doctoral Fellowship, and BK21 Plus Post Doctoral Fellowship at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST.

Dr. Natarajan Velmurugan selected for Research Training Fellowship Award 2005, provided by University of Madras, Chennai, and worked in the Department of Biotechnology, University of Madras.

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