Departmental Profile

North East Institute of Science and Technology, NEIST  ::  Biotechnology

Name of the Head of the Department:   Dr. H. P. Deka Boruah

Address:   CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat-785006, Assam, India. 2348/49

Phone:   +910376-2370121

Contact email:   dekabaruahhp@rrljorhat.res.in

Number of Staff in Department:   7         Staff Details        View Profiles

Total Intake Capacity:   10         Details of Course Offered

About the Salient Achievements of the Department:   Biotechnology Division of CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat is a multi-disciplinary and strong R&D group dedicated to the use of microorganisms, plants and insects or living system and their products to develop useful products/process for the society. Applied Microbial Biotechnology is the core area of research which include recombinant DNA techniques, cloning and the application of microbes for the production of various products, starting from plant growth promotion, biocontrol, fermentation to life-saving antibiotics. The Biotechnology Division has a state-of-art infrastructure laboratory facility for bio-profiling and bio-prospecting with conducive and excellent working environment. The division is actively engaged in both basic and applied research by highly experienced professional scientists in different frontier areas of biotechnology, like enzymology, biotransformation, microbial taxonomy, reclamation using microbial mediated bioremediation and phytoremediation of crude oil & acid mine polluted soil, muga/seri-biotechnology/ Molecular Biology, bioactive molecules from microbes & bioassay of efficacy, environmental monitoring of pollutants, routine analysis of water, food & beverages and soil samples, bacterial genomics (including metagenomics), Genetic Polymorphism in human genes related to respiratory disorder and molecular plant-microbes interactions. The group is maintaining a stock culture collection of more than 5000 indigenous microbes isolated from N E gene pool. The division has a good numbers of research projects funded by CSIR, CSB, DRDO, DBT, DST, ICAR, ONGC, OIDB, Oil India Ltd. etc. A number of technologies have been transferred to industries for commercialization leading to the societal benefit. The division has collaboration with a number of reputed national and international institutes/universities and conducts workshop and seminars regularly. The division enrol both foreign and Indian students regularly in Ph.D programme having brilliant academic credentials under different universities and in AcSIR (the Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research). The division has a DBT-sponsored Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility(BIF) which cater to the needs of researchers and students communities on genomics, proteomics, application to the development of drugs/ drug designing, anti-microbial agents, microbial taxonomic data analysis, mathematical modelling/data analysis, etc.

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Number of other teaching staff :   7
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Ph.D. 3 years 10

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