Principal Investigator
Prof. Lingaraj Sahoo
Principal Investigator
Research interests include crop stress biology, translational genomics, genome editing and machine learning in abiotic stress tolerance.
PhD Students
Dr. Aswini Kumar Patra
PhD Scholar
AI-ML based abiotic stress assessment in plants, focusing on plant stress assessment, crop disease detection, and machine learning applications in biology
Mahesh Das
PhD Scholar
Development of AtPYL9 overexpresson lines in Mungbean for drough stress amelioration
Anurabh Chakravarty
PhD Scholar
Interested in understanding the physiological and molecular basis of phosphate deficiency response in scented rice of Assam
Md. Asif Idrisi
PhD Scholar
Hydrogel–biochar–microbe engineering for climate-resilient, sustainable, high-yield agriculture systems
Subhajit Paul
PhD Scholar
Exploring how mungbean plants respond to low phosphate stress, aiming to improve crop resilience and sustainable agriculture
Deepak Kumar
PhD Scholar
Study of bamboo cellwall structure and composition
Darshankumar Vaghela
PhD Scholar
Pharmacologist whose research focuses on bioactive natural products and the therapeutic potential of indigenous plants in autoimmune diseases
Mrigankar Das
PhD Scholar
Studying crosstalk between various abiotic stresses
M. Tech Students
Abhay Praveen
M. Tech Student
Genetic engineering of rice to improve yield
Ujjwal Sagar
M. Tech Student
Silicon mediated drought stress mitigation in rice
Project Staff
Sudipta Nayak
Junior Research Fellow
Genetic transformatio of rice for improvement of yield, archetectural modification, and drought tolerance
Udayanatha Rout
Project Assistant
Supporting laboratory management and project coordination. Managing experimental workflows and data organisation
Alumni
Dr. Ayan Sadhukhan
Alumni - PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering at IIT Jodhpur
Dr. Richa Srivastava
Alumni - PhD
Post Doctoral Research Associate at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dr. Jyoti Prakash Kakati
Alumni - M. Tech
Associate Scientist at Clemson University, USA
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar
Alumni - Post Doc.
M. K. Bhan Fellow at ICGEB, New Delhi
Dr. Muthuvel Jothi
Alumni - PhD
Associate Professor at Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Kiran Vilas Dhobale
Alumni - PhD
Post Doctoral researcher at Umea University working on virus-mosquito and mosquito-host interactions
Bharatheeswaran Murugan
Alumni - M. Tech
PhD Walsh Scholar at Wageningen University
Manu Sankar V
Alumni - M. Tech
MBA from IIM Ahmedabad