Profile Department of Biotechnology
2017
Profile
Department of Biotechnology
HALDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ICARE Complex, HIT Campus, Haldia Purba Medinipur West Bengal-721657
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N ame and Address of the Department Department of Biotechnology Haldia Institute of Technology HIT-Campus, ICARE Complex, Haldia, Purba Medinipur West Bengal, India. Pin.—721657
History of the Department
Program of Study Description
B. Tech in Biotechnology Started with 40 seats in 2002
Intake increase to 60 seats in 2005
Intake 60 seats since then……….
Total number of Students: (Till July 2017) 598 B. Tech 542
Total number of Employee: (Till July 2017) 16 Male 08 Female 08
Number of faculty and Staff on roll
Items 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Teaching Faculty in the 12 13 13 13 13 Department
Teaching Supporting staff with the 3 3 3 3 4 Department
Non Teaching staff 1 1 1 1 1
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Faculty Profile
Name of the Area of Date of Designation Qualification Faculty Specialization Joining
Prof. and M. Sc., Dr. Siraj Datta Head of the Plant Biotechnology 12.08.03 M. Tech., Ph. D Department
M. Sc., Protein Anti Cancer Dr. Suvroma Gupta Professor 29.02.08 Ph. D Drug Interaction
Dr. Pranab Roy Professor M.Sc., Ph.D Microbial Biochemistry 7.01.13
Associate Protein Chemistry and Dr. Sudip Das M. Sc., Ph. D 14.01.07 Prof. Cell Biology
Genome Analysis and Associate Phage Therapy, Dr. Keya Sau M. Sc., Ph. D 26.08.05 Prof. Molecular and Microbiology
Environmental Associate Dr. Mukesh Singh M. Sc.,Ph. D Toxicology and 17.02.07 Prof. (Gr.-II) Molecular Genetics
Spectroscopic Technique Assistant Prof. Development for Ms. Swati Maiti B. Tech., M. Tech 15.07.10 (Gr.-II) Analysis of Biological System
Mrs. Sucheta Das Assistant Prof. Antimicrobial Activity M. Sc., M. Tech. 02.02.10 (Maji) (Gr.-II) Study
Environmental Dr. Samba Assistant Prof. M. Sc., M. Tech., Biotechnology & 26.07.10 Chatterjee (Gr.-II) Ph. D Nanotechnology
Assistant Prof. Plant Tissue Culture Mr. Tilak Raj Maity B. Tech., M. Tech 5.02.16 (Gr.-I) Engineering
Assistant Prof. Ms. Ahana Bhaduri B. Tech., M. Tech Biomedical Engineering 22.02.16 (Gr.-I)
B. Tech., M. Tech Bioprocess Engineering Mr. Subhasish Dutta Assistant Prof. and Biochemical 28.08.2017 (Gr.-I) Technology
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Technical staff profile
Name of the Tech Staff Designation Qualification Date of Joining Senior Technical Mrs. Sonali Metya B.Sc., M.Sc. 26.07.2002 Assistant
Technical Mrs. Dora Khila Das B.Sc., M.Sc 05.09.2007 Assistant
Technical Mrs. Manashika Das B.Sc, MBA 16.02.2009 Assistant
Research Publications
Type of Publication 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Journals (National) 0 0 0 0 0
Journals (International) 35 23 32 19 13
Conferences (National) 02 0 0 13 0
Conferences 0 0 0 0 0
(International)
Patent application
• Nandan Bhattacharyya, Kalyani Khanra, Chandan Bhattacharya, Kakali Panda, Anjan Mishra, and Anupam Roy. Marker for ovarian cancer. No: 1330/KOL/2011 of 14.10.2011 • Nandan Bhattacharyya, Anupam Roy, Kalyani Khanra, Anjan Mishra, and Chandan Bhattacharya. Single step process for the preparation of alcoholic beverage.No.:1245/KOL/2011 of 23.9.2011. • Anupam Roy, Nandan Bhattacharyya, Anjan Mishra, Krishnendu Acharya. Preparation of a low cost soup containing low fat and caloric content and having medicinal value. Patent: Application No: 1445/KOL/2011 of 11.11.2011 • Swati Maity: A method and system for non-invasive quantitative estimation of Billirubin in human body, Indian Pat. Appl. (2009), 467/KOL/2009 dated 17th March 2009. Publication Date: 01/05/2009 • Swati Maity: A method and system for non-invasive quantitative estimation of Hemoglobin in human blood, Indian Pat. Appl. (2009), 466/KOL/2009 dated 17th March 2009. Publication Date: 01/05/2009
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• Swati Maity: A method and system for non-invasive quantitative estimation of Oxygen content in human blood, Indian Pat. Appl. (2009), 465/KOL/2009 dated 17th March 2009 Publication Date: 01/05/2009 • Pranab Roy, An objective method for optimization of Fermentation time in black tea manufacture, Indian Patent No.5378/KOL/2005 • Pranab roy, A microbiological method for biodegradation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons, Patent application No 1269/KOL/2006
Ongoing projects and consultancy work
Project Sponsoring Faculty Project title Sanction No. cost Organization involved
Heat and salt tolerant 13.5 West Bengal 545 (Sanc) Dr. Pranab Roy biofertilizers with lakhs (PI) DST improved efficiency to ST/P/S&T/2G- 1/2013 Dr. Rajarshi withstand Banerjee (Co-I) environmental strength Dr. Mukesh Singh (Co-I)
Biorational 24.97 TAC, ISI Dr. Mukesh PU/506/PL- management of rice lakhs Kolkata MISC/144 Singh (Co-PI) pests: evaluation of nanoparticle based and endophyte mediated approaches
Investigations of the 36.09 SERB EMR/2016/003657 Dr. Suvroma antimitotic property of lakhs Gupta(PI) sulfamethoxazole (SMX) group of drugs: Mechanistic actions and relevance as a lead anticancer
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Following R&D projects received in last four financial years
Project Sponsoring Faculty Project title Sanction No. cost Organization involved
A theoretical study on the surface enhanced Raman WB DST Dr. T. K. Spectroscopy of 20 lakhs 01(2470)/11/EMR-11 Mandal some biomolecular (2009-2011) residues and their sterioisomers
Study of Tubulin- antimitotic compound DBT interaction in search BT/BIOCARE/01/184/2 Dr. Suvroma 35 lakhs BIOCARE of novel active 010-11 Gupta derivative targeting (2012-2015) colchicine binding site on tubulin
Structural investigation of the Dr. Keya global virulence CSIR Sau(PI) 40 lakhs 37(1529)/12/EMR-II regular SarA from (2012-2015) Dr. Siraj Staphylococcus Datta (Co-I) aureus
Genotyping of 25 lakhs SERB-DST Dr. Siraj SERB/F/815/2012-13 cultivated betelvine (2012-2015) Datta
In-vitro corn 1.7 lakhs UGC Dr. Siraj production in PSW-88/12-13 Datta (Co-I) Gladiolus (2013-2015)
Heat and salt Dr. Pranab tolerant microbial Roy (PI) biofertilizers with improved efficiency West Bengal- Dr. Rajarshi 13.5 lakhs 545 (Sanc) to withstand DST Banerjee (Co- environmental (2015-2018) ST/P/S&T/2G-1/2013 I) stress Dr. Mukesh Singh (Co-I)
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Biorational management of rice pests: evaluation of 24.97 TAC, ISI Dr. Mukesh nanoparticle based lakhs Kolkata PU/506/PL-MISC/144 Singh (Co-PI) and endophyte mediated approaches
Investigations of the antimitotic property of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) group of 36.09 Dr. Suvroma SERB drugs: Mechanistic lakhs EMR/2016/003657 Gupta(PI) actions and relevance as a lead anticancer
Interaction of faculty members with outside world
(i) Prof. (Dr.) Suvroma Gupta awarded visiting Fellow for the year 2010-11 in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore.
(ii) Prof. (Dr.) Suvroma Gupta was the Invited lecture on ―Evaluation of in vitro anti-Amylase activity profile of flavonoids with acarbose in combination therapy‖ 4th International Conference World Science Congress (2014) at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
(iii) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy delivered a talk at NIMHANS, Bangalore on July 2, 2014 at the Programme Advisory Committee Meet of DST Govt. of India. (iv) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy delivered a talk to M.Sc (Biotech) students at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong on March 5, 2015. (v) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy delivered a talk at Krishnanath College, Berhampur on 14thDec, 2013. (vi) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy was the invited speaker in the state level seminar on Impact of Pollution:Assessment & Awareness at Hooghly Womens’ College on 15th Feb, 2014. (vii) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy delivered a talk at College of Post Graduate Studies (Central AgriculturalUniversity), Mehalaya on Plant Biotechnology on June 6, 2014.
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(viii) Dr. Rajarshi Banerjee was the invited speaker in National Conference Recent Advances in Chemo and Biosciences at Moolji Jetha College, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, 23-24 January 2015.
(ix) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy was the invited speaker at the workshop organized by Haldia Institute of Technology in Collaboration with NIT, Durgapur on 8th October, 2015.
(x) Dr. Mukesh Singh awarded Summer Research Fellowship for Faculty in 2010 and 2011 byIndian National Academy of Sciences, India
(xi) Dr. Mukesh Singh was the Guest Faculty in Haldia Institute of Health Sciences, ICARE,Haldia during the period of 2012-2014.
(xii) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy was the invited speaker in the state level seminar at Burdwan University,Dept. of Biotechnology on March 13, 2015.
(xiii) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy was the guest faculty member for the special classes of M.Sc(Microbiology) students of Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata in Molecular Biology for four weeks during summer vacation of 2014 & 2015.
(xiv) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy has delivered a talk on ―Bioremediation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons‖ at the International Conference on Microalgal and Cyanobacterial Microbiology (MACB-2016) held at Bharatidarsan University, Tiruchirapalli from 29th – 31st August, 2016.
(xv) Mrs. Swati Maity has worked two months from June 2017 to August 2017 in the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, of Tel Aviv University, Israel.
(xvi) Mrs. Ahana Bhaduri has attended a QIPshort term course on ―Tissue Engineering‖ at IIT BHU, January 2018.
(xvii) Prof. (Dr.) Pranab Roy is invited to deliver a talk at Indian Science Congress on January 3rd, 2018 at Osmania University.
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Faculty Publication: High Impact Factor Journal
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Conferences/Seminars/ In house QIP programme:
1) DST sponsored National Seminar on ―New Horizons in Biotechnology‖- August 2013. 2) QIP short term course on ―Rec ent Advance in Biotechnology &Food Technology – December 2014. 3) DST sponsored National Seminar on ―New Horizons in Biotechnology‖ – October 2015. 4) QIP short term course on ―Orientation workshop on outcome based teaching‖, June 2016. 5) QIP short term course on ―Developing soft skills and personality‖, December 2016. 6) SERB sponsored National Seminar on ―New Horizons in Biotechnology‖ – February 2017.
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Students Profile
Student admission Intake (B. Tech) :
Batch Batch Batch Batch Batch Items 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
Sanction intake strength in the 60 60 60 60 60 programme
No. of total admitted 51 45 38 28 42 students in First year
No. of total admitted students in Second NA NA NA NA NA year (Including lateral entry)
Student’s Academic Performance (B. Tech)
Pass out Pass out Pass out Pass out Pass out Items 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013
% of students having 2% 0% 0% 2.04% 1.85% 10.0≤ CGPA<9.0
% of students having 35.7% 37.5% 26.67% 36.73% 40.74% 9.0≤ CGPA<8.0
% of students having 45.23% 50% 46.67% 55.10% 48.15% 8.0≤ CGPA<7.0
% of students having 16.67% 12.5% 8.88% 4.08% 9.26% 7.0≤ CGPA<6.0
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Student’s Placement and Higher Studies (B. Tech)
Items 2016-17 2015 -16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13
No. of admitted students 45 33 45 49 54
% of Students employed 114 70 66.7 51 37
% of students who went 13 15 22 24.5 29.6 for higher studies
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Important Equipments
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Recruiting Organizations
Core Companies: Virchow Biotech, Chromous Biotech, OMICS, Diatek, The Himalaya Drug Company, Serum Biotech, , Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., Nestle India Ltd., Biocon, Shantha Biotechnics, Ross Life Sciences, Syngene etc.
Software (IT based) Companies: Wipro, TCS, CTS, Infosys, Micro Root Poc Technology, Value Prospects, Labvantage etc.
Higher Studies
Abroad: Arizona State University, Arakansas, Wisconsin, Nottingham, Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri-Columbia, Buffalo,Lehigh University, Georgia, Samsung Institute of Biomedical Sciences-Seoul., NUS-Singapore etc.
Within The Country: IIT-Kharagpur., IIT-Kanpur., IIT-Guwahati., IIT-Mumbai., IISC- Bangaluru., IISER- Kolkata., IIM-Kolkata., IIM-Ahmedabad., BITS-Pilani., BITS-Goa., NIT-Durgapur., NIT- Rourkela., NIT-Trichi.., NIT- Manipur., CCMB- Hyderabad., Bose Institute- Kolkata. , IICB-Kolkata., Calcutta University, Jadavpur University, Vidyasagar University, BCKV-Kalyani. etc.
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Student Extracurricular Activities Participation in cultural events Participation in annual sports
Organizing social function –Fresher welcome, farewell, teacher’s day etc.
Cultural (Champion Department) – last 3 years 2008, 2009, 2010 Sports (Champion Department) –2008 and 2009 Published Departmental wall magazine and Departmental magazine ―Biozone‖
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“Biozone” the Magazine Published by Department of Biotechnology
Departmental Resources
1. Class Rooms: 04 2. Faculty Rooms: 06 3. Project/ Research lab: 03 4. Seminar Room: 01 (Shared) 5. Departmental Library: 01 Volume: 425 Title: 380 Journals: 03 Magazines: 06 Computers: 05 Opening time: For B. Tech. Mon, Wed, Friday – 1:00-2:00 PM For M. Tech. Tuesday & Thursday – 1:00-2:00 PM
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6. Laboratories: 11 1.Chemistry lab/Biochemistry Lab 2. Bioinformatics Lab 3.Bioseparation Lab 4. Central Instrumentation Lab 5. Fermentation Technology Lab 6. Microbiology Lab 7. Molecular Biology Lab 8. Plant Biotechnology Lab 9. rDNA & Immunotechnology Lab 10. Research Lab for Plant Molecular Biology (SERB- Sponsored) 11. Research Lab for Computational Biology (CSIR- Sponsored) 12. Research Lab for Animal Cell Culture & Mol. Biology (DBT- Sponsored) 13. Other Facilities: 4°C Cold Room
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“OUR DEPARTMENT AT A GLANCE…………
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Distinguished Alumni
Dr. Arghya Paul Dr. Dwaipayan Sen Dr. Amitava Bondhu Dr. Dijendranath Roy Dr. Koel Mukherjee Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, VIT Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor University of Kansas University NIT Warangal NIT Agartala BITS , Mesra B.Tech. Batch 2005 Vellore B. Tech. Batch 2005 B. Tech. Batch 2005 B. Tech. Batch 2006 B. Tech. Batch 2005
Dr. Rajkrishna Mandal Ms. Sazia Alam Dr. Kanhaiya Kumar Dr. Amaresh Sahoo Dr. Souvik Dey Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Nagaland University Ranchi University NIT Calicut IIIT Allahabad Thomas Jefferson B. Tech. Batch 2008 M.Tech Batch 2009 B.Tech Batch 2009 B. Tech. Batch 2005 University, USA B. Tech. Batch 2006
Dr. Lakshmi Mrs. Chaitali Dey Mr. Ahijit Ghorai Dr. Ipsita Dutta Dr. Anish Nag Dharmarajan Senior Scientist at Senior Scientist Senior Scientist Associate Scientist Team Leader and Project Biocon Ltd, Lupin Industries Ltd Reliance Industries Ltd. Lupin Industries Ltd Manager Bangalore B. Tech. Batch 2005 B. Tech. Batch 2008 M.Tech. Batch 2010 Ellilily, Claremonte, USA M.Tech Batch 2010 B. Tech. Batch 2005
Mr. Rahul Chatterjee Mr. Kohinoor Biswas Mrs. Sumedha Mrs. Maytrayee De Mr. Sudipta Kumar Laha Product Manager Senior Executive Chattopadhyay Research Associate at Senior Member of at Sanofi JP Morgan Chase & Co. Research Scientis, Shantha Biotechnics Technical Staff, Oracle B. Tech. Batch 2008 USA TCG Life sciences Limited B. Tech. Batch 2007 B. Tech. Batch 2007 B. Tech. Batch 2007 B. Tech. Batch 2010
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