FACULTY MEMBERS

Srinivas Kiran Ambatipudi

Associate professor

kiran.ambatipudi[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-284786

Application of proteomics to elucidate the role of milk proteins in the pathophysiology of animal disease, Chemoresistance and breast cancer progression

Devesh Bhimsaria

Assistant professor

devesh.bhimsaria[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-285011

Unravelling DNA-protein interaction and binding prediction, Modeling rules governing DNA binding of sequence specific synthetic drugs

Harsh Chauhan

Associate professor

harsh.chauhan[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

Roorkee

+91-1332-284814

Plant Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Functional Genomics, Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses, Transgenic Crops, Nutrigenomics

Poonam Choudhary

Assistant professor

poonamchoudhary[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

F1 B, A Block ,old building, BSBE

+91-1332-285523

Algae metabolites, development of bio-sourced ingredients and products formulation, Biological carbon capture, Biomanufacturing, Downstream processing

Bijan Choudhury

Professor

bijan.choudhury[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

91-01332-285297

Biochemical engineering, Biotransformation, Enzyme technology, metabolic modelling, bioenergy

Sanjoy Ghosh

Head of the Department

sanjoy.ghosh[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-285424

Biochemical Engineering/Bioprocess Engineering, Biofuel production; Enzyme production; Reactor design; Modeling, simulation and scaling-up, Biofuel Production, Bioethanol production; Biodiesel production; Fractional hydrolysis; Microalgae cultivation, Enzyme Production, Phytase, Laccase and Cellulase production; Solid state fermentation, Reactor Design, New bioprocess equipments such as fractional hydrolysis column, SSF bioreactor, Photo-bioreactor, Modeling, Simulation and Scaling-up, Mathematical modeling, process simulation and scaling-up

Kaushik Ghosh

Professor

kaushik.ghosh[at]cy.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-285547

Coordination chemistry, Metal complexes and their interactions with DNA and proteins, Inorganic Biochemistry, Catalysis, Organometallic Chemistry

Saugata Hazra

Associate professor

saugata.hazra[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-284800

Studying Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, targeting enzyme beta-lactamase & folate biosynthesis pathway, Structural Biology, Protein crystallography, Structure based drug development, Enzymology, Enzyme kinetics, Biophysical & biochemical studies, Structure-function relationship, Computational Biology, MD simulation, Virtual screening, Macromolecular interaction

Naveen Kumar

Professor

naveen.navani[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

07088275555

Molecular Biology, Synthetic Biology, Gene regulation, Microbial Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology, Aptamers and MEMS nanodevices in Diagnostics, Probiotic recombinant enzymes, NanoBiotic Materials, Microbes' mediated bioremediation of polluted environments., Isolation and characterization of microbes from extreme and polluted environments.

Pravindra Kumar

Professor

pravindra.kumar[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

91-1332-285072

Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Enzyme Engineering, Biodegradation of Plastics and Plasticizers, Development of Novel Biocatalysts, Therapeutics Targeting Infectious Diseases

Rajesh Kumar

Assistant professor

rajesh.kumar[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

9971991653

Virology, Antibody Therapeutics, Immunotherapy, Phage Display, Nanobodies, Single chain antibody fragments (scFv), Antibody Engineering, Development of Antibody Based Therapeutic Interventions for Emerging and Re-emerging viral diseases

Prabhat Kumar Mandal

Associate professor

mandal.prabhat[at]gmail.com

Dept of Biosciences and Bioengineering

91-1332-284780

Cancer Biology, L1 retrotransposon activity in oral cancer, Human Genetics, Jumping genes in health and disease, Diagnosis, Generation of inhouse polyclonal and monoclonal antibody, cancer diagnosis kit

Prasenjit Mondal

Professor

prasenjit.mondal[at]ch.iitr.ac.in

+911332285181

Energy and environmental engineering, Water treatment, energy from biomass & wastes, separation processes, LCA, waste plastics management

Maya S. Nair

Assistant professor

maya.nair[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

01332-285790

Biophysics, Structural Biology, NMR and other spectroscopic techniques, Biomlecular interactions usingspectroscopic techniques and NMR, Protein structure, protein -DNA interaction, Natural product isolation, characterization, biosynthesis of nanoparticles

Sulakshana P.Mukherjee

Assistant professor

sulakshana.mukherjee[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-133228-4813

Structural and Molecular Biology: Protein-protein, Protein-DNA interaction, :-------using NMR, various biophysical and biochemical methods

Gopinath Packirisamy

Professor

gopi[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

01332285650

Biomedical nanotechnology, Drug delivery, Biosensor, Tissue engineering

Rishikesh Pandey

Assistant professor

rishikesh.pandey[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

F-13, Old BioTech Building

+91-1332-285607

Biophotonics, Clinical Translation, Raman Spectroscopy, , Label-free Imaging, Cancer Diagnosis, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Histology

Ranjana Pathania

Professor

ranjana.pathania[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

01332-285324

Antibiotic Resistance, Bacterial Pathogenesis, Small RNA in Acinetobacter baumannii, Chemical genetic approaches for antibacterial drug discovery

Krishna Mohan Poluri

Professor

krishna.poluri[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-284779

Structural Biology, Protein Engineering, Biological NMR Spectroscopy, Algal Biotechnology, Bioremediation & Biofuels, Bio-Nanotechnology

R. Prasad

Professor

ramasare.prasad[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

91-01332-285791

Molecular Biology, Infectious diseases, Genomics & Proteomics of Fungal Biofilm; MDR, anti-biofilm agents, drug discovery,Immunodominat antigens for diagnostic and vaccine , Molecular study of Abiotic Stress: expression and characterization of genes involved , in osmotic stress & anti-oxidative enzymes from plants, functional validation by RNAi technnolgy, Bio-therapeutics and Bio-Pharmaceutics: antimicrobial, anti-oxidative and immuno-modulatory , molecules from plants,coated nano-particles development & evaluation in vitro & in vivo assays.

Satyanarayan Rao

Assistant professor

satyanarayan.rao[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

Transcription Factors, Chromatin, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics

Partha Roy

Professor

partha.roy[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

91-01332-285686

Animal Biotechnology, Molecular Endocrinology, Mechanism of hormone actions, Stem Cell Biology, Cancer Biology and therapeutics, Tissue Engineering

Pranita P. Sarangi

Associate professor

pranita.sarangi[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-284788

Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Immunopathology of infectious and inflammatory diseases, Immunooncology, Cancer Immunoediting, Immunomodulatory therapeutics, Systems Immunology

A.K. Sharma

Professor

ashwani.sharma[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

91-01332-285657

Protein Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology

Deepak Sharma

Associate professor

deepak.sharma[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-284827

Computational Biology, Translational Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, Machine Learning, Image Analysis, Mobile Apps, Medicinal Plants

R.P. Singh

Professor

r.singh[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

91-01332-285792

Microbial Biotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Microbial Enzymes, Molecular Biology, Biofuels, Bioremediation, Drug Delivery Systems

Jitin Singla

Assistant professor

jsingla[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

01332-285609

3D Image Segmentation, Computational Soft X-ray tomography, Computational Cryo-electron tomography, Applied Machine Learning, Computational Cell Structural Biology, Computational Biology, Whole-cell modeling, ArtScience, Pattern Mining

Debabrata Sircar

Professor

debabrata.sircar[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

Biosciences and Bioengineering Department, IIT Roorkee

Developing early warning sensors for predicting economically significant plant diseases in rice, apples, and potatoes non-destructively and asymptomatically. Farmers will be able to make timely pest management decisions based on these forecasts, Plant immunity: analyzing metabolic basis through mass spectrometry-based metabolomics, The development of non-destructive sensors that analyze fruit quality and predict postharvest shelf lives based on signature metabolites, A metabolomics and functional genomics approach to improve apple fruit quality, focusing on scab resistance, Improved and sustainable production of value-added metabolites by engineering specialized plant metabolic pathways in selected medicinal plants

Prince Tiwari

Assistant professor

prince.tiwari[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

+91-1332-285142

Structural basis of muscle regulation, Cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), TEM, Negative staining, metal shadowing, Protein Biochemistry and structural biology

Sachin Suresh Tiwari

Assistant professor

sachin.tiwari[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

Office : F-8, Old Biotech Building

+91-1332-285389

Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's Disease

Shailly Tomar

Professor

shailly.tomar[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

01332-285849

Antiviral research , discovery of structure-based antivirals against RNA viruses (Chikungunya, Dengue and SARS), Chimeric virus-like particles (VLPs) for vaccine therapy and virus diagnostics, Virus-host protein-protein interactions involving host pathways and evasion of innate immune responses, Structure-based engineering of antibodies, nanobodies, antiviral peptides and antiviral proteins, Integration of traditional medicinal knowledge with modern scientific approaches to validate antiviral and antimicrobial potential of ayurvedic medicinal plants and practices

Shri Ram Yadav

Associate professor

shri.yadav[at]bt.iitr.ac.in

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

+91-1332-284782

Plant Developmental Biology; Functional genomics of plant root organogenesis; Transcriptional regulation of cell fate determination and tissue trans-differentiation; Epigenetic control of gene expression