Assam Don Bosco University

About

Designation : Assistant Professor (stage I)
Department : Botany
Date of Joining : 2019-11-18
Qualification : PhD in plant tissue culture and plant genetic transformation

Experience

Teaching : 2 Years
Teaching details :
Taught Biology to Higher Secondary students and gave them coaching for medical entrance exams and other competitive exams

Area of Interest :
Plant Tissue culture and Plant genetic Transformation, Plant Molecular Biology

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW : 2 Years
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW details :
Worked in a DBT funded project entitled" Development of Fusarium resistant elite banana cultivars of NE India"
Research : 7 Years

Award / Recognition / Achievement / Professional Membership / Grant

1. Achievement - PG DIPLOMA IN INTELECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
   Awarded on 2019-11-27
   Awarded by INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
   
   Grant Amount 0
   
2. Achievement - STATE ELIGBILITY TEST
   Awarded on 2013-08-01
   Awarded by State level eligibility test commission
   
   Grant Amount 0
   
3. Achievement - 1ST REGIONAL BIO-OLYMPIAD
   Awarded on 2004-06-18
   Awarded by WILL ACADEMY BIOINFORMATICS DEVELOPMENT CELL
   
   Grant Amount 0
   
4. Award - PHD MERIT SCHOLARSHIP
   Awarded on 2013-09-01
   Awarded by DBT-AAU CENTRE, ASSAM AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, JORHAT
   
   Grant Amount 4,32,000.00
   
5. Award - ICAR SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
   Awarded on 2012-03-20
   Awarded by INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESERCH
   
   Grant Amount 0
   
6. Professional membership - ASSOCIATE MEMBER
   Awarded on 2018-02-23
   Awarded by ALL INDIA AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
   
   Grant Amount 0
   

Conference / Workshop / Symposium / Training

1. Participant in Conference - Plant based technologies from CSIR for entrepreneurship Development (National)
   Organised at Rotary Club of Orchid City from 2020-08-29 to 2020-08-29
   
2. Participant in Conference - MicroProteins: Novel tool to bioengineer future ready plants (National)
   Organised at BIOINGENE.COM (ZOOM & YOUTUBE) from 2020-08-17 to 2020-08-17
   
3. Participant in Conference - Role of Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology for a sustainable future (National)
   Organised at BIOINGENE.COM (ZOOM & YOUTUBE) from 2020-08-11 to 2020-08-11
   
4. Participant in Conference - Mainstreaming underutilized crops: The story of foxtail millet (International)
   Organised at BIOINGENE.COM (ZOOM & YOUTUBE) from 2020-08-06 to 2020-08-06
   
5. Participant in Conference - Webinar on “CRISPR-Cas Precision Genome Engineering” (International)
   Organised at Bioingene.com (zoom & youtube live) from 2020-07-24 to 2020-07-24
   
6. Participant in Conference - WEBINAR ON CLIMATE SMART RICE HYBRIDS (International)
   Organised at Bioingene.com (zoom & youtube live) from 2020-07-21 to 2020-07-21
   
7. Participant in Conference - WEBINAR ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (National)
   Organised at LOYOLA COLLEGE (YOUTUBE live) from 2020-07-17 to 2020-07-17
   
8. Participant in Conference - WEBINAR SERIES ON the theme “Towards Outcome-based Agri-Biotech Research & Education: A Roadmap (National)
   Organised at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) (zoom & google meet) from 2020-06-05 to 2020-09-15
   
9. Paper Presenter in Conference - 40th meeting on Plant Tissue Culture Association-India & International Conference on trends in Plant Science and Agrobiotechnology (ICTPA) (International)
   Organised at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) from 2019-02-14 to 2019-02-16
   
10. Paper Presenter in Conference - International Conference on Climate change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (ICCBSA) (International)
    Organised at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) from 2018-12-13 to 2018-12-16
    
11. Paper Presenter in Conference - 2nd International Conference on Advances in Agricultural, Biological and Applied Sciences for Sustainable Future (ABAS-2018) (International)
    Organised at Sardar Patel Auditorium, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University from 2018-10-20 to 2014-10-22
    
12. Participant in Conference - 3RD NATIONAL YOUTH CONVENTION ON TRANSFORMING AGRICULTURE FOR AGRIPRENEURSHIP & EMPLOYMENT OPPURTUNITIES: THE YOUTH PERSPECTIVE (National)
    Organised at Assam Agricultural University (AAU) from 2018-02-23 to 2018-02-24
    
13. Participant in Conference - ASSAM BIOTECH CONCLAVE (National)
    Organised at GUWAHATI BIOTECH PARK from 2017-01-05 to 2017-01-06
    
14. Paper Presenter in Conference - 4th International Science Congress (ISC-2014) (International)
    Organised at Pacific University from 2014-12-08 to 2014-12-09
    
15. Participant in Conference - WORKSHOP IV ON Writing and Publishing in Scientific Journals (National)
    Organised at DBT-AAU CENTRE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGYAssam Agricultural University (AAU) from 2013-11-25 to 2013-11-28
    
16. Participant in Conference - INDIAN SCIENCE CONGRESS (National)
    Organised at NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY from 2009-01-03 to 2009-01-07
    
17. Participant in Symposium - NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS IN BIOCOMPLEXITY AND BIODIVERSITY OF PLANTS (National)
    Organised at NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY from 2008-03-12 to 2008-03-14
    
18. Participant in Training - Developing as an online practitioner” organized by Association of Indian Universities in collaboration with 'Quality Assurance Strategic Planning Institutional Research (QASPIR) (International)
    Organised at VIRTUAL from 2020-08-12 to 2020-08-12
    
19. Participant in Training - Faculty enrichment program ON SERVICE LEARNING (National)
    Organised at Assam Don Bosco University from 2020-01-09 to 2020-01-11
    
20. Participant in Workshop - 2-Day Workshop on Aligning Yourself to the Publishing Process (International)
    Organised at Elsevier (zoom) from 2020-07-23 to 2020-07-24
    
21. Paper Presenter in Workshop - Workshop v on Biotechnology Research in North East India: Present & Future (National)
    Organised at DBT-AAU CENTRE, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University from 2014-09-18 to 2014-09-20
    
22. Participant in Workshop - Biotechnology to Nanotechnology for the improvement in Agriculture (National)
    Organised at DBT-AAU CENTRE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGYAssam Agricultural University (AAU) from 2013-02-06 to 2013-02-09
    

Research and Publication

Book Chapter

1. SANGEETA SARMA, Management of Rice Stem Borer through Biotechnological Approaches, Integrated Pest Management- A holistic approach for pest risk management, volume 1, pages 3-15, 2019
   Indexing - , Impact factor - 0
   ISSN , ISBN 978-81-7622-461-1,

Journal

2. SINGHA,DHANAWANTARI L. SARMA, SANGEETA SINGH, SALVINDER, Understanding the mode of regulation of proline biosynthesis for drought tolerance in transgenic rice overexpressing pdh47 gene, Indian journal of biotechnology, volume 19(2), pages 73-81, 2020
   Indexing - Scopus,, Impact factor - 0.39
   ISSN 0972-5849, ISBN ,

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