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सीएसआईआर - उत्तर पूर्व विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान
CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology

ADVANCED COMPUTATION AND DATA SCIENCES DIVISION (ACDSD)

Head of the Department

Pr Scientist

Sr. Principal Scientist

Education :Ph D (Plant physiology)

ID no. : 1052

Email: siddhartha@neist.res.in, spsaikia@gmail.com

Contact no: +91 0376 2370121 extn 2332 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Plant physiology

Scientists

Dr Mantu Bhuyan

Pr Scientist

Education :Ph D (Entomology)

ID no. : 1055

Email: mantubhuyan@neist.res.in, mantubhuyan@gmail.com

Contact no: +91 0376 2372950 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Butterfly, Insect-plant interaction, Insect-behaviour

Dr Dipanwita Banik

Pr Scientist

Education : Ph D (Plant taxonomy)

ID no. : 1115

Email: banikdipanwita@yahoo.com, dipanwitabanik@neist.res.in

Contact no: 91-0376-2370139 extn 2308 Fax : +91 0376 2370011

Area’s of Interest : Bioscience and biotechnology, Environmental science.

Dr Mohan Lal

Pr. Scientist & Associate Professor.

Education : Ph D (Plant Breeding)

ID no. : 1227

Email: mohan@neist.res.in

Contact no: +91 0376 2372950 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Plant BreedingDr.

Saikat Haldar

Senior Scientist

Education : MSc (Chemistry, IIT-Kharagpur), PhD (Chemistry, CSIR-NCL, Pune)

ID no. : 1284

Email: saikat.haldar@neist.res.in, saikatchembiol@gmail.com

Area’s of Interest : Natural product chemistry and biocatalysis

Dr. Twahira Begum

Scientist

Education :PhD (Biological Sciences)

ID no. : 1340

Email: twahira.begum24@gmail.com, twahira@neist.res.in

Area’s of Interest : Genetics and Plant Breeding , Varietal development of medicinal and aromatic plants ,Molecular Study , Bioassays , Essential Oils .Dr.

Sumit Singh

Scientist

Education : Ph.D (Botany), CSIR-IIIM, Jammu

ID no. : 1342

Email: sumitsingh.neist.res.in; ssumitthakur14@gmail.com

Area’s of Interest : Plant Taxonomy of Himalayan flora, Ethnobotany, ecological studies of Himalayan region, conservation of rare and endangered high altitude medicinal plants, Pollen diversity and analysis.

Technical Officers

Dr (Mrs) Kalpataru Dutta Mudoi

Technical Officer

Education : Ph.D, M Sc(Botany)

ID no. : 1003

Email: kalpataru@neist.res.in

Contact no: +91 0376 2370121 extn 2330 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Plant tissue culture.

Mr Sanjoy Kumar Chanda

Senior Technical Officer (2)

Education :M.Sc

ID no. : 1220

Contact no: +91 0376 2370121 extn 2330 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest : Medicinal, Aromatic & Economic Plants.

Dr Dipanka Dutta

Senior Technical Officer (2)

Education : Ph.D(Chemistry)

ID no. : 1157

Contact no: + 0376-237011/2370139 extn 2426 Fax : +91 0376 2370011

Area’s of Interest : Nano Science, Catalysis, Fiber Chemistry, Cellulose Pulp & Paper, Building material.

Mr Himangshu Lekhak

Senior Technical Officer (2)

Education :M.Sc

ID no. : 1134

Email: jatinkalita@neist.res.in, kalitajk@yahoo.com

Contact no: +91 0376 2370121 extn 2330 Fax:0376-2370011

Area’s of Interest :Medicinal, Aromatic & Economic Plants.

Technical Staff

Mr Lenti Ao

Technical Staff

Education :Non Tech

ID no. : 1205

Contact no:+91 0376 2370121 extn 2330 Fax:0376-2370011

R&D PROGRAMS

Ongoing R&D Programme:

  • 1. Type of Project: Inhouse

    Project Title : Bioprospection and assessment of genetic diversity of medicinal aromatic and economic plants of North-East India for industrial and socio-economic development.

    Project No. : MLP-1000/1

    Funding Agency. : CSIR

  • 2. Type of Project: Network

    • Project Title : Development of Sustainable Processes for Edible Oils with Health Benefits from Traditional and New Resources.

      Project No. : CSC-0112

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. S. P. Saikia

    • Project Title :Field demonstration of region specific Medicinal & Aromatic plants genotypes of CSIR for socio-economic upliftment of masses in J&K region (J&K AROMA AROGYA GRAM-JAAG).

      Project No. : RSP-4001

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. S. P. Saikia

    • Project Title : S&T interventions to combat malnutrition in women and children.

      Project No. : BSC-0125

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. S. P. Saikia

    • Project Title : Rural Entrepreneurship and Skill Development through Demonstration and Training of Appropriate Technologies of CSIR-NEIST.

      Project No. : RSP-4007

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. S. P. Saikia

    • Project Title : Bio prospection of Plant Resources and other Natural Products.

      Project No. : BSC-0106

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. B. S. Bhau

    • Project Title : Bio prospection of Plant Resources and other Natural Products.

      Project No. : BSC-0106

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. B. S. Bhau

    • Project Title : ntroduction, domestication, improvement and cultivation of economically important plants.

      Project No. : BSC-0110

      Funding Agency. : CSIR

      PI : Dr. Mohan Lal

  • 3. Type of Project: Grant-in-aid

    • Project Title : rocess development and optimization for production of in-situ generated Vit. D fortified mushroom.

      Project No. :

      Funding Agency. : DBT

      PI : Dr. S P Saikia

    • Project Title : Raising of clonal microgarden and validation of microclones of ‘Assam Teak’ (Phoebe goalparensis Hutchinson) through multilocational trials in selected areas of N. E. Region.

      Project No. : GPP-0298

      Funding Agency. : DBT

      PI : Dr. K. D. Mudoi

    • Project Title : Economic and Biogeographic evaluation of the Cinnamomum species in some selected parts of India through morphological, chemical and molecular biology study.

      Project No. : GPP-0280

      Funding Agency. : DBT

      PI : Dr. B. S. Bhau

  • 4. Type of Project: Consultancy

    • Project Title : Butterfly and plant interaction studies in NRL Butterfly Valley at Township.

      Project No. : CNP-0468

      Funding Agency. : Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL)

      PI : Dr. M. Bhuyan

The main objectives of the Group are Exploration of the Plant Resources of North-East India and identification of potential Medicinal and Aromatic plants and Industrial value up for development of technology for mass multiplication of commercially prospective species and their conservation. The value addition of the germplasm through development of different product and dissemination of proven technologies to indigenous people, governmental organizations, entrepreneur for overall economic development is an important focus in the group.

Gel Doc XR+ [Make: BioRad] purchased under DBT funded project “Investigation of oleochemicals of under-utilized wild nutmegs native to NE India and value addition thereof (GPP349).

Microfine Scientific Grinder [Make: IKA, Germany; Model 25002643] purchased under DBT funded project “Investigation of oleochemicals of under-utilized wild nutmegs native to NE India and value addition thereof (GPP349).

Acheivements

Establishment of Center of excellence in Advanced Computation and Data Sciences, BIC at CSIR-NEIST

Events organized:

  • Drug Discovery Hackathon Mentoship and Training Program during 30 September 2021 to 31 March 2022
  • One day seminar on Need and Status of Bioinformatics in NER held on 15 March 2022
  • Two days'workshop on Galaxy and NGS held at CSIR-NEIST during 09-10 November 2021
  • Indian Conference on Bioinformatics (INBIX 2021) held at CSIR-NEIST during 11-13 November 2021
  • Skill development program on AI and ML Engineers under PMKVY during February 2021 to April 2021

Publications

2022:

  • A machine learning-based approach to determine infection status in recipients of BBV152 whole virion inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for serological surveys, P. Singh, R. Ujjainiya, S. Prakash, S. Naushin, V. Sardana, N.Bhatheja, A.P. Singh, J. Barman,…. G. N. Sastry, medRxiv. 2022 Jan 1
  • Bandgap Engineering of ZnX (X = O, S, Se, Te) QDs/Graphene Nanocomposites: Towards the Designing of a Highly Efficient Light-Harvesting Device, K. D. Dihingia, S. Saha, and G. N. Sastry, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 2022 Apr 13:110717
  • Seroepidemiological and genomic investigation of COVID-19 spread in North East region of India, R. Wahengbam, P. Bharali, P. Manna, T. Phukan, M. G. Singh, G. Gogoi, Y. B. Tapadar, A. K. Singh, R. Konwar, C. Chikkaputtaiah, N. Velmurugan, S. Nagamani, H. J. Mahanta, H. Sarma, R. K. Sahu, P. Dutta, S. B. Wann, J. Kalita, G. N. Sastry, medRxiv 2022.01.25.22269702.
  • COVID-19 impact on Socio-economic and Health Interventions: A Gaps and Peaks analysis using Clustering Approach, H. J. Mahanta, G. N. Sastry, medRxiv 2022.01.09.2226899.
  • Protein-protein interaction of RdRp with its co-factor NSP8 and NSP7 to decipher the interface hotspot residues for drug targeting: A comparison between SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV, H. Sarma, E. Jamir, G.N. Sastry, J Mol Struct. 2022 Jun 5; 1257:132602.

2021

  • Chemoinformatics and Machine Learning Approaches for Identifying Antiviral Compounds, L. John, Y. Soujanya, H.J. Mahanta, G. N. Sastry, Mol Inform. 2021 Nov 23: e2100190
  • Fate of Sc Ion Interaction with Water: A Computational Study to Address Splitting Water Versus Solvating Sc Ion, N. Kumar, Y. B. Kumar, H.Sarma, G. N. Sastry, Front. Chem., 2021, 807
  • Drug Repositioning for Anti-tuberculosis drugs: An in silico polypharmacology approach, S.S. Madugula, S. Nagamani, E Jamir, L. Priyadarsinee and G. N. Sastry, Mol. Divers., 2021, 1-21

Research Facilities

The ACDS division is currently equipped with 170 TF of computational facilities as mentioned below.

PCs

Configuration Quantity Performance (in Tera Flops)
Intel i7-10700/16 GB/ 3.8 GHz 14 3.36 TF
Intel i7-10700/16 GB/ 3.2 GHz 1 0.24 TF
Intel i7 /32 GB/ 3.00 GHz 19 2.85 TF
Intel i7-9700/8 GB/ 3.00 GHz 5 0.45

PCs

Configuration Quantity Performance (in Tera Flops)
Intel i7-10700/16 GB/ 3.8 GHz 14 3.36 TF
Intel i7-10700/16 GB/ 3.2 GHz 1 0.24 TF
Intel i7 /32 GB/ 3.00 GHz 19 2.85 TF
Intel i7-9700/8 GB/ 3.00 GHz 5 0.45

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