Brief Profile ::

Department: Biotechnology
Designation: Professor & HOD
E-mail ID: sanghamitran@yahoo.com
Contact Number: 9437873550
Date of Birth: 28 th May, 1962
Date of joining: 2006
Status as on date of joining: Asst. Professor
Present status: Asst. Professor

Educational Qualification:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Research Experience:

•  26 years of research experience in the field of Plant Biotechnology (Plant Tissue Culture, Cytogenetics, and Molecular Genetics at different positions).

Teaching Experience:

•  Six years of teaching experience. Three years of teaching experience (2003-2006) as Senior Lecturer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Three years of teaching experience as Asst. Prof. at SPS and Centre of Biotechnology, SOA University , BBSR-751030.

LIST OF EXTERNALLY FUNDED ONGOING AND COMPLETED PROJECTS

(1) Principal Investigator (DST): “ Improvement of drug yielding potential of turmeric through in vitro mutagenesis”.

Funding Agency : DST, New Delhi
Duration : 2009 to October 2012
Total Cost : 40.8 Lakhs
Place of work : Centre of Biotechnology
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jagamara, Po-Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar-30

(2) Principal Investigator (DBT) : Assessment of genetic diversity in the genus Zingiber using different molecular markers and in vitro conservation of some rare and economic important taxa.

Funding Agency : DBT, New Delhi
Total cost : 25.04 Lakhs
Duration (From – To) : October 2006 to October 2009
Place of work : Department of Biotechnology
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

(3) Principal Investigator (DST) :
Project Title :“Cytogenetic evaluation, molecular characterisation and improvement of some promising cultivars of turmeric and ginger through biotechnological methods”.
Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India .
(2002) under “SERC Fast Track Proposals for Young Scientists”
Total cost : 9.64 Lakhs
Duration : October 2002 ¾ October 2005
Place of work : Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology
Jaypee University of Information Technology
Waknaghat, Dist – Solan, Himachal Pradesh

(4) Principal Investigator (DST) :

Project Title : Rapid micro-rhizome production of some commercially important cultivars of turmeric through tissue culture.
Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India
(2002) under “Young Scientist Scheme”.
Total cost : 6.02 Lakhs
Duration : September 1999 ¾ March 2002
Place of work : Aromatic and Medicinal Plants Division
Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar , Orissa.

VISIT TO FOREGIN COUNTRIES:

1. Bangladesh - December 1993 for paper presentation in an International Plant Tissue Culture Conference at Dhaka .

2. Hungary - July 2001 for paper presentation in World Conference on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants at Budapest .

3. Australia - August 2004 for paper presentation in an International Symposium on Horticultural Education and Training at Perth .

4. China - October 2008 for paper presentation in International Biotechnology Symposium at Dalian , China .


PUBLICATION IN JOURNALS/BOOKS

Papers Published

•  S. Nayak (2005). Community mobilization for conservation and cultivation of medicinal plants: A case study in Keonjhar District, Orissa,India in Acta Horticulture 672, 291- 296.

•  p. k. n aik and S. Nayak (2005). Differential mode of plant regeneration and factors effecting in vitro bulblet prodiction in Ornithogalum virens . in international journal Science Asia 31:409-414.

•  S. Nayak , P.K. Naik, L.K. Acharya, A.K. Mukherjee, P.C. Panda and P.Das (2005). Assessment of Genetic Diversity Among 16 Promising Cultivars of Ginger Using Cytological and Molecular Markers. In Z. Naturforsch 60C :485-492.

•  S. Nayak , P K. Naik, L. K .Acharya, A.K. Pattnaik. (2006), Detection and evaluation of genetic variation in 17 promising cultivars of Turmeric ( Curcuma longa L.) using 4c nuclear DNA content and RAPD markers Cytologia 71:49-55.

•  M.K.Panda, S.Mohanty and E. Subudhi and S. Nayak (2007) Assessment of genetic stability of micropropagated plants of Curcuma longa L. by cytophotometry and RAPD analyses. International journal of integrative Biology. 1:189-195.

•  S. Ghosh, E. Subudhi and S. Nayak (2008) Antimicrobial assay of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni leaf extracts against 10 pathogens. International journal of integrative Biology, 2 (1): 27-31.

Research Paper Presented :

•  S. Nayak, S. Mohanty , E. Subudhi (2008) Differential synthesis of essential oil in callus derived microshoots of turmeric ( Curcuma longa ) in vitro . International conference of Association of plant tissue culture. Oct 12-17, 2008, China .

•  E.Subudhi, S.Mohanty, M.K.Panda , , L.K..Acharya and S.Nayak (2008) Genetic stability of micropopagated ginger cultivars as assessed through in vitro and ex vitro evaluation. International conference of Association of plant tissue culture. Oct 12-17, 2008, China .

•  S. Nayak (2006) Test tube turmeric, National level Seminar on “Drug Design & New Drug Discovery Techniques” India (Orissa), 28 th to 30 th April'06.

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

•  Presented a paper entitled “ Differential synthesis of essential oil in callus derived microshoots of turmeric ( Curcuma longa ) in vitro” in International Biotechnology Symposium, 2008, Dalian, China.

SEMINARS/ CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOPS/ QIP/ TRAININGS:

•  International conference of Association of plant tissue culture, Oct 12-17, 2008, Dalian , China .

•  National level Seminar on “Drug Design & New Drug Discovery Techniques”, 28 th to 30 th April'06, SPS, ITER, Bhubaneswar .