Women Idea Hackathon - Winner

Project Title: Antimicrobial resistance Surveillance in the municipal black water of Northeast India and its remediation through Advanced oxidation processes

Women Idea Hackathon: R Kheerthana

Funding Agency / Amount: MSME, Govt of India / 15 Lakhs

Duration: 2024 - 2025

DBT BIRAC: E-Yuva Award

Project Title: SURFMIN - Microbial surfactants assisted biohydrometallurgy towards the recovery of critical minerals from electronic waste

DBT BIRAC E-Yuva Awardees: Prerna M Gaidhani, Prerna Patil, Tania Dhul,  Rayavarapu Gowtham Kishore   

Funding Agency: DBT BIRAC, Govt of India 

Duration: 2024 - 2025

Research Intern @ WRG, NIT Agartala

Neha Debbarma from Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore Joins the Water Research Group (WRG), Department of Bioengineering, NIT Agartala as a Research Intern. She will be working on Environmental Biotechnology. Neha is pursuing her Master of Science (M.Sc) in Biotechnology. Her research interest involves environmental biotechnology and resource recovery.

During this internship period, she will work on "Screening of Lipase producing organism from Waste Oil Cakes". 

Research Intern @ WRG, NIT Agartala

Joel Ponraj from Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science Joins the Water Research Group (WRG), Department of Bioengineering, NIT Agartala as an intern, and will be working on Environmental Engineering. Joel is pursuing his Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Biotechnology. His research interest is in environmental engineering.

During this intern period, he will work on "Removal of personal care products from water matrices using micro/nano bubble ozonation: Experimental and computational modelling.

PhD Research Scholars @ WRG, NIT Agartala

Swagatam Das & Priyadarshi Saha Joins the Water Research Group (WRG), Department of Bioengineering, NIT Agartala, as Ph.D. Research Scholars working on Cellular toxicity of microplastics in lower invertebrates. and effect of emerging micropollutants on microbes and symbionts. They have completed their master's from Tripura Central University.

GERMAN Scholar @ WRG, NIT Agartala

WRG, NIT Agartala  welcomes Sophie Henningsen, Germany to India to pursue her #RISEWorldwide Research Internship: She will be working on Optimized synthesis of biosurfactant & lipase toward a circular economy (IN-EN_EN-6065) Mentor: Roshan Jaiswal

Duration: 12 Weeks starting from September 2024

#RISEWorldwide #Germaninternship DAAD German Academic Exchange Service DAAD India National Institute of Technology Agartala  #waterresearch #pollution #toxicity

PhD Research Scholar @ WRG, NIT Agartala

Roshan Jaiswal Joins the Water Research Group (WRG), Department of Bioengineering, NIT Agartala, as Ph.D. Research Scholar working on Waste Management towards resource recovery. He has completed her Bachelor's at Haldia Institute of Technology and his Master's at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India. His research interest involves environmental chemistry and waste management.

During this period, he will work on "Ayurvedic Waste Management through sustainable bioprocesses"

Call for Papers in Environmental Research (Q1), Elsevier

Link: https://lnkd.in/gJuhCAaC
Manuscript submission information:
Submission open date: 15 March 2024
Submission deadline: 30 July 2024

Guest editors:
Prof. Eric D. van Hullebusch, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France.
Dr. Selvaraju Narayanasamy, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India.
Dr. Padmanaban V C, National Institute of Technology Agartala, India.

Looking forward to interesting articles which bridge the gaps in the existing research of the theme.

DST SERB Sponsored the Vritika Research Internship program on "Toxicity Analysis of Degraded Metabolites of Textile Azo Dyes by Zebra Fish Model: In-Silico & In-Vivo Approach"

Internship Duration: 40 days (June to July 2023)

Selected Research Interns:

• Ms. Abha Gupta, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Odisha.
• Ms. Minusha S, Kamaraj College of Engineering & Technology, Tamilnadu.
• Ms. S.M.Nandhini, Vivekanandha College of Engg for Women, Tamilnadu.
• Ms. Nazmin Hussain, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Kerala.

DST - STUTI program on "Challenges and opportunities in WAter, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)" from 23.01.2023 to 29.01.2023.

The program was focused on critical areas of WATER Research
1) Biogeochemistry of Engineered Ecosystems - Circular Economy approaches. #circulareconomy
2) Adsorption-based removal of pollutants. #adsorption
3) Homogeneous Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOPs). #aop
4) Microbial Fuel Cells. #mfc
5) Process modelling and operational considerations in bioreactors #processmodeling
6) Function and fate of nano-formulations in the environment: Toxicity perspective. #nanotoxicology
7) Membrane technology towards the separation of water-based pollutants #membranes

Thanks to all speakers
Eric D. van Hullebusch, Luigi Rizzo, Dr. RS Singh, Selvaraju N, Shivendu Ranjan, Noel Jacob Kaleekkal, Surendran Udayar Pillai, Mitali Saha, Soma nag, Mrinmoy Majumder, Dr. Animesh DEBNATH, Tarun Kanti Bandyopadhyay, Biswanath, Abhijit Chatterjee, Ph.D., Vaibhav Kaushik

Research Intern @ WRG, NIT Agartala 

Sudeshna Ghorui from NIT Silchar Joins the Water Research Group (WRG), Department of Bioengineering, NIT Agartala as an intern, and will be working on Environmental Chemistry. Sudeshna is pursuing her Master of Science (M.Sc) in Applied Chemistry at NIT Silchar, Assam, India. Her research interest involves environmental chemistry and water based research. 

During this intern period, she will work on "Toxicological analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products present in Indian Rivers". The quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) between the pollutants and target biomolecules will be explored in this research.

PhD Research Scholar @ WRG, NIT Agartala

Kheerthana R Joins the Water Research Group (WRG), Department of Bioengineering, NIT Agartala, as PhD Research Scholar who will be working on Environmental Biotechnology. She has completed her Bachelor's at Kamaraj College of Engineering & Technology, Anna University, Tamilnadu and her Master's at NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Her research interest involves environmental chemistry and water-based research.

During this period, she will work on "Fate and transport of pharmaceutical and personal care products present in Indian Rivers".