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Department of Biological Sciences

biological science pilani

Welcome to the Department of Biological Sciences, BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa campus. The department presents learning by means of an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach. Classroom based lectures, problem-based learning projects, basic hands-on experience for developing laboratory skills, seminars with scope for interactive knowledge sharing are offered here. Courses cover diverse topics of biology with roots in microorganisms, plants and animals with varied outlook through experimental and computational approaches. The teaching and research efforts here range from understanding basic to advanced biology.

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Research

Research at the Department of Biological Sciences is multidisciplinary. The topics of exploration burgeon from plants, animals and microorganisms with perspectives from nano, micro and macro level. Efforts towards understanding biological objects and their working, has experimental and computational directions. Basic theories as well as application oriented concepts are being studied here.

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Sanitation Lab

Proteomics

Cognitive Neuroscience

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Microbiology

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Scholars

Garima Saini

Ph.D. Supervisor - Veeky Baths,
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Mayur Jartarkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Veeky Baths,
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Pritish Raj Shukla

Ph.D. Supervisor - Utpal Roy,
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Bhende Prajakta Praveen

Ph.D. Supervisor - Anasuya Ganguly, Judith Maria Braganca,
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Satish Kumar Manjhi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Raviprasad Aduri,
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Namitha Nayak

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sandhya Mehrotra,
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Nayan Mate

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arnab Banerjee,
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Pooja Gautam

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arnab Banerjee,
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Amitabh Debnath

Ph.D. Supervisor - Indrani Talukdar,
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Swetha Ramesh

Ph.D. Supervisor - Utpal Roy,
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Madduri Madhuri

Ph.D. Supervisor - Utpal Roy,
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Deepali Shukla

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Fiona Fernandes

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Akanksha Savardekar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arnab Banerjee,
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Subrata Das

Ph.D. Supervisor - Arnab Banerjee,
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Navodipa Bhattacharya

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dibakar Chakrabarty,
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Nivedita Kolvekar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Dibakar Chakrabarty,
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Meghna Singh

Ph.D. Supervisor - Samit Chattopadhyay,
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Akshita Upreti

Ph.D. Supervisor - Samit Chattopadhyay,
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Rachana Tiwari

Ph.D. Supervisor - Angshuman Sarkar,
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Kartik Redkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Tusar Tirtha Saha,
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Roumik Banerjee

Ph.D. Supervisor - Tusar Tirtha Saha,
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Jayapriya CS

Ph.D. Supervisor - Tusar Tirtha Saha,
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Manideep burra

Ph.D. Supervisor - Malabika Biswas,
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Vivek Ratre

Ph.D. Supervisor - Malabika Biswas,
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V H Krishnaprasad

Ph.D. Supervisor - Vijayashree Nayak,
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Mohita Mahajan

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sukanta Mondal,
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Keyur Kumar Namdev

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Sanvidh Narkhede

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Shaikh Aatiya

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Prajakta Patil

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Sanam Prabhudesai

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Rajashree Yaragal R

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Ravikiran K.

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Shamik Prabhu Chodnekar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Mamta Kodarkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Jayanta Kumar Gogoi

Ph.D. Supervisor - Srikanth Mutnuri,
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Suhas Karle

Ph.D. Supervisor - Prof. Kundan Kumar Singh,
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Asha

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Joephil Dominic Dias

Ph.D. Supervisor - Judith Maria Braganca,
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Devika Nagar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Judith Maria Braganca,
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Athira Nair

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Pavithra P

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Pooja Kotharkar

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Reshma Zakane

Ph.D. Supervisor - Meenal Kowshik,
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Akhilesh Upadhyay

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sumit Biswas,
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Utpal mallick

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sumit Biswas,
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Lakshmi Menon

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sumit Biswas,
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Shruti Desai

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sukanta Mondal,
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Nikhil Caeiro

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46th annual meeting of plant tissue culture and symposium on current trends and challenges in plant biotechnology

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November 14, 2023 To November 16, 2023

Frontiers in Genome Engineering 2023

December 18, 2023 To December 20, 2023

Biological Chemistry: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward

March 18, 2023 To March 18, 2023

Proteomics Day 2023

March 3, 2017 To March 4, 2017

4th International AttLis Workshop: Attentive Listener in the Visual World

March 6, 2017 To March 10, 2017

9th Young Investigators Meeting 2017

May 15, 2017 To May 18, 2017

Indo French CEFIPRA Meeting Network on Decentralised Grey / Waste water treatment

December 15, 2017 To December 16, 2017

Workshop on Experimental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience

December 19, 2017 To December 21, 2017

Novel Sanitation Approaches and Emerging Trends in Wastewater Treatment Technology

January 20, 2018 To January 22, 2018

International Conference on Reproductive Physiology and Comparative Endocrinology (ICRPCE) and the 36th annual meeting of theSociety for Reproductive Biology and Comparative Endocrinology (SRBCE)

May 28, 2022 To July 6, 2018

Workshop on Engineering – Economics – Entrepreneurship cum summer course (Creating and Leading Entrepreneurial organizations ECON F414)

September 28, 2018 To September 29, 2018

International Workshop on Data sharing for open innovation in community-based rehabilitation

AIG- International symposium on “Academic- Industry-Government Partnerships to Accelerate Radiation Research and Clinical Translation” during October 8-9, 2018 at Goa University, Goa

November 1, 2018 To November 3, 2018

International Symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition

November 13, 2018 To November 16, 2018

4th Asian Pacific Conference of International Society for Microbial Electrochemistry and Technologies (AP-ISMET 2018)

November 21, 2018 To December 1, 2018

Workshop on South South India Benin Biochar

December 21, 2018 To December 23, 2018

XLII All India Cell Biology Conference

February 4, 2020 To February 7, 2020

3rd Annual Workshop of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC)

November 20, 2020 To November 21, 2020

Current Trends and Challenges in Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

February 4, 2020 To February 7, 2020

3rd Annual Workshop of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC)

November 20, 2020 To November 21, 2020

Current Trends and Challenges in Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology

September 16, 2022 To September 17, 2022

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Way forward

September 22, 2022 To September 24, 2022

6th Meeting of SRG-NPDF Expert Committee

October 13, 2022 To October 14, 2022

Faecal Sludge Analysis

October 28, 2022 To October 29, 2022

International Symposium on Bilingualism and Cognition (ISBC 2O22)

November 10, 2022 To November 11, 2022

International conference on Drug Discovery -2022 (ICDD-2022): Success Stories – From Computation to Clinical Trials

September 16, 2017 To September 17, 2022

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Way forward

December 23, 2018

XLII (42nd) All India Cell Biology Conference inaugurated at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus

March 3, 2017 To March 4, 2017

AttLis: Attentive Listener in the Visual World

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Junior Research Fellow (JRF)

Applications are invited for the position of Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in the Department of Biological Sciences at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, for the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) sponsored research project titled “Development of Enhanced Fermentative Enzyme Production through Synthetic Biology for Biorefinery Applications” (2025/0064/LS(II)/C).

Biological Sciences Staff Members

Ms. Kamna Upadhyay

Sr. Technical Assistant - Gr 1

VOIP: 343

Email ID: kupadhyay@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in 

Ms. Paraj Atchut Kamat Malayekar

Technical Assistant - Gr 2

VOIP: 345

Email ID: parajm@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Mr. Tushar Krishna Honavarkar

Technician

VOIP: 321

Email ID: tusharh@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Ms. Tejal Chipkar

Technician

VOIP : 487

Email ID : tejalc@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Ms. Resha Mahale

Technician

VOIP : 345

Email ID: resham@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Ms. Pallavi Sanil Fatarpenkar

Office Assistant

VOIP: 380

Email ID: pallavib@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Mr. Mahadeo N.G. Shetkar

Maintenance Assistant Gr-1

VOIP: 327

Email ID: mshetkar@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

Mr. Mahaling Lamani

Operation Assistant

VOIP: 327

Email ID: mahalingl@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in 

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