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Department of Biological Sciences

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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K K Birla Goa Biological Sciences

Samit Chattopadhyay

Senior Professor

Epigenetics, Gene regulation in metastatic cancers and proliferative immune cells, chromatin remodeling

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K K Birla Goa Biological Sciences

Anasuya Ganguly

Professor

Tissue Engineering, Stem cells, Environmental Toxicology

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K K Birla Goa Biological Sciences

Angshuman Sarkar

Professor

Cancer Biology, Nanotoxicology, Therapeutics, Cell and Molecular Biology

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K K Birla Goa Biological Sciences

Dibakar Chakrabarty

Professor

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K K Birla Goa Biological Sciences

Judith Maria Braganca

Professor

Biopolymers, Extremozymes, Biodiversity of Halophilic Bacteria and Archaea

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K K Birla Goa Biological Sciences

Kundan Kumar

Professor

Plant Biotechnology, Plant Natural Product

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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.

Research based consultancy

BIOWETS – Source Separation Toilet user interface and wastewater treatment

Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for food Security Terra Preta Sanitation

Research & Analysis of Bacterial Content in Washing Machine

Detection and quantification of enzymes in detergents and Patch Test Assays with Allergic reactions

To submit projetto study impact of negative factors which effect the ecology of wetland and importance of monitoring natural wetland ecosystem

MTU Field Study

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R&D Center

Embedded Controller Application Centre

Centre for Robotics and Intelligent System

Centre for Renewable Energy and Environment Development

Centre for Research on Educational Innovation & Institutional Development

Centre for Material Science & Technology

Anuradha and Prashanth Palakurthi Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (APPCAIR)

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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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Shruti Desai

Ph.D. Supervisor - Sukanta Mondal,
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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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Nikhil Caeiro

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 - Dr. 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

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Pooja Kotharkar

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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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Facilities

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Exibits on “Re:waste – How Sweden is Rethinking Resources” at K K Birla Goa Campus

74th Republic Day Celebrations at BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus

Floral Tribute to Shri G D Birlaji on 71st Founder’s Day of BITS Pilani

National Startup Investor Day celebrated by BITS Pilani, Goa Campus

News
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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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Opportunities @ BITS

Project Associate position in DHR funded project

Applications are invited for the position of Project Associate-I in the Department of Biological Sciences at BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa for a DHR sponsored research project titled “Development of a therapeutic bacteriophage carrying the Phi11 holin to combat Drug Resistant Staphylococci Infection”, R.11017/10/2023-GIA/HR.

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Mrs. Kamna Upadhyay
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Mr. Mahadeo NG Shetkar
Technical Assistant
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Mr. Mahaling Lamani
Lab Attendant
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Ms. Pallavi Sanil Fatarpenkar
Office Assistant
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Mr. Tushar Krishna Honavarkar
Lab Technician
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Mr. Paraj Atchut Kamat
Technical Assistant
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Miss. Tejal Ravindra Chipkar
Lab Technician
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