SOCIETY FOR PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Organising Committee of the Conference constituted SPBB-Springer Awards with Springer Nature India Pvt. Ltd. in different categories
Five SPBB-Springer Young Scientist Awards were given, during the IBBACI International Conference-2023 at Bharat Ratna C Subramaniam Auditorium
Dr. Gouranga Upadhyay
Mr. Ashvinkumar Katral
Mr. Ikkurti Gopinath
Dr. Kapudeep Karmakar
Dr. Simardeep Kaur
SPBB-Springer Young Scientist Awards (Year 2022) conferred during the National Symposium on ‘Emerging Innovations in Plant Molecules for Achieving Food and Nutritional Security’ at Navsari Agirulcutural University, Navsari, Gujarat
Dr. Kiran P. Suthar
Designation: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat
Title of the Presentation: Amino acid profiling; A key for protein quality improvement in pigeon pea
Dr. Chirag Maheshwari
Designation: Scientist
Affiliation: Div. of Biochemistry, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
Title of the Presentation: Impact of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) and glycine decarboxylase complex h (Gdch) knockdown on photosynthesis and growth characteristics of rice plants
Dr. Sanjay Kumar K. Parmar
Designation: Assistant Research Scientist
Affiliation: Junagadh Agriclutural University, Gujarat
Title of the Presentation: Pearl Millet Hybrid Ghb1129: Gujarat’s First Effort to Combat Malnutrition through Crop Biofortification
Mr. Naveen Malik
Designation: Research Scholar
Affiliation: Div. of Environmental Sciences, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
Title of the Presentation: Microbial amendment of Steel Slag (LD) and its utilization for meeting the mineral nutrient requirement of wheat plants
Ms. Vinita Mulodia
Designation: Research Scholar
Affiliation: Div. of Environmental Sciences, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
Title of the Presentation: Effect of LD slag application on heavy metal content, biological attributes of soil and foliage yield in Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.)
Dr. Ajit Arun Waman
Title of the Presentation: Bioprospecting native wild nutmegs from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India for their sustainable utilization
Theme Area: Conservation of Genetic Resources, IPR and Biosafety issue
Designation: Scientist (SPMA)
Present Affiliation: ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair
Ms. Aveepsha Bera
Title of the Presentation: Chromatin Assembly Factor-1 (CAF-1) plays a role in ribosomal RNA gene regulation and in maintaining genomic stability in Arabidopsis thaliana
Theme Area: Genome Editing, Translational Genomics and Plant Breeding
Designation: Project Fellow
Present Affiliation: BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus
Ms. Anurakti Shukla
Title of the Presentation: Metagenomic analysis of microbial diversity in control and high arsenic field of West Bengal (Nadia district) under the thiourea supplementation
Theme Area: Plant Stress Management
Designation: PhD. Scholar
Present Affiliation: Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
Mr. Raktim Bhattacharya
Title of the Presentation: Biochemical and histochemical characterization of floral cuticular wax in tuberose
Theme Area: Plant Metabolites & Nutraceuticals
Designation: Senior Research Fellow
Present Affiliation: Natural Product Biotechnology Group, Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Mr. Vikram Jathar
Title of the Presentation: Understanding the genetic basis of rice leaf development and growth
Theme Area: Plant Biochemistry and Crop Improvement
Designation: Ph.D Research Scholar
Present Affiliation: National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi
Dr. Ashish Marathe
Title of the Presentation : Perturbing the phytic dynamics RNAi triggered seed specificsilencing of ITPK2 for low phytes soybean-a step towards nutritional security
Theme Area : Nutritional Biochemistry and Biofortification
Designation : Scientist
Present Affiliation : ICAR- National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Raipur
Dr. Vishnu Prasanth Vinukonda
Title of the Presentation: Identification of high temperature tolerant rice lines and associated genomic regions
Theme Area : Molecular Breeding and Genomics
Designation : DBT-Research Associate
Present Affiliation :International Rice Research Institute-South Asia Hub (IRRI-SAH)
Dr. Vikas Devkar
Title of the Presentation : Multidimensional regulatory function of tomato SITAFI (NAC transcription factor) in response to salinity stress
Theme Area : Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing
Designation :Assistant Professor
Present Affiliation :ASC College, Indapur, affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Indapur, Pune. 413106
Dr. Achala Bakshi
Title of the Presentation : Exploring Target of Rapamycin gene for growth and yield improvement under abiotic stress conditions in rice
Theme Area : Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing
Designation : DBT-Research Associate
Present Affiliation : Department of Plant Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad, Rajendranagar
Dr. Rahul Kumar
Title of the Presentation : Identification and functional elucidation of ripening – associated genes in tomato
Theme Area : Genetic Engineering and Genome Editing
Designation : Assistant Professor
Present Affiliation : Plant Translational Research Laboratory, Room-S48, Department of Plant Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046, Telangana, India