Dr. Bidyut Kumar Sarmah
Indian Coordinator and PI, AdaptNET
Director, DBT-NECAB, AAU, Jorhat
Dr. Sumita Acharjee
Co-PI AdaptNET
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, AAU, Jorhat
Dr. Basanta Borah
Co-PI AdaptNET
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, AAU, Jorhat
Dr. Priyadarshini Bhorali
Dr. Priyadarshini Bhorali is working in academia and is involved in both teaching and research at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (India). Her research interests focus on plant molecular biology/ functional genomics and, molecular plant-microbe interactions.
Dr. Rashmi Baruah
Dr. Rashmi Baruah is currently working at the research station of Assam Agricultural University as a Junior Scientist. She is presently working in the area of Soil Conservation and application of remote sensing in different areas of Soil Science. She is also engaged in carbon sequestration studies along with soil classification.
Dr. Purnima Das
Dr. Purnima Das is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Entomology of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam (India). Her research interests are in the following subjects: economic entomology, biological control of crop pest using entomopathogenic fungi plant based biopesticides, beneficial insect: Lac Insect (Kerria chinensis), taxonomy of rice pests and natural enemies, mutation breeding in rice using gamma irradiation for insect tolerance.
Dr. Rajib Lochan Deka
Dr. Rajib Lochan Deka is currently working as Associate Professor at the Assam Agricultural University. He is mainly involved in teaching Agricultural Meteorology in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate degree programs. His area of expertise focus on climate change related studies, particularly in assessing climate change impact on Agriculture and its management, Agro-climatic characterization, Crop modeling (statistical & simulation), Crop-weather relationships and Agrometeorological Advisory Services.
Dr. Moloya Gohain
Dr. Moloya Gohain is a Project Scientist at DBT-NECAB, AAU, Jorhat, India. She received national scholarships for master’s and Ph.D. in Animal Biotechnology at ICAR-NDRI, Karnal. During the time, her research was related to reproductive genomics of cattle & buffalo. She went on to pursue her postdoctoral research at IPMB, Taiwan, on the transcriptome and methylome of regenerated rice. Currently, she is working on the improvement of chickpea using gene technology for insect pest resistance.
Dr. Bonti Gogoi
Dr. Bonti Gogoi, is currently working as Subject Matter Specialist (Agronomy) at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nagaon under Assam Agricultural University. She is involved in technology dissemination through conducting demonstrations of several frontier frontline technologies at farmers’ level since 2015.
Dr. Manashi Gogoi
Dr. Manashi Gogoi is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam (India). Her area of expertise is mainly related to Agricultural Production Economics.
Dr. Ratna Kalita
Dr. Ratna Kalita is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam (India). Her research interests focus on: Functional Genomics, Genome editing, Bioinformatics. For research purposes, she uses cutting-edge research technologies, namely genome-editing with CRISPR-Cas9 technology, gene silencing using RNAi, molecular marker development, recently advanced bioinformatics algorithms and tools.
Dr. Tankeswar Nath
Dr. Tankeswar Nath is currently working as Assistant Professor at the DBT-AAU Centre of Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam (India). During his PhD and Post-Doctorate, he specialized in Applied Microbiology. His main research interests focus on Alcohol Fermentation, Biotransformation, Bio-fertilizers, Biopesticides.
Dr. Naseema Rahman
Dr. Naseema Rahman is currently working as Junior Scientist (Horticulture) at Regional Agricultural Research Station of Assam Agricultural University in Shillongani, Nagaon, Assam. Her research activity is mainly related to the innovation of climate resilient technologies, focusing on vegetables and pulses.
Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma
Incharge E-Lab and
System Administrator
DBT-NECAB
Siddhartha Jyoti Baruah
Instrumentation Engineer
DBT-NECAB
Dwipen Sarmah
Accountant
DBT-NECAB
Bijoy Krishna Saikia
Electrician
DBT-NECAB