Prizes and Awards

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Debava Chaudhuri

Won the third prize in the National Climate Innovation Challenge held on the 5th of June 2026 at IIT Kharagpur for presenting an innovative “Salinity Resilient Farming Toolkit”

Wrick Chakraborty

Won the APSR Assembly Education Award for presenting a part of his Ph.D. research related to the “Microbiome – Metabolome crosstalk in COPD affected individuals” at the 29th Congress of Asia Pacific Respiratory Society, Manilla, Phillipines, November, 2025

Debava Chaudhuri

1st Prize in Poster Presentation in the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in Sustainable Drug Discovery and Development to Combat the Crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance 27th -28th February 2025: “Community Genomics based development of Endophytic consortium for yield improvement of heritage landraces of paddy – Case study from Indian Sunderbans”

Sarmishta Mukhopadhyay

2nd Prize in poster presentation in International Symposium on Biotechnology, organised by Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata; November 2024: “Evaluation of the antibacterial and anticancer properties of Psidium guajava leaf extract

Rupsha Karmakar

Joint 1st Prize in poster presentation in International Symposium on Biotechnology, organised by Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata; November 2024.”Resistome Identification and Mapping from Urban Wastewaters – A Comparative Study”

Debava Chaudhuri

Joint 3rd Prize in poster presentation in International Symposium on Biotechnology, organised by Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) Kolkata; November 2024. “Unique Bacterial Consortia Regulate Salinity Adaptation in True Mangrove Endospheres – Insights from Indian Sundarbans”

Gaurab Aditya Dhar

Judges’ Special Appreciation Award. “Creating a Mangrove endophyte bacterial collection for targeted genome editing.” International Seminar and Workshop on CRISPR/Cas-based Plant Functional Genomics &Computational Modelling, organized by CSIR–North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam(17th to 21st January 2023):

Sampreet Manna

Student of Semester 10 BMBT won the third prize in Poster presentation category at the two day International Conference on Sustainable Management for Better Future – recent Advancement and Prospects held at East Calcutta Girls College, Kolkata on 25th and 26th November 2024

Rohan Pal

Student of Semester 10 BMBT won the Best Poster Award One Day International Seminar on Recent Trends in Microbiology on 18th May 2022 at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, Kolkata

Group Awards:

Best Poster Award(UG and PG students category): Arunima Bhattacharya; @ICCCGC, Kolkata; 26th and27th August 2022
3rd Prize in Poster (Research Scholar Category): Sarmistha Mukhopadhyay @ICCCGC, Kolkata 26th and 27th August 2022
Second Prize in Young Researcher (s) Category: Nabarun Dawn and Souptik Ghosh@ICCCGC, Kolkata, 26th and 27th August 2022