Programme

Master Degree (M.Sc.)

About Course Programme

The Post-Graduate (M.Sc.) curricula in Botany is of two-years duration with total of 2000 marks. The system of examinations is of semester pattern. There will be four semesters consisting of four theory papers for First, Second and Third semesters and two theory papers for the Fourth Semester. There is one practical paper in each semester (First to Fourth) and one Seminar presentation/Field visit paper in the Third semester. In addition, students have to carry out a project work to be initiated in the third semester and shall be completed in the Fourth semester. Each theory paper carries an internal assessment of 20% of the total marks. Each theory and practical examinations is of three hours duration. The project work carries 100 marks, 50 for the dissertation and 50 for the seminar presentation.

How to Enter into the Course Programme

The students are entered into the course on the basis of their qualifying in CPET examination.

Class Schedule

10:30 am -1:30 pm (3 theory Classes 1 hour each)

2.30 pm -5.30 pm (1 practical class of 3 hours).

M.Phil

About Course Programme

The M. Phil. course in Botany is of one-year duration comprising of two theory papers of 100 marks each and dissertation of 100 marks (Total 300 marks). The theory examination is held after six months of admission. The students are required to submit the dissertation before one year of completion. The curriculum is designed to orient the students interested to pursue for a career in research.

How to Enter into the Course Programme

The students are entered into the course on the basis of their career in the qualifying (URET) examination followed by written and oral examinations.

Class Schedule

10.30 am - 5.30 pm (Dissertation and theory classes)

Ph.D.

About Course Programme

A candidate is allowed to register for Ph.D. after qualifying the URET examination. The candidate is then required to undergo course work of six months comprising of two theory papers of 100 marks each. After successfully completing the course work the candidate is allowed for Ph.D. registration.

How to Enter into the Course Programme

As per the prevailing regulation of the University a candidate in order to enroll for Ph. D. has to qualify in the University Research Entrance Test (URET) or National Entrance Test (NET) conducted by CSIR-UGC or GATE conducted by IITs/IISc or Through the award of DST- INSPIRE or Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship and MANF by the UGC.

Course Schedule

After admission into the Ph. D programme, a candidate is required to undertake course work on a regular basis for a minimum period of one semester. The course work shall comprise of three papers of 100 marks each and two papers of 50 mark each.

D.Sc.

D.Sc. is the highest degree offered by the University in science. A scholar with proven high academic caliber in plant science, evident from at least two research papers published in high impact journals are normally allowed for D.Sc. registration.

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People

Dr. Mrutyunjay Jena
Asst. Professor
Ph.D., Utkal University
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Dr. Mrutyunjay Jena, completed his M.Sc. in Botany in the year 2003 and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Botany from Utkal University in the year 2009. He has worked at Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany as DAAD- Fellow (June 2008 to March 2010) and at IARI, New Delhi (December 2010 to July 2011) in Indo-Denmark Project as Post-Doctoral Fellow. He has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Post Graduate Department of Botany, Berhampur University since 2011 and as a coordinator of the department from Dec. 2015- May, 2019. His principal research interest is Algal biotechnology and Molecular systematic. He has completed three major research project funded by Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project (OSDP), Bhubaneswar. Govt. of Odisha, Science &Technology Department, Govt. of Odisha and MoEF & CC, Govt. Govt. of India. He has guided 05 Ph.D. students, 16 M.Phil. students and 19 M.Sc. Students (dissertation). He has published 50 research papers in the international repute peer reviewed journals, 3 book chapters and authored 1 monograph/book. He has attended 50 national and international seminars, conference and workshops in India and in abroad. He has organised 02 International Conference, 02 National Conferences, 02 Research Methodology Workshops, 01 IPR workshop. He was conferred with DAAD�fellowship award by German Academic Exchange Service in 2008, DS-Kothari Post-Doctoral fellowship award by UGC, Govt. of India in 2011 and Post-Doctoral Fellowship award at Department of Green Life Science, Sangmyung University, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea, supported by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of Korean Republic, 2011.

Dr. (Miss.) A. Leela Veni
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.
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Her area of interest Plant Bio-chemistry, Gymnosperm(including paleobotany), Plant taxonomy, Instrumentation, Plant anatomy, Genetic engineering , Embryology

Dr. Sarita Das
Coordinator
Ph. D. in Biochemistry
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Dr. Sarita Das received her M. Sc. degree from Khallikote Autonomous College, Berhampur with Microbiology as specialization and M.Phil. degree from Berhampur University, Berhampur with Ethnobotany as her dissertation work. She qualified national level entrance examinations CSIR-UGC-NET JRF twice in Dec, 1999; June, 2000 and a rank holder in Life Sciences (appeared SPM Fellowship). She completed her Ph. D. in Biochemistry at University of Madras, Chennai under the supervision of Prof. S. Niranjali Devaraj. Subsequently, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Department of Microbiology at University of Minnesota, USA (2007-2008) and CSIR, Research Associate (2011 � 2013). Before joining to her current position, she also worked as a lecturer in PG Department of Biosciences, Mohuda (2004-2005), ad hoc Lecturer under Dept. of Higher Education, Govt of Odisha (2014-2015) and also qualified OPSC, senior lecturer. Dr. Das has expertise in Pharmaceutical microbiology, Bacterial Pathogenesis, isolation and purification of bioactive phytocompounds. Her Microbiology laboratory welcomes interested candidates to carry out research work in isolation and purification of phytocompounds and to study their role in inhibition of bacterial pathogenesis.��

Dr. Biswa Ranjan Meher
Asst. Professor-I
Ph.D.: IIT Guwahati
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Dr. Biswa Ranjan Meher received his M. Sc. degree from Utkal University-Bhubaneswar with Biochemistry as specialization. He qualified national level entrance examinations CSIR-NET and GATE to pursue Ph. D. in Biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) under the supervision of Dr. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay. Subsequently, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at different US universities like the University of Kansas (KU), Kansas; Albany State University (ASU), Georgia; and University of Richmond (UR), Virginia. He also worked as a DS Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow (DSKPDF) in the Department of Biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from 2014 to 2016. Before joining to his current position, he also served as an Assistant Professor in the DBT-BUILDER Programme at the Centre for Life Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India from 2016 to 2017. He has worked in several collaborative interdisciplinary research areas in USA, and in India. He is a recipient of National Doctoral Fellowship by AICTE, Govt. of India. Dr. Meher has expertise in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and his research area focus on molecular modelling and simulations of biomolecules of therapeutic importance, structure based drug and vaccine design, pharmacologically bioactive natural products, development of Nano-medicine and their applications, understanding the protein conformations through structure network analysis, and application of computational tools to solve biological problems. His laboratory welcomes interested candidates to carry out research work in Molecular modelling and simulations of biomolecules and its applications in drug design and discovery.

Dr. Padmalochan Hembram
Asst. Professor-I
Ph.D.: Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal
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Dr. Padmalochan Hembram received the Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India, on 2nd May 2017. He has done his PhD on transcriptiome profiling of salinity stress responsive genes from Phaseolus vulgaris. His work has been published in various international journals and current works are communicated in several international journals which are under review. His current research interests include the synthesis of artificial transcription factors and identifying the promoter regions which differentiate the resistant varieties from susceptible varieties and application of computational tools to understand the biological systems.

Facilities

Seminar Library

The department maintains two separate libraries. One is contributed by students through seminar consisting of five hundred text books and the other supported by the University.

Seminar Hall

The department has a well-equipped seminar hall of 100 seating capacity, dedicated for various types of events conducted in the department.

Computing

The department is having a computer laboratory with internet facility for the benefit of students and faculty members. The research scholars and faculties members make use of this facility to survey literature for the research through http://www.ugcinfonet.in.

Laboratories

Besides two general laboratories for M.Sc. practical, there are four specialized laboratories viz., Algal Biotechnology & Molecular Systematics, Environmental Toxicology, Microbiology, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Molecular Biology.

Student Project Work

It is mandatory in the part of the student to do project work and submit the report in the 4th Semester as envisaged in the prescribed course of studies of M. Sc.

Study Tour

Yearly at least one study tour is arranged with support of the University. In the study tour programme, students guided by the faculty members are required to survey the flora of the adjourning region to collect specimen and prepare herbarium and a report. This has been a part of M. Sc. curriculum.

Research

Research Area in the Department

Stress Physiology, Molecular Biology and Genomics, Environmental Toxicology, Ecology, Floristics and Ethnobotany, Microbiology and AlgologyProject Execution in the Department (Ongoing and Completed): Ongoing :06;Completed: 26

Ongoing Project = 07

Project Completed

14 research scholar and 4 project staffs working in the department.

1. BiswajitaPrdhan, Project Fellow (MoEF CC, Govt. of India)
2. ChhandashreeBehera, Project Fellow (ST Project, Govt. of Odisha.
3. Priyanka Purohit, Project Fellow (ST Project, Govt. of Odisha.
4. Purnima Hembram, Project Fellow (OURIP Project, Govt. of Odisha.

Students/research scholars their achievements: (Last 5 years)

• Miss.KadambiniMohanty: receivedscholarship from IMA,BBSR.qualified GATE,2020(4thSemester student)
• Mr. Shaikh Ameeruddin qualified GATE 2020(4THSemester)
• Miss. Sudhamayee Paridaqualified NET-LS,2019.
• Miss. Amruta Singh qualified GATE 2019, presently working as a project fellow at NIT, ROURKELA.
• Mr.Akshaya Kumar Behera qualified GATE-2019 NET LS2019.
• Miss. Sradhanjali Nayak qualified GATE,2019
• Miss.Sneha Nayak qualified NET LS,2017.
• Miss. Supriti Pattnaik qualified CUCET,2019 (CUTN Ph.D. Scholar)
• Mr.Lalit K.Behera qualified GATE 2018, CSIR-NET-JRF,2017,CSIR NET LS, 2018 now pursuing Ph.D at IIT,BBSR.
• Mr. Somnath Baral qualified GATE,2018 GATE,2020. Presently working as a project fellow at ILS,BBSR.
• Mr. SrimantaPatra, DST-INSPIRE Fellowship 2018, Presently pursuing Ph.D at NIT, Rourkela.
• Mr. Debasis Pati, qualified GATE,2018 CSIR NET LS,2019. Presently pursuing Ph.D at NIT, Rourkela.
• Miss. Jasmin Panda qualified GATE,2019
• Miss. Deeptimayee Panda qualified UGC-CSIR-JRF-NET,2016 qualified OES,2018.
• Miss. Kalpana Naik qualified OFDAC-2018.
• Miss. Purnima Hembram qualified GATE, 2016, Presently pursuing Ph.D in the Department of Botany, B.U.
• Mr. Himanshu Sekhar Mohapatra 2015 batch of M.Phil student qualified ICAR-AIR-NET-2015,AIR-152 ,ICAR-ARS-NET-2016,AIR-119,CSIR-UGC-NET LS,Dec 2016- AIR -43, GATE-LIFE SCIENCE-2016-372,CSIR-UGC-NET-2018-AIR-35, State Selection Board,Odisha-2019-RANK-1.
• Mr. Sabita Barik Qualified State Selection Board, Odisha-2019,RANK-16
• Miss. Priyanka Purohit. Project staff(Ph.D. Scholar) Awarded Best poster presentations in ACS Biochemistry group for the presentation of paper on "Uncovering the molecular mechanism of effective neutralization of HIV-1 by antibody VRC03: An in silico approach." in the IC-CBSDD-2019.
• Mr. Biswajita Pradhan awarded best Poster Presentation award in the National Conference NCBBIET-2019.
• Mr. Suraj Kumar Behera awarded Best posterpresentation award in National Conference-RAPSBB-2020.

Events

Seminar/conference/workshop/ Induction programme part can be replaced at Annexure 2

Conference: 02, Induction 01

Alumni

Berhampur University's Department of Botany Alumni Association was established in 2016. Members of the association include former and current students as well as department teachers. There are currently about 100 Life members. Every year, alumni gather with current student members of the department for a reunion function during the Botany Seminar's Annual Day celebration, which is followed by the association's General Body meeting. In addition, the Association's Executive Body meets two to three times per year. The primary goals of the association are to bring together past and present students so that they can know and interact with each another; to provide financial assistance to needy members; to encourage current students in their academics by introducing various medals and prizes; to honor retiring members of the association; and to give proclamation to members for their outstanding contributions to science and society at large. Each year, at the reunion function different prizes are awarded to current and recent graduates of the department for their significant achievements. In addition, a bulletin detailing the association's various activities is published each year in the name of Phytoseminario.

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