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GBP team comprising Er. Jnyanada Prasad

Sarmah, Project Manager, GBP; Dr. Saurav Dey,

Technical Officer, GBP and Jawahir Md. Ekbal,

Finance Manager, GBP visited International

Biotech Park, Venture Center and Mapro Food

Park in Pune during 10-12 July 2018. The visit was

aimed at understanding the modalit ies

pertaining to functioning and management of the

Park. The team had the opportunity to visit their

infrastructure facilities, discussed their policies

and explored possible linkups to establish a

Knowledge Sharing Platform.

Official Visit to International Biotech Park,

Venture Center and Mapro Food Park

Dr. S. Dey, TO, GBP, Mr. J.M. Ekbal, FM, GBP, with Mr

Prasanta K. Biswal, CEO, IBP and Mr. Ravindra Sindhe, AGM,

IBP during their visit at International Biotech Park, Pune

Dr. S. Dey, TO, GBP, Mr. J.M. Ekbal, FM, GBP, with Mrs.

Soma Chattopadhyay, Manager Incubator, VC during their

visit at Venture Center, Pune

Dr. S Dey, TO, GBP, Mr. J.M. Ekbal, FM, GBP and Er. JP

Sarmah, PM, GBP with Mrs. Amruta Kasurde, Training

and Industrial Visit Co-ordinator during their visit

at Mapro Food Park, Pune

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A delegation of GBP comprising of Dr Bula Choudhury, Senior Scientist, GBP; Dr Rajiv

Chandra Dev Goswami, Research Associate, GBP and Mr. Prajjalendra Kr Barooah, Research

Associate, GBP visited Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology- Technology Business Incubator

(KIIT-TBI), ICAR - Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA), Agri Business Incubation

Centre & Odisha Biotech Park (OBP) on 11th, 12th & 13th July, 2018 to understand the modalities,

functioning, Management structure, Financial Status etc. of the incubation centres.

Official Visit to ICAR CIFA-Agri Business Incubation Center,

KIIT-TBI and Odisha Biotech Park

Dr B. Choudhury, SS, Dr R.Ch. Dev Goswami, RA and Mr. P. Barooah, RA with Dr. N.K. Barik, Scientist

and In-charge, ICAR-CIFA, Agri Business Incubation Centre

Dr B. Choudhury, SS, Dr R.Ch. Dev Goswami, RA and Mr. P.

Barooah, RA visited KIIT, TBI, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Dr B. Choudhury, SS, Dr R.Ch. Dev Goswami, RA and Mr. P.

Barooah, RA with Er. Laxminarayan Padhi, Scientist and Mrs.

Saswati Patnaik, Deputy Director, S & T Dept, Govt. of

Odisha at Odisha Secretariat Bhubaneswar

En-Geo Consultancy & Research Centre (ENGECORC) – LAB (ISO 9001:2008, Certified,

NRSA Recognized), H.No.71, Lamb Road, Ambari, Guwahati-781001, Assam have signed MOA

with GBP for the project entitled “ENGECORC's Lab”- En-Geo Consultancy & Research Centre,

Guwahati, Food Testing Laboratory” on 6th July 2018.

New Entrepreneur at GBP

Internship

Technical Expert Committee meetings were held on 17 & 27 July, 2018 for evaluation ofth th

technical bids received for the Bioinformatics Facility to be established at GBPIC. Technical

presentations were also held during the meetings.

TEC meetings for Bioinformatics Facility at GBPIC

Theme- Bio-molecule Profiling

The 12 batch of internship on 'Biomolecule Profiling', which is the 4 batch of summer 2018th th

season on Biomolecule Profiling, was started on 2 July, 2018. The interns of this group werend

Himashri Talukdar, Deepjyoti Kalita, Dhruvajit Kalita of Cotton University, Guwahati; Suman

Talukdar, Angsusmita Sarma,

Baishali Parasar, Sanchali

Das, Riki Talukdar, Shuhada

Begum, Bhagyasri Saikia,

Sushmita Chakraborty, Jitu

Moni Das, Department of

Biotechnology, Gauhat i

University; Susmita Nath of

Pandu College, Guwahati;

A n a s u y a B h a r a d w a j o f

University of Science &

Technology, Meghalaya, Firoza Choudhury of Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity

University, Kolkata

The program is under the primary supervision of Dr. Madan Gopal Barthakur, Senior

Scientist, GBP. Some aspects of the program also have associate-supervision of Dr. Rajiv Ch. Dev

Goswami, RA, Mr. Prajjalendra Barooah, RA and assistance from Mr. Kamal Gauli and Mr. Jintu

Technical expert committee members, invited external members and in-house GBP members during

discussion held for setting up of Bioinformatics Facility at GBPIC

Dr. M.G. Barthakur, SS, Dr. R. Ch Dev Goswami, RA, Mr. P. Barooah, RA,

Mr. J. Rajbongshi, LA and Mr. K. Gauli, LA along with internship students.

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Rajbongshi, Lab Assistants, GBP.

The internship involves extraction of fatty acids from a few local fish species and profiling of

the acids through FAME with special emphasis on Omega 3-& Omega 6- Fatty Acids present in the

samples. This internship course comprised of laboratory techniques and R&D skills on solvent

extraction (Soxhlet), chromatographic separation, use of high-end analytical instruments like Gas

Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) FAME analysis etc for molecule profiling and an

overall training on good laboratory practices.

Industrial Tour by interns to Ozone Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Interns of the 10 & 11 batch on Biomolecule Profiling were taken to an Industrial Exposureth th

Tour to Ozone Pharmaceuticals Ltd. a company located in EPIP, Amingaon on 2 July, 2018. Thend

interns got a very informative exposure witnessing the industrial manufacturing processes of Drug

Manufacturing, Quality Control, Product dispensing etc.

Dr. M.G. Barthakur, SS, Dr. R. Ch Dev Goswami, RA, and Mr. K. Gauli, LA along

with internship students during their visit to Ozone Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Theme: Basic Techniques on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Imaging

The 11 batch of Internship on Basic Techniques on Molecular Biology, Microbiology andth

Imaging was conducted from 16th July–30th July 2018 at GBP. The intern students in the batch

were Mridusmita Deka, of Guwahati College, Guwahati, Simakshi Bormon, Nabanita Sharma,

Priya Mandal, Annyesha Chakraborty and Debarati Paul of Pandu College, Guwahati, Krittika

Gogoi of Duliajan College, Manisha Das, Monoswi Chakraborty, Sushmita Mandal, Tinamoni

Buragohain, Srirupa Gupta Choudhury of Cotton University, Guwahati and Debojit Ghosh of

Rangia College.

The students underwent the internship program under the supervision of Mr Prajjalendra

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Barooah, RA, GBP; Dr. Rajiv Ch. Dev Goswami, RA, GBP and Dr. Bula Choudhury, Senior

Scientist, GBP. The students in this program were given a basic introduction to techniques in

Microbiology such as serial dilution, culture isolation, plating, antibiotic assays, Molecular biology

such as DNA isolation, PCR, RFLP, Protein isolation, SDS PAGE, FPLC etc and Imaging in

Confocal and Fluorescence microscopes.

Dr. B. Choudhury, SS, Dr. R. Ch Dev Goswami, RA, Mr. P. Barooah, RA, Mr. J. Rajbongshi, LA and Mr. K. Gauli, LA along

with students of the 11 batch of internship programme on Molecular Biology, Microbiology and Imagingth

Visit to Integrated Ornamental Fish Farming Unit and Biodiversity Center, Dept.

of Zoology, Gauhati University

A exposure visit was conducted for intern students of 9 & 10 batch on basic techniques inth th

molecular biology, microbiology and imaging to Integrated Ornamental Fish Farming Unit and

Biodiversity Center, Dept. of Zoology, Gauhati University on 2 July 2018. The students gotnd

exposure about the native endangered ornamental fish species and their breeding protocols. The

team was guided by Dr Bula Choudhury, SS, GBP; Mr Prajjalendra Barooah, RA, GBP and Mr Jintu

Rajbonshi, LA, GBP.

Students of the internship programme with Prof. Dandadhar Sarma, Dept. of Zoology, GU and other faculty members,

GPB of�cials during their visit to Ornamental Fish Farming Unit, Dept. of Zoology, GU

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Certificates were awarded to the Interns of the 10 & 11 batch on Biomolecule Profiling onth th

2 July, 2018 in presence of P kati, Dean Infrastructure, IIT Guwahati and staff ofnd

rof. Sashindra Ka

GBP at the conference hall of GBP.

Students of the 10 and 11 batch of internship programme on Biomolecule pro�ling after receiving certi�catesth th

from Prof. Sashindra Kakati, Dean Infrastructure, IITG

Certificate distribution

Ms. Indrani Barman, Assistant

Professor, Ms. Sangita Boro, Assistant

Professor, Ms. Karabi Das, Research scholar

from Assam Down town University under

went hands on training on FTIR & HPLC at

CAIF, GBP. Program was supervised by Dr.

Madan Gopal Barthakur, SS, Dr. Saurav

Dey, TO, Dr. Rajiv Ch. Dev Goswami, RA &

Prajjalendra Barooah, RA.

Hands on training on FTIR & HPLC

Ms. I. Barman, Assistant Professor, Ms. S. Boro, Assistant Professor,

Ms. K. Das, Research scholar from ADTU with Scienti�c Staff at GBP

Theme : Application of Sophisticated Analytical Instruments

A batch of interns in the area of “Application of Analytical Instrument for Identification and

Quantification of compounds in Plant Extracts” at GBP have done their internship project work

during July, 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Saurav Dey, Technical Officer, GBP.

The interns of this group are Mr. Tridip Kr. Deka, and Mr. Sandeep Thakur, M.Sc

Biotechnology, 2nd year, Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh.

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Dr. Madan Gopal Barthakur, SS, GBP, Dr. Rajiv Ch. Dev Goswami, RA, GBP, Mr. Prajjalendra

Barooah, RA, GBP, Mr. Kamal Gauli, LA, GBP and Mr. Jintu Rajbongshi, LA, GBP participated in the 1st

Rural Dialogue; a workshop organized by Center for Rural Technology, IIT Guwahati on 6-7 July, 2018th

Participation in 1 Rural Dialogue in IITGst

GBP members along with Padmashree Dr. R. Chidambaram, Former Principal Scienti�c Advisor to the Government of India,

Prof. Sashindra Kakati, Head, CRT, IITG, Mr. Pashim Tewari, Technical Director, AIILSG and Dr. Nitin Maurya, NIF,

at Rural Dialogue workshop organized by Center for Rural Technology, IITG

Dr. Madan Gopal Barthakur, SS; Dr. Bula Choudhury, SS; Dr. Rajiv Ch. Dev Goswami, RA;

Mr. Prajjalendra Barooah, RA; Mr. Jintu Rajbongshi, LA attended day-long Seminar on

“Importance of Intellectual Property Rights” organized by TIC-IITG in collaboration with PHD

chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi on 20 July, 2018.th

Participation in Workshop on IPR

Dr. Madan G. Barthakur, Sr. Scientist, GBP

visited NETES Institute of Pharmaceutical

Sciences, (NIPS) Mirza on 3 July, 2018 as anrd

external expert to conduct the faculty

recruitment interview of the institute. Dr.

Barthakur also visited the Animal house facility

at NIPS established with mentorship of NIPER

Guwahati.

Invited visit to NIPS, Mirza

Dr. M.G. Barthakur, SS, during his visit to NIPS, Mirza

as external expert for faculty recruitment

Chief Advisor : , IAS, Chief Execu�ve Officer, GBPShri Vinod Seshan

Editor : Research Associate, GBPShri Prajjalendra Barooah,

Tel: 0361‐2690228, Fax: 0361‐2690227 email: info2gbp@guwaha�biotechpark.com|

Website: www.guwaha�biotechpark.com

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Participants of 'Student Carnival-2018' at Mangaldoi College organized by Darrang District

160 student participants of 'Student Carnival' organized by Darrang District, Assam guided

by group of mentors and Govt. officials came for an exposure visit to GBP on 12 of July, 2018.th

Exposure Visit

Participants of 'Student Carnival' organized by Darrang district during their visit at GBP

A Vacuum Oven of make: STIK, model: VOS-

60A and a Culture Room Sterilizer of make: ELS

instruments, model: CRST have been installed at

GBP for use by in-house incubatees and outside

users on charge basis.

Vaccum Oven recently installed at GBP

New Equipment Instalation