The Plant Biology Team
We constitute of a small but enthusiastic group including undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to the lab meetings, the members meet together for an over -the-tea informal academic discussion on plant biology at the Plant Biology Discussion Forum. They are joined by other plant biology enthusiasts in the forum discussion. Apart from the regular doctoral and masters' students, the plant biology lab takes a few summer trainees as well, to work on different projects.
Dr. Kishore Panigrahi
Associate Professor, +91 674 2494140 (Off), +91 674 2494139(Lab)
panigrahi@niser.ac.in
Dr. Kishore Panigrahi is currently heading the Plant Science Lab at School of Biological Sciences, NISER. His areas of interest are light signalling and understanding the control of flowering time in Arabidopsis. However he has a diversified interests in the field of Plant biology research. He has forayed into the field of Production of immunomodulatory protiens using Physcomitrella as a model.
Alena Patnaik
PhD Scholar
alena.patnaik@niser.ac.in
She is from the city cuttack. She joined the lab in 2018. She had completed her bachelor's from Ravenshaw university, cuttack and masters from OUAT, Bhubaneswar. Currently she is studying the correlation of phyB and GI with auxin in patterning the root development in plants
Aman Kumar
PhD Scholar
aman.kumar@niser.ac.in
Aman joined the lab in 2021. He has done his B.Sc. from SDAU, Gujarat, and M.Sc. from Visva-Bharati University. Currently he is focusing on Role of CO-SV in Plant Development and Adaptation to stress
Shivani Behera
PhD Scholar
shivani.behera@niser.ac.in
Shivani joined the lab in 2023. She has done her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Sambalpur University. Currently she is trying to find the role of heat stable protein in development of Physomitrella patens
Adwitiya Khalua
She joined the lab in 2022. She is studying the role of photoreceptor on callus development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Email- adwitiya.khalua@niser.ac.in
Dipanjali Kachhap
She joined the lab in 2022. Currently, she is investigating the intricacies of photoperiodism in Vigna radiata.
Email: dipanjali.kachhap@niser.ac.in
Saurabh Gond
He joined the lab in 2022. He is interested in studying the impact of Cr (VI) on the developmental and nutrient uptake in Vigna radiata.
Email: saurabh.gond@niser.ac.in
Ashay Samuel
He joined the lab in 2023. He is studying the effect of various light conditions on Jute mutants.
Email: ashay.samuel@niser.ac.in
Meera Vijayan
She joined the lab in 2023. Her current interest and work revolves around the PhyB and auxin crosstalk in regulating development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Email: meera.vijayan@niser.ac.in
Prasant Sethi
He joined the lab in 2023. He is interested in studying the effect of carbon nanoparticle (CNP) on Mung bean.
Email: prasant.sethi@niser.ac.in
Sarat Kumar Khandai
Technical Assistant, DBT
Sarat Comes from Jajpur, Odisha. He has joined as a Technical Assistant in the KISH Lab, School of Biological sciences in Aug 2019.
Alumni
Anisa Kar
Entrepreneur Based on Europe
Dr. Madhusmita Panigrahy
Assistant Professor
mpanigrahy@niser.ac.in
Madhusmita did her PhD from University of Freiburg Germany. She aims to study the regulation of phytochrome signaling that may affect various yield components in rice.This study will help in designing strategies for engineering rice that are better adapted to dense canopy and unpredictable weather conditions with higher yield.
Department of molecular biology and biotechnology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, SOA
Durga Prasad Biswal
Durga Prasad joined the lab in 2014. He has completed his Msc. from Utkal University, Odisha. His interest revolves around the crosstalk between light and hormone signaling in Physcomitrella patens, a moss which are the representative of primitive plants, those plants which conquered land first. Apart from his major focus he is also trying to understand the abiotic stress response in Physcomitrella.
PhD Awarded in January 2023
Anamika Singh
Anamika joined the Lab in 2014. She has done her M.Sc from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Currently she is focusing on “Biochemical and functional characterization of GIGANTEA in Arabidopsis
Selected for the Prestigeous DAAD Sandwich Module. PhD with Max Planck Institute Cologne in the group of Prof. George Coupland, 1st Aug 2018- 29th Sep 2020
Sony Singh
PhD Scholar
sony.kumari@niser.ac.in
Sony joined the Lab in 2013. She has done her M.Sc from North Bengal University, Silliguri. Her key research interest revolves around studying the integration of Hormone and Light Signalling on root development in Arabidopsis.
PhD awarded 2020
Abhishek Kumar
PhD Scholar
abhishek@niser.ac.in
Abhishek hails from Bhagalpur and has done his M.Sc in Plant Biology from Govind Ballabh Panth University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Panth Nagar, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic engineering. His interest lies in studying the splice variants of CONSTANS using molecular biology, genetics, and cell biology approaches.
PhD awarded 2019
Dr. Bedabrata Saha
SERB NPDF
bedasaha@niser.ac.in
Bedabrata did his PhD from Assam University, Silchar, India. He joined the lab in 2019 and is currently working to elucidate the effect of Aluminium as a stress on photo-morphogenesis, root patterning and flowering time control in Arabidopsis.
Currenty joined as a scientist at ARO, ISRAEL
Manisha Sahu
She joined the lab in 2020. She worked on in-silico identification and characterization of B-Box proteins in Beta vulgaris. She has joined University of Freiburg, Germany, as a PhD scholar in 2023
Loknath Behera
He joined the lab in 2020. He worked on PhyB and auxin correlation in patterning the root development in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Aadishakti Dalai
She joined the lab in 2021. She has contributed in many projects along with her main interest in correlating the levels of different microelements to Cold tolerance in Vigna radiata.
She has joined IISER-Pune as a PhD scholar in 2023
Navneet Yadav
Navneet joined the lab in 2021 and is interested in understanding the cross talk between flowering time and hexavalent chromium stress in Arabidopsis thaliana.
He has joined Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (CNRS) at Université de Strasbourg, France in 2023 for his PhD.
Sari Saren
Sari joined the lab in 2021 and is interested in studying the effect of aluminium stress using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
She has joined the International Graduate Program (IGP), Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Japan as PhD scholar in 2023.
Anshuman Behera
Re-evaluation of the role of ABP1 and understanding the hierarchical pattern of FT expression in Arabidopsis thaliana.
Jyotiprabha Kashyap
Master's Student
Brajabandhu Pradhan
Joined PhD in Belgium, Graduate School, 2017
Linkan Dash
Joined PhD in Iowa state University, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Aug 2018
Jyoti Ranajan Behera
Joined PhD in Graduate School in East Tennasse Univ. (ETSU), USA, Aug 2018
Kishan Kumar Singh, M.Sc.
Joined PhD in CRRI Cuttack
Aaram A Kumar
Int. M.Sc Student (2012)
Scientific writer at force communications
Current in USA
Priyanka Mishra
Int. M.Sc Student (2009)
Graduate Student in CEPLAS, MPI-PZ Cologne
Joined as a POSTDOC at UMEA Sweden, 2019
Khushbu Kumari
Int. M.Sc Student (2009)
Joined PhD in University of Wurzburg, Germany
Joined as a POSTDOC at University of Bochum, Germany, 2020
Aditya Prasad Nayak
Int. M.Sc Student (2010)
Joined PhD in University of CEA, Grenoble France
Joined as a POSTDOC at ETH, Zurich, 2019
Maitree Pradhan, M.Sc.
Project Fellow,DBT (2014)
Finised PhD programme at Maxplanck institute, Germany
Currently working as POSTDOC at Maxplanck, Germany
Debadutta Patra
Masters' student
He is from Cuttack. He joined the lab in July 2017. He works on the effect of light on callus initiation and development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Joined for PhD programme at CCMB, Hyderabad, 2019
Aman Ranga
Masters' student
He is an Integrated Masters' student. He joined the lab in May 2017. He is working on shade avoidance response in rice and forward genetic screen for novel components of shade avoidance response in Arabidopsis. He hails from Haryana.
Joined for MBA at IIM Ahmedabad, 2020
Mukundan S
Masters' student
He is an Integrated Masters' student in NISER. He joined the lab in June 2017. He works on spatio-temporal regulation of FLOWERING LOCUS T in Arabidopsis thaliana and the role of ABP1 in Arabidopsis thaliana development.
Joined PhD Programme at IISER Pun, 2019e
Swarnendra Banerjee, PhD.
PhD Scholar
He is interested in understanding CONSTANS splice variants and their role in Arabidopsis photoperiodic flowering using molecular biology tools.
Subhashree Das
Project Assistant
Joined my group from march 2013 and worked in deffrent preoject unit Jan 2019, She received DAAD felllowship to work in Albert Ludwig`s University, Freiburg, Germany
Currently working at Bengaluru
Preeti Prava Sahu
Masters' student
She comes from Odisha. She joined the lab in 2018. She is interested in understanding effect of cold stress induced tubulin orgnisation and modifications during land plant evolution using molecular biology and cell biology tools.
Secured all 3 gold mendals at SBS NISER, 2020 &
joined at
the LMU, Munchen, Germany for PhD
Animesh Chaurasia
Masters' student
I am interested in the regulation of gene expression in response to changes in various biotic and abiotic factors. I am using bioinformatics and synthetic biology to develop novel tools for applications in plant science.
Asutosh Khanduala
Masters' student
I am currently pursuing a project investigating the impact of aluminium stress on the photomorphogenic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Vinayak Prakash Saini
Masters' student
I am interested in studying the effects of Aluminium stress on photomorphogenesis and flowering time of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Joined PhD programme at CCMB Hyderbad
Payal Das
Masters' student
My work involves documenting the life cycle of Phragmites karka, performing metabolite profiling to look for beneficial phytochemicals, and unravelling its potential for biofuel production by looking at the yields of lipid extracts and further performing lipid profiling.
DAAD Exchange fellows
Karoline Steinberger
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Karoline joined Kish lab at the end of October 2013.Her research interest is hormone signalling in Physcomitrella and Arabidopsis . The topic of her bachelor thesis was “Characterization of auxin response modulation mediated by ER localized carrier proteins and conjugate hydrolase using a novel auxin sensor in Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts” under the supervision of Dr. Cristina Dal Bosco.
Cornelia Eckert
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Cornelia joined Kish lab under the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" in January 2014. She is from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. She worked at Kish lab on cloning the ABP1 gene into different vectors. She did her bachelors thesis on "Examination of the nucleation of sub cellular structures of MBL like proteins in B.Subtitlis."
Klara Lesch
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Klara Lesch joined Kish lab under the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" in September 2015. She is from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany.
Kristien klein
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Kristien klein joined Kish lab under the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" in September 2015. She is from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany."
Moritz Maschke
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Moritz Maschke joined Kish lab under the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" in September 2015. He is from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. "
Madlene Reiser
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Madlene joined Kish lab under the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" in January 2016. She is from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. She worked on ABP1 mutant lines to observe their phenotypes under various light conditions.
Elisabeth Lichtenberg
International Exchange Student, DAAD
Elisabeth joined Kish lab under the DAAD program "A New Passage to India" in January 2016. She is from Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. She worked on ABP1 mutant lines to observe their phenotypes under various light conditions.
Research Staff
Surya narayan pradhan
lab attendant inside green house
Mob: 9668667621
Munna helps Balaji in maintenance of the green house.
Students in short term projects
Year 2016
- Debdatta Patra
- Ashutosh Khandual
- Payal Dash
- Mehndi hans
Year 2015
- Tejassvitta
Year 2018
Sonia Sarangi
She comes from Cuttack, Odisha. She is interested in the molecular mechanism of phytochrome's action in Arabidopsis subjected to different light conditions.
Pratyasha Pallavi
She hails from Cuttack, Odisha. She is interested to investigate the role of CONSTANS like proteins in the regulation of flowering time.
Riya Sundaray
She is from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Her interests lie in blue light signaling mediated by cryptochromes. She along with others participated in experiments done to check light perception in cryptochrome mutants.
Narendra Chhatria
He is from Sundargarh, Odisha. He is interested in studying the activity of circadian clock controlled genes along with their rhythm.
Pragyan Dash
She resides in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She is interested to work on CRISPR cas9 mutagenesis system. She currently pursues her Integrated Masters' student at IISER, Kolkata.
Nidhi Mishra
She hails from Bihar. Her interest lies in identification and characterization of CONSTANS like gene and its splice variants in orchids. She is currently pursuing her Masters' in St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. She is interested in studying the molecular basis and the effect of abiotic stresses on flowering in plants.
Welka Sahu
She comes from Odisha. She is currently pursuing her Master's Degree in KIIT University. She is interested in understanding G-box mutations and how these mutants sense temperatures.
Rajat Kumar Nayak
He is from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He is working in microarray data analysis. He is also learning phenotyping of rice plants.
Konthalapalli Hradini
She is from Bangalore, Karnataka. She is currently pursuing her Integrated Masters' at NISER. She is working on using φC31 recombinase to excise CRISPR cassette from Arabidopsis genome in one generation. She is also interested in developing a firm grasp of molecular biology that will allow her to design effective experiments in any field of biology.
Sanaa Qahera Khan
She is from Bangalore, Karnataka. She is currently pursuing her Integrated Masters' at NISER. She is working on using φC31 recombinase to excise CRISPR cassette from Arabidopsis genome in one generation. She is interested in improving her understanding of genetic engineering, gene cloning and molecular biology.
Swagatika Panda
She is from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She joined our lab in January 2018. She is working on the effect of carbon nanoparticles in the development of rice plants
Soumyaranjan Bardhan
He is from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. She joined our lab in January 2018. He is working on understanding the basic shade tolerance in the rice line 'Swarnaprabha' using morpho-physiological, biochemical and molecular approaches.
Sougam Ojha
He is from Bhubaneswar. He is doing his masters in Trident Academy of Creative Technology, Bhubaneswar. He is investigating the role of GIGANTEA in heavy metal stress.
Sabeeha Bashir
She is from kashmir. She has done her masters from university of Kashmir. Joined the lab in October 2019. Currently studying the role of Early Light Induced Proteins In Temperature and Light regulation in Solanum lycopersicum
Nelofar Majeed
She is from Kashmir. She is currently pursuing her PhD at University of Kashmir. She is working on effect of carbon nanoparticles on development of Rice (Swarna variety).
Ifra Nazir
She is from kashmir. She has done her masters from university of kashmir. Joined the kish lab in October 2019.currently studying the characterization of fatty acyl reductase 5 in brassica rapa