AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH

Professional Affiliations & Contributions

Membership:

• Life member of Indian Science Congress
• Life member of International society of plant morphologist
• Life member of Society for promotion of plant science research
• Life member of Indian botanical Society
• Life member of Alumni Association of Calcutta University
• Member of American Society of Microbiology
• Member of Microbiological society
• Life member of Association of Microbiological society

Awards/Achievements :

• National merit Scholarship, Government of India for merit results in B.Sc. ( Hons.), Calcutta university, 1991
• Junior Research Fellow in DST (New Delhi) project, Biotechnology and Plant Pathology lab., University of Rajasthan, Jaipur,1997 under Prof. Uma Kant
• Departmental Research Scholarship from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 1999.
• DAAD guest scientist fellowship (Germany) on the project “Characterization of different potato genotypes in respect to nitrogen efficiency by use of in vitro assays”, 2008
• All India Council for technical education (AICTE) major project under the scheme” Career Award For Young Teachers (CAYT)” in 2008 on “Effect of Varying Abiotic Stress on the Genomic And   Metabolic   Profiles Of  Chlorophytum borivilianum”, 2008.
• Visiting scientist to Purdue University, USA on the project “Metabolic profiling of wild type and transgenic petunia plants with downregulation of arogenate dehydratase and prephenate aminotransferase”, 2010
• Awarded Australia Award by Australian Government, Department of employment, education and workplace under the scheme of Endeavor postdoctoral fellowship to work at Central Queensland University, Australia and University of Melbourne on “Optimisation of cultivation under abiotic stresses for better steviol glycoside production under various soil conditions”in 2012.
• MoU with National AIDS research Institute (NARI) for anti HIV testing for the project “To characterize the ribosome inhibiting protein from the in vitro regenerated cultures of the plant Momordica balsamina” in 2011.
• Delivered invited lecture in seminar, conference and refresher course
• Convener of National Conference on Omics for Biotechnology, Feb 2012 at Central University of Rajasthan and Co convener of International conference on Web based learning and library management, January 2011 at JECRC, Jaipur India.
• Editorial Board member: Current Nutrition and Food science, Bentham Science 2015 till date.
• Best poster award in International conference 9th Indo Japan Bilateral conference (BICON-2014).
• Best poster award in International Conference on “Integrated Solid Waste Management Practices in Developing Countries” at CSIR NEERI, Nagpur (April 11-12, 2017).
• Best oral presentation in International Conference on Innovations and Research in Marine Electrical and Electronics Engineering Chennai, India, 6/17/2021 at AMET, Chennai
• Awarded “ Inspiring Women of Rajasthan “ by All India Professionals Congress, Rajasthan on 8^th Feb, 2021 

Faculty Development Program:

• Faculty Development Program on “Advanced Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology & Applications”
• (FDP-ANNA 2020) Manipal University Jaipur in association with MNIT, Jaipur
• FDP on “Interactive session on Outcome based education” February 14th 2020 , Manipal University Jaipur
• Faculty empowerment program on Pedagogic and personal effective workshop  ( Aug 21-23 , 2018) Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan  by MUJ TEC 
• Faculty orientation programme on  entrepreneurship development (DST),30th Dec. 2005
• Bio statistical computational workshop for SPSS and MS excel, 21st -22nd 2010

WORKSHOPS / Symposium:

• Participated in DAE-BRNS 5th National workshop on Materials Chemistry (NWMC-2019) (NCom-Mat) during November 8-9, 2019 at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan  Rs. 3000/-PDF
• Participated in workshop on Professional development of women academician for leadership in higher education (Oct 06, 2018 ) at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan  .
• Symposium ( Co convener ) “Rising awareness on Intellectual property rights” on 12th Jan 2019 at Manipal University Jaipur, Rajasthan   . ( PDA Rs. 1000)
• Workshop and conference on Metabolomics; 5th -10th July 2009 at University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Training course on Thermo Nicolet iS10 FTIR spectrometer with Smart iTR accessory and Omnic , TQ Analyst software, 7th-8th Nov. 2013 by Thermo scientific  
• Basic training course on DNA recombinant technology and PCR; 26th -29th Nov. 2002 by Bangalore Genei company , Bangalore
• Training course on TSQ Quantum series LC/MS-MS , 26th -29th Aug 2013 by Thermo Scientific
• Training course on the Laboratory quality management system and Internal audit as per ISO 17025:2005 Training course ; 9th -12th September 2013 by Indian Institute of quality management , Jaipur
• Training course on Trace 1300 GC/TSQ 8000 GC MS/MS system, 2nd – 6th Sept. 2013 by Thermo Scientific
• Workshop cum training on Bioinformatics: Biological analysis and protein structure prediction. 27th -29th 2002 by Birla institute of scientific research  Jaipur
• Basic training on Protein Purification & Immunotechniques ; 27th -30th Dec 2003 by Bangalore Genei company , Bangalore
• Training course on Basics of AAS iCE 3300 operations and Basics of ICP-MS X series 2 operations , 19th-21st 2013 by Thermo Scientific
• Workshop on Industrial pollution management , 22nd-23rd Feb. 2008 by Dept of Civil engg. MNIT , Jaipur

PATENTS FILED:

• Patent filed :202011037184 dated 2020/08/28; Applicant : Manipal University Jaipur ;Inventor: Dr. Mousumi Debnath; A Novel Approach For Using Biosurfactant in Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor;
• Patent filed: 202011039946 dated 15-09-2020; Applicant : Manipal University Jaipur ;Inventor: Dr. Mousumi Debnath; Priyanka  Sharma , Sapna Kumari; Friendly Wash Detergent Additive with Nanobiosurfactant And Extremozymes.
• Patent numbered 202011053051 dated 05-12-2020 by BIOSOLVE INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED of 301, Vidya Apartments, C-49, Paras Marg, Bapu Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India relating to POLYHERBAL FORMULATION AGAINST SINGLE STRANDED RNA VIRAL DISEASES Inventor: Dr. Mousumi Debnath; Libin KV; Mukesh Agarwal.
• Patent filed : 202111036363 dated 11-08-2021 Applicant: Rajasthan Olive cultivation limited Manipal University Jaipur; Jiwaji University, Tripura University; Inventor: Dr. Mousumi Debnath; Prof. G.B.K.S. Prasad; Prof. Debashish Maiti; Dr. Surinder Singh Shekhawat  A probiotic olive leaf based fermentative and nutraceutical beverage composition and process of preparation thereof .

Work Experience