Establishment of OMBRIC-ILS Centre of Excellence in Marine Biotechnology

Institution:Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar

Coordinator: Dr. Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo

Lead Scientists

• Dr. Tushar Kant Beuria
• Dr. Sunil Kumar Raghav
• Dr. Punit Prasad
• Dr. Anshuman Dixit
• Dr. Debabrata Biswas
• Dr. Seema Pradhan
• Dr. Namisha Sharma
• Dr. Nivedita Jena
• Dr. Shuvobrata Majumder

Objectives

• Establishment of a state-of-the-art biorepository for cataloguing marine micro and macro organisms of Odisha
• Generation of Odisha's marine bioresource atlas using genomics tools
• Fostering marine biotechnology research and facilitating startup activities in Odisha

Key Deliverables

• 1000 marine bacterial genome sequencing from Odisha coast
• Development and optimisation of protocols for metagenomic and functional metagenomic studies
• Establishment of a state-of-the-art biorepository for marine organisms
• Generation of Odisha's Marine Bioresource Atlas using genomics tools
• Promotion of marine biotechnology R&D and startup activities through ILS-Bio-Incubator