• JANUARY

  1. Congratulations to Arjun Ok, Athar, Devansh, and Prof. Tulika Prakash! 🎉
     Their paper titled “A Genomic Investigation into the Probiotic Attributes Among Members of the Lactobacillaceae family” has been published in Springer Nature - Current Microbiology (January 2026).

  2. Congratulations to Pratyusha Patidar and Prof. Tulika Prakash! 🎉
     Their paper titled “An integrative analysis of genetic factors reveals dysregulation of cytokines, immune signaling, and T cell activity as the underlying immune mechanisms in autoimmune immune thrombocytopenia” has been published in Springer Nature - Thrombosis (27 January 2026).

• FEBRUARY

  1.  Congratulations to Pratyusha Patidar! 🎉 Pratyusha Patidar successfully delivered her synopsis seminar on 11 February 2026. 

  2.  Congratulations to Harshita Sharma and Prof. Tulika Prakash! 🎉

Their paper titled “Comparative analysis using 16S rRNA metagenomics to explore the microbial diversity of plant based fermented foods” has been published in Springer Nature - Food Safety and Risk (28 February 2026). 

• MARCH

  1.  Congratulations and Best wishes to Rija Kalita for her new career endeavor as a JST-LOTUS Fellow (India-Japan Circulation of Talented Youths in Science Program funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency) at RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan. 

• MAY

  1.  Congratulations to Btech-Mtech graduates Arpit and Pratibha and ! 🎓 (May 2026)

  2. Congratulations to M.Sc dissertation graduate Radhika! 🎓 (May 2025)

• JUNE

  1.  Congratulations to Dr. Pratyusha Patidar!🎓

She successfully completed her doctoral thesis defense on 02 June 2026 and became the 6th Ph.D graduate of Systems biology Lab.

1. JANUARY

   1. Congratulations to Dr. Arjun OK!🎓 

He successfully completed her doctoral thesis defense on 11 January 2025  and became the 5th Ph.D graduate of Systems biology Lab.

2. FEBRUARY

   1. Congratulations to Pratyusha Patidar, Dr. Arihant Jain and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their paper titled “Deciphering the role of molecular mimicry in the etiopathogenesis of Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia using an immunoinformatics approach” has been published in Elsevier - ImmunoInformatics (3 February 2025).

   2. Congratulations to Arjun Orkkatteri Krishnan, Lalit N Mudgal, Vishesh Soni, and Prof. Tulika Prakash! 🎉
      Their paper titled “ProbML: A Machine Learning-Based Genome Classifier for Identifying Probiotic Organisms” has been published in Wiley - Molecular Nutrition & Food Research (24 February 2025).

3. MARCH

   1. Congratulations to Prithvi S. Prabhu, Rija Kalita, Vanshika Sharma and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their review paper titled “Understanding Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Integrative Framework of Microbiome, Metabolome, and Immunological Biomarkers” has been published in Xia & He Publishing Inc.- Journal of Translational Gastroenterology (25 March 2025).

4. MAY

   1.  Congratulations to Mtech graduates Devansh and Inchara! 🎓 (May 2025) 

5. JULY

   1.  Congratulations to Dr. Rashmi Ira!🎓 

She successfully completed her doctoral thesis defense on 29 July 2025  and became the 4th Ph.D graduate of Systems biology Lab.

6. DECEMBER

   1.  Congratulations to Rija Kalita for getting her JST-LOTUS (India-Japan Circulation of Talented Youths in Science Program funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency) application acceptance! 🎉 (10 December 2025)

1. FEBRUARY

   1. Congratulations to Prof. Tulika Prakash, Sandhya R. Yadav, Marius Bürger, and Dieter Jendrossek ! 🎉
      Their mini-review paper titled “Cleavage of natural rubber by rubber oxygenases in Gram-negative bacteria” has been published in Springer Nature - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (02 February 2024).

   2. Congratulations to Arjun Orkkatteri Krishnan, Manisha Sethi, Jayalaxmi Dash, Deepti Parida, Salona Kar, Swayambara Mishra, Aliva P. Minz, Anubhab Padhi, Kirti Ranjan Das, Biswaranjan Pradhan, Prof. Tulika Prakash, and Dr. Shantibhusan Senapati ! 🎉
      Their paper titled “Whole Genome Mining and Characterization of a New Probiotic Strain Levilactobacillus brevis ILSH3 from Handia: An Ethnic Fermented Beverage of Odisha, India” has been published in Springer Nature - Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins (12 February 2024).

2. MAY

   1. Congratulations to Mtech graduates Ananya and Prithvi S! 🎓 (May 2024)

3. JULY

   1. Congratulations to Rashmi Ira, Dr. Vikas Sharma, Dr. Shrawan Kumar, Mira Koul, Lalita Sharma, Dr. Aditi Halder and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their paper titled "Production of biohythane from cow dung using novel microbial synthetic consortia designed by heat-treated and acclimatized combined wastes" has been published in Royal Society of Chemistry. -  Environmental Science Advances (19 July 2024).

4. AUGUST

   1. Congratulations to  Arjun Orkkatteri Krishnan, Manisha Sethi, Deepti Parida, Jayalaxmi Dash, Suraja Kumar Das, Dr. Shantibhusan Senapati and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their paper titled “Comprehensive physiological and genomic characterization of a potential probiotic strain, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ILSF15, isolated from the gut of tribes of Odisha, India” has been published in   Elsevier - Gene (21 August 2024). 

   2. Congratulations to  Rashmi Ira, Jitesh Adwani, Arjun Orkkatteri Krishnan, Gurunathan Subramanian, Sandhya Yadav, Saumya Shukla, Snehlata Rao and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their review paper titled “Understanding Aging through the Lense of Gut Microbiome” has been published in  Xia & He Publishing Inc. -  Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine (29 August 2024).

5. NOVEMBER

   1. Congratulations to Rashmi Ira, Shweta Deswal and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their book chapter titled “Role of the Microbial Community in Energy Recovery via Wastewater Treatment” has been published in Springer Nature Book-  Application of Microbial Technology in Wastewater Treatment and Bioenergy Recovery (29 November 2024).

1. FEBRUARY

   1. Congratulations to Pratyusha Patidar and Prof. Tulika Prakash! 🎉
      Their book chapter titled "Metagenomics for the Identification of Microbial Enzymes for Nutraceutical Production" has been published in Taylor and Francis publication house book - Microbial Enzymes in Production of Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals (06 February 2024).

   2. Congratulations to Arjun Orkkatteri Krishnan and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their paper titled “Identification of conserved genomic signatures specific to Bifidobacterium species colonising the human gut” has been published in Springer Nature - 3 Biotech (24 February 2024).

2. JUNE

   1. Congratulations to Rashmi Ira, Hemant Thakur, Narendra Kumar Verma, Dr. Vikas Sharma, Dr. Shrawan Kumar, Dr. Atul Dhar, Dr. Satvasheel Powar and Prof. Tulika Prakash ! 🎉
      Their paper titled “Anaerobic co-digestion of food waste, bio-flocculated sewage sludge, and cow dung in CSTR using E(C2)Tx synthetic consortia” has been published in Elsevier -  Environmental Technology & Innovation ( 29 June 2023).