Research Projects
Sponsored Projects
09. Project Title: Production of natural edible pigments (chlorophyll) from isolated microalgae: Pilot scale study and techno-economic analysis (2024- 2027)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 53.21 Lakhs
Sponsor: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India
08. Project Title: Development of an integrated process for co-production of biobutanol from sugarcane trash and lignin nanoparticles (LNPs) as green carrier for bactericidal agent (2023-2027)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 25.65 Lakhs
Sponsor: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
07. Project Title: Entrepreneurship Development through Setting up of Pilot Scale Unit on Production and
Packaging of Tender Jackfruit Ready to Cook at Biovillage (2023-2024)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 5.5 Lakhs
Sponsor: Directorate of Biotechnology Tripura (DBT Tripura), Tripura, India
06. Project Title: Edible coating from waste biomass increasing shelf - life periods of fruits and vegetables (2022- 2025)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 65.43 Lakhs
Sponsor: Defense Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), India
05. Project Title: Technology development for the production of natural colorant (chlorophyll) from isolated
microalgae (2019- 2022)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 32.23 Lakhs
Sponsor: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
04. Project Title: On field application of Foldscope for rapid collection of microalgae samples (2017-2019)
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 8.00 Lakhs
Sponsor: Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India
03. Project Title: Identification and characterization of intracellular and extracellular cues for phase shifting from acidogenesis to soventogenesis in Clostridium acetobutylicum (2014-2017) – Collaboration with IIT Bombay
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 60.39 Lakhs
Sponsor: Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India
02. Project Title: Isolation and characterization of micro-organisms/micro-algae from north east region and eastern Coal mines for bio-sequestration of CO2 and its utilization towards generation of bio-fuel (2013-2016) – Collaboration with NIT Durgapur
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 68.9 Lakhs
Sponsor: Department of Biotechnology (DBT), India
01. Project Title: Quantification of butanol synthesis using elementary modes and sensitivity analysis (2010-2013)
Principal Investigator : Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 10 Lakhs
Sponsor: Department of Science and Technology (DST), India
Consultancy Projects
01. Project Title: Identification of Adverse Outcome Pathway for the ovarian cancer under exposure of Clomiphene and submission to the AOP-wiki (2020-2021)
Principal Consultant: Dr. Kalyan Gayen
Amount: 7 Lakhs
Sponsor: Humane Society International India, Mumbai, India & Centre for Predictive Human Model Systems, Atal Incubation Centre-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (AIC-CCMB), Hyderabad
Sequence Submitted
NCBI GenBank Accession number MK418384-Chlorella sp. 18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.