SKM's MetSysBio Lab - Achievements

Proud moment for MSBL: Professor Shyam Kumar Masakapalli received "Best External Collaborator Award" from Himalaya Wellness Co. 2025

Congratulation Prof. Shyam Masakapalli

Proud moment for MSBL: Ms Portia successfully defended her Doctor of Philosophy.

Congrats, Dr. Portia D Singh

Proud moment for MSBL: Ms Jyotika successfully defended her Doctor of Philosophy.

Congrats, Dr. Jyotika Thakur

Proud moment for MSBL: Ms Shagun successfully defended her Doctor of Philosophy.

Congrats, Dr. Shagun

MSBL successfully organised a National Symposium on Molecular Intricacies of Plant Associated Microorganisms (MIPAM-2025) at IIT Mandi.

Congrats, MSBL team

Proud moment for MSBL: Dr. Shyam Kumar Masakapalli is promoted to become a professor at SBB, IIT Mandi.

Congratulation Prof. Shyam

Ms. Jyotika presented her work at "Bioprocessing India 2024" - IIT Madras held from 15-17th,Dec 2025.

Team MSBL attended the "Biology Annual Meet Mandi (BAMM) 2024" conference at IIT Mandi. All presented research work.

Proud moment for MSBL: Mr Yogesh Pant successfully defended his Doctor of Philosophy.

Congrats Dr. Yogesh Pant

Ms Portia attended " 22nd European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE on Sustainable Potato Production: Advances and Applications of Potato Research" in Oslo, Norway and showcased her research by presenting a poster on "Insights into the metabolic response of potato cultivars infected with Phytophthora infestans"

Mr. Ashutosh presented a poster at "Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and the Human Microbiome International Conference 2023" and attended a workshop on "Next Generation Sequencing and Data Analysis, Genomics and Bioinformatics" at THSTI, Faridabad, New Delhi.

Mr. Ram, Mr Ashish and Mr Yogesh attended "EMBO-ISPP SATELLITE MEETING 2024" conference at IISER Bhopal and presented poser of his work. Mr Yogesh give oral presentation on "Metabolic fates in Mustard during seed to seedling transition and under different wavelengths" and receive appreciation from the guests. They had a good interaction with the esteem scientist of their fields and discuss their research with them.

Ms. Shagun got the best presentation award on "Discoveries and Novel Advances in BioX: Molecules to Cells to Systems (DNA in BioX 2023)" at IIT Mandi for her presentation on "Small Molecules from Nature: drug discovery and their effects on cellular metabolic phenotypes."

Team MSBL attended the "Discoveries and Novel Advances in BioX: Molecules to Cells to Systems (DNA in BioX 2023)" conference at IIT Mandi.

Ms. Shagun presented the poster "Phytochemistry from the Himalayan diversity: from molecular discovery and metabolic analysis to health applications" at "Plants and People 2023" at Max-Plank University, Germany.

Ms. Jyotika attended "16th International Congress Thermophiles 2023" at Bangor University, UK and gave an oral presentation on "Genomic and metabolic insights into Thermobifida fusca."

Proud moment for MSBL Dr Shyam was invited to a live TV talk show "Swatch Bharath program" on DD Himachal for an informative interview on "Avshesh ka moll (Value of the waste)" broadcasted on 9 June 2023. video link - https://youtu.be/rXfdinf-hig

Proud moment for MSBL Mr Prem, Ms Navya, Mr Ashwin participate in Anusandhan 2023 at IIT Mandi and presented posters on their research work.

Medicinal plant lab, EWOK and MSBL collaboratively organized "Industry-Academia-NGO-FPOs Stakeholders meet on Medicinal Plants of Himalayas" on 24th-25th May 2023 at IIT Mandi. Deligates from Himalayan wellness Mr. Jean Francois Porracchia (Chief R&D Officer, Himalaya wellness Global), Dr. U.V. Babu (Scientific Head, Himalaya wellness), Dr Kannan, Mr. Zakir and other members from Academia, NGOs and FPOs made this event successful.

Proud moment for MSBL. Ms Nancy, Ms Arjita, Ms Ananya and Mr. Raj completed their M. Tech in Biotechnology degree after their dissertation at MSBL lab. Happy farewell to them.

Faculty Development program with SCERT on 11 March 2023. Dr. Shyam gave insight on Biomolecules in the face of Global challenges along with inhouse activities to elaborate the role of biomolecules in different sectors like agriculture, environment, etc.

Team MSBL attending HistCON 2023 at Shoolini University. Yogesh and Portia got 1st and 3rd prizes in the Best Poster Presentation event.

Dr. Shyam's interactive talk session on 'Smart Biosystems and Smart Agriculture with focus on Himalayas' motivates students to research on Himalayas.

Team MSBL attending BioX Annual Conference 2022, Jyotika, Yogesh, Shagun, Prem and Ashutosh presented posters and Chandrakant got 3rd prize in Oral Presentataion event. Dr. Shyam's interactive talk session on 'Unravelling cell metabolism with multiple isotopic tracers' helps in attracting fresh minds towards this emerging field.