CENTRE FOR POST GRADUATE STUDIES,

ODISHA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY,

BHUBANESWAR

The Centre for Post Graduate Studies (CPGS), OUAT was instituted during the academic session 1998-1999 with opening of the PG Department of Computer Science and Application with an intake capacity of 60 students per year. It has the facility to offer three-year course programme leading to award of MCA degree. The Department of Computer Science & Application (CSA) produce IT Professionals for IT companies in India and abroad, e-governance, telecom, IT in Agriculture etc. In the year 2002, the centre was further strengthened with opening of P.G. Department of Bioinformatics having intake capacity of 32 students per year. This Department was opened to extend two-year course programme leading to award of M.Sc. in Bioinformatics. Department of Bioinformatics produce biological software professionals and skilled Bio-informaticians for various pharmaceutical companies, Biotech companies, IT companies and Research Institutes of national and international repute to solve the biological problems through computational tools & techniques. Lastly the P.G. Department of Agribusiness Management was created in the year 2007. The Department has intake capacity of 32 students per year and offers a two-year course programme leading to award of MBA in Agribusiness Management. MBA programme in Agribusiness Management was opened with an objective to impart education in production, marketing, post harvest management and export oriented business in Agriculture.

All the three departments under CPGS are involved in applied areas of research in Agriculture and allied sciences which have been fruitful in enhancing the agricultural production of the State Odisha. All the three departments are following syllabus and examination system as per the recommendation of ICAR since 2009. The students of these departments are fulfilling the basic needs in the agricultural sector of the country in general and the state in particular with application of advanced subjects.

DEAN

 

 

Prof. B. Baisakh

Dean, PGF-cum-DRI, OUAT

Email ID: deanpgfdriouat[at]gmail[dot]com

 

 

 

 

 

 

Details of staff position (Dean’s office)

 

Sl. No.	Name of the post	Sanction Post
	Dean	01
	Placement Officer	01
	Research Assistant	01
	Senior Assistant	02
	Senior Stenographer	01
	Demonstrator	01
	Senior Typist	01
	Junior typist	01
	Laboratory Attendant	01
	Peon	01
	Specimen Collector	01

 

 

Department OF BIOINFORMATICS

The Department of Bioinformatics started in year 2002 under the umbrella of Centre for  Post Graduate Studies in Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology offers full time two years course M.Sc in Bioinformatics. The course curricula are designed as per the recommendation of ICAR, New Delhi. The focused research areas are Genomics (Structural, Functional & Comparative), Molecular Modeling & Drug Designing, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Development of Computational Tools and Software, etc. Students passed out from the the department have been successfully placed in several research organizations and private companies of National and International repute.

Details of staff position (DEPARTMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS)

Sl.No	Name of the post	Sanction Post
1	Assistant Professor	04
2	Practical Teaching Associate	01
3	Asst. Computer Programmer	01
4	Jr. Clerk-Cum-DEO	01
5	Asst. Computer Operator	01
6	Attendant (Daily Wages )	------

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Dr. Sukanta Kumar Pradhan

Head of the Department

Office phone:+91-6742565760

Mobile: +918093042622

Email: ksukantapradhan[at]gmail.com/ hodbioinfocpgs[at]ouat[dot]nic[dot]in

Area of specialization: Comparative Genomics of different field crops, Computational Proteomics of Membrane bound proteins. Microbial Bioinformatics, Metagenomics study, Environmental bioinformatics and bioremediation, Immunoinformatics etc.

Publications: 47(Peer reviewed Journals)

Workshop/ Training organized: 02

Project Handled: 02 (PI)

 

STAFF POSITION

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	Contact Details	Area of Specialization
1	Mrs. Sucharita Balantray	Assistant Professor	Mobile: +918249445774 Email:sucharita_bioinfo[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in	Proteomics Publications: 02 Project Handled: 01 (Co-PI)
2	Mr Surya Narayan Rath	Assistant Professor	Mobile:+919937727461 Email: snrbioinfo[at]gmail[dot]com	Computational Genomics, Structural Bioinformatics, Insilico Study of Neurological Disorders and effect of natural compounds against it. Computer Aided Drug Design, System Biology Publications: 25 (International) 03 (National) Workshop/ Training organized: 02 Project Handled: 02 (Co-PI)
3	Mrs Sushama Rani Martha	Assistant Professor	Mobile:+919937585870 Email: sushma[dot]martha[at]gmail[dot]com	Comparative and Functional Genomics, Computational phylogenetics, Microarray Techniques, Computational Neuroscience. Publications: 6 Project Handled: 01 (Co-PI)

 

 

 

Student strength of the Department (P.G.) as on 17.07.2020- First year: 26 &  Second Year: 28

SEMINAR/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECT

 

Project Title	Funding agency	Total  Outlay in Lakhs	Year
Establishment of High Performance Computing Facility Centre for building excellence in research and development in  Agriculture	Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Empowerment, Govt. of Odisha under RKVY	432.85	2018-19
Creation of Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) for the promotion of Biology Teaching through Bioinformatics (BTBI) Scheme of BTISnet	DBT, Govt. of India	56.79	2006-19

 

STUDENT PLACEMENT/HIGHER STUDY

 University/Institution

• Ajou University, Molecular Science and Technology Research Center , South Korea
• Osaka University, Institute for Protein Research, Japan
• University of Michigan, USA

• Technical University of Denmark · Department of Chemistry, Denmark
• Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
• University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States

• Cornell University,Ithaca, New York
• University of London, UK
• North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India
• Central University of Hyderabad
• Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Chemical, Kolkata
• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
• Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar
• National Dairy Research Institute, Kernel
• Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
• Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi 
• Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata
• Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
• University of Kalyani, West Bengal
• National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
• National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur
• Institute of Life Science, Bhubaneswar
• Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar
• Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan, University, Bhubaneswar
• Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

 

Placement in Company

• XCELRIS GENOMICS
• TCS INNOVATION LAB
• INFOSYS 
• PAREXEL
• WIPRO
• IBM
• NOVARTIS
• IQVIA
• GENOTYPIC