Environmental Genomics Laboratory
Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Meet The Group
Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Annapurna Bhattacharjee
Understanding the impact of
different agri-management
practices on soil health

Dr. Sonal Srivastava
Engineering rhizosphere microbiota for enhanced resistance to plant disease and human pathogens through compost amendments
Funding Agency: CEFIPRA
Based in INRAE, Rennes, France
Doctoral Fellows

Rituraj Devrani
Characterization of native
urease-producing bacteria and deciphering their roles in mitigation of rainfall-induced
soil erosion in hilly regions


Salila Pradhan
Rhizosphere engineering for sustainable agriculture
Rashi Tyagi
Designing a synthetic microbial community for biocontrol of pathogen


Soumya Sahai Saxena
Engineering rhizospheric microbiota through compost amendment for enhanced suppressiveness against pathogens

Amitava Dutta
Assessment of soil health
using hyperspectral imaging technology and AI/ML tools
Priya Chaudhary
Understanding the
mechanisms of general disease suppressiveness in organic fields

Kanika Chawla
Rhizosphere engineering for mitigation of human pathogens


Ayushi Tyagi
Influence of plant-growth promoting bacteria on the
growth attributes of Curcuma spp.
Based in Mizoram University
(Supervisor: Prof. S. K. Tripathi)
Argha Sinha
Mitigation of abiotic
stresses in plants using microbiome based approach

Debtoru Chatterjee
Machine learning and game theory based techniques for strategies against narcotics and insurgencies

Puja Basuri
Rhizosphere engineering
to combat biotic stress