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
Doctoral Fellows

Rashi Tyagi
Designing a synthetic microbial community for biocontrol of pathogen

Soumya Sahai Saxena
Rhizosphere engineering for sustainable agriculture
Engineering rhizospheric microbiota through compost amendment for enhanced suppressiveness against pathogens

Salila Pradhan

Priya Chaudhary
Understanding the
mechanisms of general disease suppressiveness in organic fields


Kanika Chawla
Rhizosphere engineering for mitigation of human pathogens
Amitava Dutta
Assessment of soil health
using hyperspectral imaging technology and AI/ML tools

Argha Sinha
Mitigation of abiotic stresses in plants using microbiome-based approach

Puja Basuri
Rhizosphere engineering
to combat biotic stress

Ayushi Tyagi
Influence of plant-growth promoting bacteria on the
growth attributes of Curcuma spp.
Based in Mizoram University
(Jointly supervised with
Prof. S. K. Tripathi)

Amelioration of biotic stress by rhizosphere microbiome engineering