Awards and Recognitions (2020-25)

 2025-26

1. Lead lecture in Summer school training programme “Techniques in mass production, quality control of microbial Biopesticides” (September 16 to 23, 2025).

2. Lead lecture on Unravelling the wheat leaf blight pathobiome: Integrative multi omics and molecular perspectives on host-microbe interaction in 2-day National conference at RLB central agricultural university, Jhansi, U.P IPS-MEZ meet. (2025).

3. Guest Lecture on Unravelling pathobiome and development of Biofilm based Bioformulations: A multi-omic approach in disease management in 07-day MSME, GOI training programme at ICAR-ISRI, Lucknow. (2025).

4. Awarded ANRF-IRG Research Grant of 55.67 Lakh (DST, Gov. of India) on competition basis- (Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap). (2025).

5. Received ANRF-ITS international travel grant for attending “29th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2025)” held at Seoul South Korea, on 26th-29th April, 2025.

6. Outstanding Scientist Award in “2^nd International Conference on Frontiers in science and Technology for Agricultural Transformation” jointly organized by ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad & Agriculture, Environment, Entrepreneur, and Technology Development Society on September 25^th-26^th, 2025.

7. Dr. JP Singh, Scientist (Plant Biochemistry) received Second Best Poster award at Annual Convention of the society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology and National Conference on "Emerging Innovations in Biochemistry and Biotechnology for Holistic Development of Agriculture" held at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences & Technology- Jammu, during 06-07 March 2025.

8. Elected as Zonal president of Mid Easter Zone of Indian Phytopathological Scociety 2025-26

9. Awarded as Organizing Director of 21 days Faculty development programme ( FDP-2025) on Recent Advances in Plant protection for intensive organic farming from 7 to 27 October 2025 Jointly organized by Banaras Hindu University Varanasi U.P. and National Agriculture Development Cooperative LTD. (NADCL) Baramulla, J& K.

10. Delivered lecture “ Microbe to microbiome in plant protection: Strategies for Effective Application in 21 Days Faculty development programme (FDP -2025) on Recent advances in Plant protection for intensive Organic Farming from 7-27 October 2025.

11.Mr. Shiv Charan Kumar, YP II secured 2^nd position in IMMA’s Three minutes thesis colloquium 2025 (Won cash prize 25000)

12.Second Best Poster award at Annual Convention of the society for Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology and National Conference on “Emerging Innovations in Biochemistry and Biotechnology for Holistic Development of Agriculture” held at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Sciences & Technology- Jammu, during 06-07 March 2025.

13.Delivered a lead lecture on “Exploring the Diversity of Bipolaris maydis and Its Transcriptomic Insights in Indian Maize” under Technical Session 1: Microbial Biodiversity and Taxonomy during the Two-Day National Conference jointly organized by Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University (RLBCAU), Jhansi and the Indian Phytopathological Society – Mid-Eastern Zone (IPS-MEZ) Meet on January 3rd -5th 2025.

14.As a Rapporteur (Oral) during the National Conference on " Two-Day National Conference jointly organized by Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University (RLBCAU), Jhansi and the Indian Phytopathological Society – Mid-Eastern Zone (IPS-MEZ) Meet on January 3rd -5th 2025.

15.Best Scientist Award in Microbiology conferred at the Recent Advances in Agricultural, Biological & Applied Sciences for Eco - Friendly Development (RAABASED 2025) held at Maya Devi University, Dehradun, India

16. Recipient of the prestigious INSA Visiting Scientist Fellowship for the year 2025, awarded by the Indian National Science Academy.

2024-25

1. Dr. Nazia Manzar Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Plant Pathology) delivered an invited talk on "Bioprospecting Native Bacterial Isolates from the Western Ghats of Karnataka for Biocontrol Potential Against Maydis Leaf Blight" during the National Conference on "Advances in Innovative Technologies and Plant Health Management Strategies in Climate Resilient Agriculture," held at the College of Agriculture, Tripura, Agartala, on September 26-27,2024.

2. Dr. A.S Kashyap Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Plant Pathology) delivered an Invited Talk in National conference "Advances in innovative technologies and plant health management strategies in climate resilient agriculture" at college of agriculture, Tripura, Agartala,

3. Dr. A.S Kashyap Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Plant Pathology) delivered a Lead lecture on Unravelling the wheat leaf blight pathobiome: Integrative multi omics and molecular perspectives on host-microbe interaction in 2-day National conference at RLB central agricultural university, Jhansi, U.P.

4. Dr. A.S Kashyap Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Plant Pathology) delivered a Guest Lecture on Unravelling pathobiome and development of Biofilm based Bioformulations: A multi-omic approach in disease management in 07-day MSME, GOT training programme at ICAR-ISRI, Lucknow

5. Dr. Shobit Thapa, Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Agril. Microbiology) delivered an Invited Talk on Cyanobacteria biofertlizers application and production - under the entrepreneurship development program on Azolla Farming Technology: Future viable Livelihood option for farming community of Kashmir organized by SKUAST-K, 24-10-2024.

6. Dr. Shobit Thapa, Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Agril. Microbiology) delivered a talk on microbe mediated crop protection in fruit and vegetable crops organized by District Horticulture Officer Mau.

7. Dr. Pramod Kumar Sahu served as Invited speaker in 1st International Conference on "Innovations to Achieve Climate Resilient Smart Agriculture for Ensuring Global Food and Nutritional Security (IACRSAEGNS-2024) (Theme-Climate Change)" that will be jointly organized by Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, (Uttar Pradesh), India; Agriculture, Environment, Entrepreneur, and Technology Development Society (AEETDS), Lucknow (U.P.), India at IISR -IISR, Lucknow, 18-19th Nov. 2024.

8. Dr. Alok Kumar Srivastava (Director), Dr. Hillol Chakdar (Sr. Scientist) and Dr. Shobit Thapa Scientist (Sr. Scale) are Representing ICAR-NBAIM in the national level committee responsible for the formulation of standards in the field of Biodiversity by Bureau of Indian Standards (2024).

9. Dr. Pramod Kumar Sahu received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture)-2024, Society for Plant Research, Vegetos.

10.Dr. Jyotsana Tilgam, Scientist (Agril. Biotechnology) was awarded the Young Women Scientist Award in "1st International Conference on Innovations to Achieve Climate Resilient Smart Agriculture for Ensuring Global Food &Nutritional Security (IACRSAEGNS-2024) jointly organized by ICAR-IISR Lucknow, Agriculture Entrepreneur Environment & Technology Development Society, Lucknow & Uttar Pradesh Council of Agricultural Research, Lucknow, U.P. on November 18-19.

11. Dr. JP Singh, Scientist (Plant Biochemistry) received Young Scientist Award-2024 in the field of Life Sciences on the occasion of 1st International Conference on "Innovations to Achieve Climate Resilient Smart Agriculture for Ensuring Global Food & Nutritional Security (IACRSAEGNS-2024) (Theme Climate Change)" Jointly Organized by ICAR-IISS, Lucknow, Agriculture Entrepreneur Environment & Technology Development Society, Lucknow & UPCAR, Lucknow UP on November 18-19.

12. Dr. Udai Bhan Singh, Sr. Scientist (Plant Pathology) was elected to the editorial board of three international scientific journals as Guest Editor for the year 2024-25

13. Dr. Pramod Kumar Sahu, Sr. Scientist (Agricultural Microbiology) was has served to the editorial board of two international scientific journals as Associate Editor and one as Guest editor for the year 2024-25

14. Dr. Nazia Manzar Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Plant Pathology) was elected to the editorial board of two international scientific journals as Guest Editor for the year 2024-25

15. Dr. A.S Kashyap Scientist (Sr. Scale) (Plant Pathology) was elected to the editorial board of six international scientific journals as various editorial roles like editor, associate editor, guest editor, and review editor for the year 2024-25.

16. Appointed as Guest Editor for *Frontiers in Microbiology* (Impact Factor: 4.0; NAAS Rating: 10.0)

17. Appointed as Review Editor for *Frontiers in Microbiology

18. Delivered an invited talk on “Bioprospecting Native Bacterial Isolates from the Western Ghats of Karnataka for Biocontrol Potential Against Maydis Leaf Blight” during the National Conference on “Advances in Innovative Technologies and Plant Health Management Strategies in Climate Resilient Agriculture,” held at the College of Agriculture, Tripura, Agartala, on September 26–27, 2024.

19. Delivered 03 Guest lectures in National training programmes at ICAR-NBAIM National Trainings, NBAIM, Mau, 2024-25.

20. Dr.Nazia Manzar was awarded Life Membership of the Association for Conservation of Microbes and Application (ACMA) in the year 2024.

21. Awarded the Young Women Scientist Award in “1st International Conference on Innovations to Achieve Climate Resilient Smart Agriculture for Ensuring Global Food &Nutritional Security (IACRSAEGNS-2024) jointly organized by ICAR-IISR Lucknow, Agriculture Entrepreneur Environment & Technology Development Society, Lucknow & Uttar Pradesh Council of Agricultural Research, Lucknow, U.P. on November 18-19.

22. Awarded ANRF-IRG Research Grant of 55.67 Lakh (DST, Gov. of India) on competition basis- (Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap). (2025).

23.Invited Talk in National conference “Advances in innovative technologies and plant health management strategies in climate resilient agriculture” at college of agriculture, Tripura, Agartala

24. Invited Guest lecture on Multi Omics, Biochemical and Molecular Dialog between Host-Pathogen-Bioagent Interaction in 2-day training programme at NDUAT at Faizabad (2024)

25. Invited Lead talk on Genetic Diversity, Microsatellite Markers and AI-Based approach for Detection and Diagnosis of Leaf Blight Complex of wheat, National conference on plant pathogens and people at SKAUST, Jammu (2024).

2023-24

1. Dr. Hillol Chakdar visited KACC, The Republic of South Korea in May 2023 to attend the 22^nd Annual Meeting of ACM and delivered a invited lecture on “Fostering Agricultural Sustainability through microbial research: Role of NAIMCC in India”

2. Obtained copyright for Indian Soil Microbiome Project website. Reg. No. L-137419/2023 dt. 8-12-2023. Successfully executed a consultancy project signed between ICAR-NBAIM and M/s Magic Mitra, Ahmedabad for the consultancy project on “Quality improvement of microbe-based biostimulant” on 09-Feb-2024 for one year.

3. Dr. Pramod Kumar Sahu received Best oral presentation award in National Conference on "Nurturing Agricultural Advancement and Sustainability 2024" (NAAAS 2024, 10th & 11th February) organized by Society of Agriculture Research and Social Development (New Delhi) and Sampoorna International Institute of Agri. Science & Horticultural Technology, Maddur In Association with the University of Mysore.

4. Resource person to deliver a lecture in “Volatilomics: A key to understand plant-microbe interactions and stress management in crop plants for a greener tomorrow” at CAFT Microbiology at TNAU, Tamilnadu, 01-10 Feb2024.

2022-23

1. Dr. Surfrider Paul received Best Paper Award in DBT and CSIR Sponsored organized by Dept. of biotechnology & bioinformatics Bishop Heber College -Tiruchirappalli International virtual conference on Biological Innovation & Computational Exploration for Pandemic Challenges (BIPAC'22) from 24th and 25th January, 2022.

2. Dr. Renu, Principal Scientist has been elected as Executive committee member of Society of Plant Research from 2021-24 (Life membership SPR-LM-215)

3. Dr. Pramod Kumar Sahu, Scientist (Senior Scale), Agricultural Microbiology, was awarded the Association of Microbiologists of India’s Young Scientist Award 2022 in Agricultural Microbiology on February 3, 2023, at the 63rd International Conference of AMI at MDU University, Rohtak, Haryana. He received this award in recognition of his research work on agricultural microbiology. He has made significant contributions in the fields of bacterial endophyte research for plant growth, biological control of plant pathogens, and salinity stress tolerance and has made more than 60 research and review publications in journals of national and international repute.

4. Dr. Pramod Kumar Sahu, Scientist (Senior Scale), Agricultural Microbiology, was awarded the NAAS Young Scientist Award 2021 in Plant Protection on June 5, 2022, at the NASC Complex, New Delhi. He received this award in recognition of his work on plant-microbe interaction, biological control of plant pathogens, and endophyte-mediated abiotic stress tolerance. A very notable contribution was to develop techniques for the resurgence of virulence in Ralstonia solanacearum. He has developed an efficient system for selection of bacterial endophytes using multiple mechanisms for biocontrol of fungal pathogens and also formulated a fluid bed-dried microbial consortium.

5. Dr. Ruchi Srivastava, Senior Research Fellow, ICAR-NBAIM was awarded International Travel Support for FEMS conference on Microbiology, Belgrade, Serbia for attending the FEMS conference on Microbiology-2022 from June 30th to July 2nd, 2022, in Belgrade, Serbia, and presented her research paper entitled "Analysis of putative biosynthetic gene clusters and antimicrobial peptides in the genome of Bacillus subtilis RC 25". She has also received International Travel Support (ITS) from DST (the Department of Science and Technology) for attending this international conference.

2021-22

1. Dr. Abhijeet S. Kashyap awarded with Young scientist award (Plant pathology) awarded in International conference on Global research initiatives for sustainable agriculture and allied sciences held on December 13-15, 2021.

2. Dr. Abhijeet S. Kashyap awarded with Best Oral presentation award to Mr.Abhijeet S Kashyap, Unrevealing microbial biodiversity: A case study of microbiome investigations in the Eastern Ghats and its use in sustainable agriculture in international web conference, GRISAAS-2021, 13-15-2 Dec 2021, Bikaner, Rajasthan

3. Dr. Abhijeet S. Kashyap awarded with Best Poster Presentation award- Second prize for "A taxonomical study for correct identification of Bipolarisspp". In national symposium on Plant Disease: impact on food security.

4. Admitted as "Fellow" of SAS society: SAS society has recognized Dr. Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap, Scientist, ICAR-NBAIM, contributions in academics and research and has provided prestigious SAS fellow membership.

5. Certificate presented to Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap on "Conquering the intricacies of citation and references by WILEY publishers. (Aug 24, 2021)

6. Certificate presented to Abhijeet Shankar Kashyap on "Presenting numbers and quantities with precision and style by WILEY publishers. (Aug 17,2021)

7. Certificate of participation awarded to Abhijeet S. Kashyap by Department of agriculture and farmers welfare for successfully completing the quiz on Natural farming under the flagship of 75^thAzadi ka Amrit Mahotsav (2021).

8. Young scientist award (Plant pathology) awarded to Dr Nazia Manzar in International conference on Global research initiatives for sustainable agriculture and allied sciences held on 13-15^th December, 2021.

9. Best Poster Presentation award to Dr Nazia Manzar in National Symposium (Virtual) on Plant Diseases: Impact on Food Security, - Indian Phytopatholog^-ical Society, Delhi Zone, 17-18t^h December, 2021.

10.Best Oral Presentation Award (First) to Tiwari A, Renu, Singh R, Vishwakarma AK, Yadav A, Sarim KM, Yadav AK, Kumar A, Sharma PK, and Saxena AK. (2021). Promotion of microbes-based technology for improved crop production among weaker section of society In International Conference on Global Initiative in Agricultural, Forestry, and Applied Sciences, Uttarakhand, India. https://agetds.com/giafas-2021/held on 2021, October 17-18.

2020-21

1. Best oral presentation award: Garima Rai, D.P Singh, Pooja Yadav, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Rajan Singh, Vivek Singh, Khan Mohd. Sarim, Sudheer Kumar Yadav, Ashish Kumar Viswakarma, Astha Tiwari, Renu, and Anil K Saxena (2020). Effects of Microbial Formulations on Plant Growth Parameters and Antioxidant Defence System in Tomato. In National Webinar on Farm, Food &Farmerorganized by Sannagra Vilcas Welfare Society (SVWS) from 24-25 Sept 2020.

2. Best oral presentation award: Pooja Yadav, Rentz, D.P. Singh, Garima Rai, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Rajan Singh, Sudheer Kumar Yadav, Ashish Kumar Vishwakarma, Astha Tiwari, Vivek Singh, Khan Mohd. Sarim & Anil K Saxena (2020) on "Microbial fortification and organic amendments improves plant growth and antioxidative defense system in Wheat" In 'National Web-Conference: MRIPBLS-2020-Management of Resources for Improvement of Productivity, Biodiversity and Livelihood Security' at Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur from 29-30 July 2020.

3. Best oral presentation award: Pramod Kumar Sahu, Shailendra Singh, Udai B. Singh, Amrita Gupta, Surinder Paul, Pandian K, Harsh V. Singh, Anil Kumar Saxena (2 02 0). Phenomenon of reversal of phenotypic conversion in Ralstonia solanacearum and a simplified protocol for reversing avirulent to virulent colony types for consistency in results during prolonged experimentation. In 7th International Conference: Phytopathology in Achieving UN Sustainable Goals, Jan 16-20, 2020, New Delhi, India, organised by Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi, India

4. Best PhD thesis award: Nazia Manzar got best PhD thesis award on National webinar on Farm food and farmer on 24^th -25^th September 2020.

5. Dr. Udai B. Singh awarded with Young Achiever Award-2020 by Society for Advancement of Human and Nature (SADHNA), Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, SoIan, H.P., India

6. Dr. Udai B. Singh awarded with Scientist of the Year Award 2020 for outstanding contribution in the field of Plant Pathology on the occasion of International Conference on "Advances and Innovation in Agriculture and Allied Sectors" by EkNayi Rah Foundation, Etawah, U.P., India.

7. Dr. Vellaichamy Mageshwaran awarded with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Award for Scientific Excellence-2020 by Marina Labs (Research and Development), Chennai

8. Dr. Renu, Principal Scientist was nominated from Bureau to be part of 10 scientist team to work with Bioversity-CIAT on ABDI and will be responsible for data generation, sharing as well as learning the process of Agricultural Biodiversity Index (ABDI) development (30.12.2020).

9. Dr. Pramod K. Sahu awarded with Kanwar Virendra Singh memorial all India best publication award 2021 by SADHANA, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, Himanchal Pradesh for "Sahu, P.K., Singh, S., Gupta, A., Singh, U.B., Paul, S., Paul, D., Kuppusanty, P., Singh, H.V. and Saxena, A.K., 2020. A Simplified Protocol for Reversing Phenotypic Conversion of Ralstonia solanacearum during Experimentation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020,17,4274.

10.Dr. Surinder Paul awarded with Kanwar Virender Singh Memorial All India Best Publication Award by Society for Advancement of Human And Nature, Dr. YS Parmar UHF, Nauni for our publication "Sahu, P.K.; Singh, S.; Gupta, A.; Singh, U.B.; Paul, S.; Paul, D.; Kuppusamy, P.; Singh, H.V.; Saxena, A.K. A Simplified Protocol for Reversing Phenotypic Conversion of Rats tonia solanacearum during Experimentation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 4274".