Departments of Zoology

Publications :

2015

1. Sharma, N., Sengupta, S., Boruah, D., Bhuyan, N., Borah, D., Saikia, L. and Saikia, G., 2015. White-winged Duck Asarcornis scutulata in Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary, Assam, India. Indian Birds, 10(5), pp.121-123.

2016

2. Sengupta, S., Singha, H. and Deb, P., 2016. Ground foraging behaviour of Malayan giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor). Current Science, 110(12), pp.2223-2225.

2021

3. Saikia, B., Pdah, D.S.M., and Sengupta, S., 2021. Urban Fauna: Amphibian Checklist of Shillong, Meghalaya. Journal of Bioresources 8(2): 24-34.  https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/PBK5U 

2022

4. Saikia, B., Laskar, M.A., Sinha, B., Debnath, M., Sengupta, S., Das, H., Shabnam, N.A., Kharkongor, I.J. and Dinesh, K.P., 2022. Confirmed report of the Aniqiao Torrent Frog, Amolops aniqiaoensis (Anura: Ranidae), from India, with additional distributional records for two other Indian pecies of Amolops. Reptiles & Amphibians, 29(1), pp.214-224.

5. Saikia, B., Sinha, B., Nanda, P. and Sengupta, S., 2022. A confirmed westernmost population of the Burmese Gliding Treefrog, Zhangixalus burmanus (Andersson 1939)(Anura: Rhacophoridae). Reptiles & Amphibians, 29(1), pp.268-269.

6. Kalita, T., Sharma, R., Sengupta, S., and Basumatari, D. 2022. Entomophagy practices in Bodoland Territorial Region, Assam: nutritional potential and implications for food security, Journal of Insects as Food and Feed pp. 1-16, https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2021.0141 

7. Sengupta, S., Deb, P., Arandhara, S., Goswami., S and Singha, H. 2022. Ecological correlates of Giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) microhabitat use in lowland tropical forest: Implications for matrix management, Mammalian Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00329-0

8. Saikia, B., Sengupta, S. and Saikia, T. 2022. Xenophrys megacephala (Big headed horned frog) Natural History Notes,  Herpetological review 53(2), pp. 304

OP/RC/Seminar/wokshop Partcipation :

• Presented a Oral Talk and Poster in Biodiverse 2018 held on “Can you see me: Tackling the issue of detectability in tropical forest, Assam in IIT Guwahati.
• Attended the two week GIS and Remote sensing workshop organized by North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC, Shillong) from April 17- 28^th  2017.
• Attended a one-week workshop on Bioinformatics: Tools and Application organized by Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh from April 23^rd - 29^th 2019
• Participated in the Two day National Seminar on "Conservation of Biodiversity (NSCB 2022)” together with Kisan Mela 2022, organized by Biotech KISAN Hub, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Meghalaya under the aegis of DBT, New Delhi on 2nd and 3rd September 2022 at the NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya.

Awards/Achievement received:

• Worked as a Project “Field Assistant” in the project “Demographic response of Understory birds to human-induced habitat degradation in the eastern Himalaya by doing mist-netting, extraction of birds from mist nets, bird ringing and obtaining morphological data from birds in 2011 under NCBS, Bangalore.
• Worked as a “BSR-JRF and SRF” in the doctoral research project in Assam University, Sichar from 2012-2015.
• Worked as “Assistant Field Officer” under wildlife rescue and rehabilitation project with Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) from 2016-17.
• Worked as a Lecturer (contractual post) for a period of one year in Sankardev College and Guest Faculty in Cotton University from 2017-2018.
• Worked as “Research Personnel” under Animal Health Division with Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Umiam (ICAR) from 2017 till 2019.
• Worked as a "Assistant Professor" stage I- for a period of one year in Gurucharan College, Silchar from September, 2019 till March 2021.
• Adjudged as the "BEST ORAL PRESENTER" in the Two day National Seminar on "Conservation of Biodiversity (NSCB 2022)” together with Kisan Mela 2022, organized by Biotech KISAN Hub, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, Meghalaya under the aegis of DBT, New Delhi on 2nd and 3rd September 2022 at the NEHU, Tura Campus, Meghalaya. https://nehu.ac.in/public/assets/files/events/NSCB-2022-and-Kisan-Mela-2022.pdf 

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