International Collaboration and HRD

International Collaboration and ISTAG

The International Science and Technology Affairs Group (ISTAG), at CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow in collaboration with International S&T Affairs Directorate (ISTAD), CSIR Head Quarters, New Delhi spearheads the CSIR-NBRI’s linkages with international scientific & technical agencies across the world for carrying out collaborative and contract research in frontier areas of Plant Science. Over the years institute has developed several international linkages.

Institut National Polytechnique – Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique, Cedex France: Under IFCPAR/CEFIPRA joint collaborative Indo-French research programme on genomics and biotechnology of fruit quality (2005-2008).
WHO, Geneva: A “India Herbal Garden”, was developed at the Head Quarters of World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva (2006-2007)
Dept. of Biology, University of Eastern, Finland – For a collaborative project on “Ozone sensitivity of the most important Indian crop and tree species” (2011-2014).
Hayal Saeed Anam Group of Companies, Head Office at Taiz, Republic of Yeman – For a feasibility study of setting up a Touch and Smell garden (September 2012).
INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherché medicale), France – Bilateral programme of CSIR and collaborative project on “Immunoprofiling of medicinal herbs from traditional leads: Studies on cellular and molecular mechanisms and development of herbal combinations (under BIOASIE Programe) (June 2013)
Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Nepal – For collaborative research work.
Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal – For training to Nepalese Scientists in the area of Plant Molecular Biology. (June 2014)
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines – For exploring potential collaboration on drought response in rice (February 2016).
Natural Resources Institute (NRI), Greenwich University, London, U.K. – For discussing and developing whitefly control strategy ( December 13-14, 2016)
Laboratoire Géomatériaux et Environment, France – For providing three month research project study and training to Dr. Ana Carolina AGNELLO on the topic titled, “Biochemical and molecular-based techniques to study microbial diversity of the rhizosphere and its application to soils of anthropized environments (September 14, 2016 to December 5, 2016)
University of Cologne, Germany – For a collaborative project and exchange visits on Light dependent flavonol biosynthesis by MYB transcription factors: Identification of interacting factors (2015-2017)
Department of Botany, Tribhuban University, Kahmandu, Nepal, and INSA-NAST bilateral exchange programme (March 2017)
KfW (Kreditianstalt fur Wiederaufbau, Franfurt, Germany: For advisory consultancy on feasibility study for the programme ‘Forest and Biodiversity Management of the Himalayas’ in Nagaland (July 2017)
Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine – For a collaborative project on “Phylogentic grouping South Asian Lichen of the Teloschestaceae (Ascomycota) for biotechnological purposes” including scientists’ exchange visits (August 2015- February 2019)
UNIDO, Vienna, Austria for collaborative project : For collaborative project , titled, “Development and Promotion of non-POPs alternatives to DDT: Propagation of new dwarf cultivars of neem with early maturity and higher limonoids yield (2018)
The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy under CSIR-TWAS Postgraduate fellowship programme
National Institute of Agricultural Research (hereafter INIAP, Ecuador), Ecuador: For collaborative R&D programme and technical support on Nelumbo nucifera (2019).

Foreign Deputation of Scientists/Officers

S.N.	Year	Name of Scientist/Officer	Place of Visit	Deputation Period	Purpose of Visit
1	2009-10	Dr. L.B. Chaudhary	Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	November 6-11, 2009	To attend Tree BOL & Third International barcode of Lice Conference at the Institute of Biology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City
2	2009-10	Dr. M.R. Suseela	Fuzhou, China	November 2-06, 2009	To attend and present a paper in the International Congress on Biological Invasions held at Fuzhou, China, Nov 2-6, 2009
3	2009-10	Dr. T.S. Rana	Guanzhou, China	May 05-08-, 2009	To participate and present a paper in the 2nd International Symposium of the family Magnoliaceae at Guangzhou, China
4	2009-10	Dr. Sribash Roy	Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	November 6-11, 2009	To attend the Tree BOL & Third International barcode of Life Conference at the Institute of Biology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City
5	2010-11	Dr. D.K. Upreti	Field Museum Chicago, USA	May 14-16, 2010	To attend EOL Synthesis Meeting on the Parmeliaceae held on May 14-16, 2010 at Field Museum, Chicago
6	2010-11	Dr. A.K. Sharma	Dhaka, Bangladesh	December 03-05, 2010	To attend 6th International Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology Conference at University of Dhaka
7	2010-11	Dr. Tariq Husain	The New York Botanic Garden, New York	April 15-18, 2010	To attend TreeBol symposium at New York Botanic Garden held on 16.4.2010
8	2010-11	Dr. Sribash Roy	New York Botanic Garden, New York	April 15-18, 2010	To attend TreeBol symposium at New York Botanic Garden held on 16.4.2010
9	2010-11	Dr. D. Chakraborty	Tainan, Taiwan	May 17-21, 2010	To attend 3rd International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment
10	2010-11	Dr. Samir V. Sawant	New York	December 5-8, 2010	To attend the International Symposium on “Automated Imaging ad High-throughput Phenotyping at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA
11	2010-11	Dr. A.K.S. Rawat	Klagenfurt, Austria	October 01-04, 2010	To attend Ist Internal Ayurveda Congress
12	2010-11	Dr. R.D. Tripathi	Dhaka, Bangladesh	October 18-20, 2010	To attend International workshop in Arsenic in rich South South Exchange Network for International Collaboration (ARSSENIC)
13	2010-11	Dr. Sanjay Dwivedi	Dhaka, Bangladesh	October 18-20, 2010	To attend the International workshop in Arsenic in rich South South Exchange Network for International Collaboration (ARSSENIC), October 18-20, 2010
14	2011-12	Dr. Alok Lehri	Colombo, Sri Lanka	March 13-14, 2012	To attend Technical Assessor to conduct reasssessment audit at SGS Lanka, colombo, Sri Lanka in Chemical & Biological Fields following his nomination by NABL, DST, New Delhi
15	2011-12	Dr. S.A. Ranade	Japan	March 5- March 25, 2012	A lecture on use of PCR methods for examination of molecular systematics and genetic diversity in Pteridophytes and consultation of Makino Herbarium and understanding of Herbarium Management Practices and discussion for future collaboration
16	2011-12	Dr. Nandita Singh	USA	September 13-16, 2011	To attend the 8th International Phytotechnologies Conference at Portland, Oregon, USA
17	2011-12	Dr. Sanjeeva Nayaka	Bangkok, Thailand	January 9-13, 2012	To attend 7th International Association for Lichenology Symposium
18	2011-12	Dr. Sribash Roy	Adelaide, Australia	November 28 to December 03, 2011	To attend the Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference at Adelaide, Australia
19	2011-12	Dr. Vivek Pandey	Prague, Czech Republic	June 01-16, 2011	To visit University of Eastern Finland, Finland from June 1-13, 2011 under GAP 2313 Project and attend an Internaitonal conference on “Ozone, Climate Change and Forests” at Prague, Czech Republic
20	2011-12	Dr. A.P. Sane	New Zealand	March 16-26, 2012	To attend IX International Conference on the Plant Hormone Ethylene (Ethylene 2012) at Rotorua, New Zealand
21	2011-12	Dr. Vidhu A. Sane	Rotorua, New Zealand	March 16-26, 2012	To attend 9th International Conference on the Plant Hormone Ethylene (Ethylene 2012) at Rotorua, New Zealand
22	2011-12	Dr. Kamla Kulshrestha	Taipei, Taiwan	February 14-19, 2012	To attend Conference entitled Asia Pacific Association of Study of Liver (APSAL)
23	2011-12	Dr. P.K.Trivedi	San Diego, California, USA	January 14-18, 2012	To attend the Plant & Animal Genomes confrence XX (PAG)
24	2012-13	Dr. Kamla Kulshrestha	Hayal Saeed Anam Group of Copmpanies, Head Office at Taiz, Republic of Yeman	September 06-12, 2012	Preliminary visit to finalize the project and feasibility study of setting up a Touch and Smell garden
25	2012-13	Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Pandey	Finland	April 1, 2012 -July 31, 2012	To attend Bilateral Exchange Programme for collaborative project entitled “Ozone Sensitivity of the most important Indian Crop and Tree Species” (GAP 231325)
26	2012-13	Dr. Vivek Pandey	Copenhagen, Denmark	Feb 25-28, 2013	To attend the workshop on COST Action FP0903 ‘Climate Change and Forest Adaptation and Mitigation in a Polluted Environment’
27	2012-13	Dr. A.K.S. Rawat	Rockville, MD, USA	September 06-08, 2012	To attend 4th International Conference on Medicinal Plants & Herbal Products at Rockville, USA
28	2012-13	Dr. Vivek Pandey	Finland	April 10-20, 2012	Visit under ongoing collaborative project entitled “Ozone Sensitivity of the most important Indian Crop and Tree Species” (GAP 231325) funded by Academy of Finland.
29	2012-13	Dr. L.B. Chaudhary	Nepal	June 04-23, 2012	Visit under bilateral Exchange Programme to study the specimens of genus Astragalus L. housed at Naitonal Herbarium (KATH) and Tribhuvan University Herbarium (TUCH)
30	2013-14	Dr. A.K.S. Rawat	Milford, Massachusetts, USA	August 25-30, 2013	To attend the Pharmaceutical and Life Science Technology Forum (India Executive Technology Forum 2013) and deliver a keynote lecture o the application of liquid chromatography in developing standardize quality herbal drugs.
31	2013-14	Dr. Vivek Pandey	Kuopio, campus, Finland	August 26-30, 2013	Ozone sensitivity of the most important Indian crop and Tree species (GAP 231325)
32	2013-14	Dr. S.K. Srivastava	Paris, France	June 25-July 03, 2013	To attend Bilateral programme of CSIR and collaborative project on “Immunoprofiling of medicinal herbs from traditional leads: Studies on cellular and molecular mechanisms and development of herbal combinations (IMPROMHERB)
33	2013-14	Dr. P.C. Verma	Providence, Rhode Island (USA)	July 20-26, 2013	To attend Plant Biology-2013 Conference and satellite meeting, Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants (PGRP) at Providence, Rhode Island(USA)
34	2013-14	Dr. C.S. Nautiyal	Nepal Acadey of Science and Technology, Nepal	July 18-19, 2013	NAST-CSIR Collaboration Workshop
35	2013-14	Dr. A.K.S. Rawat	Paris, France	June 25- July 03, 2013	Under bilateral programme of CSIR and collaborative project on “Immunoprofiling of medicinal herbs from traditional leads: Studies on cellular and molecular mechanisms and development of herbal combinations (IMPROMHERB)
36	2014-15	Dr. Samir V. Sawant	Bankok , Thailand	November 26-28, 2014	To attend 6th ASIAHORC Symposium on “The impact of climate change to Food and Health
37	2014-15	Dr. T.S. Rana	Kuwait Institute for Scientific Reseach (KISR), Safat, Kuwait	November 10-13, 2014	To visit Genetic characterization of native plants, KISR, Safat, Kuwait
38	2014-15	Dr. A.K.S. Rawat	Kunming, China	July 27-30, 2014	brain storming session on “Traditional knowledge and medicine”.
39	2014-15	Dr. Vivek Pandey	Beizing, China	May 18-23, 2014	To attend International Conference on “Ozone and Plants” organized in Beijing, China
40	2014-15	Dr. Sunil Kumar Snehi	San Antonio, USA	October 06-08,2014	To attend 4th world congress on Virology
41	2014-15	Dr. S.A. Ranade	Lumbani Nepal	November 01-03, 2014	To Participation in the Asian Plant Sciences Conference
42	2014-15	Dr. Poonam Singh	Lumbani Nepal	November 01-03, 2014	Participation in the Asian Plant Sciences Conference
43	2014-15	Dr. Aradhana Mishra	Lumbani Nepal	November 01-03, 2014	To participation in the Asian Plant Sciences Conference
44	2015-16	Dr. A.K.S. Rawat	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Nov 6-9, 2015	For delivering invited lecture under theme Herbal Medicine for Health care in 21th Century at 20th IUPAC Conference on Chemical Research Applied to World Needs (CHEMRAWN XX)
45	2015-16	Dr. D. Chakraborty	International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines	Feb 08-14, 2016	To attend discussion potential collaboration on drought response in rice and to become familiar with the ongoing research and available genetic resources at IRRI
46	2015-16	Dr. Sribash Roy	University of Guelph, Canada	Aug 17-22, 2015	To present the paper based on abstract entitled “Plant DNA barcoding of a wild life sanctuary across a wide climatic zone in Uttarakhand, India” at the Sixth International Barcode of Life Conference
47	2015-16	Dr. P.K.Trivedi	University of Cologne, Germany	Nov 23, 2015 – Dec 01, 2015	To discuss progress and further planning on the project entitled “Light dependent flavonol biosynthesis by MYB transcriptions factors: identification of interaction factors” under CSIR-BMBF Cooperative Science Programme (2015-2017)
48	2015-16	Dr. O.P Sidhu	University Darul Ta’zim, Malaysia	Sep 27-Oct 13, 2015	To participate in the Natural Products Chemistry Training and Development
49	2015-16	Dr. Vidhu A. Sane	Darwin, Australia	Sep 28, 2015 – Oct 2, 2015	To attend the XI International Mango Symposium for oral presentation of paper entitled ” Sapatio-temporal regulation of ripening related genes in two differently ripening varieties of mango”
50	2015-16	Dr. P.K.Trivedi	Grand Copthone Waterfron Hotel, Singapore	Jul 13-15, 2015	To attend Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) ASIA conference as speaker and give a talk at Plant Genomics Workshop titled “Comparative transcriptome analysis of different chemotypes of Withania somnifera to elucidate biosynthetic pathway for specific withanoli
51	2015-16	Dr. Sudershan Kumar	NPFC, Nantong, P.R. China	October 26-30, 2015	To participate in the workshop on “Production and Application of Bio-botanical Pesticide Formulations” and to attend Tripartite Review/Project Management Committee (TPR/PMC) Meeting
52	2015-16	Dr. Puneet Singh Chauhan	International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines	Feb 08-14, 2016	To discuss potential collaboration on drought response in rice and to become familiar with the ongoing research and available genetic resources at IRRI
53	2016-17	Dr. D.K. Upreti	Sunchon National University, South Korea	July 20-23, 2016	To attend An International Symposium and workshop on “Lichen Biodiversity in Asia and Biloogical Activity of Lichen Bioresources”
54	2016-17	Dr. Alok Lehri	Kathamandu, Nepal	June 18-19, 2016	To attend Final assessment audit of “Instrument Section and Natural Product Research Lab, Department of Plant Resources”
55	2016-17	Dr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava	KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden	June 19-23, 2016	To participating for oral presentation in 6th International Congress Arsenic in the Environment – Arsenic Research and Global Sustainability (AS2016)
56	2017-18	Dr. D.K. Upreti	M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine	June 15-20, 2017	To work on the Indo-Ukrainian project entitled “Phytogenetic Grouping South Asian Lichen of the Teloschistaneae (Ascomycota) for Biotechnological Pruposes” funded by DST, New Delhi wthin the framework of Ukrainian-Indian joing bilateral exchange programme
57	2017-18	Dr. P.K. Singh	Ronda/Malaga, Spain	November 26-29, 2017	To attend “3rd Annual Meeting” of entitled “African Cassava Whitefly: Outbreak and Sustainable Solutions”
58	2017-18	Dr. Charu Lata	University of Queensland, Brisbain, Australia	June 21- September 20, 2017	For Carrying out work on the projects titled “Analysis of Heat Strss Response Genes in the Developing Wheat using IsoSeq Transcripts”
59	2017-18	Prof. S.K. Barik	Dhaka, Bangladesh	April 25-27, 2017	To participate and deliver a lecture in the workship on “Methodology of River Basin, Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) and Carrying Capacity Assessment”
60	2017-18	Dr. P.K.Trivedi	Botanical Institute and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Science, Univesity of Cologne, Germany	May 15-28, 2017	To work on the joint research project entitled “Light dependdent flavonol biosynthesis by MYB transcriptions factors: Identification of interacting Factors” between CSIR-NBRI and CEPLAS, University of Cologne, Germany
61	2017-18	Dr. P.K. Singh	International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Office, Nairobi, Kenya	September 25-28, 2017	To visit International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Office at Nairobi, Kenya “to discuss the future collaboration for Whitefly control in Cassava”
62	2017-18	Dr. T.S. Rana	Kuwait Institute for Scientific Centre (KISR), Kuwait	November 20-23, 2017	For participating in International Symposium and workshop on “Native seeds in Restoration of Dryland Ecosystem” to present a case study on Assessment of genetic and chemotypic variability in high altitude medicinal plant: Berginia ciliagta (Haw) Sternb. (
63	2017-18	Dr. Sanjay Dwivedi	Desy, Hamburg, Germany	June 29-July 10, 2017	To carry out the experiment on DESY, Germany on the project proposal “Changes in metal (loid) compartmentation at the sub-cellular level induced by Arsenic toxicity
64	2018-19	Dr. Alok Lehri	Balaju, Kathamandu, Nepal	September 30, 2018 to October 1, 2018	To attend Technical Assessor, nomination by NABL-DST, New Delhi for reassessement at Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology, Nepal Govt., Ministry of Industry, Chemical Laboratory, Balaju, Kathmandu
65	2018-19	Dr. Alok Lehri	Thimbhu, Bhutan	November 16-17, 2018	To attend Technical Accessor for reassessment audit of National Food Laboratory, Bhutan Agriculture & Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA), Yusipang Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Thimpu, Bhutan
66	2018-19	Dr. P.K. Singh	Dhaka, Bangladesh	September 15-17, 2018	To attend South Asia Bio-Safety Conference (SABC)
67	2018-19	Dr. Abhishek Niranjan	Bhaktapur, Nepal	June 23-24, 2018	Nominated as Technical Accessor by NABL-DST, Govt. of India for reassessment at Zest Laboratory Pvt. Ltd. Bhaktpur, Nepal
68	2018-19	Dr. Sanjeeva Nayaka	Ukraine	January 22-30, 2019	To visit MG Kholodny Institute of Botany National Academy of Science, Ukraine
69	2019-20	Dr. Puneet Singh Chauhan	Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon Hong Kong	Jun 12-15, 2019	To attend the third International Conference as invited Speaker in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon Hong Kong
70	2019-20	Dr. Priyanka Agnihotri	Beijing, Chaina	July 8-14, 2019	To attend a Conference organised on “From sea level to world roof: Uplift history and biological evolution of the himalaya” and to deliver a lecture on the “Flora of Pan-Himalaya”
71	2019-20	S.K. Tewari	Ecuador	November 13-15, 2019	To attend the technical meeting to provide assistance on exploring Nelumbo nucifera as an alternative crop for production in the flood-prone areas of the Ecuadorian coast.
72	2019-20	Prof. S.K. Barik	Ecuador	November 13-15, 2019	To attend the technical meeting to provide assistance on exploring Nelumbo nucifera as an alternative crop for production in the flood-prone areas of the Ecuadorian coast.
73	2019-20	Prof. S.K. Barik	Ecuador	February 10-15, 2020	To attend the workshop on Governance of Global Taxonomic Lists, Charles Darvin University, Australia (February 10-12, 2020) and to undertake field visit and discussion on cannabis research with Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia (February 13-15, 2020)