Host Institution India: Auburn University

Suvra Roy

Dr. Suvra Roy is a senior scientist at the Aquatic Environmental Biotechnology Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CIFRI), Kolkata, India. She received her Bachelor of Fisheries Science (BFSc) degree from the College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, India, in 2010. She obtained a master’s in fisheries science (MFSc) degree in fish biotechnology from ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education (ICAR-CIFE), Mumbai. She qualified in the ICAR Agricultural Research Service examination and joined the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, DARE, Government of India, in 2014. She was awarded a PhD from the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium.

Dr. Roy’s research interests lie in the genetic, molecular, and biotechnological aspects of improving fish growth and health. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in reputed international journals (total impact factor >100) and has already received over 2,000 citations, leading to an H-index of 21. She has received several awards, including the University Gold Medal for Master in Fish Biotechnology, DST INSPIRE fellowship, Netaji Subhas ICAR-International fellowships for PhD, Young Scientist Awards, International Achievement Award, and Best Oral and Poster Awards in seminars/conferences.

As a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research fellow at Auburn University, Dr. Roy is working on CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiplex genome editing in catfishes, a pioneering study area introduced by Professor Dr. Rex A. Dunham. During her postdoctoral research, Dr. Roy aims to explore the CRISPR technology to create disease-resistant catfish lines with improved growth.

Priti Samyukta

Dr. Priti Samyukta completed her bachelor’s d egree from JNTU, College of Fine Arts, Hyderabad, in 2001, and her master’s d egree in Fine Arts from the University of Hyderabad in 2003. She received her PhD in the month of July 2021, under the supervision of Dr. P K Khandoba, from Gulbarga University, Karnataka. Her research topic for her PhD, “A comparative study of Batik and Kalamkari paintings – with special reference to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh”, is a compiled work of a historical overview of the two art forms on fabric and its presence in today’s art context. Dr. Samyukta has published several research papers in reputed n ational and i nternational j ournals, and has attended several seminars and conferences. Dr. Samyukta is also a painter. She has attended art camps and participated in several art exhibitions . She has also curated art exhibitions in India and abroad. She has won several awards, like The Hyderabad Art Society Award (2003 & 2009), HYBIZ TV Award (2021), 9th Faculty Branding Award (2021), Karnataka State Govt , and the BV Halabavi Award (2021). Her paintings are with collectors in India and abroad. Presently, Dr. Samyukta is Head, Department of Painting, College of Fine Arts, JNAFA University, Hyderabad.

The topic for her p ostd octoral thesis, “Women in Quilt Art of the Gulf South Region: An Investigation into their contribution to the 21st Century America”, is to look at the historical overview of the American Narrative Quilt women artists and the Gees Bend community of Alabama and their contribution to uphold “quilt” as an art form in today’s American art. Dr. Samyukta would want to introduce, simultaneously, South Indian textiles to the quilt artists, while practicing quilt with them and researching as well. She would finally bring back the nuances of American Quilt Art to Telangana’s Quilters, enlightening them about how quilts of Telangana can be art specific as well.