Nipu Kumar Das (নিপু কুমাৰ দাস)

Research areas:

Education:

• 2016-2018: M.Sc. in Life Sciences (Zoology) | National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, Odisha
• 2013-2016: B.Sc. in Zoology | Gauhati University, Assam

National Level Entrance Qualifications:

• 2018: Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) | Life Sciences
• 2017: Joint CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) for Assistant Professor | Life Science
• 2016: Joint Admission Test for M.Sc. Programmes (IIT-JAM) | Biological Sciences

Memberships:

• Student Member at the Malacological Society of Australasia (MSA); 2022- 2024
• Student Member at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC); 2020 – 2021,  23-24

Research/Travel Grant(s) recieved:

• Early-Career Research Award 2022 from the Malacological Society of London, UK; (£1,500)
• ATBC Global Support Grants 2023 from The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)

Research Experiences:

• 2018-2022: Junior Research Fellow (JRF, 2018-2020) & Senior Research Fellow (SRF, 2020-22) in a DBT funded project entitled "Bioresources and Sustainable Livelihoods in Northeast India"  (SMS Foundation Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, ATREE Bangalore, India). 
• 2017-2018: M.Sc. thesis dissertation on “Screening of tea industrial wastes and polysaccharides as adsorbents for dye removal” (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India).
• May-July 2017: Short term project on "Development of botanical based biopesticidal formulations (WDG and ME) for controlling Fusarium wilt in tomatoes" (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India).

Publications (from 2018 onwards):

a) Research articles:           

1. BB Mahapatra, NK Das, A Jadhav, A Roy & NA Aravind (2023). Global freshwater molluscs invasion: pathways, potential distribution, and niche shift. Hydrobiologia
2. A Jadhav, Nipu Kumar Das, M Sil, & NA Aravind (2023). Snails on the plate: Edible freshwater molluscs of Northeast India. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 22(2): 409-419.
3. Nipu Kumar Das, B. Páll-Gergely, & N. A. Aravind. (2022). Redescription and range extension of two carnivorous micro-snail species of the genus Sinoennea (Gastropoda: Strepaxoidea: Diapheridae) from Northeast India. Journal of Conchology, 44(4): 397-405.
4. Nipu Kumar Das, Barna Páll-Gergely, Fred Naggs, Richard C. Preece, Tom S. White & Neelavar Ananthram Aravind. (2021). Redescription of Acmella tersa (Benson, 1853), the type species of Acmella W.T. Blanford, 1869 (Gastropoda: Assimineidae), from Meghalaya, Northeast India. Molluscan Research, 41(4): 324-331.
5. Nipu Kumar Das and N.A. Aravind. (2021). A new species from the Genus Georissa Blanford, 1864 (Gastropoda, Neritimorpha, Hydrocenidae) from a limestone cave of Meghalaya, Northeast India. Journal of Conchology, 44(2): 93-101.
6. Nipu Kumar Das and N.A. Aravind (2021). A new species of land snail from the genus Diplommatina Benson, 1849 (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae) from Sikkim Himalaya, North East India. Molluscan Research, 41(3): 262–268.
7. Nipu Kumar Das and N.A. Aravind. (2021). Bibliometric analysis on Indian non-marine molluscan research. The Malacologist, Bulletin of The Malacological Society of London, 76: 12 (ISSN 1759-1406) 
8. A. Jadhav, Nipu Kumar Das and N.A. Aravind. (2020). Edible freshwater molluscs from Northeast India. Tentacle, 28: 3-4. (ISSN 0958-5079).

• A Roy, Nipu Kumar Das, N Malakar, DD Tamang (2020). Reciprocity in Research through Citizen Scientists’ perspective. Medium blog.
• Nipu Kumar Das (2020). Invertebrates: High diversity but low on conservation agenda. ecoNE.

Paper Presentations (from 2018 onwards):

• Poster presentation at 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC), held at Kumaraguru College of Technology in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
• Poster presentation at National seminars on ‘Life & Life Processes: Interdisciplinary Approach for Sustainable Development’, organized by Department of Zoology, Goa University; 19-21st July 2021.
• Quick-fire talk at Molluscan Forum 2020, organized by The Malacological Society of London (MSL) and The Natural History Museum (NHM), London; 19th November 2020.

Training & Workshops Experience (from 2018 onwards):

• Attended Southeast Asian Malacological Conference 2022 (SAMC 2022) (online) during July 14-15, 2022.
• Participated in a workshop on "IUCN Red List Assessor Training Workshop", organized by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Cambridge, United Kingdom; 05–08 April 2022
• Participated in the conference "EUROMAL 2021- the 9th European Congress of Malacological Societies", 5-9th September 2021.
• Attended a conference on "Marine Molluscs at Work: An online one-day Symposium on Molluscs in Fisheries and Aquaculture" organized by The Malacogical Society of Australasia, 22nd June 2021.
• Participated in an online workshop on 'Use of IBIN database in Teaching, Education, Research and Conservation', organized by School of Ecology and Conservation, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore; 17-19th August 2020 .
• Participated in an online workshop on 'Science Academies' Science Leadership Workshop (SLW)', India's first Science Leadership Program, organized by the Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India; 22-28^th June 2020.
• Participated in a workshop on “Molecular Taxonomy” organized by ATREE Bangalore and Institute of Life Sciences (ILS) Bhubaneswar, at ILS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha; 11-15^th March 2019.
• Participated in a workshop on “Open Data Kit (ODK) for Field Researchers” organized by The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies, ATREE, Bangalore, Karnataka; 12-14^th December 2018.
• Participated the workshop on “Quantitative Assessment and Mapping of Plant and Selected Animal Taxa and Biological Resources of Northeast India” organized by ATREE and IBSD (Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable development), at IBSD, Imphal, Manipur; July 26-29, 2018.

Media coverage:

My research on microsnails (Acmella and Georissa) from Meghalaya's Mawsmai cave was covered by more than 45 media platforms (both print and digital).

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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3436-3104