Ms. Sreyoshee Sen Sarma

Ms. Sreyoshee Sen Sarma

About

Specialization:
Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Biosystematics

Qualification

1. Secondary (10)

Passing Year - 2009

[Percentage – 80%]

2. Higher Secondary (10+2)

Passing Year - 2011

[Percentage – 69.6%]

3. B.Sc. in Botany from Chakdaha Collage, University of Kalyani. May 2011 - May 2014 [Percentage – 73.35%]

4. M.Sc. in Botany from University of Kalyani. 

June 2014- August 2016

Specialization- Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Biosystematics.

[CGPA: 8.55]

5. November 2021 – Now

Registered in North-Eastern Hill University

Under Supervision of Prof. Uma Shankar, Department of Botany, NEHU, Shillong, Meghalaya and Dr. Chaya Deori (Joint Supervisor), Scientist -E, Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong, Meghalaya

Personal Interest

Dancing, Photography, traveling

Working Experience

1. Guest Lecturer

Santipur Collage, Nadia, West Bengal. 

[December 2016 – July 2017]

 

2. Junior Research Fellow

Flora of India, Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal.

[July 2017- September2019]

3. Senior Research Fellow

Flora of India, Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal.

[September 2019- October 2020]

4. Senior Research Fellow

Flora of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Botanical Survey of India, Shillong, Meghalaya.

[November 2020- July2022]

5.Field Worker 

Exploration and Documentation of wild edible Plants of Northeast India-Tripura.

[July 2023 – August 2024]

6. Assistant Professor in Botany

Faculty of Science, Assam down town University, Guwahati-781026

[September 2024– Now]

 

Research

PUBLICATIONS 

 

Conference paper and Poster Presentation: 

1. Poster presentation on Genus: Ficus in Northeast India, taxonomy, distribution and economic importance in International Symposium on Plant Taxonomy and Ethnobotany, 2020.

2. Poster Presentation on Economic and Religious importance of Ficus sp. in Meghalaya in International Conference on Algae, Fungi and Plants: Systematics to Applications, 2020.

3. Oral presentation on “Plant taxonomy and traditional knowledge in Himalayas and Northeast India”, Annual conference of EHSST, 2021 (Awarded 3rd prize as an Young Scientist)

4. Presented a paper in “National Seminar on Forest Dependant Livelihood” conducted in NEHU, Shillong.

5. Presented a paper in “Annual Conference of Indian Association of Angiosperm Taxonomy & International Seminar on Advances in Plant Systematics, Biogeography and Biodiversity Conservation”, 2023, organized by Department of Botany, University of Calcutta and IAAT.

5. Published an article on “Figs and Folklores” in the NEHU magazine.

7. Publised an article on Ficus elastica- a living root bridge of Meghalaya in Vanaspati Vani, Botanical Survey of India

 

Papers

1. Publised an article on Ficus elastica- a living root bridge of Meghalaya in Vanaspati Vani, Botanical Survey of India.

2. Sensarma, S, Deori, C. & Shankar, U. 2022. Notes on the taxonomy and distribution of Ficus prostrata- A lesser-known species from Nagaland. Pleione. 16(2): 222–226.

3. Sensarma, S, Deori, C. & Shankar, U. 2023.Quantitative Ethnobotany of Some Ficus L. species in Khasi and Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India Explor. Anim. Med. Res. 13(Ethnobiol spl): 102-108.

4. Saha, S, Mandal, M, Sensarma, S, Bhattacharyya, S. Pradhan, D. K. & Maity, D. (2024). A taxonomic revision of Axonopus P. Beauv. (Poaceae: Panicoideae) in India. Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 31(1): 57-71.

 

Book Chapters

1. Sudhakar, J.V., Tiwari, R., Sensarma, S., Murthy, G.V.S., Chaudhary, L.B. & Sinha, B.K. (2022). Moraceae: Ficus. In: Pusalkar, P.K., A.A. Mao and Priyanka Ingle eds. Flora of India, Vol. 24. Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. 231-437. 

2. Deori, C, Sarma, N, Sensarma, S. & Odyuo, N. (2024). Rudrasagar Lake in Mao et al., Compendium on Phytodiversity of Ramsar sites in India. Botanical Survey of India. Vol.1: 708pp.

3. Sensarma, S, Deori, C. & Shankar, U. (2024). Current distribution of Ficus Tourn. ex L. (Moraceae) in eight states of Northeast India In Das et al. (eds.), Diversity of Plants and Microbes: Conservation and Traditional Uses. ‘Proceedings of National Seminar on Plant Taxonomy and Traditional Knowledge in The Himalayas and North-east India’. Department of Botany, Rajiv Gandhi University. Arunachal Pradesh, February 20-21, 2022.

BOOK:

Sensarma, S. & S.K. Mukherjee. 2017. Commemorative Generic Names of Angiosperms of the World with Special reference to Indian Plants

 

 

Awards & Achievements

2016 – “Prof. Ashok Kumar Sarkar memorial award for second Highest number in M.Sc. First semester.]

 

2017 - Prof. A.K.Sarkar Memorial Prize for obtaining highest marks in special paper Taxonomy of Angiosperms and Bio-Systematics.]

 

2017 – Botanical Survey of India, Ministry of Environment, Forest and climate change, Govt. of India fellowship for the Project ‘Flora of India’.]