About SAIF

Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility (SAIF) is available at ICAR-NIPB. Under this facility, major analytical instruments of NIPB, operated and maintained by qualified group of Scientists and staff of NIPB are available. The main objective of SAIF@ICAR-NIPB is to provide access to facilities of sophisticated analytical instruments for scientists and other users from academic institutes, R&D laboratories at a nominal charge.

How to use facility

The instrument available at SAIF@ICAR-NIPB is available for use by any of the scientist, research fellow, students from ICAR and non-ICAR institutes. For using any of the facility available at SAIF@ ICAR-NIPB kindly contact the concerned scientist in charge of the instrument. Contact details of the scientist in charge is available in the details of the instrument.

Facilities

The instruments which are available at SAIF@ ICAR-NIPB are as follows-

  • Confocal microscope
  • Ion Torrent personal Genome Machine (PGM) system
  • Illumina iScan system
  • Affymetrix Gene Titan System.

Equipment Procured in the DBT Project (Ongoing Project in 2024) 

Sr.

No.

Equipment Details

Location of Equipment

Project Code

PI Details

Year of Purchase

1

One-New

Bioinformatics

BT/PR45250/

Tapan Kumar Mondal

2022

 

Work attached

lab

NER/95/1917/2022

Principal Scientist

 

 

Storage

 

 

 

 

 

(NAS)*. Cost

 

 

 

 

 

is Rs 498800

 

 

 

 

2

Stereo Zoom

Lab 12

BT/PR51044/

Mahesh Rao

2024

 

Microscope

Brassica

AGIII/103/1465/2023

Senior Scientist

 

 

(Carl Ziess)

microscopy

(4001-627)

 

 

 

 

lab

 

 

 

3

Gel Documentation System

(Bio Rad)

Lab No. 37

4001-583

Dr. Amolkumar U Solanke

Senior Scientist

2023

4

Orbital Incubator Shaker

Lab No. 37

4001-583

Dr. Amolkumar U Solanke

Senior Scientist

2022

5

Data analysis

Lab 144,

BT/PR40261/

Dr. Anil Kumar Singh

2024

 

station

NIPB

BTIS/137/55/2023

Principal Scientist

 

 

 

 

(4001-612)