Dr. Sujata Mohanty joined this Institute in 2006. She has obtained her Graduation and Post-Graduation degree from Utkal University and PhD degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She has been awarded JRF and SRF from University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi during her PhD work. Soon after her PhD, Dr. Mohanty joined the Regional Institute of Education (NCERT), BBSR, as a Lecturer in Life Sciences. She conducted her post-doctoral studies as Research Assistant at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany for about four years and another six months as a Research Associate at the Department of Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. Dr. Mohanty has several publications to her credit. She has worked in collaboration with Prof. JR David, CNRS, France and Prof. Claus Vogl, University of Austria, Vienna and visited their Institute for scientific discussions in abroad. She has also worked in collaboration with Prof. M D. Schug, Biology Department, University of North Carolina, USA. Dr. Mohanty was a participant of the WHO/TDR sponsored 1st Asian Biosafety Training Course (ABTC, June 2009), on various issues regarding GMOs and LMOs and also recently attended a short course on System Genetics (funded by DST and JIIT) at Jackson, Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA.

Molecular Genetics, Evolutionary Genetics and Population Genomics of Drosophila and both the vector and parasite of Malaria model system