Dr. Shrabani Saugandhika

Present affiliation:

Scientist - I,
Department of Biotechnology,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
Ansari Nagar,
New Delhi-110029

Email ID: shravani.satya@gmail.com

Phone(O): +91-11-26593548

Education: 

- B.V.Sc. & A.H.
- M.V.Sc. (Animal Biotechnology)
- Ph.D (Animal Biotechnology)

Research Experience: 

Have been working in the field of reproduction biology and embryology addressing molecular events that regulate fertility and embryo development.

Fellowship, Honors, awards & Prizes:  

- Awarded ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2017.
- Awarded NDRI Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2016.
- Qualified CSIR SRF (direct) Fellowship 2012.
- Qualified CSIR NET 2011 and ICAR NET 2009.

Publications:

1. Saugandhika S, Yadav S and Choudhary V. (2025). Relevance of lipid homeostasis to male infertility. Journal of Reproductive Healthcare and Medicine (accepted) 10.25259/JRHM_30_2025

2. Saugandhika S and Jain N (2024). Evolution of Transgenic Technology:From Random Transgenesis to Precise Genome Editing. Sustainable Agri Rev. Vol.62 Springer,

3. Saugandhika S, Sapra L, Kumari K, and Srivastava R. (2023). High Salt Diet Impairs Male Fertility in Mice via Modulating the Skeletal Homeostasis. Reproductive Sciences. 10.1007/s43032-023-01278-w.2.

4. Saini S, Ansari S, Sharma V, Saugandhika S, Kumar S, Malakar D. (2022) Folate receptor-1 is vital for developmental competence of goat embryos. Reprod Domest Anim. Feb 5. doi:10.1111/rda.14092.

5. Saugandhika. S, Sharma, V, Khatak, (2022). Illustrating the past, present and future perspective of Human Embryo Culture Media. Animal Reproduction Update. 2. 90-107. 10.48165/aru.2022.2106.

6. Saugandhika, S., Sharma, V., Saini, S., Malik, H ., Kumar S., Mohanty, A.K., and Malakar, D. (2015) Expression and Purification of buffalo interferon-tau and efficacy of recombinant buffalo interferon-tau for in vitro embryo development. Cytokine 75 (2015) 186–196.

7. S, Saugandhika ., D, Kumar., MK, Singh., R, Shah., T ,Anand., MS, Chauhan., RS, Manik., S K, Singla., and P, Palta.,(2010). Effect of Sodium Nitroprusside, a Nitric Oxide Donor, and Aminoguanidine, a Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor, on In Vitro Development of Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) Embryos. Reprod Dom Anim .45, 931–933.

8. Saugandhika, S., Sharma, V., Bondre V., Malik, H ., Mohapatra, S.K., Kumar S., Mohanty, A.K., and Malakar, D. (2016). Molecular characterization of IFN-T expressed in buffalo embryonic trophoblasts and expression of recombinant BuIFN-T1a2 and BuIFN-T8 isoforms in E. coli. Protein Expression and Purification 122 (2016) 8-14.

9. Hruda Nanda Malik, D. K. Singhal, Shrabani Saugandhika, Amit Dubey, Ayan Mukherjee, Sudarshan Kumar, Ashok Kumar Mohanty and Dhruba Malakar 2014 Effect of different activation methods and culture media on development of parthenogenetic activated embryos. Zygote.
10:1-9.

10. Malik, H.N., Singhal, D. K., Saugandhika, S., Mohapatra, S.K., Guha, S.K., Malakar, D., Generation of handmade cloned embryos from adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells in goat, Small Ruminant Research 121 (2014) 340–350.

11. H.N. Malik, D.K.Singhal, A. Mukherjee, N. Bara, S. Kumar, S.Saugandhika, A.K. Mohanty and D. Malakar.(2012). A single Blastomere Sexing of Caprine Embryos by simultaneous amplification of Sex Chromosome Specific sequence of SRY and Amelogenin Genes. Livestock Science. 157(2013)351–357.

12. Mukherjee A, Malik H, Saha AP, Dubey A, Singhal DK, Boateng S, Saugandhika S, Kumar S, De S, Guha SK, Malakar D. (2013). Resveratrol treatment during goat oocytes maturation enhances developmental competence of parthenogenetic and hand-made cloned blastocysts by modulating intracellular glutathione level and embryonic gene expression. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 31(2):229-239.

13. Hrudananda,Mallick., A.K, Singh., Dinesh, kumar., M.K, Jena., Shrabani, Saugandhika., S.K, Mohapatra., and Dhruba,Malakar. (2012). Differentiation of germ cells from stem cells- A Review. Agricultural Review, 32(4): 309-314, 2011.