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Dr Romi Wahengbam

Dr Romi Wahengbam

Designation : Scientist D

Education : PhD (Biotechnology, Molecular Microbial Ecology)

ID. No.: 1300

Contact Details: +91 376 2370121 (2493) Fax: +91 376 2370011

Email id : romiwahengbam@neist.res.in, romiwahengbam@gmail.com

Area of Interest:

  • Gut and fermented food microbiome
  • Molecular microbial ecology
  • Anaerobic microbiota for biotherapeutics
  • Genomics of bacterial and viral infectious diseases

Projects (Ongoing & Completed)

  • Genomics-based Discovery of (Potential) Pathogens for India’s North-Eastern Region (GDP-FINER)/Ongoing (Co-PI)
  • Bioresource Conservation and Prospection (BioCaP): Assessment of Microbiome Diversity in Niche Ecosystem Cave ecosystem of Meghalaya/Ongoing (PI)
  • Microbial Communities for Monitoring the Revival of Maguri Motapung Beel Wetland Ecosystem of Assam post Baghjan Blowout/Ongoing (Co-PI)
  • Biomedical Genomics Advancement Program for North Eastern Researchers (BioGAP-NER)/Ongoing (PI)
  • Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase (PI CHECK)/Ongoing (PI)
  • Non-dairy Origin Probiotics from Actively Fermenting Microbiota of Ethnic Fermented Foods and Beverages of North Eastern India (NDP-AFM)/Ongoing (PI)
  • Spatiotemporal Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Wastewater Systems in North East India through Genomic Surveillance and Epidemiology for Forecasting its Spread and Health Outcomes/Completed (Co-PI)

Papers Published

  • Arvind, M., Verma, A., K, S.R., Prakash, S., Kumar, V.S., Uddin, M.A., Narayan, A., Rathore, M., Rawat, N., Sahu, A., Kumar, Y., Leuva, P.H., Sharma, M., S, R., Saha, D., Mridha, A., Nath, I.J., Hussain, A., Rajkumari, B., Thapa, M., Kumari, N., S V., Chatterjee, S., Ganguly, D., Awasthi, A., Yenamandra, V.K., Singh, A.P., Mishra, A., Raychaudhuri, S., Tallapaka, K.B., Chandak, G.R., Kulkarni, M.J., Dharne, M.S., Wahengbam, R., Subudhi, U., Biswas, S., Shalimar, Chaudhary, K., Sengupta, S., Chakrabarti, P., Sardana, V., Phenome India Consortium. Burden of MASLD and liver fibrosis: Evidence from Phenome India cohort. The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, 2026, 45:100723. doi: https://10.1016/j.lansea.2026.100723
  • Singh, M.G., Wahengbam, R. Optimization of DADA2 in QIIME2 for improving fidelity in 16S rRNA V4 amplicon data analysis. Biology Methods and Protocols, 2026, 11(1):bpag002(1-14). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomethods/bpag002
  • Singh, M.G., Karmakar, D., Jeyaram, K., Wahengbam, R. Draft genome sequence of traditional fermented bamboo shoot-origin Levilactobacillus zymae isolate obtained from India. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2026, 15(1):e01075-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01075-25
  • Sengupta, S., Phenome India Consortium. Study research protocol for Phenome India-CSIR Health Cohort Knowledgebase: A prospective multi-modal follow-up study on a nationwide employee cohort. Biology Methods and Protocols, 2025, 10(1):bpaf061(1-15). doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomethods/bpaf061
  • Singh, M.G., Wahengbam, R. The Immune-Metabolic Axis in Atherosclerosis: Decoding the Influence of Gut Microbiota and Microbiota-Derived Metabolites. PrePrints, 2026, doi: https://10.20944/preprints202601.2076.v1
  • Singh, M.G., Wahengbam, R. Whole-Genome Characterization of Proteus mirabilis Isolated from Fermented Soybean, hawaijar: Insights into Foodborne Virulence and Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants. bioRxiv, 2026, 2026.01.09.698623. doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.09.698623
  • Singh, M.G., Bora, H.K., Wahengbam, R. Shift in gut microbiota composition and mitigation of diet induced atherogenesis in mice after prolonged consumption of a traditionally fermented soybean. bioRxiv, 2025, 2025.04.16.649253. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.16.649253
  • Sarkar, P., Kandimalla, R., Bhattacharya, A., Wahengbam, R., Dehingia, M., Kalita, M.C., et al. Multi-Omics Analysis Demonstrates the Critical Role of Non-Ethanolic Components of Alcoholic Beverages in the Host Microbiome and Metabolome: A Human- and Animal-Based Study. Microorganisms, 2023, 11, 1501. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11061501 (Cited by: 6)
  • Narzary, D., Wahengbam, R., Shemesh, M. Traditional ethnic fermented foods and their naturally associated microbial resources: Sustainable source for promoting human health, food safety, and security. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023, 7:1171694. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1171694 (Cited by: 2)
  • Wahengbam, R., Bharali, P., Manna, P., Phukan, T., Singh, M.G., Gogoi, G., et al. Seroepidemiological and genomic investigation of SARS-CoV-2 spread in North East region of India. Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2023, 43:58-65. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmmb.2022.10.011 (Cited by: 7)
  • Singh, P., Ujjainiya, R., Prakash, S., Naushin, S., Sardana, V., Bhatheja, N., et al. A machine learning based approach to determine infection status in recipients of BBV152 (Covaxin) whole-virion inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine for serological surveys. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022, 146:105419. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.105419 (Cited by: 14)
  • Naushin, S., Sardana, V., Ujjainiya, R., Bhatheja, N., Kutum, R., Bhaskar, A.K., et al. Insights from a Pan India sero-epidemiological survey (phenome-India cohort) for SARS-CoV2. Elife, 2021, 10:e66537. doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66537 (Cited by: 38)

Awards and Fellowships

  • DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award, DST, Govt. of India (2016)
  • Microbiome Innovation Award, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad (2016)
  • CSIR-SRF Fellowship, CSIR, Govt. of India (2011)
  • Best Oral Presentation Award (Microbiology), Indian Youth Science Congress (IYSC) (2010)
  • State Award on Science Popularisation, Department of Science & Technology and Information Technology, Govt. of Manipur (2000)

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