Awards

Memorial Lectures are held to remember and pay regards to different eminent Mycologists and Plant Pathologists. These lectures are delivered by eminent scientists of the respective field.

Indian Mycological Society conducted the following Memorial Lectures (2023-2024):

  • Prof. S.B.Chattopadhyay Memorial Lecture
  • Prof. R.P.Purkayastha Memorial Lecture
  • Prof. S.R.Bose Memorial Lecture
  • Sir E.J.Butler Memorial Lecture
  • Prof.S.N.Banerjee Memorial Lecture

Memorial Lecture Awardees 2023-24

Dr. Gourishankar Laha

The 16th Prof. S.B. Chattopadhyay Memorial Award Lecture was delivered on 19th January 2024 by Dr. Gourishankar Laha, Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad on "Geographical distribution, pathogen diversity and host plant resistance in bacterial blight of rice in India”

Prof. Swarup Kumar Chakrabarti

The 3rd Prof. R.P. Purkayastha Memorial Award Lecture was delivered on 19th January, 2024 by Professor Swarup Kumar Chakrabarti, Former Vice Chancellor, Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Coochbehar on “Late blight resistance in potato: An Indian perspective”

Prof. Sanjoy Guha Roy

The 20th Prof. S.R. Bose Memorial Award Lecture was delivered on 19th January 2024 by Professor Sanjoy Guha Roy, Department of Botany, West Bengal State University, Barasat on” Current perspectives on the population structure of Phytophthora infestans in India and their relation to the management of late blight disease of potato”

Prof. Pranab Dutta

The 20th Sir E.J. Butler Memorial Award Lecture was delivered on 23rd February 2024 by Professor Pranab Dutta, Central Agricultural University (Imphal), Umiam, Meghalaya on "Using green engineered nanoparticles for plant health management"

Dr. Surekha Kundu

The 24th Prof. S.N. Banerjee Memorial Award Lecture was delivered on 23rd February 2024 by Dr. Surekha Kundu, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta on “ Filamentous Fungi : Pathobiology to Biotechnology”

Dr. T.S. Ghosh Silver Medal Award 2022

Debasmita Das

Dr. Tarasankar Ghosh Silver Medal award 2022 has been conferred on Debasmita Das, M.Sc. student of Department of Botany, Calcutta University, Ballygunge Science College for securing highest marks in aggregate of Mycology & Plant Pathology, Molecular & Applied Mycology and Molecular Stress Biology of M.Sc. examination Botany, 2022 on 9th August 2023 during 67th AGM of Indian Mycological Society, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta.