ITMU – Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture

Institute Technology Management Unit (ITMU)

Objectives

To commercialise technologies developed by CIBA.
Develop and encourage entrepreneurs by providing business support services.
Helping entrepreneurs to commercialise business ideas utilizing the R&D back up of the institutes, with special emphasis to women entrepreneurs..
To raise technology & knowledge based enterprises in the area of seed production, feed technology and value added products for sustainable business promotion for entrepreneurs.
Develop network with relevant academic & business development institutes.

Activities

Promotion of business through commercialization of technology
Incubation of small and medium enterprise to develop aqua-business
Skill development of entrepreneurs
Development of bankable projects for entrepreneurs
Consultancy services to the industry, NGO, etc
One-stop-center for technology exposure to the entrepreneurs, industry

MAJOR ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES OFFERED

Consultancy services

We provide consultancy services on aquaculture, aquatic disease diagnostics, fish nutrition and environmental assessments as per ICAR guidelines. Major areas of consultancy services provided by us are:

Analytical Services

State of the art analytical facilities and services are available for conducting advanced level of health, nutrition and environmental studies. Some of the analytical services that could be obtained on a specific request are:

Analyses of water and soil quality parameters.
Analyses of shrimp / fish feed and their ingredients
Microbiological and pathological analyses of shrimp / fish tissue samples

Business Support Services

Registered Members will be offered the following services at nominal rates

Discussion on marketing, technology transfer and other business development and service support issues with ITMU Personnel and CIBA Scientific staff.
Communication on seminars, workshops, training camps, Business Meets & Industry Interface programmes.
Interaction meetings with scientists and technologists on specific issues.
Visit to lab and farm facilities available with CIBA
Professional consultancy on CIBA technologies
Professional Consultancy on Aqua business and IPR issues
Access to Incubator labs and Library.
Access to internet, phone, fax facilities for official purposes.

IPR Related Services

Intellectual property rights provide legal protection for innovations from research and development. IP protection also supports business development that will help to create value for ideas and innovations to succeed.

Filing and follow-up of patent applications
Registration of Trademark
Registration of Design
Copyright registration

Seed production & Integrated aqua-farming

Seabass hatchery technology for seed production
Hapa based nursery rearing for Asian seabass Lates calcarifer
Modular system based seed production technology of Pearlspot
Technology of Low volume cage culture of Asian seabass
Seed production technology for Brackishwater ornamental fishes Spotted scat Scatophagus argus
Hatchery technology for seed production of milkfish Chanos chanos
Crab fattening
Indian white shrimp (Penaeus indicus) Indian white shrimp farming technology & propagation
Biofloc based shrimp nursery technology

Feed formulations & Feed supplements

Indigenous shrimp feed technology
Cost-effective desi shrimp feed: vanami ^plus
Shrimp larval feed - shrimp larvi ^plus
Finfish poly culture feed- poly ^plus
Sea bass growout feed – Seebass ^plus
Kalor fish ^Plus

Products & Kits - Environment & Health

Kit for the analysis of ammonia and nitrite in brackishwater
Biosorbent for removal of heavy metals
Water quality test test kit ( pH & DO )
CIBASTIM
Lumi Phage
Matrix for immobilization and imaging of bacteria
CIBAMOX-Water probiotic
Immunodot technology for detection of WSSV
Molecular kit for detection of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria
Improved PCR Kit For Diagnosis of White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)
Enterocytozoon Hepatopenaei (EHP) Nested PCR Kit
CMH Mineral Kit
β Nova VNN diagnostic kit
Nested PCR kit for detection of the microsporidian Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei(EHP) in shrimp

Development of Business Proposals

Business Plan assistance
Business Incubation support
Networking linkages
Detailed Project Report

Facilities

Access to our business incubator to get high quality infra structure facilities at a very affordable cost. We also provide business support to benefit entrepreneurs from ITMU & ABI at CIBA, Chennai. This unit provides the companies an access to data resources, experts and mentor panel.

Office Facilities

Fully furnished Incubation Office
Computers with Printer
Internet and Telefax facilities

Staff Details

Dr. P.K. Patil, Principal Scientist & Officer-In-Charge: ITMU
Dr.K.P. Kumaraguru vasagam, Principal Scientist, CCD
Dr. T. Ravisankar, Principal Scientist, SSD

Divisional Members

Dr. R. Geetha, SSD
Dr. T.N.Vinay, CCD
Dr. Raymond Jani Angel, NGBD (Genetics)
Dr. K.P. Sandeep, NGBD (Nutrition)
Shri Dani Thomas, FCD

Patents granted

S.No.	Date of filing	App. No.	Title of the Invention	Inventors	Application Status
1	02/03/2006	368/CHE/2006	Product from lignocellulosic waste for the remediation of water contaminated with heavy metals.	Dr. K.K. Krishnani and Dr.B.P.Gupta, Dr.P.Ravichandran	Granted, Patent No. 256424 Granted on 14.06.2013
2	06/04/2006	633/CHE/2006	Immobilizing matrix from bagasse for bacterial biomass and a process for preparation thereof.	Dr. K.K. Krishnani, Dr.I.S.Azad, Dr.B.P.Gupta, Dr.M.Shashi Shekhar, Dr.P. Ravichandran	Granted, Patent No. 256572 Granted on 03.07.2013
3	02/03/2006	369/CHE/2006	Method for maximum percent recovery and detection of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides together from Brackishwater/coastal water	Dr. K.K. Krishnani, Dr.Baijnath Prasad Gupta	Granted, Patent No. 266905 Granted on 15.06.2015
4	20/08/2008	2021/CHE/2008	Molecular tool for the detection of chemolithoautotropic bacteria.	Dr. K.K. Krishnani	Granted, Patent No. 275528 Granted on 08.09.2016
5	17.06.2013	2623/CHE/2013	Development of gene specific probe and primers for detection of Indian isolate of Mourilyan Virus in Penaeus monodon shrimp by real time PCR	Dr.M.S.Shekar	Granted, Patent No. 308703 Granted on 06.03.19
6	17.06.2013	2622/CHE/2013	Development of nested RT-PCR for detection of Indian isolate of Mourilyan virus in Peneaus monodon	Dr.M.S.Shekar	Granted, Patent No. 308704 Granted on 06.03.19
7	29/03/2010	741/DEL/2010	Quantitative method for detecting a microbial pollutant.	Dr. K.K. Krishnani	Granted 286667 on 28/08/2017
8	11/02/2011	347/DEL/2011	Development of an assay and kit for molecular screening of Betanodavirus by nested reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (nested RT-PCR).	Dr.K.P. Jithendran and Sh.CP. Binesh	Granted Application, Patent Number :315677 on 09/07/2019
9	15.05.2013	2152/CHE/2013	A process for imaging bacteria using immobilizing matrix from bagasse	Dr. K.K. Krishnani, Dr.I.S.Azad, Dr.B.P.Gupta, Dr.M.Shashi Shekhar, Dr.P. Ravichandran	Patent No.338643 Granted 17/06/2020
10	12/01/2016	201641001060	Modular system and method for getting repeated spawning and higher fry production in pearlspot fish	Dr. K.K. Vijayan, Dr. K.P. Kumaraguru vasagam, Dr. K. Ambasankar, Dr. Krishna Sukumaran, Dr. J. Syamadayal, Dr. M. Kailasam, Mr. S. Balachandran	Patent No.344940 Granted 25/08/2020

Copyrights granted

S.No.

Date o filing

App. No.

Title of the Invention

Inventors

Application Status

10.11.2009

Software

Software for the estimation of carrying capacity of water body for shrimp farming version 1.0

Dr.M.Muralidhar

Granted, No. SW-4460/2010

Granted on 07/04/2010

Trademark

2 Registered

ICAR-CIBA

S.No.

Date of filing

App. No.

Title of the Invention

Registered by

Application Status

05.02.2015

2893376

CIBASTIM

ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture

Granted, No. 1322769

Dated 29/08/2016

30/12/2014

2871665

ICAR-CIBA

ICAR-Central Institute of Brackishwater Aquaculture

Granted, No. 1875170

Dated 31/05/2018

Pending applications

Patent applications of CIBA

1.	02/03/2006	370/CHE/2006	A method of fish disease diagnosis using rabbit anti-mullet (RAM) serum to detect fish antibodies in different Brackishwater fish and its applications thereof.	Dr. I.S. Azad and Dr. M. Poornima	Abandoned
2.	20^th March 2018	201841010229	Bacteriophage consortium for biocontrol of luminescent vibrios in shrimp aquaculture’	Shankar V Alavandi, Sanjeevi Thiyagarajan, Bagthasingh, Chrisolite, Satheesha Avunje, Vidya Rajendran, Sujeet Kumar, Baskaran, Viswanathan, Annasab S, Chougala, K K Vijayan	Provisional specification No. 201841010229 dtd. March 20, 2018 Patent pending
3.	20^th March 2018	201841010230	Microbial consortia for removal of toxic nitrogenous metabolites in brackishwater aquaculture	Prasanna Kumar Patil, N Dineshkumar, M Leo Antony, Satheesha Avunje, N Lalitha, Shankar V Alavandi, K K Vijayan	Provisional specification No. 201841010230 dtd. March 20, 2018 Patent pending
4.	13March, 2019	201941009741	Fish remnant hydrolysate as plankton booster in aquaculture’	Dr. Debasis De, Shri Sandeep K. P., Dr. Sujeet Kumar, Shri T. Sivaramakrishnan, Dr. Suvana Sukumaran, Dr. K. Ambasankar, Dr. K. K. Vijayan	Provisional specification No. 201941009741 dtd. 13th March 2019
5.	29 January 2020	202041003962	‘Hormone pellet implant formulation and methodology for inducing maturation and spawning in milkfish (Chanos chanos)’	Aritra Bera, M.Kailasam, Babita Mandal, Ambasankar, M.Makesh, Krishna Sukumaran, P.Kumararaja, Arun Padiyar, K. K. Vijayan	Patent Application No. 202041003962 dated January 29, 2020.