Dr. Papiya Ramanujam joined the Botany Department in February, 2006. She did her M. Sc. from the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong in 1976. She worked on biology of a predominant weed of the region under the supervision of Prof. P. S. Ramakrishnan and obtained Ph.D. degree from the same university in 1982. She served as Lecturer in the Department of Botany, G. C. College, Silchar from 1982 to 1992, in Pachhunga University College, Aizawl from 1992 to 2004 and in Center for Distance Education from 2004 to 2006. 

Algal ecology