The National Dairy Research Institute as nation's chief Dairy Research organization has created extensive skill throughout the most recent five decades in various regions of Dairy Production, Processing, Management and Human Resource Development. Data created at the Institute and the administrations offered have added to the development of Dairy Industry all in all and prosperity of a great many drain makers and buyers of drain and drain items. Understanding the testing need of worldwide Dairy Trade, the Institute is constantly attempting to build up its R&D and HRD projects to better serve the country regarding sustenance security, business era, neediness easing and monetary success.

Dairy Microbiology Divison

Dairy Microbiology Division is presently occupied with inquire about, educating, consultancy, preparing and innovation move in particular field of Dairy Microbiology. Extensively, the exploration work of the division covers the ranges identified with starter societies and matured drain items; coordinate vat starters (DVS); indigenous probiotics, their utilitarian viability and gut microbiota, prebiotics and synbiotics; bioactive peptides, microbial metabolites and biopreservatives; biosensors, quality confirmation and sustenance wellbeing and in addition rumen smaller scale life forms. Division has assumed a main part in building up National Collection of Dairy Cultures (NCDC) with current vault of more than 600 societies and National Referral Center for drain quality and security. The division has as of late exchanged innovations on two indigenous strains of probiotics, Misti Dahi, rapids packs for anti-toxin deposits, Listeria monocytogenes and Enterococci to potential partners in our nation for their modern application.

Externally funded projects
International
• Validating procedures for the measurement of heat resistant spoilage and pathogenic bacteria in milk, to provide a scientific and technical basis for future developments in the management of food safety in South Africa, India and Brazil (IBSA)
• Joint India-UK collaboration project on Development and application of lactic acid bacteria as designer probiotics (BBSRC)
• Joint India-UK collaboration project on TRansnational Industrial Biotechnology: UTilization of Extremophiles (TRIBUTE) (BBSRC)
• Joint India- New Zealand collaboration project Development of Resilient Probiotic Foods Designed for the Indian Market Conditions – collaboration with Riddet University (DST)

National
• Network Programme on Veterinary Type Culture Collection (VTCC) - Rumen Microbes (ICAR)
• Status of antibiotic resistance among commercially available probiotic bacteria (ICMR)
Healthy Foods: Production of stable and Active Probiotics (MoFPI)
• Diversity of exopolysaccharides produced by lactic acid bacteria – (DST)
• Scheme on - Dairy Microbes- VTCC (ICAR)
• Digestive enzymes (α-glucosidase and α-amylase) inhibitory probiotic lactobacilli for controlling postprandial hyperglycemia (DBT)
• Microbial diversity of industrial waste polluted sites of Punjab: Biogeochemical interactions for recycling of metals and degradation of pollutants (DBT)
• Outreach Programme on “Monitoring of drug residues and environmental pollutants (ICAR)
• NAE project on “Development and evaluation of spore based assay for detection of pesticide residues in milk (ICAR)
• Screening probiotics and prebiotics for expression of Glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a satiety inducing hormone, as prophylactics against Diabetes Mellitus – 2 (ICMR)
• Comparative metagenome of human gut of North and North-eastern region of India– in collaboration with Tezpur University (DBT)
• Study of mechanism of probiotic action in persistent diarrhea in children caused by enter aggregative E. coli – using a mouse model – in collaboration with NICED (ICMR)
• Whey to Biofuel: Bioethanol production by stress tolerant and metabolically engineered yeast from whey by ICAR (National Fund)
• Microbial diversity of bio-films in dairy niche (AMAAS)