Laboratories
Each laboratory of biotechnology department enriched with advanced instruments and is able to support regular experiments, dissertation work as well as high-end research. Sophisticated instruments needed for experiments and research are accessible in central instrumentation facility of the college. Students are given precious opportunity of hands-on use of all these instruments.
Department has three dedicated state of the art laboratories for following subjects.
(To study production of pharmaceutical and other industrial compounds at laboratory level.)
(To study artificial cultivation of improved plants from various tissue implants.)
(Cultivation of animal cells in laboratory for studies of genetic, toxicology and cancer formation, diagnosis and treatment of various diseases.)
Department uses four other laboratories for following subjects on sharing basis with allied departments of the same institute.
- · Bioinformatics (To study biological research data generation, storage and manipulation)
- · Microbiology (To develop essential skills for applied microbiology)
- · Biochemistry (To study chemical aspects of living organisms and skills to manipulate it)
- · Botany and Zoology (To develop essential skills for applied botany and zoology)
Research:
Faculties of department are actively inclined towards research. Faculties have submitted 8 research proposals to various government grant agencies.Out of this one Major Research Project is already been approved and granted. Two faculties of department are actively supervising research students for M.Phil. degree. All the faculties have participated in workshops, seminars and conferences at regular basis. Two of the faculties have presented their research work at international level in countries like USA, Norway and China. College has subscribed for good quality international research journals including the best in subject ‘Nature Biotechnology’. Institute is the member of INFLIBINET scheme for availing online research articles.
