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 SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY : A PROFILE
The School of Biotechnology was
established in the year 1996. Till date, twelve batches of
students have successfully passed their M.Sc. examinations.
The School is presently running courses at both undergraduate
and postgraduate levels for M.Sc. and three-year B.Sc. (Hons)
degrees in Biotechnology in addition to Ph.D. programme. A
number of students of the Department have been successful in
GRE, CSIR NET, GATE, ICMR examinations. Alumni of this
Department are presently working in different organizations of
National and International reputes in India and abroad. The
course curriculum of B.Sc. (Hons) provides enough
opportunities to the students to learn various techniques in
the laboratory of the Department as well as in the R&D
laboratories of Government/Private organizations. The
curriculum of M.Sc. has one paper of dissertation for four
months at various National institutes and Universities in
India followed by project preparation and presentation. The
Department has well established laboratories for Microbiology,
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Tissue Culture and
Bioinformatics equipped with a number of sophisticated
instruments. The ongoing research activities are mainly
concerned with biobased microbial and plant products of
commercial values including exopolysaccharides, production of
enzymes like amylases, lipases and cellulases, therapeutic
proteins as well as microbial biodiversity and bioremediation.
The School of Biotechnology regularly organizes short-term
training courses, Regional/National Workshops and National
Seminars which helps keeping the Faculty, research scholars
and students abreast with the recent technological
developments in diverse fields of Biotechnology. All of the
students of the Department have direct access to central
library and internet facilities including inflibnet. |
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