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DEPARTMENT OF BIO TECHNOLOGY
Welcome to the Department of Bio technologoy
About us
1.The History
The Department was started with 3 faculty members, 1 Lab assistant and 26 students in the year 2003. Now it has 8 faculty members, 2 lab assistants and with 183 students.
2.Infrastructure
Our Department has well equipped air condition laboratories and consists of
- Cell and molecular biology lab, Tissue culture lab, Genetic engineering lab,
Immunology lab, Bioprocess engineering lab, Bioinformatics lab,
Biochemistry lab and Microbiology lab.
- The sophisticated equipments in the department are:
PCR machines, Spectrophotometer, High speed cooling untrifuge, Incubator shaker, Hot air ovens, Incubators, BOD incubator CO2 incubator, Fermentor, ELISA Reader, Deep freezers, Laminar air flow chambers, Electroporater, Gel Documentation system, Microtome, SDS-PAGE apparatus, UV Transilluminator, Binocular microscopes, Culture room, Homogeniser, Ultra untirifuge, Table tob untrifuge, membrace filter system, Double distillation unit, Inverted microscope, chromatography units, Hamocytometer, Halmoglobinometer, Halmometer, Immuno electrophorests apparatrs, Westurn-blot apparatus, Computers with high speed Pentium V processor, Multimedia facilities, Laser printers Bioinformatics software.
CD Library collection : NCBI, PDB, EMBOSS, PROSITE, HMM, KEGG, UTOPOIA,
3.Courses offered & Duration:
1. M.Sc Biotechnology – 2 years
2. B.Sc Biotechnology – 3 years
B.Sc Biotechnology
The curriculam comprises of
- Tamil/ Hindi
- English
Major papers:
- Molecular Development Biology
- Genetics
- Plant Biotechnology
- Animal and medical Biotechnology
- Environmental biotechnology
- Microbial biotechnology
- Genetic engineering
- Immunotechnology
- Bioprocess & engineering
- Intellectual property management, Biosafety and Bioethics
Allied: 1 Microbiology
2. Chemistry
3. Biophysics and biostatistics
4.Biochemistry
4.Library
Contains more than 300 books exclusively on biotechnology
5.Job opportunities
Lecturer/Professor/ Teacher/ Scientist/Medical colleges/ Agriculture universities / Research Departments/ Food / Dairy/ Fermentation R & D units
Leather Research Institute / Pharmaceutical Industries / Forensic Science Department/ Forest Dept. / Environmental, Pollution Dept. / Microbial collection centers/ Bioinformatics – Research trainee/ Programmer/ Tutor.
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