Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

The Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics was founded in 2008 with a vision to be recognized as an academic department of international reputation and to offer cutting edge, interdisciplinary and most-sought after courses in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. The department has ever since demonstrated an unfailing commitment towards research and man-power development in frontier areas of integrative biology.

The Department has been recognized as a centre of eminence in the areas of infectious diseases research at the interface of multi-omics with both theoretical and experimental approaches. Innovation based training is imparted to the students with a special emphasis on basic concepts of biological processes in order to pursue research in frontier areas of modern biology. A total of 12 independent research groups are active at the department studying molecular and cellular processes involved in cyanobacteria, yeast, higher plants, and human health and disease with an emphasis on discovery of interventional molecules and identification of targets with respect to malarial and leshmanial parasites, lepidopteran pest control, bacterial and viral infections, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.  Functional genomics, cellular biology, microbiology, protein biochemistry and structure-function studies, Drug Discovery, bioinformatics and computational biology constitute major skill domains of our research groups.

In addition, the Department has anexclusive expertise in generation and analysis of high throughput genome sequence data of bacterial species and harnessing them towards discovery of new gene functions and pathways. Teaching and research programs of the department are supported by special grants from the DBT, DST, CSIR, ICMR and UGC towards M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D. and Int-M.Sc./Ph.D. courses. The faculty members at the Department are supported with several extramural grants and are recognised by national and international agencies. The Department actively participates in several student exchange and research training programs with international organizations such as German Research Foundation (DFG), European Commission), AvH Foundation, DAAD and Academia Sinica etc.  The Department offers PhD degree in Biotechnology and an integrated MSc-PhD in Biotechnology.