Infrastructure

INFRASRACTURAL FACILITIES

The Department faculty is engaged in high impact innovative research in the frontier areas of modern biology. The faculty conducts their research with the support from several National and International funding agencies in the form of research grants. The faculty of the department is credited with several patents and research publications relating to biotechnology and bioinformatics. The Department has advance research facilities such as animal and plant cell culture, microbial culture, HIV culture, neuronal and neuroglial culture and stem cell culture, etc.. Further, it has several essential instruments such as high-speed centrifuges, spectrophotometers, circular dichrometer, phosphorimager, PCR machines, FPLC, 2-D Electrophoresis, shakers, incubators, multimode plate reader, bioreactor, fluorescence, microscope, real time PCR and flow cytometer, etc. The students can benefit from the state of art high resolution confocal microscopy facility and the genomic/proteomics/metabolomics/crystallization facility available in the School. The Bioinformatics infrastructure facility and library facility funded by the Department of Biotechnology; Government of India is a well-equipped facility that is used by the students. In addition, students also have access to high performance computing facility at Centre for Modelling, Simulation and Design for their project works.