Department of Life Sciences

The Master and Bachelor Programme of Biotechnology, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Life Sciences, with its team of talented, devoted and committed faculties, state of the art infrastructure, strong industry relations and a board of studies comprising of scientists, entrepreneurs and technocrats from academia and industry aims to impart high quality and effective teaching. The department houses well established specific laboratories like plant tissue culture, biochemistry, genetics, chemistry, biotechnology, bioscience and microbiology. Its also gives state of the art facilities to the basic researchers within the department. It includes hi-tech instruments like uv-vis spectrometer, cooling centrifuges, microfuges, deep freezers, LAF, BOD incubator, electrophoresis (horizontal and vertical), orbital shaking incubators, batch fermenter, binocular and trinocular microscope etc. The secret of success of this department lies in the academic environment and close ties between teachers and students. While one enjoys such flexibility, a grid discipline is maintained as far as the classes and projects are concerned.