Department of Microbiology

The P.G. Department of Microbiology was established in 1993 as a post-graduate teaching department and research centre in Microbiology and first batch of the M.Sc. (Microbiology) was graduated from the Department in 1995, while the first doctoral candidate with Ph.D. (Microbiology) was produced in 2001. The Department is currently housed in a recently constructed double storied building with a two spacious classrooms, two sizeable post-graduate laboratories, three specialised research laboratories, one seminar-cum-mini conference hall, rich store, departmental knowledge repository, girl’s common, pantry etc. The Department offers two year’s full time post-graduate teaching degree program and a research program in frontier areas of Microbiology with one semester rigorous course work leading to the award of Ph.D. degree. The Department has the expert teachers having a wide and vast teaching, research and industrial experience in the field of Microbiology, Microbial Technology, Microbial Techniques, Molecular Microbiology, Medical Microbiology and Microbial Enzymology etc. The Department enables students to develop an ability to design, conduct the experiments in their individual capacity and interpret the results into appropriate inferences. The instrumental, laboratory infrastructure enables students to have hands on training and rich stores supplies the necessities for experimentation. The alumni graduated from the department work in multifaceted jobs like multinational industries, government jobs, teaching and research, developing own entrepreneurships etc. The recruiters of multi-nationals are always in communication with the Department for hiring the fresh human resource generated at the Department.

VISION STATEMENT
To use the microbiology and it’s relevant and allied areas as a tool for sustainable development of the region and the nation.

MISSION STATEMENT
To create a trained and tailor made human resource to cater the needs of advanced and best science, technology and management in the field of Microbiology for serving the nation and humanity.

AIM OF THE DEPARTMENT
The department promotes varied research programs focused on contemporary issues of basic and applied concepts in Microbiology, particularly on Biofertilizers, Water microbiology and Municipal solid waste management and provides consultative expertise in solving problems relating to interactions among humans, plants, animals and the environment.

The University Post Graduate Department was started during 1993 in collaboration with Department of Botany, Amravati and after a brief period of one year, the department was shifted to separate building in Amravati University Campus. At present department is housed in the building of Department of Biotechnology and need own separate building with adequate laboratory facilities. The department runs 2 years masters degree in Microbiology and also has facilities for research leading to Ph.D. degree. Since its establishment the department is doing its best for maintaining the academic standard.

Courses

Course Name:
M.Sc. (Microbiology):
=> Duration:
2 Yrs
Intake: 30

=> Admiss. Criteria:
Bachlor Degree with Biology

Course Structure

M.Sc. (Microbiology):
Dwonload Pdf - RTMNU Microbiology of Course Structure Syllabus.

=>Ph.D.(Microbiology):
Admiss. Criteria: As per Ordinance No. 1 of 2016
Course Structure: Ordinance No. 1 of 2016

Facilities

FACILITIES:
Facilities available at the department for teaching and laboratories:

=> Classroom facilities for teaching

1) Furnished classrooms
2) DLP/ LCD Projectors
3) High configuration desktops with campus internet connectivity
4) Smart Board

=> Instrumental facilities in laboratories for practicals and experimentation:

1) Microscopes with photography
2) Autoclaves
3) Ovens
4) Incubators
5) Refrigerators
6) Deep Freezers
7) Laminar Air Flow Benches
8) Gas Burner Systems
9) Shakers
10) Thermal Water Baths
11) Centrifuges
12) Ultracentrifuges
13) Distillation columns
14) Peristatic pumps
15) Vacuum pumps
16) UV-Vis Spectrophotometers
17) Colorimeters
18) pH-meter
19) Conductivity meter
20) Turbidometer
21) Flame photometer
22) Electrophoresis systems
23) Gel doc system
24) PCRs (Thermal Cycler)
25) HPLC
26) Biosafety Cabinet – II
27) Fume Extraction System

=> Departmental Library:

1) Selected and Rare Books
2) Conference abstract books, souvenirs etc.
3) Few Journals
4) Important Theses
5) Project Reports
6) CDs, PowerPoint presentations, Video Cassettes etc.

=>Facilities available at the department for Research:

1) Research Advisory Committee (RAC) in accordance with ordinance 01/2016
2) Research Supervisors with multi-faceted experience and expertise
3) Enriched store with supply of laboratory wares
4) Specialized Research Laboratories in the field of
5) Microbial Technology
6) Molecular Biology
7) Microbiology of Infectious Bacteria

Research

Grants for research projects sponsored by the government agencies (INR in Lakhs)

S.N.	Name of Faculty (PI/Co-I)	Title of Project	Funding Agency	Grants	Duration	Ongoing/ Completed
1	Dr N.V. Phirke	Terrestrial nitrification studies in the Arid soils of Purna basin	UGC, New Delhi	13.3	2012-15	Completed
2	Dr N.V. Phirke	Submerged fermentation of sorghum grains for preparation of food items	DST, New Delhi	25.4	2012-15	Completed
3	Dr. Niraj Ghanwate	Studies on Bacterial Colonization and prevention of biofilm in Urinary Catheters	UGC	13.2	2015-18	Completed
4	Dr K.D. Kamble	Extraction and evaluation of potent natural products of medicinal plants of Melghat forest for blocking viral enzyme	RGSTC	42.78	2018-21	Ongoing
5	Dr N.A. Ghanwate	Development of novel urinary catheter that prevents colonization, biofilm formation and encrustation by bacterial pathogens	RGSTC	42.55	2019-22	Ongoing
6	Dr N.A. Ghanwate (Co-I)	Development of Innovative Diagnostic kits to combat Antibiotic Resistance among multi drug resistant bacterial pathogens	RGSTC	39.57	2018-21	Ongoing
7	Dr N.A. Ghanwate (Mentor)	Development of assay kits using tetrazolium salts for rapid detection of antibiotic susceptibility for clinically isolated pathogens (Ms P.A.Pimparkar)	DST	21.18	2019-22	Ongoing

Student Centric Activities

=> Students Centric Activity Co-curricular/ Extra Curricular / Extension Activities:
1) Student’s semester-wise seminars
2) Student’s surprise unit tests
3) Departmental semester end test
4) NET/SET guidance to the students
5) Remedial coaching to academically weaker students
6) Social awareness activities
7) Projects on dissertations
8) CBCS-system
9) Career counseling
10) Departmental extra-curricular activities
11) Departmental academic activities
12) Participation in activities of National Science Day and Avishkar
13) Complete one semester long Course-Work for PhD-students
14) Allocation of lectures and practicals to the research students
15) Organization of guest lectures

Contact

Microbiology
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Tapovan Road Camp, Amravati-444602,
Maharashtra(India)