Department of Microbiology

Post-graduate teaching of Microbiology in our University was started in the year 2001 as a unit in the Department of Botany and Forestry with the help of Higher Education Department, Government of West Bengal. Unit turns into full-fledged department in the year 2004. Infrastructural facility of this department is quite good. At present three permanent, two contractual faculties and good number of guest teachers are covering the said course in four semesters. Neat and clean lecture gallery, seminar room, separate practical class room (AC), instrument room, individual teacher’s room and a big computer room with 24hrs internet facility fulfilled up to date standard of this department. Recently Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) center has been created in this department from the funding of Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi. Three research projects funded by UGC, DRDO are presently running in our department. From the department every year a good number of papers have been published in the journal of national and international repute. Out standing national seminar “Microbes in Food, Pharmaceuticals and Agriculture” at the end of 2006 increased fame of our department.