Department of Microbiology

Infrastructure Facilities

acilities exist in the department for teaching and research in all branches of Microbiology Major. thrust areas of research include Medical Microbiology, Food Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology, Immunology Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Physiology and Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.

Laboratory details
The department has well-equipped three teaching laboratories, six specialized research laboratories, centralized computer & networking laboratory and a common instrumentation laboratory. The department is undertaking several R&D projects sponsored by various National funding agencies including DBT, DST, CSIR, UGC, ICMR, Research pertains broadly various aspects of General and Applied Microbiology.

CO₂ Incubator
The equipments available in the instrumentation laboratory of the department include UV-Visible Spectrophotometers, Ultra centrifuge, Refrigerated centrifuge, Ultra deep freezer, environmental and water bath shakers, protein purification system, Electrophoresis equipment, BOD incubators, Gas chromatograph, laboratory Fermenter, Fluorescent Microscope, Sonicator, Transilluminator, CO₂ incubators, microcentrifuge, Cold room facilities, PCR machine, Electroporator, ELISA reader, lyophilizer and Millipore water purification system.

Library
The department has a common library with the department of Biophysics with total number of 2238 books.