Department of Biotechnology Department Highlights

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Department of Biotechnology _{Department Highlights}

The faculty at Department of Biotechnology creates knowledge and ideas that develop understanding. The program has been devised toprovide a highly academic environment that will create scientific talent capable of applying knowledge and equipped for industry/competitive exams/academics/research.

Faculty research projects also provide distinctive learning opportunities for students and prepare them to be inquisitive and thoughtful. Currently ongoing research projects that generated funds are:
Influence of phenylpropanoid derivatives on mungbean (Vigna radiata) funded under the DST Start-Up Scheme.
Unravelling host-pathogen interactions underlying disease development by velvet bean severe mosaic virus in medicinal plant Mucuna pruriensthrough transcriptome analysis funded by CSIR.

The Department of Biotechnology organized the following educational trips for B.Sc. and M.Sc. students during previous session:
CSIR – Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH), Chandigarh
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali
Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli

The Faculty of Life Sciences organized a National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Host-Microbe Interactions” on 17^th– 18^thApril, 2015.