Biotech Hub

One faculty member of the Zoology Department took initiatives to avail the facilities of DBT, Government of Indiaâ€™s initiative to establish one Institutional Level Biotech Hub and after approval of the project in the year 2011-12, Department satisfactorily implemented the Project and carried out research work.

Dr. Jaharlal Saha, Coordinator of the Project, established the lab with several sophisticated instruments like PCR, GEL DOC, Cold Centrifuge, Table top Centrifuge, Laminar Air Flow, Bacterial Incubator etc. The Priority area of research is Bio technology in broader sense, though there is no UG course of Biotechnology.

With the infra structures developed by this Department, authority is willing to open Biotechnology course in this college.

Department also organized several workshops, special lectures, delivered by scientists/professors, which are shown in the following tables:

Special Lectures organized by Zoology Department in collaboration with IBTHUB, Womenâ€™s College.

Sl.	Special Lecture	Expert	Topic	Organization
1.	Special Lecture	Dr. Debasish Maiti	Mammalian cell culture	Tripura University
2.	Special lectures	Prof. K. Majumdar	Transgenic Fish and food security	Tripura University
3.	INSA Lecture	Prof. Aparna Datta Gupta	Biotechnology-Past, Present and Future	Hyderabad University
4.	INSA Lecture	Dr. Subeer Majumdar	Transgenic animal, Mammal	NII, New Delhi
5.	INSA Lecture	Dr. Somdatta Sinha	Modeling in Biology	Indian Institute of Education & Research, Mohali, Punjab
6.	Special Lecture	Dr. J. Pahri	PCR and its application	Fishery College, CAU

Eminent academicians & scientists or visitors in the Department

Sl.	Name	Organization	Year
1.	Prof. Y.D. Pande, Former V.C.	Tripura University	2013
2.	Prof. Kshitish Majumder	Tripura University	2012, 2013, 2014
3.	Prof. B.K. Agarwala	Tripura University	2013
4.	Dr. Somdatta Sinha	IIER, Mohali, Punjab	2012
5.	Dr. Subeer Majumder	NII, Delhi	2012
6.	Prof. Aparna Datta Gupta	University of Hyderabad	2013
7.	Prof. Jagat Roy	BHU, UP	2013
8.	Dr. J. Pahri	Fishery College, CAU	2012,2013
9.	Dr. Debasish Maiti	Tripura University	2012, 2013, 2014
10.	Prof. S. Dutta	Utkal University

Workshop organized by external and internal experts for faculties, scholars and students

Sl.	Resource person	Organization	Topic	Participants	Duration
1.	Dr. D. Maiti	Tripura University	Western Blotting	UG students	1 day
2.	Dr. S. Nath	State Forensic Lab, Govt. of Tripura	Bacteria isolation & staining, DNA isolation from Human Blood, PCR operation, Gel documentation	UG students, College faculties	3 days
	Dr. D. Maiti	Tripura University
	Dr. J. Pahri	Fishery College, CAU
3.	Dr. S. Nath	State Forensic Lab, Govt. of Tripura	DNA isolation from Human Blood	College & University Faculties	2 days
4.	Dr. J. Pahri	Fishery College, CAU	PCR operation, DNA finger printing, Western Blotting	UG/PG Students	3 days
	Dr. S. Nath	State Forensic Lab, Govt. of Tripura
	Dr. D. Maiti	Tripura University
5.	Prof. K. Majumdar	BHU, UP	Basic Principles of Molecular Biology & Microbiology	Faculties & students of BLISS awarded School	5 days
	Dr. S. Nath	State Forensic Lab, Govt. of Tripura
	Prof. Manas Das	Womens Polytechnic, Hapania
6.	Dr. J.L. Saha	Coordinator, IBTHub	DNA isolation from Onion, Human Blood, Bacteria Isolation, Staining, antibiotic effects on Bacteria (MIC)	Students of BLISS awarded School	2 days
	Monalisa Choudhury	JRF
	Ms. Aditi Banik	RA

The project was initially for three years and after reviewing the activities the same has been extended for another two years. One JRF and one Research Assistant are working in the project. Research work is already published which encourage the students, faculties to pursue their research activities.