Facilities

• Infrastructure
• Student Laboratories 14
• Research Laboratories 04
• DST-FIST Laboratories 02
• Culture Facilities 03
• Class rooms 05
• Seminar Hall 01
• Staff rooms 06
• Animal House 01
• Store Room 01

Facilities provided in the Department

The Department has well-equipped individual laboratories to conduct three Master’s degree courses. Besides moderately equipped research laboratories, the DST-FIST funded computer laboratory and general instrumentation laboratory possess cold centrifuge, GELDOC, Lyophilizer, UV-Vis spectrophotometers, Water analysers, Environmental incubators, Precision balances, Electrophoresis units, Gas Chromatograph, Fluorescence microscope, Carbon dioxide incubator, Deep freezers, Temperature controlled orbital shaker, Laminar airflow systems and Nikon Microscopes. The Department also has well-developed Drosophila culture facilities, well-equipped animal house and cyanobacterial culture facility to cater the needs of researchers. The Department from its inception is known for its active research. The current research progress include: Biodiversity, Cytogenetics, Cancer Biology, Bacteriology, Mycology, Environmental Toxicology, Nutritional and nutraceutical studies; Freshwater, mangrove and marine biology; Studies on bivalves; Diversity of pill-millipedes; Neuroscience, Biomedical investigations pertaining to Diabetes, alcoholism, myocardial infarctions, depression and cancer, hepatic cirrhosis etc.