Govt. Degree College,Kukatpally

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

VISION

• To be a Centre of excellence in the field of biotechnology equipped to create graduates who endeavor for the welfare of mankind.
• To nurture graduates with a potential to innovate, invent and disseminate knowledge for the benefit of society and environment.
• To  engage in  interaction with research sponsoring agencies like DST, AICTE, UGC, CSIR, DBT, etc. for up gradation.

MISSION

• To impart quality education for life long professional growth and opportunity in a wide range of Careers.
• To create awareness towards socio-ethical implications of potentials of biotechnology.
• To regularly revision of the course curriculum to cater to the needs of academia and industry.
• To Initiate multi-disciplinary programs through academia-industry interface with special emphasis on implementation of bioprocess design and scale-up.
• To Emphasize  on imparting employability skills, research aptitude through  organization of conferences, symposia, workshops.
• To enhance the learning abilities of the graduates in the key areas like Bioinformatics, Research & Development, Quality Assurance, Bioprocessing, Upstream and Downstream Processing, Gene Therapy.
• To improve  Industry Interaction- an Institutional initiative with university–industry interaction to create industry exposure to students
• To encourage the graduates to continue higher education in life sciences.

Staff Details:

Student Details:

III B.Sc Biotechnology :33

II B.Sc Biotechnology  :30

I B.Sc Biotechnology   :20

History and  Present Status of the Department  

• Biotechnology Department was established in the year 2008 with the CBCS system affiliated to Osmania University
• Faculty of the department are actively involved in the revising the curriculum regularly
• Department is upgraded with new equipment
• Department is involved in active research
• Students are encouraged to do project works
• Students are given industry based internship programmes
• Department regularly conduction Extension and Guest Lectures for updating the knowledge of the students
• Department is organizing various hands on Training Programmes in advanced techniques to enhance the learning abilities of the students
• Department is offering several Value added course ON Protein engineering and basics  of proteomics  for improving the employability skills of the students

YOUTUBE CHANNEL -BIOTECHNOLOGY

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuw3opRQhMG5NfrvUjMJ8A

M.Sc ENTRANCE EXAM PREPARATION ;

Use the link below to find various resources

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BUY55dmyZWwMwIaq8xdKiTQccmn0_XWg?usp=sharing

DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Detailed list of activities and achievements   form 2018-19 onwards

2018-19

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sbCPQkFg4YEzcgNrIRE9zFOEvNVSKaGZ/view?usp=sharing

2019-20

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tHfjSJRvHa_pI9pwjRVTAFvDaAgVxug1/view?usp=sharing

2020-21

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cTNNRfC4vrlhMulLJhpp4mga0CZMxcrD/view?usp=sharing

2021-22

Career  guidance workshop for Undergraduates in life sciences

The department of Biotechnology in association with  Abhignya Biotech Consultants and Department of Biotechnology Nizam College, Hyderabad, organised  the inspiring talk

Theme of the webinar

" My Journey in Science:Learned Lessons from a Decade"

Speaker: Dr. Shubham Singh, Research fellow

Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Date : 25th June 2021

Time: 6:30PM -7:30PM.(IST)

Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88430936975?pwd=NER6V09uZytpN05uVVo4cHQ5YldhQT09

Meeting ID: 884 3093 6975

Passcode: 493732

Total no of students participated:126

About the programme:

Over 350 students registered around the globe and 126 students participated in the online event.

Speaker mostly insisted on how he took up Biotechnology as career inspite of coming from Maths background. He discussed regarding the importance of ding research in the undergraduatiion level. Importance of reading scientific literature from Pubmed and Google scholar. Preparation of JGEEBLES exam and joining into Intergrated Ph.D courses in institutions of eminence. Importance of choosing interdisciplinary courses like Biophysics, Computational Biology and Biostatiscs during course work. Deep learning through reading reviews was mostly emphasized. How to apply for foreign scholarships and internships  was also discussed. His research area regarding ageing and the delaying the onset of ageing was discussed.