Department of Biological Sciences

About Us

The Biological Sciences department offers Life Science education in all three tiers through the M. Sc Biological Sciences, M.E Biotechnology and Ph.D programmes presently running in the Institute. The department boasts of 8 well qualified faculty members and state of art infrastructure to focus on three major thrust areas of the department, namely Molecular Characterization of human diseases, Structural bioinformatics and Environmental Biotechnology. High quality research with numerous funded projects and Ph.D students provides the department with high quality research environment and makes Life Science learning more comprehensive and complete.

Synapsis

“SYNAPSIS” is the Department of Biological Sciences Association encompassing Faculty and Students as members. Every year, in the first semester, Synapsis welcomes the newly admitted students and provides information and orientation. In addition to conducting laboratory and industrial tours, it also hosts weekly seminars. Seminars are presented by students, faculty and external guest speakers. It is headed by a nominated Faculty member and elected students council.

Programs

The Department of Biological Sciences offers education in three tiers:

M.Sc. (Hons.) Biological Sciences
M.E. Biotechnology
Ph.D. BioSciences

Faculty

The Department currently has 8 faculty with varied research interests in the modern areas of Biological Sciences/Biotechnology such as Genomics and Human Diseases, Biotechnology (Environmental/Industrial) Structural Bioinformatics etc.

Faculty Name	Designation	Email Address
Prof. Suman Kapur	Professor	skapur@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr.Vidya Rajesh	Assistant Professor	vidya@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr.Ramakrishna Vadrevu	Assistant Professor	vrk@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. Savitha Govardhan	Assistant Professor	savitha@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr.Jayati Ray dutta	Assistant Professor	jayati@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr.Kumar Pranav Narayan	Assistant Professor	pranav@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. P.Sankar Ganesh	Assistant Professor	sangan@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Dr. Palash Mandal	Assistant Professor	palash@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Achievements

Prof. Suman Kapur is appointed as Shri B K Birla & Smt. Sarala Birla Chair Professor.
From July 2010, Dr. P. Sankar Ganesh, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, has become the Technical Committee Member of the Collaborative Working Group on Solid Waste Management in Low- and Middle-income Countries, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
On May 2011, Dr. P. Sankar Ganesh received the Individual Developing Country Membership of International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Vienna, Austria.
On December 2011, Dr. P. Sankar Ganesh has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the Editorial Board of the GSTF Journal on Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (JBio).
From March 2012, Dr. P. Sankar Ganesh has become Lifetime Member of the Society of Toxicology (STOX), India.