Laboratory infrastructure in the department consists of a variety of equipment and provide an array of facilities for both teaching and research purpose. The various laboratories/facilities in the department include :
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A genomics laboratory for work pertaining to genomics of human diseases
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An Animal Cell Culture laboratory
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A microbiology laboratory for research pertaining to basic microbiology, microbial technology etc. and for teaching purposes
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A research laboratory for experiments pertaining to molecular biology and biochemistry
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A bio-informatics laboratory for work pertaining to computational structural biology
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A genetic engineering laboratory for both teaching and research purposes
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A biotechnology laboratory for both teaching and research purposes
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Facilities for growing and working with plants
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Facilities for maintaining and working with stem cells
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An Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory
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While basic equipment such as refrigerators, freezers, pH meters, small centrifuges, laminar flow hoods, orbital shakers, incubators, ovens, autoclaves, heaters, stir plates, weighing balances, microscopes, computers etc. are present in a number of these laboratories, specialized equipment for high quality, cutting-edge research are also present and growing in number. These facilities include laminar flow hoods for animal cell cultures, CO2 incubators, HPLC, water de-ionization/purification system, plant growth chamber, visible and UV spectrophotometers, advanced PCR machines, QRT-PCR machines, hybridization oven, advanced table and floor top centrifuges, ELISA reader, cold room, gel documentation system, flow cytometer, servers for computational work etc. The department also has access to equipment in the central instrumentation facility provided by the institute which houses such instruments as HPLC, GC, AAS, spectro-fluorimeter, LC-MS, FTIR, DSC etc.