Courses offered: M.Sc Bioinformatics,M Phil,PhD.

Nature of Course: Semester Scheme for M.Sc. program

Duration: 4 Semesters (2 years) for M.Sc. program

Intake: 20+10 (Payment) for M.Sc. program

Eligibility:

    Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences (including Agriculture, Pharmacy and Fishery), Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Bio-chemistry, Biology, BCA, Microbiology, BE/B.Tech in Biotechnology with minimum of 50% aggregate marks (40% in case of SC/ST/Cat-1 & 45% for OBC candidates) from any recognized University.

Faculty Details

Name	Qualification	Specialization	Designation	Profile
Dr. Babu R. Lamani	MSc., MPhil, PhD	Cancer Biology, drug discovery & molecular biology	Asst. Professor
Dr. Joy Hoskeri	M.Sc., Ph.D	Proteomics and Bioinformatics	Asst. Professor

Vision:

To empower women through the development of computational skills & analytical skills required to excel in the field of “life science"

Mission:

• To make students globally competent by training them on advanced techniques through state-of-the-art facilities.
• Facilitating skill based training in computational and statistical techniques for biological data analysis.
• Enable students to efficiently involve themselves in data ware housing and data mining.
• To familiarize and train students on all biological databases along with on-line and many advanced off-line biomolecular data analysis softwares.
• To provide basic to core biological knowledge to relate biological information on gene function and protein structure/function with sequence and genome.
• To enable students to work on platforms like Drug designing, Molecular Docking, Chemoinformatics, NGS data analysis, Microarray data analysis etc.
• To deliver ICT enabled teaching and learning.

Facilities:

 Department of Bioinformatics is enriched with the state-of-the-art classroom and laboratory facilities to train students on advanced techniques in order to make them competent.

• BIF center for regular trainings and workshops (established under the assistance of DBT, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India).
• Wet lab with equipments like RT-PCR, PCR, HPLC, GC-MS, FT-IR, Bio-Rad Electrophoresis and SDS-PAGE Units, UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, Gel Documentation Unit, Deep Freezers etc.
• Animal Cell Culture facility, Plant Tissue Culture facility, Molecular and cell biology facility.
• Digital classroom with sound system for ICT based teaching.
• Sufficient number of Books in the library.
• Studentship stipend through BIF-DBT during 4^th semester for completing project.

Career Opportunities:

        Bioinformatics offers excellent job opportunities in Clinical research, Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceuticals, IT, R and D Labs,  Agriculture, Medicine, Industries, Entrepreneurship and Education.

Achievements: 

• Department is recognized as National Facility Center by DBT for training in Bioinformatics.
• 80% of the are recruited in clinical research labs, bio labs and IT industries
• 02 PhD’s are awarded in 2013-14, 02 have submitted for award in 2014-15 and 03 students are preserving PhD.