Department of Bio-Informatics
The Department of Bioinformatics at Karnataka State Akkamahadevi Women’s University imparts quality education through theoretical, practical and industrial exposure in order to enhance the students’ knowledge in Bioinformatics as well as advanced biology. Bioinformatics harnesses the core principles of biological data analysis, proteomics, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, systems biology and drug designing which a focus of developing knowledge and products for human and environmental welfare related to the environment, biopharmaceutical, industrial and medicine. The unique course structure is designed in consultation with clinical, agricultural and industrial experts to give you the cutting edge specialist knowledge and practical skills needed for a career in clinical informatics and bioinformatics. Through this Bioinformatics program students are equipped with in-depth and wide knowledge related to advancements in biology, biological data generation, management and analysis. This program covers teaching and research fields of specialization include Cell and Molecular biology, Cell signaling, Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, systems biology, cheminformatics, drug designing, clinical trials and clinical data management along with big data analytics. The MSc Bioinformatics program at KSWUV will be unique, as it will cover all the major fields of Clinical informatics and Bioinformatics, while focusing on laboratory practical experiences, internships, field visits, and industrial exposure with research skills. The students will be introduced to the concepts of “Entrepreneurship and start-ups”, this allows students employability and establish their own enterprise or CRO on Biological Data-analyst, Genome Sequencing, Drug Designing, Database Development, Software Development etc. The overall aim of this program is to effectively engage students in learning, enhance their problem solving skills, to get deeper understanding of the discipline.
Contact Details:
Dr. Babu R L
Chairperson & Associate Professor, Department of Bio-Informatics.
Email: bioinformatics@kswu.ac.in
Ph.No: 9535990125
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.
- To create an enabling learning environment in order to foster a knowledge pool and research culture as well as provide required support through research framework and guidelines.
- To foster students with theoretical, practical and industrial knowledge to make them employable and industry ready.
- To ensure high level of efficient and effective support system to facilitate faculty and researchers in their research activities.
- To promote and encourage students and faculty to publish articles in peer reviewed quality reputed journals, indexed in Scopus/Web of Science and/or with impact factor.
- To engage students and staff in collaborative research and training nationally and globally through linkages and MoUs.
- To promote students and faculty exchange with esteemed research.
- To encourage students and faculty to undertake research those have societal implications.
- Establish state of the art research facility in the department.
| Sl.No | Course | Duration | Eligibility | Intake | Career Options | Syllabus |
| 1 | M.Sc. | 02 Years / 4 Semesters | Any Degree of in Life Science and Medical Science | Merit + Payment | Bioinformatics offers excellent job opportunities in Clinical research, Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceuticals, IT(R & D) Labs, Agriculture, Medicine, Industries, Teaching, Research assistants, Entrepreneurship and Education, Higher education, Healthcare and Intellectual property rights agencies, Knowledge processing and Clinical data management. | |
| 2 | Ph.D. | 4 Years | Master Degree in any subject in Life Sciences | Merit | Bioinformatics offers excellent job opportunities in Clinical research, Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceuticals, IT(R & D) Labs, Agriculture, Medicine, Industries, Teaching, Research assistants, Entrepreneurship and Education, Higher education, Healthcare and Intellectual property rights agencies, Knowledge processing and Clinical data management. |
| Sl.No | Name & Designation | Qualification | Specialization | Contact Details | Resume | |
| 1 |  |
Dr. Babu R L Designation: Chairperson & Associate Professor |
M.Sc., Ph.D,PDF | Cancer Biology, drug discovery & molecular biology |
Email: baburl.rl@gmail.com Ph.No: 9535990125 |
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| 2 |  |
Dr.Joy Hosakeri Designation: Assistant Professor |
M.Sc., Ph.D | Proteomics and Bioinformatics |
Email: joy@kswu.ac.in Ph.No: 7795122960 |
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| Sl.No | Project Title | Principal Investigator | Sponsoring Agency | Sanctioned Year | Budget | Status |
| 1 | Identification and validation of ethnic plants bioactive targets involved in immune modulation by Insilco and invitro studies” | Dr.Babu R L |
DST Govt. of Karnataka |
2016 | 20 Lakh | Completed |
| 2 | Entrepreneurship development Programme in Agriculture Biotechnology | Dr.Babu R L |
Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India |
24 lakhs |
| Sl.No | Title | Author Name | Journal Name | Year | Impact Factor |
| 1 |
Evaluation of Mycoplasma hominis proteome to identify the potential vaccine candidate proteins. |
Madagi SK and Shiragannavar S |
International journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research |
2020 |
2.44 |
| 2 | In Silico Vaccine Design against Mycoplasma honimis infections | Shiragannavar S, Madagi | Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal | 2020 | 0.901 |
| 3 |
In silico vaccine design against Chlamydia trachomatis infection. |
Shiragannavar S, Madagi S Hosakeri J, Barot V |
Network Modeling analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics |
2020 |
2.05 |
| 4 | Pathway study of gene variants of pancreatic cancer detected by Whole Exome Sequencing Data analysis | Maheswari L Patil, Prof. Shivakumar B Madagi | International Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences | 2019 | 0.888 |
| 5 | In-Silico Analysis of The Ureaplasmaurealyticum Proteome Causing Infertility | ShivakumarMadagi, Shilpa Shiragannavar | Research Journal of Life Sciences, Bioinformatics Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences | 2019 |
- 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 4th semester for completing project.
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Study tours.