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The Department of Biotechnology was established in August, 1994 with the introduction of vocational course of Biotechnology at undergraduate level. Presently the department is running Ph.D. (Biotechnology), M.Sc. (Biotechnology), B.Sc. (Honours) Biotechnology, and B.Sc. with Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology. With its creative, interdisciplinary and research oriented approach in various programmes, this Department is providing the students broader and deeper perspectives in academics and research. In 2007, GGDSD College was selected as a “College with Potential for Excellence” and “Biosciences” as STAR Department by UGC, New Delhi. The Department of Science and Technology has recognized the strength of the College’s Science programmes by selecting it under “Star College in Life Science” Scheme of Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi in 2009. The Department has been sanctioned with “DBT-BUILDER-GGDSD College Interdisciplinary Life Science Programme for Advance Research and Education (Level I)”. The college has been sanctioned with DBT Skill Vigyan Program to provide Student training (Food microbiology) and Technician training program (Lab assistant).
The Department has developed excellent training facility and provides short term training and research project programme for external students. A number of students from other institutes have successfully completed summer training/short term research project. The department has a faculty of highly qualified teachers, who are working in thrust areas of biotechnology. To update the knowledge of faculty and students, every year a number of workshops/ seminars/ popular lectures/ scientific quiz & co-curricular activities are organized by the department
Courses Offered | Duration | Seats | Academic Qualification | Mode of admission |
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Ph.D. | As per Panjab University Rule | 05 | As per Panjab University Guidelines | UGC/CSIR NET,GATE or National Level Entrance Test for Ph.D. |
M.Sc. (Biotechnology) | 2 years (Semester System) | 40 | A Bachelor’s degree in Physical, Biological, Pharmaceutical, Agricultural, Veterinary or Fishery Sciences or in Engineering/ Technology, Home Science, Medicine (MBBS) with at least 55% marks | Entrance Test PU-C.E.T(P.G.)+Merit (50% weightage to entrance 50% weightage to qualifying exam) |
B.Sc. (Honours) Biotechnology/ B.Sc. (Honours) Biotechnology with Research | 4 years | 30 | Must have passed 10+2 examination with atleast 35% marks in the aggregate of the qualifying examination and has studied any science subject or any allied subject from a recognized board. Student must have passed 10+2 examination with English as one of the subjects |
Centralized Admission by DHE on merit basis |
#B.VOC (FOOD PROCESSING) | 4 years | 50 | Passed the 10+2 Examination (any stream) with 45% of marks under 10+2+3 system of education of a recognized university/Board/Council or any other examination recognized by the Panjab University. | Based on merit |
# This programme provides options of multiple exit points i.e. after Diploma and Advanced Diploma.
S.No. | Name | Designation | Qualification | Email id | Vidwan ID | CV |
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1. | Dr. Navneet Batra | Associate Professor and Head of Dept. | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 141480 | Attachment |
2. | Dr. Samriti Dhawan | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 141515 | Attachment |
3. | Dr. Ashima Pathak | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 147864 | Attachment |
4. | Dr. Neetu Thakur | Associate Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 136232 | Attachment |
5. | Dr. Shivani Ghai | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 231510 | Attachment |
6. | Dr. Avneet Kaur | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 275375 | Attachment |
7. | Dr. Sonu Bhatia | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 275376 | Attachment |
8. | Dr. Abhinashi Singh Sodhi | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 231559 | Attachment |
9. | Dr. Deepika Negi | Assistant Professor | M.Sc., Ph.D. | [email protected] | 586026 | Attachment |
10. | Ms. Kangan Khanna | Assistant Professor | M.Sc. | [email protected] | 319551 | Attachment |
11. | Ms. Navdeep Sidhu | Assistant Professor | M.Sc. | [email protected] | 585985 | Attachment |
12. | Ms. Anu Verma | Assistant Professor | M.Sc. | [email protected] | 585972 | Attachment |
*Note that the following faculty list includes permanent, ad-hoc, contractual, and guest members.
Name of the PI/ Co-PI | Title of the Project | Duration | Funding Agency |
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Dr. Ashima Pathak PI | Molecular action of Zinc on glucose transporter in liver of diabetic rats | 03 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Navneet Batra PI | Studies of Natural Microbial Communities of the Hot water springs | 03 years | DST, New Delhi |
Dr. Neetu Thakur PI | Studies on genetic stability & invitro conservation of Tinospora cordifolia | 03 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Navneet Batra PI | Study of microbial diversity of the various springs of HP using 23Srna approach | 03 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Navneet Batra PI | Molecular Phylogenetic Exploration of Bacterial Diversity in Hot spring (Sohna) of Haryana | 02 years | HSCST, Chandigarh |
Dr. Navneet Batra Co-PI | Culture Dependent 23sRNA approach to study the Bacterial Asparaginase associated with Suhna Lake for treatment of Leukemia | 01 year | DST, Chandigarh |
Dr. Samriti Dhawan PI | Isolation, Screening, Production and Application of β-mannanase producing bacteria from soil | 02 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Navneet Batra Co- PI | Isolation, characterization of poly beta hydroxyl butyrate (PHB), biodegradable plastics by a microorganism isolated from soil | 02 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Navneet Batra Co- PI | Application of Bioinformatics in Detecting Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny of Snake Venom Protein of Indian Venomous Species | 02 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Samriti Dhawan Co-PI | Microbial and biochemical studies of different Waters including sewage water containing Industrial Effluent in and around Chandigarh with the Focus on Plant Growth.” | 02 years | DST, Chandigarh |
Dr. Navneet Batra PI | Isolation, characterization and application of various isozymes of β-galactosidase from Bacillus coagulans RCS3 | 02 years | UGC, New Delhi |
Dr. Samriti Dhawan Co-PI | Use of Foldscope as biological tool | 02 years | DBT, New Delhi |
Dr. Samriti Dhawan Co-PI | To study the potential of plant and agri-residues for adsorption of dyes from effluent and wastewater. | 01 year | DST, Chandigarh |
Dr. Samriti Dhawan PI | Physico-chemical characterization of effluents and toxicity study of lead as a pollutant in samples collected from different industries in and around Chandigarh. | 01 years | DST, Chandigarh |
S. No | Date | Name of the activity | Key Speaker/Guest | Activity Type (Seminar/ Workshop/ Lecture/ Conference/ Outreach Activity) | Remarks |
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2024-2025 | |||||
1. | 28th July 2024. | National Intellectual Property Festival in collaboration with CSIR-IMTECH and Punjab State Council for Science and Technology | Mr. Garry Bedi, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh Ms. Divya Kaushik, PSCST, Chandigarh |
Seminar | |
2. | 14th November 2024 | Visit to Animal cell culture facility, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University on | Prof. Yogesh Rawal, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Dr. Ravinder Kumar, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh |
Student educational visit | |
2023-2024 | |||||
1. | 2nd November 2023 | Visit to Animal cell culture facility, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University | Prof. Yogesh Rawal, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Dr. Ravinder Kumar, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh |
Student educational visit | |
2. | 26th December 2023 to 26th March 2024 | Three month Technician Training Program under DBT Skill Vigyan Scheme | Prof. U.C. Banerjee, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biotechnology, Amity University, Punjab Prof. Naveen Gupta, Dept. of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Prof. Neena Caplash, Det. of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Prof. Jagtar Singh, Dept. of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Dr. Mani Shanker, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh Dr. Amit Joshi, SGGS College, Sector-26, Chandigarh Mr. Bhupinder Singh, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh |
Hands on student training program | |
3. | 9th January 2024 | International Seminar on Lab to Field: Need for Translational Research | Prof. RC Sobti, Former VC P.U. Chd. and BBAU Lucknow. Dr. Dulal Panda, Director, NIPER, Mohali Dr. Rashmi Kaul, Oklahoma Medical School, USA Dr. Devendra Kumar Agrawak, Western University of Health Sciences, USA |
Seminar | |
4. | 10-12th January 2024 | Three day on site Workshop on Flow Cytometry and its applications in Biosciences | Prof. RC Sobti, Former VC P.U. Chd. and BBAU Lucknow. Dr. Sanjay Bhadada, PGIMER, Chandigarh Dr. Rekha Gour, TETC Dr. Hemant Aggarwal, TETC Dr. Jitendra Kumar, Beckman Coulter Life Science Dr. Rui Gardner, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
Workshop | |
2022-2023 | |||||
1. | 27th September 2022 | Distinguished lecture on Innovative Make in India Medical Devices for Health Care | Prof. V.P. Kamboj, CDRI, Lucknow | Guest Lecture | |
2. | 17th November 2022 | Immobilization of enzymes and Whole cell immobilization. | Prof. U.C. Banerjee, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biotechnology, Amity University, Punjab | Guest Lecture | |
3. | 11th February 2023 | Guest lecture on Issues related to Biosafety | Prof. Neena Caplash, Det. of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh | Guest Lecture | |
4. | 14th February 2023 | Interactive session on Career Prospects in Biotechnology | Prof. Naveen Gupta, Dept. of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh | Interactive session | |
5. | 14th February 2023 | Guest lecture on Enzyme nomenclature and Pre-steady state kinetics | Prof. U.C. Banerjee, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Biotechnology, Amity University, Punjab | Guest Lecture | |
6. | 21st February 2023 | Hands-on workshop on Importance of Patents and Patent Filing | Prof. Rupinder Tewari, Dept. of Microbial Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Mr. Umesh Sharma, Founder, 3IAP |
Hands-on Workshop | |
7. | 17th November 2022 | Visit to CSIR-IMTECH | Dr. Anirban Chaudhary, BERDPC, IMTECH, Chandigarh | Student Educational Visit | |
8. | 18th November 2022 | Visit to Animal cell culture facility, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University | Prof. Yogesh Rawal, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Dr. Ravinder Kumar, Dept. of Zoology, Panjab University, Chandigarh |
Student Educational Visit | |
9. | 7th February 2023 | Visit to Centre for Nuclear Medicine, Panjab University, Chandigarh | – | Student Educational Visit | |
2021-2022 | |||||
1. | 24th May 2021 | Distinguished lecture on The Life Of A Protozoal Invader: What We Learn From Its Successes And Failures” | Prof. Chandrima Saha, President, Indian National Academy. | Distinguished Lecture | |
2. | 31st May 2021 | Distinguished lecture on Eye Ailments and Covid | Prof. Amod Gupta, Former Dean, PGIMER, Chandigarh | Distinguished Lecture | |
3. | 1st June 2021 | Distinguished lecture on PGIMER in COVID-19. | Prof. Jagat Ram, Former Director, PGIMER, Chandigarh | Distinguished Lecture | |
4. | 2nd June 2021 | Virtual Tour Merck High End skill development centre, IMTECH. | Dr. Ankur Gautam, MERCK Skill Develoment Centre, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. | Virtual laboratory tool | |
5. | 5th June 2021 | Distinguished Lecture on Innovation, A Key Driver To Rejuvenate The Environment. | Prof. Alok Dhawan, Director, Centre for Biomedical Research, Lucknow | Distinguished Lecture | |
6. | 8th June 2021 | Declamation Competition | – | Student Competition | |
7. | 17th June 2021 | Distinguished lecture on Covid-19 and Comorbidities. | Dr. Sanjay Badada, Dept. of Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh | Distinguished Lecture | |
8. | 6th September 2021 | Webinar on Beginning of Chemistry in Early Universe | Prof. N. Sathyamurthy, Former Director, IISER Mohali. | Webinar | |
9. | 18th September 2021 | Webinar on “Product and Process Innovations around Amyloid research ” | Prof. Ashwani Kumar Thakur, Dept. of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | Webinar | |
10. | 24-25th September 2021 | Research Conclave | Prof. RC Sobti, Former VC P.U. Chd. and BBAU Lucknow. Prof. Rajat Sandhir, Dept. of Biochemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh Prof. Naveen Gupta, Dept. of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Prof. Wamik Azmi, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla Dr. Ashish Ganguly, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh |
Research Conclave | |
11. | 18th October 2021 | Webinar on India COVID Vaccine journey. | Prof. N.K. Arora, Executive Director, The INCLEN Trust International, New Delhi | Webinar | |
12. | 28th October 2021 | Visit to Merck High End skill development centre, IMTECH | Dr. Ankur Gautam, MERCK Skill Development Centre, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. | Student Educational Visit | |
13. | 8th March 2022 | Visit to Merck High End skill development centre, IMTECH | Dr. Ankur Gautam, MERCK Skill Development Centre, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. | Student Educational Visit | |
14. | 6th June 2022 | Microbiome literacy for better health management | Prof. Rup Lal, Distinguished Professor, NASI, Delhi University | Distinguished Lecture | |
2020-2021 | |||||
4th June 2020 | Webinar on “Creativity and Intellectual Property: Creating a seamless linkage” | Dr. Naresh K. Sahjpal, Former Outstanding Scientist (Scientist ‘H’) and Head, Human Resource and Development Centre/Division of Research Planning and Business Development, CSIR, New Delhi | Webinar | ||
25th June 2020 | Webinar on Combating Covid-19 using Nanoscience andNanotechnology | Dr. Priyanka Saberhwal, National Centre for Nano-Science & Nanotechnology Mumbai University | Webinar | ||
29th June 2020 | Workshop on Biorisk Management: Appropriate use of Personal protective equipments for good lab work practices. | Prof. Prince Sharma, Dept. of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh Prof. Neena Caplash, Dept. of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh |
Online Workshop | ||
20th October 2020 | Webinar on “Patents in Biotechnology” | Mr. Harit Mohan, Founder and CEO, Signicent LLP. | Webinar | ||
7th December 2020 | Webinar on “Covid-19: Transformation of Life Systems” | Prof. N.K. Ganguly, Former DG, ICMR Dr. Vikas Suri, PGIMER, Chandigarh Dr. Vardimala Jain, Trishala Foundation, Prayagraj. Prof. Santosh Kumar, Kumaun University Prof. SK. Malhotra, Allahabad University. |
Webinar | ||
19th December 2020 | Special Lecture series 2020-21 | Dr. Anoop Verma, Dept. of Energy and Environment, Thapar University | Lecture Series | ||
8th January 2021 | Session on “Concept of Start-up and Entrepreneurship” | Mr. Rupinder Singh, Founder and Director, BioHouse Solutions Pvt. Ltd | Guest Lecture | ||
16th January 2021 | Webinar on Commercialization of Research and Intellectual Property Rights and Identifying Intellectual Property Components at early stage of innovation | Dr. B.K. Sahu, Regional Manager and Head, IPFC and TISC, NRDC, New Delhi Dr. Rahul Taneja, Scientist, HSCST, Panchkula |
Webinar | ||
29 January 2021 | Interactive Session on Molecular Biology: Tools, Engage, Experience, Advance | Dr. Ankur Gautam, MERCK Skill Development Centre, CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh. | Interactive Session | ||
7th February 2021 | “Contributions and Expectations from emerging technologies for the welfare of society in the contemporary world” | Dr. V. Paul, Member NITI Aayog Dr. Krishan Lal, Former President, INSA Dr. G. Padmanabhan, President NASI Dr. R.C. Deka, Former Director, AIIMS Dr. N.R. Jaganathan, Faculty, AIIMS |
Online Seminar |
The department has impressive class rooms and well equipped spacious laboratories. The high tech labs are built as per required specifications enabling the students to benefit from a superior learning environment. The department has general laboratories (3), plant tissue Culture lab (1), microbiology lab (1), Research laboratory (2), Food Processing and Preservation Laboratory (1), Instrumentation room (2), cold room facility (1), chemical store room (1). A seminar room fitted with audio-visual facility is also there to have more interactive class room sessions. One store room having stock of consumables is attached with the department.
Most of our laboratories are equipped with latest Instruments and facilities making them the envy of universities and organizations in the region. We have modern well-equipped laboratories with all the latest equipments. These include:
In addition, a number of minor equipments including autoclaves, ovens, incubators, water baths, weighing balances, microwaves, vortexes, colony counters, hot plates, colorimeters, magnetic stirrers, pH meters, refrigerators, centrifuges, compound microscopes are there in different laboratories.
Our graduates are sought after by top companies across various industries. Leading recruiters recognize the talent, skills, and expertise nurtured at GGDSD College, offering our students promising career opportunities.