SGGS College Sector 26,CHANDIGARH

PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology was established in 2006 in self finance mode with the objective to provide outstanding Biotechnology education directed at enriching the quality of life in an emerging knowledge-based society. The faculty of the department is actively involved in research and has been awarded several research projects by DST (UT administration) and UGC. The faculty publishes research papers in national and international journals on regular basis. The Department offers undergraduate program in Biotechnology Honors and Biotechnology Elective and postgraduate programs in M. Sc. Biotechnology and M.Sc. Microbial Biotechnology. The department has well-furnished four experimental and two research laboratories for various undergraduate/postgraduate courses and also has facilities for carrying out fundamental research in the frontier areas of Biotechnology. In addition to this the department has a well-furnished fully air conditioned Instrument room.

The Department of Biotechnology is committed to the furtherance of the scientific temper and contributes to post-graduate level academic programs in Biotechnology with significant emphasis on laboratory work, emphasizing original, creative thinking and research. The department has developed extensive research facility and infrastructure to support the ongoing research and teaching initiatives. Most of the students of the department qualify UGC(NET)/CSIR entrance test and are admitted to Ph.D. programmes in prestigious research institutions in India. Some students of the Department also go abroad to pursue higher studies and some are working in reputed companies.

COURSES OFFERED

Courses Offered	Duration	Seats	Academic Qualification	Mode of admission
M.Sc. Biotechnology	2Years	40	B.Sc Medical, B.Sc Biotechnology	On the basis of the Entrance Test (OCET) conducted by Panjab University, Chandigarh. Merit list to be determined by 50% weightage to entrance test and 50% to qualifying exam.
M.Sc. Microbial Biotechnology	2Years	40	B.Sc Medical, B.Sc Biotechnology, B.Sc Microbiology or Graduation in Life Sciences	On the basis of the Entrance Test (OCET) conducted by Panjab University, Chandigarh. Merit list to be determined by 50% weightage to entrance test and 50% to qualifying exam.
B.Sc. (Hons) Biotechnology	3 Years	30	Candidate with science background (Medical or Non-Medical) at 10+2 level with a minimum of 50% marks (PCM/PCB) from CBSE or any other board recognized by PU Chandigarh	Admission is made on the basis of merit to be prepared from three science subjects (PCM/PCB). Centralized counseling.
B.Sc. Biotechnology (Elective)	3 Years	35	Candidate with science background (Medical or Non-Medical) at 10+2 level with a minimum of 40% marks (PCM/PCB) from CBSE or any other board recognized by PU Chandigarh	Admission is made on the basis of merit to be prepared from three science subjects (PCM/PCB).. Centralized counseling

INTER DISCIPLINARY COURSES

B.Sc Biotechnology (Elective)

FACULTY

Teaching Staff

Name & Email	No. of Public ations	No. of Books	Oral/ poster presen tation	Conferences/ seminar Attended Workshop Attended	Refresher/ Orientation courses attended/FDP/STTP	Area of Specialization
Dr Amit Joshi amit.molbio@gmail.com	22	--	--	07	2Refresher Course 1Orientation Course	Oncogenomics & Pharmacogenomics
Dr Jasvinder Singh Bhatti jasvinderbhatti@yahoo.com	23	---	14	18	1Refresher Course 1Orientation Course 1Winter School	Pharmacogenomics of Diabetes, Obesity and CAD Pesticide Toxicity Neurobiochemistry
Dr Satinder Kaur kaursatinder@gmail.com	13	-	14	-	1 0rientation, 2- refresher, 1-FDP	Cancer genetics; Food microbiology
Dr Sonia Chaman soniachaman@yahoo.com	13	--	Oral 2 Poster 21	Conferences 23,Workshops 8	Refresher 2 Orientation 1 FDP1	Genetics, Environment and Medical Biotechnology
Dr Jyoti Dadwal jrdadwal@gmail.com	5	Nil	Poster 15	Conferences: 21 Workshop :3	FDP 1	rDNA Technology, Environmental Biotechnology and Cell Biology
Dr. Var Ruchi Sharma Sharma_varruchi@yahoo.co.in	01	Nil	01	02	FDP:E-skills empowerment of faculty.	Bioinformatics
Ms Damanjeet Kaur Damanjeet36@yahoo.com	-	-	-	5	-	Microbial Biotechnology
Dr Kamaljit Kaur Kamaljitk010@gmail.com	2	Nil	Oral 5	Conferences: 6 Workshop :5	FDP 1	Bayesian Estimation and Inference(Statistics)
Dr. Simranpreet Kaur simmi44@gmail.com	2	Nil	Poster 6	Conferences: 4 Workshop: 3	FDP 1	Bioprocess Engineering, Fermentation Technology, Enzymology
Ms. Anju Bali anjubali@ymail.com	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	Microbiology
Ms Navdeep Sidhu nsidhu540@yahoo.co.in	02	Nil	Oral -02; Poster-5	Conferences: 5	FDP-01	Fermentation & Microbial Technology
Dr Kuldeep Kaur kkaaur7@gmail.com	08	NIL	-	05	-	Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Electrophysiology

Technical /Non Teaching Staff

Name	Qualification	Designation	Area of Specialization
Mrs Ramandeep Rani	M.Sc Biotechnology	SLA	Biotechnology
Mrs Poonam Sharma	D Pharmacy, BA	SLA	Pharmacy
Mr Prabhjot Singh	B.Tech	SLA	Technical Support
Mr Kapil Kaushik	M.Sc IT	Lab Technician	Technical Support

LIST OF ONGOING/ COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS BY THE FACULTY

Name of the PI/ Co-PI	Title of the Project	Duration	Funding Agency	Cost
Dr. Amit Joshi	Association of Genetic Variations in DNA Repair Genes with Head and Neck Carcinogenesis in North Indian Population’	2009-2012	University Grants Commission	Rs.10,22,800
Dr Jasvinder Singh Bhatti	Identification of susceptibility genes and other risk factors associated with high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in North Indian population	2011-14	University Grants Commission	Rs. 15,50,000
Dr Sonia Chaman	Study of Biological diversity and Identification of Efficient Strains among microbial Isolates of dairy effluent	2011-14	University Grants Commission	Rs. 7,91,800
Dr Satinder Kaur	To detect the presence of pathogenic strains of E.coli in milk products sold in Chandigarh	2011-13	Department of Science and Technology, Chandigarh Administration	Rs. 50,000/-
Dr Satinder Kaur	Evaluation of microbiological safety of street foods available in Chandigarh	2014-2015	Department of Science and Technology, Chandigarh Administration	Rs. 70,000/-
Dr Jyoti Dadwal	Evaluation of sanitary-bacteriological water pollution of Sukhna Lake’	2012-13	Department of Science and technology, Chandigarh Administration	Rs 1,00,000/-
Dr. Satinder Kaur	Extraction and in-vitro evaluation of antitumor and antibacterial activity of bioactive constituents from local fruit waste of Chandigarh	2017-18	Department of science and technology, Chandigarh Administration	Rs. 1,00,000/-

INFRASTRUCTURE

The department has well equipped laboratories fully equipped with the state-of-the-art facility for under and Post-graduate students. The Department has a central instrumentation room with the following instruments:

Laminar Flow Chambers
Incubators
Water bath shakers
Millipore water purification system
UV-transilluminator
Thermocycler
Autoclaves
CO₂ incubator
pH meter
Electronic balance
Microfuge
High Speed Centrifuge
Spectrophotometer
Computers
Inverted microscope
Gel DOC

FACULTY AWARDS AND HONORS

Name

Honors

Dr Amit Joshi

He has been selected as Senator PU, Chandigarh and Secretary of Dairying, Animal Husbandry and Agriculture in the session 2016-17.

He has been selected as member of Syndicate PU Chandigarh.

FACULTY AWARDS

Dr Jasvinder Singh Bhatti	Research Award (2014-16) awarded by UGC Govt. of India .	Research Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Panjab University Chandigarh (May, 2015-16)
Dr Jasvinder Singh Bhatti	Raman Post Doc Fellowship in USA awarded by UGC Govt. of India for year 2016-17	International Visiting Scholar at Garrison Institute on Aging, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas USA (Aug, 2016-17). We investigated the molecular mechanisms linking type 2 diabetes with Alzheimer’s disease using a polygenic model of type 2 diabetes, TALLYHO/JngJ by studying the mitochondrial dysfunctions, fission/fusion genes regulation and Mitophagy in brain, pancreas, skeletal muscles and liver tissues. Many techniques were used to establish the molecular connections between T2D and AD such as RT-PCR, Western Blotting, Immunohistochemistry, ELISA, Flow cytometry, Transmission Electron Microscopy, and many biochemical and enzymatic studies. I also worked on diabetes cell lines and animal models, TALLYHO/JngJ, BL6 and SWR.J mice strains.

DEPARTMENT ACTIVITIES YEAR WISE

The following resource persons delivered expert talks on various frontier areas of biotechnology. Our students were hugely benefited by these expert talks.

Name of the Expert and organization	Session	Topic
Prof. Rupinder Tewari (Coordinator, DST-Centre for Policy Research	2016-17	Entrepreneurship in Biotechnology
Dr. Rupinder Singh, Head, Applications, Bio-Rad, India Ltd	-do-	Digital PCR: Concepts and applications
Dr Arjinder Kaur, Department of Biotechnology, PAU, Ludhiana	2013-14	Genetically Modified Food
Dr Jagtar Singh, Department of Biotechnology, P U Chandigarh	-do-	Pharmacogenetics
Dr Yogesh Rawal, Deparment of Zoology, Panjab University	-do-	Current Prospects of Marine Biotechnology
Dr Navneet Batra, Head, Department of Biotechnology, SD College, Chandigarh	-do-	Metagenomics
Dr Ajinder Kaur, Assistant Plant Breeder (Pulses) School of Agricultural Punjab Agricultural University , Ludhiana	2012-13	Genetically Modified Food
Prof R C Sobti, Vice Chancellor, Lucknow University	-do-	Prospects of Biotechnology
Prof Sanjeev Puri, UIET, P U,Chandigarh	-do-	Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering
Dr N Satyamurthy, Director, IISER, Mohali	-do-	Modular Reaction Dynamics
Dr R C Mahajan, Emeritus Professor, PGIMER, Chandigarh	-do-	Medical Parasitology
Dr Pratima Bharti, Caldera Pharmaceuticals XRpro ^®	2011-12	High throughput screening for new drug development in the pharmaceutical industry.
Prof UC Banerjee, Dean, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar Mohali (Pb)	-do-	Technological development in downstream processing in fermentation industry.
Dr Satnam Singh Laddar, Deputy Director, Environment, PSCST, Chandigarh.	2010-11	Environmental pollution
Dr Navjot Kaur, Department of Biotechnology, J B Pierce Corporation, U S A	-do-	Drug discovery and Designing
Prof A. S Ahluwalia, Chairperson Department of Botany, P.U, Chandigarh	-do-	Environmental Awareness
Prof R. K Kohli, Vice Chancellor, Central Univ, Bhathinda	-do-	Ecological Implications of Exotic Trees

SEMINAR AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED BY DEPARTMENT

1. Two day workshop CLIMATE CATALYSTS was organized by IYCN and Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics on 19^th -20^th Sept 2014 in association with Environmental Society and NSS Unit of the College. The event was funded by PSCST, Chandigarh and IYCN.

2. One Day workshop on LaTex was organized on 31^st March ,2017 by Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology in association with Research Committee of the College. Er Tanvir Singh , Outreach officer , Punjab K7Kspoken tutorial IIT Bombay ,NMEIT,MHRD, Govt. of India was the resource person.

EXTENSION / OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

1. Dr Amit Joshi was coordinator of NSS (2013-15)

2. Dr Sonia Chaman was coordinator of Environmental Society (2010-2015)and Red Ribbon Club from (2013-15). PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology has been actively involved in a number of extension activities.

3. National Technology Day was celebrated on 17^th Sept 2011 by PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology. The event was funded by PSCST, Chandigarh.

4. PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology and Red Ribbon Club, in association with NSS unit and Lions Club, Chandigarh was involved in Blood Donation camp on October 15, 2012. 242 volunteers contributed for the cause.

5. PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology in association with Red Ribbon Club organized:

i) A lecture by consultant, Youth Affairs from Chandigarh State Aids Control Society on 11^th February, 2014.

ii) An inter college competition on HIV/ AIDS awareness in collaboration with Chandigarh State Aids Control Society on 21^st February, 2014. A number of activities like Poster Making, Poetry Recitation, Rangoli and Slogan & Caption Writing etc. were part of the competition.

6. PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology in association with Red Ribbon Club & NSS unit celebrated International Youth Day on 12^th of August 2014.To mark this day, Sardar Kapoor Singh memorial blood donation camp was organized. Various competitions like Slogan Writing, Art work, Poster Making and Still photography were held on the theme “Healthy Youth for Healthy India”,” Mental Stress among Youth” and “Contribution of Youth towards Society” were held.

7. PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology in association with Environmental Society organized Go Green Rally on 15^th Feb, 2011 and Green Fest on 16^th Feb, 2011. These events were sponsored by CITCO and PSCST, Chandigarh.

8. Similarly in 2012, Green Fest was organized on 2^nd Feb, 2012 and Go Green Rally on 3^rd Feb. These events were sponsored by SBI and PSCST, Chandigarh.

9. Science Fair was organized by PG Department of Biotechnology and Microbial Biotechnology on 19^th Nov 2013 which was funded by Science and Technology, Chandigarh Administration.