BIOTECHNOLOGY - ST. MARY'S COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF Biotechnology

VISION

Encouraging and ensuring innovations in society for sustainable management of environment and understanding life processes.

MISSION

Redefining life. Enhancing the knowledge base and generating a highly skilled human resource, by intersecting and unlocking the strength of biology and technology for empowering mankind. Sources are everywhere around us, we just need to find the way to exploit them sustainably.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY

Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary subject, which has got applications in various fields from medicine to agriculture and other environmental impacts. The term “Biotechnology was coined in 1919 by a Hungarian engineer Karl Ereky. Its core part lies in the pure biological sciences and acquaintances with the knowledge and methods from the outside sphere of biology. This field has found to revolutionize science since then. The concept encompasses a wider range and history of procedures for modifying living organisms according to human purposes, going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants and "improvements" to these through breeding programs.

The department of biotechnology was established in 2000, by introducing the under graduation course, B. Sc. Biotechnology and later the M.Sc. Biotechnology programme in 2003, affiliated to the Calicut University. The motto of the department is ‘Tools to gorge a better tomorrow’, and the mission is to implement this through academic and co-curricular activities. The department laboratory has got all basic facilities. In addition to it, the department has got enthusiastic faculties who are available to the students for academic and personnel counseling. We guide our students to think and implement research ideas independently, to participate in various projects both interdepartmental as well as in other prestigious institutions like RGCB, KFRI, Rubber Board and various laboratories like Oushadhi, Genehelix, Astragenica. Department has collaboration with Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI), College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), Indian Medical Association (IMA), Red ribbon club KSACS

CAREER OPPURTUNITIES.

Biotechnology as a professional and research oriented course, has lot of applications. Our syllabus is vast and consists of topics in Environmental Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Cell and molecular biology, microbiology, Microbial genetics, Recombinant Technology, Immunlogy, Plant biotechnology, Animal biotechnology Bioinformatics. Biotechnology has wide areas of application in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, development of Medicines and Vaccine, plant tissue culture, pollution control and waste management, energy production, etc and post graduate students can undertake MPhil, CSIR-UGC NET, PhD, post doctoral fellowships, teaching careers etc. The course empowers the students for career in pharmaceutical companies, Industrial Research and Development, Health Care and Medicine fields, etc.