Department of Bio Technology

Accredited by NBA

Department Details	Faculty	Professional Bodies	Infrastructure	R & D	Achievements	Seminars
BioTech Importance

The Department of Biotechnology was established at Joginpally B.R Engineering College in the year 2002 with an intake of 60 and M.Tech Biotechnology course is starting from the academic year 2010-11. The department is affiliated to JNTU and accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of AICTE w.e.f. 16.04.2009.

The Department is headed by Prof.  G.Venkateswerlu,   who has more than 37 years of teaching and research experience in various fields of Biotechnology, and is assisted by a team of well qualified and highly experienced staff.The Department is having well equipped laboratories  and  infrastructure. The students are trained with latest techniques in the field of Biotechnology.The department has the credit of achieving 100% pass in all the previous four years consecutively. Apart from the academics, they are also encouraged to carry their projects in the college and also in  various reputed Institutes, Industries and Universities. Educational tours are organized to the students to visit various institutions and industries to be aware of developments in this field.

The Biotechnology department of JBREC organizes National level symposia  serving as a platform to the biotechnology students across the country to share their ideas and views on the latest research and developments in this field, giving an opportunity to the students to interact with various scientists and industrial management.

The trained students acquired excellent placements and most of the students joined in masters course  in India and in other countries like Sweden, U.S.A  and U.K and etc.

Achievements of  Biotechnology Department:

“Production of mycolytic enzymes by Chrysosporium sp. grown on shrimp chitin”
J.V.Narayana,N.Suneetha,L.Dakshyani,Dr G.Venkateswerlu was selected for presentation in 11^th International symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms at Melbourne, Australia on   June 28^th to July 1^st 2010 .

The research work on Chrysosporium sp. GV-6 28S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence was published in GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ pulic databases.
Authors:
J.V.Narayana,N.Suneetha,L.Dakshyani,Dr G.Venkateswerlu

Faculty

S.No	Name of the Faculty	Qualification	Designation
1	Dr. G.Venkateswerlu	M.Sc, Ph.D	Professor
2	Mr.V.Sugunakar	M.Sc, (Ph.D)	Associate Professor
3	Mrs. B.Priyanka	M.Sc	Assistant Professor
4	Mrs. Ch.Nirmala Vani	M.Sc,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
5	Mrs. Deepthi Lakshmi	B.Tech,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
6	Ms. Binita Das	M.Sc	Assistant Professor
7	N. Rama	B.Tech,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
8	Mr .Sadanand	B.Tech,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
9	Mr.Krishna Murthy	B.Tech,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
10	M. Aruna	M.Sc,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
11	M. Srikanth	B.Tech,  M.Tech	Assistant Professor
12	Pari Talath Fatima	B.Tech	Assistant Professor

Professional Bodies

BIOCLUB, It is a Student Association formed and started working since the department established in the year 2002, under which all the students assemble and conduct various activities on Biotechnology like Quiz, Recent advances, Research articles, Discussions, Debate, Seminars, Career Counseling etc.


Infrastructure

The laboratories are very spacious and  well furnished with all modern instruments and  sophisticated equipment like Fermentor, Polymerase chain reaction machine (PCR), UV visible spectrophotometer, Gel documentation system, ELISA reader, Infra red spectrometer, Spectroflourimeter, Dissecting Microscope, Electrophoretic system, Shaking incubator, Desktop centrifuges, Bacteriological incubators, Hot air ovens, Binocular and trinocular research microscopes, Cyclomixer, Tissue Homogenizer, Laminar air flow units, etc.

The Department is having altogether 8 laboratories

1. Biochemistry
2. Cell Biology and Microbiology
3. Analytical Methods in Biotechnology
4. Plant Tissue culture
5. Bioprocess Engineering
6. Immunology
7. Bioinformatics
8. Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering

Research and Development

These are the areas of research conducting in the department:

1. "Extraction & Isolation of Industrial enzymes from fungal organisms"
2. "Production of Pencillin from Pencillium sp."
3. "Isolation of chitin from Shrimp waste and its utilization"
4. Metal Tolerance of Pencillium sp
   
   

Achievements

Students

• 1^st in Bio-Technology
• Alexander Chatrvedi H.T.No.06J21A2301secure 78.15%
• B.Tech Biotechnology - III year student have won the 1^st prize in INFOQUEST-2010, a National level consortium organised by JBIET, Title of Paper is "Oxygenic hydrogen photoproduction by marine organism".

Faculty
Paper presentations:

J.V.Narayana, N.Suneetha, L.Dakshyani,Dr G.Venkateswerlu presented a paper entitled "Production of mycolytic enzymes by Chrysosporium sp. grown on shrimp chitin" in 11^th International symposium on the Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms at Melbourne, Australia on   June 28^th to July 1^st 2010 .

Paper publications:

G.V.Rangarao,K.L.Sahrawat,Ch.Srinivasarao,Binitha Das , K.Kiran Kumar Reddy , B.S.Bharath , V.Rameshwar Rao ,K.V.S.Murthy and S.P.Wani (2009) Insecticide Residues in Vegetablke crops Grown in Kothapalli Watershed, Andhra Pradesh ,India :A Case Study , Indian J.Dryland Agric.Res & Dev. 24(2) :21-27.

Database Publications:

The research work on Chrysosporium sp. GV-6 28S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence was published in GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ pulic databases.
Authors:
J.V.Narayana,N.Suneetha,L.Dakshyani,Dr G.Venkateswerlu

Seminars

B.Tech Biotechnology - III year and IV year students have attended "National Conference on Bio Industry Interactions" at JNTUH, Kukatpally, Hyderabad, on 28^th August 2010.