Genetics
Department of Genetics
Motto
“Decoding the blue print of Life”
Vision
Imparting application Oriented knowledge
Mission
Enhancement of experimental skills and their applications in real life situations.
Objectives
- To impart quality education
- To promote excellence in academic endeavors
- To equip the students with experimental skills
- To provide application-based knowledge
Best Practices
- Genetics Department was approved as one of the participants under DBT Star college scheme funding, Govt .of 2020-23
- Organized Two days Lecture Series Workshop “Molecular Recognition in Physiological Processes” Indian Academy of Sciences under the Science Academies’ Education Programs-2022
- .Venugopal Rao,Head, Dept of Genetics was awarded SARA (St.Ann’s Research Award )for recognition of his research contributions 2016
- Rao was nominated as Ethics Committee member, DDHRC,MAA Research foundation , QPSB & BOS member SSSIHL ,Prasanthi Nilayam Puttaparthi—Since 2013
- Research consultancy was offered to the students of DNB and PG –Applied Nutrition.- Since 2019
- Organized UGC sponsored national conference on “Emerging trends in Life Sciences” for faculty, PG and research students. 2017 and” Bioinformatics “ for students and faculty 2002
- A total of 21 research papers published in Peer –reviewed and UGC listed journals; one publication was recognized and included as a chapter in the compiled book “Recent progress in Microbiology and Biotechnology –vol 4 -2020; Implemented 3 ARPs (Ann’s Research Project) sanctioned by college under seed money grant in the areas of Human Genetics and Plant Biotechnology.
- Venugopal Rao, co -authored two books
- Population genetics,2006 Kalyani Publishers
- Medical Biotechnology -2010, Oxford University press New Delhi
- Innovation in making the students do practical experiments on DNA extraction from mouth and banana, culturing of Drosophila fruit flies and mitosis in Onion root tips-first step using kitchen as platform and domestic chemicals and few ordered from Amazon during Pandemic.
Following MOUs signed and linkages developed for technical exchange internships, training programs skill enhancement courses and research.
1.GMERF-Global Medical Education and Research Foundation–MOU
2.Bhagavan Mahaveer Hospital and Research Centre.
3.Institute of Genetics and Hospital for Genetic Diseases.
4.Vasavi Hospitals.–MOU
5.Innobiome Technologies –MOU
6.Moleclur Biology division , Apollo Hospitals.–MOU