State of the art infrastructure organized in about 2000-sqft. lab area, with all advanced facilities for applied research in this field. Major facilities cover areas like Molecular biology, tissue culture, and Enzyme technology and protein purification.
The fermentation facility houses totally automated lab scale fermentors of 5 and 10 L working capacity powered by advanced fermentation software and associated down stream processing equipments, like cell seperator, Ultra filtration system etc.
The centre has an advanced analytical division catering the requirements of both biotechnology and chemical sciences. Key equipments are HPLCs, FPLC, FT-IR, GC-MS, Polarimeter, Scintillation counter, Ultracentrifuge, UV-Visible spectrophotometers, Inverted microscope, Phast system and gel documenter.
The biopesticide screening facility is equipped with a insect culture and new molecule identification set up. A Drosophila lab has recently been added to this facility to study target sites and mode of action of novel bioactive molecules in the fly system.
Commercially feasible processes developed in the lab are taken up here for process development and scale up. Center has a flexible pilot plant which can be adapted to different scenarios. The major facilities include following sections:
- Reactors/Stirrers/ pumps
- Filtration – Basket centrifuge, Filter press, Nutsche filter
- Drying – Fluidised bed dryer, Tray dryer
- Distillation assembly (all glass)
- Ion exchange columns
For the purpose of carrying out jobs of extensive computational load, the Bioinformatics Lab is equipped with the latest, high end computing facility.
- High Performance Computing Cluster
- High end server with QuadCore processor
- Workstation for visualizing High end graphics
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