Jawaharlal Nehru University, School of Biotechnology- [SBT]

The School of Biotechnology is well endowed with State of the art facilities for cutting edge research in Biotechnology. Some of the major equipments/facilities in the school are as follows:

The School has a Central Instruments Facility (CIF) equipped with all the basic and advanced equipments/ instruments required for modern day research in biotechnology. The facility is open round the clock for both the students and the faculty.

Under the FIST support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the School has created a Recombinant Product Development Facility. The facility includes all necessary upstream and downstream equipments, quality control and testing equipments required for the recombinant product development.

The facility created in the SBT at JNU is special, as it has the flexibility to be used to produce both recombinant products as well as the purification and characterization of non-recombinant products. In a university set up, this flexibility allows one to take up new research projects without compromising the stringent requirements of a facility of GLP standard. The RPDF-GLP will help in enhancing Industry-academia interaction, and thus facilitating transfer of technologies by the scientists from academic institutes to the industry.

The spectroscopic facility includes several highly sensitive UV-Visible spectrophotometers, Fluorescence spectrometers, Circular Dichroism spectrometer with stopped flow attachment, FT-IR spectrometer and Nano drop Spectrophotometer etc.

This facility includes MicroCal differential scanning calorimetric and isothermal titration calorimetric set up for studying bimolecular stability, folding and interactions.

This includes simple microscopes, fluorescent microscopes, laser scanning confocal microscope and phase contrast microscopes.

This facility includes refrigerated incubator shakers, bacterial and mammalian cell bioreactors with online FTIR analysis, AKTA-Prime, AKTA-Explorer FPLC for protein purification, Shimadzu HPLC, etc.