DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING

Even Semester – 2012 - 2013

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No of stUdents appeared : 14 First place: SANGEETHA GOPAL 9.84No of stUdents cleared all paper: 14 Second Place: MARIYA THOMAS 9.36Pass Percentage:100 Third Place: MONI JOHN 8.82

S5 BT UNIVERSITY EXAM RESULTS 2010 BATCH

No of Students appeared : 24No of Students cleared all paper: 23

Pass Percentage: 95.83

First place: CAROLINE ROSE ALUKKAL 9.64Second Place: EMILIA BABU 9.27Third Place: HARSHA MARY 8.93

20 students out of 24 have a SGPA of 7 and above

S1 & 2 BT UNIVERSITY EXAM RESULTS 2011 BATCH

No of students appeared : 20 No of students cleared all paper: 09 Pass Percentage: 45%

First place: KRISHNAJA SASEENDAN [8] Second Place: ANJALI V [7.86] Third Place: BHAVYA .V.H, & DELNA MATHEW

[7.43]

S3 BT UNIVERSITY EXAM RESULTS 2011 BATCH

No of students appeared : 20 No of students cleared all paper: 17 Pass Percentage: 85%

First place: KRISHNAJA SASEENDAN [8.89] Second Place: BHAVYA .V.H [8.82] Third Place: ANJALI V [8.71]

STUDENT PROJECT AWARDS Manorama Yuva Mastermind 2013 - Dr. Satheesh John memorial Award of

Rs.60,000/- PROJECT TITLE : “Electricity from Urine” Mr. Rothish Ramesh , Ms Gopika Kartha and Ms. Neenu Tom Guided by Mrs.Megha .P.M

- Second Prize of Rs 30000/- PROJECT TITLE :“An Effective Approach of Bioelectricity Production From

Lignocellulosic Waste” Mr. Seby Antony, Ms Sangeetha Gopal, Ms Mariya Thomas and Ms Celine Thomas Guided by Rahna K Rathnan

NATCON 2013

PROJECTS SELECTED FOR FINAL ROUNDS

7 Projects Selected for the final rounds in Techtop 2013 to be held at Technopark Trivandrum during August- 2013 .

One project selected for the final round of Jed-i to be conducted at IISc, Bangalore on June 14th 2013.

One Project selected for the final round of the student project competition organized by NRDC under the Dept of Biotechnology, Govt of India.

STUDENT PROJECT COMPETITIONS PARTICIPATION

NATCON 2013 Mr. Pinto Paul, Ms Feba Jose & Ms Anju Paul, guided by Mrs.

Praveena P. The project was “Effective Utilisation of Poultry Waste”.

Mr. Rothish Ramesh , Mr. Arjun S Kumar, Ms Gopika Kartha and Neenu Tom, guided by Mrs. Megha P.M.The project was “Electricity from Urine”.

SPECTRUM-2013

Mr. Pinto Paul, Ms Feba Jose & Ms Anju Paul, guided by Mrs. Praveena P .

Project --“Effective Utilization of Poultry Waste”.

Mr. Rothish Ramesh, Mr. Arjun S Kumar, Ms Gopika Kartha and Neenu Tom, guided by Mrs. Megha P.M.

Project --“Electricity from Urine”.

Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Ms Jesin Augustine, Ms Sreeshma Haridas & Ms Moni John guided by Mrs. Maria Cyriac. Project --“Slaughter House Waste Management Coupled with Biofuel Production”.

PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS Ms Sreeshma Haridas & Ms Moni John-first prize in the

Paper presentation in GENSPIRE ’13-- “Phytoremediation of selected heavy metals by Azolla”, guided by Mrs. Mariya Issac.

Ms Jesin Augustine--participated in Paper presentation in GENSPIRE ’13-- “Diagnostic techniques for neurological disorders”, guided by Mrs. Ranimol.

Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan presented a paper in GENSPIRE ’13 -- “Mitochondrial DNA as diagnostic tool”, guided by Mrs. Ranimol.

Ms Celine Thomas and Mr. Seby Antony of S8 BT, guided by Rahna K Rathnan, presented a poster on the topic “Bioplastic from lignocellulosic waste” in 3rd INCOFTECH- 2013.

WORKSHOPS /TRAINING

Ms. Rahna K Rathnan attended One day International workshop On “Amazing Career Opportunities in Food Sciences”.

Ms. P.Praveena (Asst Professor, BT) attended a workshop on Flow Cytometry in CARe KERALAM,Koratty on 15th February 2013.

Ms Celine Thomas, Ms Mariya Thomas, Ms Sangeetha Gopal and Mr. Seby Antony of S8 BT attended One day International workshop On “Amazing Career Opportunities in Food Sciences”.

ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES DEC 2012-APRIL 2013

On 5th December BEATS arranged an invited talk by Mr. Simson Jose, Executive, Cluster Innovation Center from CARe KERALAM ,KINFRA Park, Koratty.

On 7 Jan 2013 BEATS arranged a motivational talk on “How to excel in one’s profession” by Dr. George Kovoor.

TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM- BIOVISION -2013

Inauguration by Dr. Ranjan S Karippai

TALKS DELIVERED Dr. Suma T.B, Scientist, Department

of Biotechnology, KFRI, Peechi, delivered a talk on “DNA Bar coding”

Dr. Gireesh (Scientist, Rubber Research Institute ) on Rubber propagation

POSTER AND PAPER PRESENTATION

VALEDICTORY FUNCTION

FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

INVITED TALK BY DR. VIJI MARY VARGHESE, ON “STEM CELLS & TISSUE ENGINEERING”.

HOD Biotechnology St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda.

DR. AMBILI MECHOOR @ ST.JOSEPH’S COLLEGE IRINJALAKUDA

Forging Links into Biochemical Pathways

INVITED TALK AT M R COLLEGE, TN BY MS. MEGHA PM

Biotechnology for the betterment of society

WATER DAY – 22ND MARCH 2013

SOCIAL SERVICE On Feb 9th 2013 BEATS volunteered the Sports & Arts Meet for the

differently abled students of Thrissur district organized by the Lion’s Club of Irinjalakuda.

APPLICATIONS FOR STUDENT PROJECT GRANTS(SENT TO AGENCIES)

KSCSTE “Electricity from Urine” –Mrs. Megha “Complete utilization of poultry waste”-Mrs. Praveena “Waste plastic-Golden fuel”- Mrs. Praveena “An Effective Approach of Bioelectricity Production from

Lignocellulosic Waste”-Mrs. Rahna “Production of bioplastic from tamarind and jackfruit

seeds”-Mrs. MarriaIEI “Electricity from Urine” –Mrs. Megha

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

Amitha Joy, Jubil, C. A, Syama, P. S and Rohini Menon – Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research(April 2013).

Rahna. K. Rathnan, Ambili Mechoor, Celine Thomas, Mariya Thomas, Sangeetha Gopal and Seby Antony -- International Journal of Environmental Sciences. (March 2013).

Smeera Thomas1, J. Grace Nirmala2 and R. T. Narendhirakannan2*. Free Radical Scavenging Activities of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis. L on Adjuvant Induced Arthritis in Rats. -- British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 3(4): 536-547, 2013

REPRESENTATION IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE

Faculty in the editorial/reviewer board

1. Ms. Rahna K Rathnan – Carbohydrate Polymers; Elsevier publications (ISSN: 0144-8617)

2. Dr. Ambili Mechoor – IJBB, (ISSN:0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print) ) 

3. Dr. Ambili Mechoor - Agronomy for Sustainable Development ( Print ISSN: 1774-0746; Online ISSN: 1773-0155)

PENICILLIUM CITRINUM STRAIN SCET3 28S RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE, PARTIAL SEQUENCE

GenBank: KC686840.1 DEFINITION : Penicillium citrinum strain SCET3 28S

ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. ACCESSION KC686840 VERSION KC686840.1 GI:484400121

TITLE Novel cellulolytic fungi isolated from natural source JOURNAL Unpublished REFERENCE 2 (bases 1 to 543)

AUTHORS : Rathnan,R.K., Antony,S., Thomas,M., Gopal,S., Thomas,C. and Mechoor,A. TITLE Direct Submission JOURNAL Submitted (24-FEB-2013) Department of Biotechnology, Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Kodakara, Thrissur, Kerala 680684, India

Sequencing Technology :: Sanger dideoxy sequencing organism="Penicillium citrinum" /mol_type="genomic DNA"

/strain="SCET3" /db_xref="taxon:5077" rRNA <1..>543 /product="28S ribosomal RNA" /note="D1-D2 region" ORIGIN 1 cggcaagagc tcaaatttga aagctggccc cctcggggtc cgcattgtaa tttgcagagg 61 atgcttcggg aacggccccc atctaagtgc cctggaacgg gccgtcatag agggtgagaa 121 tcccgtctgg gatggggtgg ccgcgcccgt gtgaagctcc ttcgacgagt cgagttgttt 181 gggaatgcag ctctaattgg gtggtaaatt tcatctaaag ctaaatattg gccggagacc 241 gatagcgcac aagtagagtg atcgaaagat gaaaagcact ttgaaaagag agttaaacag 301 cacgtgaaat tgttgaaagg gaagcgcttg cgaccagact cgcccgcggg gttcagccgg 361 cactcgtgcc ggtgtacttc cccgcgggcg ggccagcgtc ggtttgggcg gccggtcaaa 421 ggcctctgga aggtaacgcc tctcggggcg tcttatagcc aggggtgcca tgcggcctgc 481 ccggaccgag gaacgcgctt cggctcggac gctggcataa tggtcgtaag cgacccgtct 541 tga

Mr. Francis John Ms. Amitha Joy Ms. Maria Cyriac

Soaring high………………..

PLANS FOR NEXT (ODD) SEMESTER-2013

Workshop for faculties - Bioinformatics and Molecular Drug designing - Preliminary work initiated . Had talks with KSSTEC & Kerala Biotech Commission. Application under process

Technical talks by eminent scientists and faculty from esteemed institutions Some speakers contacted – ( Dates yet to confirm)

Dr. M V Joseph , Former HOD, Biotech Dept, Calicut Uty Dr. S. Mini , Reader Biochem Dept , Kerala Uty Dr. Anitha Santhosh , ILA laboratory , Dubai

ADD ON COURSES Add on courses proposed and will be

conducted in Biostatistics for the final year students.

Proposal for an add on course in Molecular Drug Design.

PROJECTS TO AGENCIES Projects under process to KSSTEC &

DBT Both Staff as well as student projects

Major Projects1. Anticancer effects of Garcinia Cambogia 2. Design of Bioreactors and fuel production from

natural sources Minor Projects Students projects are getting prepared by each

faculty for the 5th and 7th Semester Project grants

IMPROVEMENT & EFFECTIVENESS NEEDED

S for S programme T for S programme Good Lab practices Uniform code Campus Language Use of Dept Library

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

COMPOST MAKING

RELEVANT PROGRAMMES PLANNED ON THESE DAYS

5th June – World Environment day Sep 16th - World Ozone day Oct 4th – World Animal welfare day Oct 18th – Karl Ereky’s birthday (Father of

Biotechnology) Dec 1st – World Aids awareness day

THANK YOU