Molecular
Biology and Genetic Engineering
Year of establishment: 2011
UGC Sanctioned Course
| M.Sc. Course: 2 years (Credit based - 4 semesters) No. of seats: 30 Name: Dr. T. SRINIVASU M.Sc., Ph.D., FBS Designation: Professor & Head, Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering
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Areas of Research Interest:
Mutation breeding of oil crops
Molecular Taxonomy & Phylogeny;
Medicinal & Economically important plant identification on molecular (DNA
sequences) basis
Tissue culture
On going project: Use of ITS nr DNA sequencing technique as a
diagnostic tool for authentic identification of medicinal plants
Involved in other Departmental Activities:
UGC- SAP (DRS-I): Electronic herbarium and digital database preparation
of Vidharba region (First Phase -Nagpur district)
DNA sequencing of economically important plants of Vidharba.
DNA Sequence submission to GenBank :
| Name of the organism | Accession No |
| Phyllanthus fraternus ITS1 | EU580527 |
| Phyllanthus fraternus 5.8S | EU580528 |
| Phyllanthus fraternus ITS2 | EU580529 |
| Phyllanthus tenellus ITS1 | EU580530 |
| Phyllanthus tenellus 5.8S | EU580531 |
| Phyllanthus tenellus ITS2 | EU580532 |
| Hygrophila ringens ITS1 | EU621916 |
| Hygrophila ringens 5.8S | EU621917 |
| Hygrophila ringens ITS2 | EU621918 |
| Hygrophila schulli (ITS 1, 5.8S, ITS 2) | EU489060 |
Lectures Delivered: 21
Books Published & Edited: 4
Professional Societies: 3 life + 7 annual memberships
Chaired paper presentation sessions in Conf.:5
Training programmes: Various extraction & isolation of methods of DNA
from plant Materials
PCR Amplification of DNA samples by using primers Use of bioinformatics tools
such as BLAST, MSA, Molecular Phylogenic tree, etc.
Syllabus Framing Committee: M.Sc. Molecular Biology and Genetic
Engineering course
Board of studies member: Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering PG
course
Evaluator for National Children Science Congress 2007: Invited for
NCSC, 2007 as one of the members for evaluator panels.
Maharashtra Gene Bank: University of Mumbai has nominated as a Member of the committee for establishment of Maharashtra Gene Bank proposal.
Workshops/Conferences/seminars Organized:8
Papers Published: 40
Chapter contribution (IN PRESS): Molecular phylogeny of …One
Papers presented in various conferences: 56