M.Sc. Course Work

Duration of Master of Science (M.Sc.) Course: 2 years (4 semesters) (48 Credits)
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Courses:
FIRST SEMESTER – THIRD SEMESTER (36 Credits)
Molecular Cell Biology (3 Credits)
Concepts in Biotechnology (3 Credits)
Medical Biotechnology (3 Credits)
Recombinant DNA Technology (3 Credits)
Bioinstrumentation (3 Credits)
Animal Cell and Tissue Culture Technology (3 Credits)
Microbial Biotechnology (3 Credits)
Immunology and Immunotechnology (3 Credits)
Medical Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (3 Credits)
Biochemistry (3 Credits)
Molecular Microbiology (3 Credits)
Molecular diagnostics (3 Credits)
Cell Signalling and Cancer (3 Credits)
Stem Cell Biology (3 Credits)
Molecular medicine (3 Credits)
Gene Expression studies (3 Credits)
Epigenetics (3 Credits)
Molecular Endocrinology (3 Credits)
Molecular Neuroscience (3 Credits)
Molecular Basis of Disease (3 Credits)
FOURTH SEMESTER (12 Credits)
Research Methodology (3 Credits)
Presentation of a research proposal and Project work (6 Credit)

Laboratory Techniques (3 Credit)

• Immunocytochemistry
• ELISA
• Electrophoretic and hybridization techniques.
• Western, Northern and Southern blotting.
• Ultracentrifugation, liquid chromatographic techniques.
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Reverse Transcriptase PCR and Real Time PCR.
• Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA), DNA sequencing, DNA footprinting.
• Bacterial, fungal and mammalian cell culture.
• Transient and stable DNA transfection.
• Karyotyping.
• Fluorescence and confocal microscopy.
• Reporter gene assays.
• Antibody Generation (Polyclonal and Monoclonl)
• Use and analysis of radioisotopes.
• Antibody Generation (Polyclonal and Monoclonl)
• Genomics, microarray and proteomics – theory and applications.
• DNA (Plasmid/ genomic DNA) and RNA isolation.