Post Graduate Diploma Course Work

Duration of Post Graduate Diploma Course: 2 semesters (24 Credits)
Post Graduate Diploma Courses:
Molecular Cell Biology (3 Credits)
Concepts in Biotechnology (3 Credits)
Medical Biotechnology (3 Credits)
Recombinant DNA Technology (3 Credits)
Instrumentation (3 Credits)
Cell and Tissue Culture Technology (3 Credits)
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Biochemistry (3 Credits)
Microbiology (3 Credits)
Molecular diagnostics (3 Credits)
Cell Signalling and Cancer (3 Credits)
Concepts and perspective of molecular medicine (3 Credits)
Gene Expression studies (3 Credits)
Molecular basis of infectious diseases/ Molecular Microbiology (3 Credits)
Epigenetics (3 Credits)
Research Methodology (3 Credits)
Presentation of a research proposal and Project work (3 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.