School of Life Sciences

School of Life Sciences

Introduction to School System, Credit Based & Cafeteria Approach

The following departments are grouped in this school;

Department of Botany

Established in 1962 the department is a pioneer in leaf protean and Aerobiology research in India. It has one of the largest University Herbariums in the country with over one lakh specimen. One of the largest University Botanical garden in an area of 44 acres is included in the directory of the Botanical gardens and parks in India. It also runs its own journal-Indian Botanical Reporter.

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Department of Physics

Department of Zoology

This department came into being in 1959. The only Department with DNA Bar coding facility in its Paul Herbert Center with state of art facilities. The department established Sub-Centre for marine Research laboratory at Bhatye, Ratnagiri which was titled as Centre for Coastal and Marine Bio-diversity and made headway in Marine Research a big cap in its achievement. One of the departments with highest number of Research projects and to have signed MoU with institutions of higher learning in countries like Israel, Poland, New Zealand, East Africa and Slovakia.

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Department of Environmental Science

Department of Environmental Science

The department was constituted in 1958 and presently is one of the few departments under SAP -DRS level - I. It has access to all E. Journals. It also has a mega research project of DST under FIST that funded Computer Networking Laboratory. The department has collaboration with local Pharma Industries like wockhard Ltd., Orchid Pharma and Fine Chemicals, NCL Pune, I.I.T and B.A.R.C. Mumbai.

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Department of Bio-<br />chemistry

Department of Bio-chemistry

An independent Bio-Chemistry department was set up in 1992. An exclusive Laboratory not available elsewhere in India is the Plant Pest interaction Laboratory of the department. The department also has an Animal House Facility for conducting animal experiments. Other Science departments of the University are also using this facility. It has high number of Major Research Projects supported and financed by UGC / ICSSR with special thrust on proteomics bioinformatics.

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