BioTechnology
Student Achievements
University Ranks
Department has secured 4 University ranks
GATE score
| Sl. No. | STUDENT NAME | GATE RANKING |
| 1 | BINDU R | GATE 2015-1633 |
| 2 | BITHORAI BASUMATARY | GATE 2015-2495, Pursuing M. Tech at IIT Guwahati |
| 3 | VAISHNAVI V | GATE 2015-1233 |
| 4 | AFNA SAFIA | GATE 2017- 630, Pursuing M. Tech at IIT Bhopal |
| 5 | SIRISH K R | GATE 2017- 931 |
| 6 | VASUDHA T K | GATE 2018 – 219, Pursuing M. S. at IIT, Madras |
| 7 | SHRAAVYA V | GATE 2019 – 62 |
| 8 | JHANSI V | GATE 2019 –1318 |
Students funded projects
| Sl. No. | Title of the Project | Year | Funding Agency | Grant (Rs.) |
| 1 | Construction and designing of biopile for ex situ remediation of used oil /toxic hydrocarbons using fungal consortium | 2017-18 | KSCST | 6,000/- |
| 2 | Construction and designing of biopile for ex situ remediation of used oil /toxic hydrocarbons using fungal consortium | 2017-18 | VTU Best project | 5,000/- |
| 3 | Isolation and Characterization of Methanogenic bacteria from local environment and Comparative study of kinetics with traditional biogas producers | 2017-18 | VTU Best project | 5,000/- |
COCURRICULAR AND EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Co-curricular activities
Department organizes co-curricular activities to provide a comprehensive range of learning opportunities. Co-curricular activities promote student learning through means of non-formal educational modes including poster presentation, campus events, technical paper presentation, model exhibition, collage making and experiential learning activities.
| THE OXFORD - KSCST – VTPC CENTRE FOR PATENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER |
| “THE OXFORD - KSCST – VTPC CENTRE FOR PATENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER” cell is inaugurated on 18.01.2012 |
| IEEE-EMB Society student Chapter inaugurated |
| IEEE-EMB society student chapter was Inaugurated on 27th March 2021 |
STUDENT ACTIVITES ORGANIZED IN THE DEPARTMENT
| DETAILS OF THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED |
| IEEE-EMB society student chapter was Inaugurated on 27th March 2021 |
| Inaugurated “THE OXFORD - KSCST - VTPC CENTRE FOR PATENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER” on 18.01.2012 |
| Organized alumni meet on 29th May’, 2021, through virtual mode |
| Organized "Competiton for Creative poster design on Covid Awarness "on 13th May 2021 |
| Organized WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY –2021 CELEBRATION" THEMED"ECO SYSYTEM RESTORATION "ON 10TH JUNE 2021 |
| Organized a Workshop on “Prior Art Search” for 7th Semester students in Association with Bioxforum on 26th October 2021 |
| Organized a Debate on “Are Robots going to Icrese the Quality of Life” for 3rd semester students in Association with Bioxforum on 11th November 2021 |
OUTREACH PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED
| DETAILS OF THE OUTREACH PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED |
| Organized World Earth Day -Plant a tree Initiative on 22nd April at Ramnagara Forest reserve |
| Organized Covid-19 Vaccination Awareness Programme” on 17th April at Bommasandra village |
| Organized Awareness Programme Boosting immunity through Balanced diet” on 17th April at Kanakapura village |
| Organized Awareness Programme on Covid-19 Pandemic on 17th April at Carmelram, Mullur Village and Bommasandra Village |
| Organized Awareness program on Public hygiene ”Zika virus, Covid & Dengue” on 27th July 2021, at BWSSB, Domlur Bengaluru |
| Organized Awareness program on Delta Plus Virus & Importance of Vaccination” on 21st July 2021, at Adigondanahalli, village Bengaluru |
| Organized Awareness program on Personal and Public hygiene, Covid-19 related guidelines for FIRE fighters” on 26th July 2021, at Electronic city fire station, Electronic city phase. Bengaluru |
National/International Conferences Presentation by Students:
| Sl. No. | Name |
Name of the conference |
Place |
Date |
Achievement |
| 1 | Sriraksha H G | International conference on potential impacts of pesticides on environment and human health | Dayanand sagar University | 2nd to 4th November 2017 | Participation |
| 2 | Smriti Arora, Aishwarya B, Aditi M | 4th IIT Madras - Tokyo Tech “Frontiers in Bioinformatics: Large scale data analysis, resources and drug design” | IIT Madras | 10th - 11th November 2017 | Participation |
| 3 | K Soundarya Vadhulas | 12th INDIAcom:2018 5th International Conference on Computing for sustainable global development, organized by BVICAM, New Delhi | New Delhi | 14th to 16th March 2018 | Paper presentation |
| 4 | Kala Sai Sarwani and Pooja V | National Level Symposia Chem excel 2018 | BIET, Davanagere | 23rd March 2018 | Paper presentation |
| 5 | Afiya Kousar, Gagana B, Neha H L, Punya L Gowda and Rakshith K S | Student Development Programme on Micro-array Data and NGS Sequencing Data Analysis and Applications in Drug Discovery | MVIT, Bangalore | 6th to 10th August, 2018 | Participation |
| 6 | Chaitanya R, B. Siddharth, Goutham M and Devi Varaprasad | Open source support & access to research, organized by OSPF, NIAS | IISc, Bangalore | 11th August, 2018 | Participation |
| 7 | Anusha S, Aishwarya A, Sumalatha M, Saima Jamal, Purvika C, Kunalika MH and Sushma Bhandarkar | Workshop on Algal Bloom Imaging National Level Annual Tech Symposium “Phase Shift” | BMSCE, Bangalore | 15th to 16th September 2018 | Participation |
| 8 | Preetham A | Training on “Biofuel Production and Characterization” | Centre of Excellence for Energ Research, Centre for Waste Management, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai | 28th September 2018 | Participation |
| 9 | Anusha S, Saima Jamal, Arpitha K, Pavan Vignesh U, Anoop M, Krishnadev V, Akshay S, Annapoorna Devi, Noorayisha Khanam, Sonia V, Jeevitha K, Keerthana M, Preethi KP, Goutham M and Krithika | Symposium on “Regulatory Affairs & GMP in Biopharmaceutics” | Department of biotechnology, Acharya Institute of Technology, Bangalore | 26th to 27th October 2018 | Participation |
| 10 | Afiya Kousar, Gagana B, Neha H L, Punya L Gowda and Rakshith K S | Pre-event workshop on Nanotechnology | BMSCE, Bangalore | 27th November 2018 | Participation |
| 11 | Arpitha K | New Trends in Biotechnology and 14th Conference of Society of Cytologists and Geneticists | Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere | 6th to 8th March 2019 | Poster Presentation |
| 12 | Manoj S and V Ashwin and Nikhil P | Extraction of Biodiesel from Kigelia pinnata at 11th KSTA conference “New Vistas in Science and Technology on Common Cold” | NMKRV College for Women, Bangalore in association with KSTA Govt. of Karnataka | 1st to 2nd February 2019 | Poster Presentation |
| 13 | H Geethabai & KalaSai sarvani | Workshop on Applied Bioinformatics | InARI, Bangalore | 4th to 5th February 2019 | Participation |
| 14 | H Geethabai & KalaSai sarvani | Workshop on Genome to Drugome | InARI, Bangalore | 27th to 28th March 2019 | Participation |
| 15 | Devi Vara Prasad | India- UK collaboration meet | NIAS, IISc, Bangalore | 7th June 2019 | Participation |
| 16 | Arpita K | Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Myrica | Department of Biotechnology, Acharya Institution | 23rd and 24th August 2019 | Oral Presentation |
| 17 | Preetham A, Sumalatha M and Mala N | Invitro Propagation of Leucas aspera at Two Day National Conference on “Present Trends in Biotechnology Strategies for Health & Environment” | Department of Biotechnology, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering | 25th and 26th September 2019 | Poster Presentation |
| 18 | Anoop M and Akshay S, Krishnadev and Dhanush P | Hands-on training programme on “Taxonomic Identification of Coastal and Oceanic Copepods (TICOC 2019)” | Marine Planktonology Aquaculture Laboratory, Barathidasan University, Tamil Nadu | 3rd to 5th October | Participation |
| 19 | Akshay V Nair, Preetham A, Rahul N, Prakash Nath | Production of cellulase using banana pseudostem in National Seminar “Bioprospecting of biodiversity for agriculture and medicine: Current status and future prospectives BBAM-19” | Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore | 3rd and 4th October 2019 | Paper Presentation |
| 20 | Prathyusha Pedapati, Preethi K.P, Soniya V, Abdul Basith Ali and Krithika S | Regulatory Compliance Requirements | Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBABA), Bangalore | 10th October 2019 | Participation |
| 21 | Sidharth B.R. and Akshat Jaiswal | 1st International Conference of Life, Chemical and Health Sciences (ICLCHS) | Department of Life Sciences, Ramaiah College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bangalore and KSTA, Dept. of It, BT and Science Technology, Govt. of Karnataka | 24th to 26th October 2019 | Poster presentation |
| 22 | Kunalika M Hemanth, Gamyashree K, Noor Tuba, Sushma Bhandarkar M, Komalesh S, Dhanush P Reddy, Purushotham and Atul Anand Gupta | Multipurpose Bioreactor at National Symposium “CHEMEXEL 2019” | Bapuji Institute of Technology, Davangere | 25th and 26th October 2019 | Model Presentation |
| 23 | Azra Taskeen, S. Kushmitha Jadhav, Rahul N, Akshay V | “Analysis of Bioplastic Production from Lignocellulosic Wastes” and “Design of continuous stirred tank reactor for ethanol production” at National symposium “CHEMEXEL 2019” | Bapuji Institute of Technology, Davangere | 25th and 26th October 2019 | Paper Presentation |
| 24 | M. Purushotham Rao | Technical quiz at National Level Student’s Symposium CHEMEXCEL-2K19 | Department of Chemical Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere | 25th and 26th October 2019 | Participated |
| 25 | Noorayisha Khanam, Annapoorna Devi, Aswathy K.H | Workshop on ”Data Structures” | ABC office, Vijayanagar | 26th October 2019 | Participation |
| 26 | Flavia Catherine V V, Jesna Daniel, Nigi Paul C, Preetha R | “Biogenic Synthesis of Functionalised Antibiotic Nanoparticles from Actinomycetes” at the International workshop on Biology and Applications of Actinomycetes | University of Mysore, Mysore | 31st October to 1st November 2019 | Poster Presentation |
| 27 | Devi Vara Prasad | Workshop on “Patent in 1 year” | Banana IP Solutions, Yelachanahalli | 23rd November 2019 | Participation |
| 28 | Akshay V Nair, Mizba Farkana M, Purushotham Rao M and Purvika C | 10 days integrated workshop on “Downstream Processing of Phytopharmaceuticals and Nutraceuticals- Research and Industrial Applications” | Department if Biotechnology, SMVIT, Bangalore in association with Himalaya Drug Company, Bangalore | 7th September to 14th December 2019 | Participation |
Sports
- Urvi Narayan (III Sem) and Punya L Gowda (V Sem) won second place in singles and doubles of Inter-department Table tennis (women) tournament held at TOCE in August 2017
- Krithika Venkatesh (VII Sem), Geetha Bai (V Sem) and Tahmina Aslam (V Sem) won the First prize in Inter-department chess (women) tournament held at TOCE in August 2017
- Urvi Narayan (IV Sem) and Punya L Gowda (VI Sem) won first place in singles and doubles of Inter-department Table tennis tournament held at TOCE on 19th and 20th of February 2018
- Elamparuthee (IV Sem) and team won first place in Bangalore Zone Kabaddi tournament and second place in Inter-zonal level Kabaddi tournament in 2017-18.
Students’ Achievements:
Students are encouraged to participate in various conferences, workshops & intercollegiate competition to enhance their knowledge and interpersonal skill and have brought laurels to the Department.
| Sl. No. | Name | Name of the conference/ workshop | Place | Date | Achievement |
| 1 | Azra Taskeen, S. Kushmitha Jadhav, Rahul N, Akshay V | “Design of Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor for Ethanol Production.” at National Symposium “CHEMEXEL 2019” | Bapuji Institute of Technology, Davangere | 25th and 26th October 2019 | 1st Prize |
| 2 | M. Purushotham Rao | Technical quiz at National Level Students Symposium CHEMEXCEL-2K19 | Department of Chemical Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Technology, Davangere | 25th and 26th October 2019 | 2nd Prize |
| 3 | Kunalika M Hemanth, Gamyashree K, Noor Tuba, Sushma Bhandarkar M, Komalesh S, Dhanush P Reddy, Purushotham and Atul Anand Gupta | “Multipurpose bioreactor” at National Symposium CHEMEXEL 2019 | Department of Chemical Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Technology, Davangere | 25th and 26th October 2019 | 2nd Prize |
| 4 | Akshay V Nair, Rahul N, Prakash Nath | National Seminar on “Bioproscpecting of Biodiversity for Agriculture and Medicine: Current Status and Future Prospectives” BBAM-19 | Department of Botany, Bharathiar university, Coimbatore | 3rd and 4th October 2019 | 1st Prize |