Department of Genetics

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS OBJECTIVES PROGRAMMES SYLLABUS FACULTY PROFILE

VISION
To make students understand the role of genes in inheritance and to disseminate the knowledge on emerging trends and to help them make informed choice on various social and ethical issues that arise due to profound discoveries in genetics.

MISSION
To inculcate a scientific temperament among the students encouraging quality research focusing on latest trends which would contribute for a better society.

OBJECTIVES

To understand important concepts in classical, molecular, advanced genetics and population genetics

To provide technical and computational skills using several teaching kits and statistical tools

To focus on human genetics to correlate human health and disease

To inculcate scientific temperament and to encourage research in emerging trends and make informed choice on various social and ethical issues that arise due to profound discoveries in Genetics

To increase their employability in genetic engineering, genetic counselling, clinical medical labs, embryological labs and other related fields

ALUMNAE

Ms. Sindhu Issac
BCG Batch: 2011-2014
Occupation : Medical Coder

Ms. Johnna Francis Varghese
BBG Year of passing-2010.
Postdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of Neurology,
Harvard Medical School

Ms. Sagari Adhikari
Batch 2015-2018 Combination – BBG MSc.
Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine At University College London
Currently - MBBS at New Vision University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Ms. Saniha Sabu
BSc BBG 2016 – 2019
PhD Scholar at Institute of Bioinformatics
Centre for Human Genetics Bangalore

Ms. Tejaswi Rao ranga
Flight Lieutenant Tejaswi Ranga Rao is the first woman
weapons systems officer in the Sukhoi-30 fleet,
frontline air-dominance fighter aircraft, which is considered
as the backbone of the Indian Air Force's frontline fighter jets !

Ms. Prachi Oza
Research Project Assistant at Institute of Bioinformatics
- researching Human Genetic Disorder
Institute of Bioinformatics

Ms. Vidushi Aggarwal
Batch of 2018-21
Masters from KCL in genomic medicine (2021-22)
genetic technologist
at the Newcastle upon Tyne NHS foundation trust

Ms. Joanna Elizabeth George
PG in Human Genetics, 2020-2022
Interning as a genetic counselor
at St John's medical College Hospital.

Programmes offered

Value Added Courses

• Medical Laboratory Technology
• POIESIS - Creative Poetry Writing

Activities in Genetics

The staff and students of the department are involved in various research activities such as UGC Minor Research projects and students projects as a part of their curriculum. These projects include topics ranging from classical to advanced genetics study of gene and genotype frequencies of Mendelian traits in human population, Dermatoglyphics, Bioinformatics, Gene transfer, Karyotype variations in human disorders and Behavioural Genetics etc.
A host of co-curricular activities are organized during the academic year to take learning beyond the classroom and make it a fun oriented experience. Activities include seminars, workshops, guest lectures, interclass, interdisciplinary, intercollegiate competitions and field trips which are regularly organized. Teachers make it a point to go above and beyond job decription to organise activities such as Biosymphony, Biosynergy, Wildlife week, Intercollegiate exhibitions and Inter class ZooGen activities.
Field trips are organized by the Department every year to provide the students an insight into the recent advances in research work in Genetics and also as a part of Industry - Institute collaboration. Some of the places visited are an organic farm at Manjalagiri, the Centre for Molecular Biology at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, National Drosophila Stock Centre of Mysore University, Nature camp at Kulgi, Dandeli, DNA fingerprinting centre, Madiwala, Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry college, Hebbal and National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Adugodi.
Students are encouraged to present papers in National and International conferences and also to publish their research work in the in-house research journal for students called Scientia. Guest lectures are organized for the students every semester by well known resourse persons from the industry to increase their knowledge about the subject. Journal Club - This is an initiative for the final year students to develop skills in scientific writing, motivate the students to access the journals in the library including online journals and to critique these research publications. This inculcates in the students a scientific temper, motivating them to take up research as a career.