Laboratory Techniques Known

Molecular Biology

DNA isolation (Both Genomic and Plasmid); Quantification, amplification & visualization of DNA through various techniques i.e. Spectrophotometer, Agarose gel Electrophoresis; Gel documentation etc.; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Application of PCR-based markers like RAPD, DAMD, SSR, ISSR, SSR, AFLP, PCR-RFLP, ITS-PCR and cpDNA markers in the genetic diversity, systematics and phylogenetic study of plants; DNA Sequencing (ABI-3730).

Plant Tissue Culture

Agrobacterium mediated Transformation, Sterilization techniques, Media Preparation, In vitro Micro-propagation, Aseptic transfer, Colony Count, Cell Viability assay, GUS histochemical assay etc

Green House          

Maintenance and monitoring of transgenic plants in Green House

Microbiology

Bacterial culture maintenance, Bacterial DNA isolation, Identification of Bacterial strains through various techniques

Bioinformatics Software Applications

Elementary knowledge of Bioinformatics; handling professional softwares viz., NTSYS, POPGENE, FREETREE, TREEVIEW, MEGA, GenAlEx, Cleaver, DNA Baser, BioEdit, WINBOOT, PHYLIP and some other online programs such as CAP3, Primer3, BLAST, FASTA, NCBI, EMBL, etc.

Computer Skills

MS Office, Internet Applications, Coral Draw, Adobe Photoshop