MBT²-2018

About the Program MBT²-2018

Molecular biotechnology is the emerging field merging many area of study such as molecular biology, microbiology, cell biology, biochemistry and immunology. Molecular biotechnology has applications in agriculture, aquaculture, chemical manufacturing, textile processing and food processing industry. Some information can be obtained at home even by having without any expensive resources, whereas many techniques have to be learnt at the bench. Molecular biotechnology is a field, in which there is an inherent lag in teaching and learning of the concepts due to lack of exposure and opportunity to learn by hands-on experience. Faculty need to update and reorient themselves to meet the rapidly changing professional and scientific needs of the stakeholders. This workshop focuses on teaching several basic concepts, including recombinant DNA, plasmids, restriction enzymes, primer design, DNA/Protein sequencing methods, electrophoresis, in-gel detection of enzymes, enzyme assay methods, enzyme kinetics and functional metagenomics. Both theoretical knowledge and hands-on training of skills by experts in the field will provide an indepth understanding of basic methods in molecular biotechnology.

Topics covered in the Workshop:

Lectures / Hands-on training on

• Primer design & PCR
• Restriction digestion & Gene Cloning
• DNA/Protein Sequencing methods, Sequence submission and analysis
• PAGE, In-gel detection of enzymes / Zymography
• Enzyme assay methods & Enzyme kinetics
• Functional Metagenomics

About NIT Warangal:

National Institute of Technology Warangal, formerly known as Regional Engineering College was established in1959. Over the years it has developed into a premier institute of higher learning and is ranked among the top technical education institutions in India. There are 14 Departments offering eight undergraduate and 31 post-graduate programmes besides doctoral programmes. About 5000 students across the country and about 500 international students study on the campus. It is a fully residential campus sprawling over 250 acres with excellent infrastructure in the form of state of the art library, seminar halls, guest houses and research laboratories.