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About the Department

The Department was established in the year 1960 at the Jaswant College, Jodhpur. It was later shifted to Jaipur in 1963 at the Vigyan Bhawan 0f the University of Rajasthan. and finally to its newly constructed building in October1966.

The Department has received generous financial suppon from Ford Foundation (USA). Rockefeller Foundation (USA), National Institute ofHealth (USA). United States Department of Agriculture. PL4BO (USA). UGC—ULP. DRS, COSIST, SAP. DST— FIST (Phase I). The Department has been recognized as the Centre for Advanced Studies (CA8 Phase-l) in Zoology in the year 2005. At present, Department is receiving UGC support under CAS (Phase II) and DSTsupport under FIST program (Phase II). Besides the major funding. several faculty members have been receiving financial support from the different funding agencies like UGC, CSIR, BRNS, ICMR, DST, DBT and MHFW. Research personnel include NET (UGC & CSIR) JRF. ICMR-JRF. DST-INSPIRE Fellows, Raajhlr Gandhi Fellows, Post Doctoral Fellows. Research Associates and Women Scientist awardees. The Department is known for its pioneering research in the fields of Radiation Biology, Reproductive Biology, Cancer Biology, Fish Biology and Development Biology. The faculty has been awarded prestigious fellowships including DAAD. AvHumboldt, Full Bright. Smithsonian etc, The Department has MOU with the Mo Master University, Hamilton, Ontan'o (Canada) for the advancement in Radiation and Cancer research. The Department has celebrated its Golden Jubilee in the year 2010. The alumni are successfully engaged in teaching at various Universities and in research at reputed institutions in India and abroad. The Department has been regularly organizing International 8: National Conferences 'Ramaswami Memorial Lectures' and invited talks by eminent scholars in the different areas.

Infrastructural Facilities

The Depaftment has a whole range of sophisticated instruments to facilitate quilting research. A Central Instruments Facility is available for the use to all research workers. It includes Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer. RT- PCR. Transmission Electron Microscope, RIA (Gamma Beta Liquid Scintillation Counter), Gas Liquid

Chromatography, HPLC, Computer Assisted Semen

Analyzer, FIow-Cytorneter. Autoanalyser. Digital

Microphotography, ELISA Reader, Deep Freezer.

Refrigerated High Speed Centrifuge. In addition. it has

Tissue Culture Laboratory. Central Computer Facility

with internet connectivity. Smelt Classroom, excellent

Museum. L. S. Ramaswarni Seminal Hall with the

capacity of 200 persons and a rich library with a large

collection of referenceltext books and journals. The

Department has 18 different laboratories where basic

and applied research have been conducted. Adjacent

to the main building of the Department. the Animal

House is located for the upkeep and care of

experimental animals.

PhD. Programme

Thrust Areas

• Animal Behavior
• Cancer Biology
• Cell & Molecular Biology
• Endocrinology
• Radiation Biology
• Entomology
• Reproductive Biology
• Environmental Biology
• Ethno Biology
• Nano Biotechnology
• Microbial Technology
• Toxicology

Master's Programme

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ZOOLOGY

• Seats : 25
• Duration : Four Semesters (Two Years)

MASTER OF SCIENCE (MICROBIOLOGY) (SFS Course)

• Seats : 25 (+5 Seats NRI)
• Duration : Four Semesters (Two Years)

Faculty

Head & Professor

• Rashmi Sisodia

Associate Professors

• A.S. Ansari
• P.J. John
• P.C.. Mali
• Nupur Mathur
• Neena Nair
• Anuradha Singh
• Inderpal Soni
• Seema Srivastava

Assistant Professors

• Anjali Awasthi
• Habiba Bano
• Ram Dayal Choudhary
• Santosh Kumar Charan
• Bharti Chouhan
• Jayanti Jatav
• Pallavi Kaushik
• Ghanshyam Kachhawa
• Neetu Kachhawa
• Pushpa Meena
• Geeta Devi Meena
• Priyadarshi Meena
• Shashi Meena
• Mahesh Kumar Meena
• Naresh Kumar Nirmal
• Vandana Nunia
• Dev Dutt Patel
• Meenakshi Rajwanshi
• Rajbala Verma
• Gajraj Singh Verma
• Ritu Kamal Yadav