Department of Biotechnology

Our institution animal house facility was established in the year 2009 and registered by CPCSEA- New Delhi in the year 2010 in the Department of Biotechnology, at SVCE. The institution animal house is recognized for the purpose of Research Education using laboratory Small animals. The re-registration of animal house was done in the year 2015, 2017 and 2022. The CCSEA- New Delhi approval number for the Institute animal house is 1398/PO/Re/S/10/CPCSEA for Research Education purpose. Similarly, the Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (IAEC) of SVCE was constituted in the year 2009 and the committee is reconstituted from time to time in the year 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2022. The IAEC committee monitors the functions of animal house facility every 6 months and inspection report is submitted to CCSEA- New Delhi by CCSEA nominee every year. For research education project the protocol is submitted every 6 months (July and January) to the IAEC committee members and during the meeting the protocols are scrutinized by them and the committee decide the approval of submitted protocol based on ethical aspects and usage of number of small animals for the protocol to be sanctioned. The institution animal house has excellent facility to handle the small animals and it has facilities such as quarantine room, rabbit room, mice-rat room, procedure room and washing room. The animal house is maintained properly with air condition facility and observation of moisture and air condition is noted by automatic machine. The animals cages are frequently washed, autoclaved and animals are kept in the husk bedding in the cages. The pure mineral water is provided for the small animals with pellet foods. All cages are properly labelled indicating the investigators name, the purpose of investigation and the details about the animals. The animal house is daily cleaned and maintained with proper sanitation. This is monitored daily by Department Scientist in-charge animal house facility approved by CPCSEA- New Delhi. As per UGC guidelines no dissection is carried out using laboratory small to demonstrate for undergraduate students. This is separately monitored by Institution Dissection Monitoring committee constituted in the year 2012. The animals are used only for research education to carryout the experiment to find the new drugs for various types of experimental studies as pre-clinical study. For graduate students the procedures such as handling of laboratory small animals, immunization of animals and collection of antisera is done every year with the approval of IAEC members. For research education project the protocol is often submitted every year to the IAEC committee members and during the meeting the protocols are scrutinized by them and the members decide whether the submitted protocol have to be approved or not based on ethical aspects and usage of number of small animals for the protocol to be sanctioned.

pH meter, Colorimeter, Water bath, Digital Balance (500 g - 0.1 g), Digital Balance (0.1 mg), Table top Centrifuge, Microfuge, Micropipettes, Hot Air Oven, UV - vis spectrometer, Vortex, Magnetic Stirrer, Fume hood, Microplate Reader (vis-range) (300-700 nm).

Hardware Details: Client: Pentium IV/ Core 2 Duo @ 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM -15 Server: Quad Core Intel Xeon Dual, Xeon 2.33 GHz Processor, 4 GB RAM -01 Internet Accessibility: 8MHz, 30 ports, 40 port Hub Software Details: Application Software: Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Acrobat Reader 8.0 Operating System: Windows XP Professional, Fedora 10 Linux, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, Windows ‘07. Bioinformatics Software: Discovery Studio 2.5, SYBYL, ArgusLab, Swiss PDBViewer, Pymol Viewer, AutoDock, Babel.

Shaking Incubator, Laminar Flow Chamber, Water bath, Spectrophotometer, pH meter, Digital Weighing balance, Vortex mixer, Peristaltic pump, Glass columns for packed bed studies, Micro centrifuge, Fermentor, Refrigerated water bath, Spray Dryer, Freeze Dryer.

Modern laboratory for Computational Systems Biotechnology was inaugurated on 9th July 2013 in the Department of Biotechnology at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur. The Computational Systems Biotechnology laboratory was established with a funding received from Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai. Mr. Sairam Kumar Jayaraman, Senior Director, Head Global Delivery-Life Sciences, CTS, Chennai, graced the inaugural function as being the Chief Guest. Prof M. Sivanandham, Principal, SVCE, Prof. Sulochana Somasundaram, HOD/Biotechnology, SVCE, Mr. Ashok Ranjith, Head-HR, CTS, Chennai, Mr. Pramodh, HR, CTS, Chennai, Ms Apsala, HR, CTS, Chennai and Prof. S. Muraleedharan, Chief Placement Officer, SVCE honored the function. The Laboratory has international level capabilities to train students in the areas of Computational Biology, Molecular Modeling, Drug Designing, Bioinformatics, Metabolic Engineering, Protein structure prediction, Ligand interaction, Modeling and Kinetic Simulation of Bioprocesses. Moreover the laboratory will also be utilized to perform consultancy, research and development activities in the above mentioned fields and thereby providing a platform for students, research scholars and industrial professionals to network and continue on entrepreneurial, engineering or research leader in the sectors of Biotech/Pharma/Software industries.

Micro plate Reader, Micro Plate washer, Tabletop Refrigerated centrifuge (Swinging bucket-rotor), Tabletop Refrigerated centrifuge (fixed angle), Electrophoresis units, Transfer apparatus, Light microscope, Phase contrast microscope, Fluorescent microscope, Hemo cytometer, CO2 Incubator, Laminar flow hood (other than that used for bacterial work), Autoclave

UV - vis Spectrophotometer, Fluorimeter, Chromatographic columns, Nephlometer, Thin layer chromatography, Colorimeter, UV illuminator, Gel documentation system.

Table top refrigerated centrifuge (swinging bucket-rotor), Table top refrigerated centrifuge (fixed angle), Light microscope, Phase contrast microscope, Fluorescent microscope, Hemocytometer, CO2 Incubator, Laminar flow hood, Autoclave. Analytical Weighing balance, Micro centrifuge (Non refrigerated), Refrigerated microfuge, Micro oven, DNA electrophoresis tank, Rock and Roll, Gel Documentation System, UV-transilluminator, Laminar Hood, Spectrophotometer, Water bath shaker, Refrigerator, Incubator.

Analytical Weighing balance, Micro centrifuge (Non refrigerated), Refrigerated microfuge, Micro oven, DNA electrophoresis tank, Rock and Roll, Gel Documentation System, UV-transilluminator, Laminar Hood, Spectrophotometer, Water bath shaker, Refrigerator, Incubator.

Research laboratory was inaugurated on 11th April 2016 in the Biotechnology Department of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur Tk. Prof. M. Sivanandham, Secretary, SVEHT, Chennai graced the inaugural function as being the Chief Guest. Dr. Alok Kumar Srivastava, Chief Scientist, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysuru, Prof. S. Ganesh Vaidyanathan, Principal, SVCE, Prof. Sulochana Somasundaram, HOD/Biotechnology and Prof. E. Nakkeeran, Professor/BT was present during the inaugural function. The Laboratory has international level capabilities to train students in the areas of Bioprocess Engineering, Downstream Process Engineering and Food Process Engineering. Moreover, the laboratory will also be utilized to perform consultancy, research and development activities in the above mentioned fields and thereby providing a platform for students, research scholars and industrial professionals to network and continue on Entrepreneurial, Engineering or research leader in the sectors of Biotechnology & Food industries.