Department of Biotechnology
Head
Name: Dr. John Zothanzama
Designation: Professor
Mobile No.: +91-
Email – Personal : john_zza@yahoo.co.in
Email – Official: hod.biotech@mzu.edu.in
Department Details
Phone No. (Department): –
Dept. Email: biotech@mzu.edu.in
Year of Establishment: 2007
Year of First Intake of Student: 2007
About the Department :
The Department was set up in 2007 with the objective of establishing and becoming a full-fledged teaching and research centre for catering the needs of the state, region as well as the national and international issues in the areas of biotechnology. So far various research grants has been received for developing the teaching and research facilities under different funding agencies (UGC, DBT, DST, CSIR, ICMR, ICAR, etc.). Research Collaborations has been carrying out with various state, national and internal agencies through exchange, consultancy and joint-project schemes. The Department has been successful in producing a good number of quality post-graduate, M.Phil, Ph.D and Post Doctoral students.
Faculty:
| Photo | Name/Designation | Qualification | Resume |
 | Dr. N. Senthil Kumar Professor Email: nskmzu@gmail.com | PhD | Download |
| Dr. John Zothanzama Professor Email: john_zza@yahoo.co.in | PhD | Download |
 | Dr. J. Bhattacharya Associate Professor Email: jyotirmoyb@rediffmail.com | PhD | Download |
 | Dr. S. Thangminlal Vaiphei Associate Professor Email: mzut261@mzu.edu.in /vaiphei1111@gmail.com | PhD | Download |
 | Dr. B.P. Singh Assistant Professor (on lien) Email: bhimpratap@gmail.com | PhD | Download |
 | Dr. H. Lalhruaitluanga Assistant Professor Email: mahruaia123@gmail.com | PhD | Download |
 | Dr. Esther Lalnunmawii Assistant Professor Email: essie.zadeng@gmail.com | PhD | Download |
 | Dr. Satish Kumar Pandey | PhD | Download |
Office Staff
Ph.D. Scholars
Alumni Details
Students Achievements
Courses:
Programmes offered under the department: MSc, MPhil and PhD
Syllabus:
Board of Studies
Activities
Projects
Facilities:
- LAN & WiFi
- Class Room with ICT Facility 2 Nos.
- Students Laboratory 2Nos
- Research Laboratory 13 Nos.
- Computational Facility – DBT-BIF
- Central Instrumentation Facility: DBT- Advance Level State Biotech Hub
- Online Journals – DELCON
- Animal Cell culture Facility
- Microbial culture facility
- Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Facility
- Green House & Net Houses
- Genomics Facility
- Departmental Library
Consultancy Provision: 04 as research advisory in various agencies at the state and national level
Department Achievement: From 2007 onwards
- 06 patents filed so far
- 174 M.Sc students passed out
- 16 M.Phil students passed out
- 21 Ph.D candidates awarded
- 17 students awarded NET/JRF/SLET/DST-Inspire Fellowships
- 05 faculties availed overseas assignments under various Research programs
- 13 awards received by the faculties and 12 students from various scientific and professional bodies
- 02 students were placed as research scientist abroad; 05 students in Universities/colleges; 14 in various Grade A positions
- 173 research papers in reputed journals; 09 books; 30 book chapter published
- Research facilities under DBT & DST: DBT-FIST; DBT-Advanced Biotech HUB; DBT-Bionest; DST-FIST programs
- 171 Trainings/Workshops/Seminars/conference conducted at the local, state, national, international levels