The Department of Life sciences was established in 1977 with a mission of discovering and disseminating knowledge in the field of Life Sciences through teaching & learning process and to address problems affecting health & welfare of the society. To meet the requirement, the department offers Post-Graduate Programme like M.Sc. & Ph.D. in Life Sciences, to generate competent human resources as per individual, institutional and societal norms. Life Sciences are the thrust area of the 21st Century and are considered as the fastest growing discipline across the world.  This DST-FIST sponsored department is receiving grants from various other agencies such as UGC, DBT, ICMR, MoEF, NBFGR etc. And has the following facilities,

MAJOR FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT:

• Central Instrumentation Facility

• Classrooms and laboratories equipped with audio-visual facilities

• Molecular Biology Laboratory

• General Research Laboratories for Ph.D. Scholar

• Tissue Culture Laboratory

• Internet Facilities for teachers and students

• Departmental Library

• Field Experimental Plots

• Botanical Garden

MAJOR EQUIPMENTS AVAILABLE:

• Thermo Cycler (Ependorf, USA), Master Cycler Nexus (Ependorf, USA)

• Electrophoresis (Hoefer, USA)

• Gel Documentation EZ System  ( Alpha Imager, USA & BIORAD, USA)

• Millipore Water Purification System

• Lyophilizer (CoolSafe 55-4) ( LaboGeneApS, Denmark)

• Leica Fluorescence Microscope DM 1000 (Leica, Germany)

• High Speed Cooling Centrifuge 5418R (Ependorf, USA)

• Gas Chromatography System (Agilent, Germany)

Professors

• R.N.S. Yadav 
  

         "M.Sc.(BHU),Ph.D.(BHU) Biochemistry"

• S. P. Biswas

         "M.Sc.(JNU),Ph.D.(NEHU) Fish Biology & Ecology"

• Dr. L. R. Saikia

         "M.Sc.(DU), Ph.D.(DU) Plant Ecology"

• Dr. D.S. Bora
  

         "M.Sc.(GU), Ph.D.(DU) Zoology (Entomology)"

• Dr. Bijoy Neog 

         "M.Sc.(GU), M.Phil.(GU), Ph.D.(DU), Post-Doc Fellow (Southwest University, P.R.China) Cytogenetics & Pl.Breeding"

Associate Professor

• Dr. D. Kardong [Head Of the Department]

        "M.Sc.(DU) Biochemistry"

Assistant Professors

• Dr. Pankaj Chetia

         "M.Sc., Ph.D., PGDBI (Specialization: Plant Taxonomy, Bioinformatics)"

• Dr. Moirangthem Kameshwor Singh

• Minakshi Puzari

• Dr. Munmi Borkataky

The Department is pioneered in designing unique course curricula to address    regional and global challenges in the field of Life Sciences.

• Master in Life Sciences (Botany)

• Master in Life sciences (Zoology)

• Ph.D. in Life Sciences

• Post-Doctoral in Life sciences

Dr. Bijoy Neog
Professor   & HOD
Ph. 03732370250 (C)
Email: [email protected]