:: Biotechnology Department ::

Department of Biotechnology

Due to establishment of Department of Biotechnology in the Vivekanand College and with moral support of Our Principal Dr.Hindurao patil Vivekanand College is under the Star College Scheme through Department of Biotechnology Govt.OF.india.

The Department of Biotechnology established in June 2005 under the guidance of Dr.M.Y.Bachulkar and Principal Dr.A.N.Jagtap the inauguration of Dept in presence of president of Shri swami vivekanand Shikshan Sanstha’s H’nble Shri Abhaykumar Salunkhe and in presence of H’nble Namdar- Shri R.R.Patil along with Vice-Chancellor of Shivaji University Dr.M.M.Salunkhe The first course launched in this department is B.Sc-Biotechnology(one of the subject) in 2005 and second course B.Sc- Biotechnology (Entire) in 2006 . The alumina of our department secured reputed post in the field of research, academics, industries etc.Vivekanand college is the only college in Shivaji university who offers both the courses of Biotechnology at undergraduate level only in Kolhapur District.

1. Department Faculty:

Faculty Name	Academic Qualification	Designation
Prof.S.A.Patil		Co-ordinator Biotechnology Dept.(Assistant Prof-Botany)
Mr.S.G.Kulkarni		Head-Biotechnology �Entire stream (Assistant Prof-Biochemistry)
Miss.S.H.Nadaf		Head-Biotechnology- Optional stream (Assistant Prof-Biochemistry)
Mr.M.P.Mane		Assistant Prof-Biotechnology
Miss.Patil.D.V.		Assistant Prof-Biotechnology
Mr.Upadhye A.L.		Assistant Prof-Biotechnology
Miss.Shinge.M.R.		Assistant Prof-Biotechnology
Miss.Pawar.J.S.		Assistant Prof-Biotechnology
Mr.Patil O.A.		Assistant Prof-Biotechnology

2. Students enrolment:

Sr. No.	Class	Students	2010-2011	2011-2012	2012-2013	2013-2014	2014-2015
B.Sc-Biotechnology-Entire
1.	B.Sc. I	Total	16	22	28	18	29
2.	B.Sc. II	Total	17	26	22	28	19
3.	B.Sc. III	Total	26	19	25	22	26
B.Sc- Biotechnology- Optional
4.	B.Sc-I	Total	19	15	26	27	30
5. 6.	B.SC-II	Total	19	20	15	26	21
5. 6.	B.Sc-III	Total	10	17	20	14	22

3.Departmental Results:

Sr. No.	Class		2009-2010	2010-2011	2011-2012	2012-2013	2013-2014	2014-2015
B.Sc-Biotechnology Entire Aggregate result at B.Sc-III
1.	B.Sc-III	Percentage Of passing	100 %	100%	100%	100%	100%
B.Sc-Biotechnology Optional Aggregate result at B.Sc-III
2.	B.Sc-III	Percentage of passing	100%	100%	100%	100	100%

4. Departmental Rank Holders:

Sr. No.	Class	2008-09	2009-2010	2010-2011	2011-2012	2012-2013	2013-14
1.	B.Sc.-III Biotechnology Entire	04	Nill	05	Nill	03	02
2.	B.Sc-III Biotechnology (Optional)	10	11	03	04	Nill	03

5. University Rank Holders:

Sr. No.	Name of the student	Class	Year	University Rank
1.	Miss.Samani Saloni	B.Sc-III Biotech-Entire	April 2009	Fourth
2.	Mr.Shinde Swapnil R	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2009	Fifth
3.	Miss.Shinde Shweta	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2009	Eighth
4.	Miss Shaikh Neelam	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2009	Tenth
5.	Miss.Desai Megha.P	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2011	Third
6.	Mr.Patil Parikshit P	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2011	Fourth
7.	Miss.Shinde Manisha.M.	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2011	Sixth
8.	Miss.Chandanai Harsha. K	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2011	Eighth
9.	Miss.Kumbhar Madhuri B	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2011	Tenth
10.	Miss.Ghatage Tejaswini S	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2013	Fourth
11.	Miss.Jagdale Komal U	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2013	Fifth
12.	Mr.Yadav Mithilesh M	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2013	Eighth
13.	Miss.Patil Devashree N	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2014	First
14.	Miss.Ulpe Samiksha S	B.Sc-III Biotech Entire	April 2014	Eighth
15.	Miss.Malvekar Deepali	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	First
16.	Miss.Kalasgonda Sneha	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Second
17.	Miss.Kittur Sneha	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Third
18.	Miss.Desai Swapnali	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Fourth
19	Mr.Sutar Mahesh	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Fifth
20	Miss.Bhosale Rutuja	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Sixth
21	Miss.Desai Madhuri	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Seventh
22	Miss.Gurram Namita	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Seventh
23	Miss.Patil Sujata	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Eighth
24	Miss.Deshpande Sampada	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Ninth
25	Mr.Potdar Sandesh	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2010	Tenth
26	Miss.Jagtap Jyoti	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2011	Fourth
27	Mr.Patil Onkar	B.Sc-III Biotech Optional	Apri 2011	Eighth
28	Miss.Pattanshetty Namarata	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2011	Tenth
29	Mr.Palecha Mahendra	B.Sc-III Biotech Optional	April 2012	First
30	Miss.Thakur Pooja	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2012	Fifth
31	Mr.Ambi Udhav	B.Sc-III Biotech Optional	April 2012	Eighth
32	Miss.Salgude Prachi	B.Sc-III Biotech optional	April 2012	Tenth
33	Miss. Natu Prachi	B.Sc-III Biotech Optional	April 2014	First
34	Miss.Hiremath Minakshi	B.Sc-III Biotech Optional	April 2014	Second
35	Mr.Bansode Vikas	B.Sc-III Biotech Optional	April 2014	Third

6. Students achievements:

1. Students of our Dept are actively participated in Intercollegiate Biotechnology Quiz/Model/Poster/Slogun/Paper presentation Competitions organized by Colleges having Biotechnology under Shivaji University. As well as participated and secured Prizes in “Avishkar” research competition organized by Shivaji university, Kolhapur.

2. Students secured prizes for writing articles in our college Magzine’Vivek”.

3.Students secured prizes for Best paper presentation in International conference.

7. Departmental Library: Department having library and the books related to Biophysics,Immunolog,MolecularBiology, Microbiology etc. the benefit of the deptal library is for the student as well as staff.

8. Research Activity: Students carry out Research project as a part of their curriculum w.r.to Nano-biotechnology, Biochemistry, fermentation technology, tissue culture, They are guided by Faculty members of the Dept.

9. Instruments available:- Cooling Centrifuge,Gel-Documentation system, Thermal Cycler-PCR,Incubator with Oven, Deep freeze ,BOD-Incubator.

10. Departmental Co-curricular Activity:- The Genome club of Biotechnology Dept. organizes intercollegiate Biotechnology Quiz ,Rangoli competitions the students from various college having Biotechnology actively participate in the same.

a) Inter college Quiz Competition organized in academic year 2012-13 on 26 ^thFeb 2013.

b) Inter College Quiz and Rangoli(Sceintific) Competition organized in academic year 2013-14 on 10 ^th of Feb 2014.

11. Workshops arranged:-

1) workshop on Practical Aspects of Biotechnology organized by Dept.of Biotech in collaboration with Bioeralife Sciences on 13-Feb 2010.

2) Workshop on Techniques in Biotech organized in collaboration with Banglore Genei pvt ltd on 1 March 2012.

3) Workshop on Syllabus unitization of B.Sc-II Biotechnology(Optional/Vocational/Entire) Sponsored by Shivaji university on 21 sep 2008

4) Workshop on Revised semester pattern syllabus of B.Sc-II Biotechnology (Optional/Vocational/Entire) on 1^st -2 nd August 2014.

12.Industrial Visits:- As a part of syllabus students are visited different biotechnological industries such as CCMB,Hyderabad, Monsento Reaserch Center,Banglore, Labland Biotech,Mysore,IBAB,Banglore, CFTRI,Mysore Govt.Institute of Science Aurangabad,BARC Mumbai , Insecticide residue testing lab(Govt.Of.Maharashtra ) Pune , VSI-Pune etc.