M.Sc. Biotechnology

Duration: 2 years course.
Affiliation: MGM University, Aurangabad.
Eligibility: Life Science Graduate (Biotechnology/Botany/Agriculture/Agri-biotech/Genetics/Microbiology & Horticulture) with minimum 50% marks (45% for Reserved categories). Admission will be done solely on the merit basis.


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Semester 1
  1. Molecular Cell Biology
  2. Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level
  3. Experimental Molecular biology
  4. Experimental Design in Biotechnology
  5. Microbes, Man and the Environment
  6. Cellular and Molecular Immunology
  7. Microbial Technologies and Protein engineering design and scale up of Downstream Processing
  8. Bioinformatics
  9. Open Course / Elective
  10. Biosensors and Biochips
Semester 2
  1. Fundamentals of Systems Biology: From Synthetic Circuits to Whole-cell Models
  2. From Genes to Genomes: Concepts and Applications of DNA Technology
  3. Advanced Biotechnology I: expression systems for biopharmaceutical & industrial proteins
  4. Upstream and Downstream Processing of Bioproducts
  5. Protein Engineering for Industrial Biotechnology
  6. Industrial Biotechnology of biomolecules production, Biocatalytic and Industrial Applications
  7. Cell Culture Engineering: Recombinant Protein Production
  8. Bioinformatics-2
  9. Open Course/ Elective

Semester 3
  1. Research Methods and Data Management
  2. Microbial Enzymes and Biotechnology CS
  3. Advances in Biotechnology CS
  4. Engineering and Manufacturing for Biotechnology
  5. Bioethics: Contemporary Issues in Bioscience
  6. Open Course (Elective)
Semester 4
  1. Industrial Internship