Department of Microbiology, C.C.S. University Meerut. INDIA
The Department was established in 1998. It is well equipped with modern laboratory facilities for isolation, purification, identification and maintenance of microbes. Major equipments in the department are Fermenter, ELISA Reader, Spectrophotometer, PCR, HPLC; all necessary equipments for immunological studies; high quality microscopes including flourescent one. It has well-established Microbial Culture Collection Centre and provides material to several colleges including the Medical College. The Department has 38 computers, all network with 24 hours internet facility. The Department has its own Departmental Library with approximately 3500 books, 14 national and international journals. The Department regularly organizes workshops, with the University of Heidelburg (Germany) which has enabled the department to create the infrastructure for medical microbiological test and inventions. The department provides specialization in Medical, Industrial, Agricultural and Environmental Microbiology.

The Department is having active academic collobration with several national laboratories in India like CIMAP, Lucknow; CDRI, Lucknow;CDFD, Hyderabad; IVRI, Bareilley; CMVL, Meerut; Central Jalma Institute of Leprosy, Agra and AIIMS, New Delhi etc. where the students have an oppurtunity to complete their project work in the collaboration of the Department. Only the selected students of M.Sc. (Applied Microbiology) also have an opportunity for 2-3 month project training in the Universities/Research Institutes in Germany Under / AESTE programme, sponsored by German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn (Germany). All students of M.Sc. (Applied Microbiology) are also provided an opportunity to work in highly reputed institutions / industries during summer / winter vacations. Bioinformatics is relatively a new challenging field for biologist with an aim to use the Computer Science and Information Technology in biomedical based researches and industries. With this view point, the Department has started 2 year course of M.Sc. (Bioinformatics) where students will be trained for the use of computers and information technology in the field of biology.

URL: http://www.ccsumicrobiol.org/