Biotechnology and Plant Biodiversity

What is plant biodiversity? Should it be conserved and if yes then how? The impact of Biotechnology on Plant Biodiversity.

>>Points included:

-> Importance of Biodiversity

->Advantages of Biotechnology

->Applied Techniques

->Future Prospectus

Poster presented by Me & my friend Nadim Dinani at an Inter-collegiate event.

Genetic Instability

Blog created on A4 paper by me.

Winner(1st prize) of "Bloggers Alert" organized by Dept of Biotechnology of Royal College.

Microdyssey July 2010 edition- Designer and editor- Nishant Patel

"MICRODYSSEY" is a monthly Newsletter Published By Association of Royal Microbiologists and Biotechnologists (ARaMB), Royal College.

This is the cover page (page 1) of July 2010 issue published by the students of TYBSc Microbiology.
The Newsletter focussed on Food Industry and Technology.

Overall editing and designing was done exclusively by me using Corel Draw X3, with some suggestions from my department professors and colleagues.

Copyrights Reserved - Dept of Microbiology and Biotechnology & ARaMB.

Page 2 gives an introduction about the Food Industry.

Page 3 focuses on new technologies and research in Food preservation, analysis and processing.

Page 4 gives some information about 2 major Food Brands.

Page 5 focuses on the career options in the Food Industry and some Institutes in India, offering courses in Food Technology and Quality Control.

Page 6 displayed here: an interactive puzzle for the readers.

Microdyssey

"MICRODYSSEY" is a monthly Newsletter Published By Association of Royal Microbiologists and Biotechnologists (ARaMB), Royal College.

This is the cover page (page 1) of November 2009 issue published by the students of SYBSc.
The Newsletter focussed on General Microbiology.

Overall editing and designing was done exclusively by me using Corel Draw 11, with some suggestions from my department professors and colleagues.

Copyrights Reserved - Dept of Microbiology and Biotechnology & ARaMB.

Natural remedies Vs Commercial antibiotics

Effect of Natural Home Remedies and Commercial Antibiotics on microorganisms

Department of Microbiology,

Royal College,

Mira Road.

Year 2009-2010

Studies carried out at

Laboratory of Department of Microbiology

Royal College, Mira Road

(Affiliated to Mumbai University)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Submitted By

Mr. Nishant D. Patel

&

Mr. Abhimanyu Yadav

Students of Bsc.

Department of Microbiology

Royal College, Mira Road

Abstract

Research is being carried out as to check the combined effect of ayurvedic medicine along with the allopathic medicines. This can be very useful as the effectiveness of the allopathic treatment would increase and the risk of the side effects would decrease. Ayurveda (use of natural substances) has been traced back in ancient India when there were no commercial medicines available. Still, for certain infections, skin rashes, treatment at home level by use of substances like ginger, turmeric is done.

Skin & throat infections leave a person in a state of great discomfort. As an expected response according to the human tendency, antibiotics are what the person demands. Microorganisms are responsible for such type of infections and killing them would free the person of the pain. Apart from the commercially available antibiotics, is there anything that can help kill them? Something natural? Yes, there are other options available that can help free the person from infection. This minor study was carried out to check if there really occur any natural substances that can stop the infections.

Staphylococcus aureus & Staphylococcus pyogenes are pathogens that have been the cause of skin infections and rashes, were used from the stock cultures of the laboratory. Home remedies like Aloe vera, ginger, tulsi that are employed at domestic level to treat such infections were checked for their effectiveness.Penicillin g was used as the commercial antibiotic for comparison and it was tested against these pathogens. The results of both Home remedies and Commercial antibiotics were then compared.