Infrastructure:
The department is well equipped with some state of the art facilities viz. PCR, Real time PCR, Refrigerated high speed centrifuge, UV-Vis double beam spectrophotometer, electrophoresis systems with gel-documentation system, Sterile work bench with BSL-II, etc.
Teaching Activities:
- B.V.Sc. & A.H. Programme: AS per MSVE Regulations-2008 (10 Credit Hrs.) + VLD
- M.V.Sc. Programme: As per ICAR Revised Postgraduate Course Curricula-2009 (60 Credit Hrs.)
- Ph.D. Programme: As per ICAR Revised Postgraduate Course Curricula-2009
Research Priorities:
- Epidemiology and Mechanism of Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Enteric Bacteria in Pigs, Poultry & Human in North East India
- Development of Suitable Diagnostics and Vaccine Against Progressive Atrophic Rhinitis in Pigs
- Epidemiology of Porcine Enteric Viruses and Enteric Bacterial Infections in North Eastern India
- Sero-Epidemiology of Sheep Pox, Goat Pox and Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Sheep and Goats in North Eastern India
Research activities:
- Institutional BIOTECH HUB (PI: Dr. T. K. Dutta; DBT/Ongoing)
- DBT Twinning Project on Epidemiology of Extended-Spectrum Beta Lactamases (ESBLs) in Enterobacteriaceae group of bacteria isolated from swine in NER (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim & Tripura) and swine & poultry in West Bengal.(PI: Dr. T. K. Dutta; DBT/Ongoing)
- DBT Twinning Project on Development of Improved Diagnostics with Monitoring and Characterization of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Piglet Diarrhoea in North Eastern Region of India.(PI: Dr. T. K. Dutta; DBT/Ongoing)
- DBT Twinning Project on Serosurveillance and Molecular Epidemiology of peste des petits (PPR), Sheep Pox and Goat Pox in Sheep and Goats of Tripura and Mizoram.(PI: Dr. T. K. Dutta; DBT/Ongoing)