- The
Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology department association meet was
inaugurated on 08.07.2019 by Dr.S.Mathivanan, Director, CAS in Botany,University
of Madras and Dr. Damotharan, Head, Dept of Plant Biology and Plant
Biotechnology, Presidency college, Chennai presided over the function
- The
old student reunion was held on 03/08/2019 in the department where the retired staff members and the
batches of 1980 till 2010 students visited the alma mater and shared their
professional experiences.
- Meenakshi Subramanian
and Swarnalekha. S of III B.Sc PBPBT attended the “Hands on training on
Techniques in Plant Sciences” from 5th
– 8th August 2019 in Science City in association with University of
Madras.
- The students of the
department visited the single teacher schools at Periyaputheri and
Thiruvadisoolam of Kancheepuram District on 15-09-2019. The school children
were motivated to take up higher education by our students and distributed the
stationary items. On the same day, the III B.Sc students collected the plant
specimens for their herbarium and also studied the habitat and morphology of
different families.
- To remember the contributions
and achievements of our late President Dr. A P J. Abdul Kalam, on 21-09-2019
the department students also exhibited the models and charts of his
technological innovations, quotes and his life history.
- Five students were
selected from III B.Sc and were taken to the Barclay’s
industrial visit on 11/12/2019.
- One day seminar on Impact of novel biology in human health was
organised by the biological sciences department on 13.12.2019 in which the
students presented their project papers.
Certificate courses :
1.
Herbal Technology related Bioinstrumentation (from-24/06/2019 to 05/07/2019)
for II B.Sc.
2.
Mushroom Cultivation (from-02/12/2019 to 12/12/2019) for II and III B.Sc.
students was conducted in the department.
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