Rammohan College

Infrastructure Facility:

Library
Apart from Central Library of the College, the Department also having a Seminar library of 300+ books, for the students and faculties. The Department also provides e-books (PDF format) to the students.

Museum
The Department contains a rich museum with over 200+ preserve specimens, bones, slides and a repository of local Amphibia. The Department is planning to construct one “Fish Gallery” in future.

Laboratory Facilities
The department has well equipped 3 class room/laboratories, a well-equipped ‘INSTRUMENT ROOM’ and an additional Research facility; all kinds of syllabus-oriented instruments and chemicals are available with the department for UG Students. Students are always encouraged to experience handling of instruments.

Departmental Instrumentation

Trinocular Research Microscope with Microimage Projecting System.

Binocular Research Microscope B.M.MLX 13

Centrifuge Machine Speed of 12000 rpm

Cold Centrifuge

Refrigerator (Large160 l)

Deep Freezer (-200C) 150 l

Rotary Microtomes ( Weswox )

Double beam Spectrophotometer (UV-Vis)

Colorimeter with 8 filter systemic Model -112

Electrophoresis Apparatus for Protein and DNA

Thermostat controlled Automatic shaker

Digital Balance

Phase Contrast Microscope (MLX B & PC 4)

Autoclave

Cx21 and CH 20i Microscope with CCD camera

Digital Incubator

Ordinary Incubator

pH meter

Electrical Homogenizer

Hot Plates

5 lit. capacity Glass distillation Plant

Soxhlet apparatus for extraction

Stage Micrometer with Ocular

Camera Lucida

Slide Cabinet

Overhead Projector Liberty Vision – 285

Computer (Desktop) with Internet facility

Instruments under BOOST Grant
BOD incubator

ELISA reader

UV-VIS spectrophotometer

PCR

Laminar flow clean air work station

GEL DOC

Cooling Centrifuge

Dry western blot system

Water purification system

Instruments under RUSA 2.0 Grant
EGG incubator

Centrifuge

pH meter

Autoclave

4ºC freezer

Mini Horizontal electrophoresis unit

Electrophoresis power supply unit

Accupipette

UV-spectrophotometer cuvette

Animal House Facility: Department of Zoology of Rammohan college is the oneunder Calcutta University which is recognized with Animal House facility (Reg no. 1795/PO/Re/S/14/CPCSEA, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India) and following facility and instruments are designated for research in the department.

Cubicle for Mouse, Cubicle for Rat, Store room for animal food and change room, Experiment cum Observation room, Washing cum sterilization room for mouse food Animal House at New Science Building, Rammohan College, Kolkata

Research Activities in Zoology Department:

Faculties of this department are actively involved in various research projects in the field of Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Signaling, Cancer, Entomology, Ecology etc. A number of projects are running in this department.

On- going Projects:

Completed Projects:

Research Scholars:

 Summer Training /Dissertation Guided by Faculty:

Award Received:

Student’s Award:

Collaborations:

1. Departmen of Infertility, Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Kolkata (Dr. Kaustuv Dutta Chowdhury)
2. UnitàStudi e Strategie, Government of Italy (Dr. Santi Ranjan Dey)
    

Extra-Curricular Activities:

Volunteer of World Wide Fund for Wild Life (WWF): Rammohan College officially registered for the partnership with WWF- India since 2018.  Students of Zoology Department participated as WWF-volunteers to resolve environmental issues in their college, community and Kolkata. In 2019, students of Zoology department took part in WWF-India’s youth volunteer programme, ECHO that aims to create Environment Conservation Heroes in colleges across the country through bridging the gap between environmental awareness and conservation action.  Their work on this ECHO project praised a lot by WWF. They build awareness among people of their city about plastic pollution and finding of the path to minimize the use of plastic. In November 2019, at the venue, Offbeat CCU (36/F, Topsia Rd, Topsia, Kolkata- 700039) students join the ECHO workshop. In 2020, students of participated in a program named Tide Turners Plastic Challenge arranged by WWF in partnership with UN environment to engage youth in conversation, action and advocacy around reducing the use of single-use plastic from our day-to-day life and have got certificates fromUNEP (UN Environment Programme), National Geographic, WWF and CEE (Centre for Environment Education).

Environmental Audit: Students of Zoology Department performed assessment of Butterfly Diversity and Bird Diversity of adjacent area. Students also worked on Peoples Biodiversity Registrar Project of West Bengal Biodiversity Board, Government of West Bengal under instruction of National Green Tribunal. Some of the representative Butterfly and Avifauna in and around Rammohan College are shown here.

Departmental Seminar: Students’ seminar, 2022: conducted by Dr. Shantanu Das, Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, Rammohan College

Participant students were felicitated by Principal Dr. Saswati Sanyal, Rammohan College at Department of Zoology, Rammohan College:

College Seminar:

1. Dr. Kuladeep Roy, Assistant Manager, WWF-India, West Bengal on ‘Future as an outdoor biologist: an informal discussion’

2. Dr. Anup Palit, Deputy Director, NICED, India on ‘Global climate change: health risks and preventive strategies’

3. Dr. Samarendra Nath Banerjee, Associate Professor, Rammohan College on ‘The study of Zoology is more important in the 21st century than ever’

4. Dr. Prasun Guha, Research Associate, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA on ‘Life and death of a cell-a global perview’

5. Dr. Anirban Basu, Professor, Scientist VII, National Brain Research Centre, Maneswar, Hariyana, India on ‘Emerging and Re-emerging Viral Diseases: Host Immunity and Therapeutic Interventions’

Knowledge sharing:

Department participates in knowledge sharing programmes and students from many colleges (both from Under graduate and Post graduate section) visit our college to be familiar with Animal House Infrastructure and to get hands on experience on macular techniques:

Visit from Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Vivekananda College, Behala, Kolkata

One day visit to Genetics Department, University of Calcutta on 19th March, 2023:

It is a proud moment for Department of Zoology, Rammohan College because we are invited by Dr. Mainak Sengupta’s laboratory, Department of Genetics, University of Calcutta for a one day visit programme.  The session includes a discussion on molecular genetic approach associated with identification and characterization of hidden mutations in oculo-cutaneous albinism in Indian population. Students also get exposure on modern genetic tools and experiments like PCR followed by sequential data analysis that finally help them to achieve a fruitful learning experience. Workshop has been ended after an interactive conversation and students come back with a dream of researcher as a take home message which is probably the ultimate success of the said visit.