The Department is equipped with spacious laboratories with state-of-the art facilities such as Cold room, Photo-documentation, Plant tissue culture, Biosafety, Animal cell culture and Animal house. The Department also has equipment such as high speed refrigerated centrifuges, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, Bioreactor system, Fermenter, CO2 incubators, CO2-O2 Incubator, Electrophoresis apparatus, Electroporator, Gel documentation and chemiluminescent system, Multimode reactor, PCR, Realtime PCR, Flash Chromatography, HPLC, GC, LCMS, Vacuum concentrator, TG and 2D Electrophoresis (IEF), Flow cytometer, Lyophilizer, Luminometer, MACS (Magnetic Active Cell Sorter) Phase contrast, Fluorescence and Inverted Microscopes, -80o C deep freezers, Ultrasonicator, Luminescence Spectrometer and Microplate Spectrofluorimeter.

 Drug discovery from microbes, plants and animals.  Nucleic acid of plant pathogens  Probiotics for disease control in fish, shrimp, poultry and cancer.  Plant genomics and Genetic engineering of crop plants  Nosocomial infections; Bacterial pathogens; Host – pathogen interaction; Quorum sensing  Stem Cell Biology  Biological Nanomaterials  Epigenetics and Protein Engineering  Chemical Biology

The Department receives research grants from different funding agencies like DBT, DST, UGC, CSIR, AYUSH, AERB, ICMR, MOES, Puducherry Government and Industries. The Department is supported by the DST-FIST and the UGC-SAP programmes.