Annual Report - IHBT

SUPPORT SERVICESEngineering Service UnitNew facilities for regulatory research, computational biology, bioinformatics and food &nutraceuticals were created. Major construction works were completed for expanding the presentlaboratory infrastructure for microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology.Regulatory Research Centre (RRC)The construction of the RRCspanning in a total area of 3334m 2was completed in the current year.Besides housing animals such as mice,rats and rabbits, the centre has a stateof the art facility for conductingregulatory research on bioactivemolecules/products. The animalfacility of the centre is registeredunder CPCSEA (No.1381/ac/10/CPCSEA) and approved for animalbreeding and toxicological studies.Studio for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (SCBB)The centre is equipped with bioinformatic tools for conducting research on Next GenerationSequencing, miRNAs and non-coding elements, epigenomics, regulomics and systems biology.Food and Nutraceutical LaboratoryThe laboratory was established for the development of plant based value added products and iswell equipped with instruments for nutritional profiling and quality assessment of developednutraceuticals/products.Project Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Cell= Annual plan for 2011-2012 provided by the scientists was compiled and progress reportsprepared by respective PIs of Supra Institutional, Network and Rural Development Projectswere submitted to CSIR Hqs.= Following services were launched into Intranet:4 Online personal store inventory and EL/HPL information of staff91