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Module DC
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Module DC
Food Adulteration & Probiotic Development
Recombinant Technology & Genetics
Duration: 6 Weeks
Timings: 4-5 hrs (Monday – Friday)
Eligibility: B.Sc./M.Sc. student of biotechnology/ life science or any scientific background
Status: Current/ Passout Eligible
Contents of the program
- Good Laboratory Practices (GLP)
- Principle & working of laboratory instruments
- Introduction about food adulteration & its types
- Checking adulteration in milk
- Checking adulteration in dairy products
- Checking adulteration in sweets
- Checking adulteration in spices
- Checking adulteration in cereals
- Checking adulteration in oils
- Introduction to industrial microbiology
- Calculation techniques for industrial microbiology
- Introduction to sterilization techniques
- Media preparation (solid & liquid media)
- Dilution techniques for a sampling of air, water & soil
- Isolation of bacteria from air, water & soil
- Calculation of Colony Forming Units (CFU/ml)
- Isolation of microorganisms on selective media
- Identification of microorganisms using different staining methods
- Identification of microorganisms using motility methods
- Basic biochemical characterization – 1 of isolated microorganisms
- Preservation of microbial cultures by glycerol stock method
- A sampling of probiotic bacteria from food samples and isolation on specialized enriched media.
- Subculturing of microorganisms on specialized enriched media
- Bacterial measurements using microscopic techniques (micrometry)
- Partial Characterization – 2 of bacterial isolates using biochemical analysis (IMViC Tests)
- Microencapsulation of the probiotic cultures for use in functional foods & therapeutics
- Microbial production of crude bacteriocin
- To check the Antimicrobial Activity of crude bacteriocin
- Probiotic attribute analysis – Acid tolerance
- Probiotic attribute analysis – Bile tolerance
- Probiotic attribute analysis – Antimicrobial activity
- Principle & working of laboratory instruments
- Preparation of buffers & solutions
- Basic calculation techniques
- Introduction to sterilization techniques
- Preparation of LB Media & inoculation
- Isolation of genomic DNA by CTAB method
- Preservation of nucleic acids
- Preparation of TAE, Agarose gel and 6X gel loading buffer
- Analysis of nucleic acids by gel electrophoresis
- Organic extraction of DNA
- Preparation of stock solutions for plasmid isolation
- To study the role of various components used in the isolation of plasmid
- Isolation of plasmid by alkaline lysis
- Preparation of competent cells
- Preparation of IPTG, X-gal and ampicillin solution
- Transformation of E.coli
- Hands-on handling of Thermo cycler & detection of the specific gene through PCR
- Session on CV drafting & personality development.