The Department of Biological Sciences is the youngest autonomous interdisciplinary department in Presidency University.

The initial faculty recruitments at Presidency University have followed the six pre-existing disciplines – ‘Botany’, ‘Biochemistry’, ‘Biotechnology’, ‘Molecular Biology and Genetics’, ‘Physiology’ and ‘Zoology’.

Facilities:

Animal cell culture facility
Animal house
Bacteriological facility
Butterfly garden to study insect ecology and diversity
Facilities for basic molecular biology
Facilities for - hematology, ecology, Animal Behavior, ichthyology, parasitology and entomology
Plant tissue culture facility
Spectroscopic facility
UG and PG-lecture halls
UG and PG-general laboratories

Faculty
Adhar Manna , Professor
Devashish Sen , Professor and Head of the Department
Mausumi Sikdar (Nee Bhakta ) , Associate Professor
Prabir Kumar Mukhopadyay , Associate Professor
Abhijit Dey , Assistant Professor
Abhik Saha , Assistant Professor
Amlan Ghosh , Assistant Professor
Aparna Mukhopadhay , Assistant Professor
Atreyi Chatterjee (nee Ghatak ) , Assistant Professor
Devrani Mitra , Assistant Professor
Kalyan Giri , Assistant Professor
Kousik Pramanick , Assistant Professor
M Ganesan , Assistant Professor
Madhuchhanda Mandal , Assistant Professor
Malay Das , Assistant Professor
Nabendu Biswas , Assistant Professor
Paramita Chaudhuri Basu , Assistant Professor
Piyali Mukherjee , Assistant Professor
Pralay Majumder , Assistant Professor
Puja Ray , Assistant Professor
Ranjana Pal , Assistant Professor
Sanghamitra Dey , Assistant Professor
Santanu Chakraborty , Assistant Professor
Shampa Sarkar (Biswas) , Assistant Professor
Souryadeep Mukherjee , Assistant Professor
Sugopa Sengupta , Assistant Professor
Sumit Mandal , Assistant Professor
Sutapa Saha , Assistant Professor
Jana Chakraborty, WBES, Assistant Professor

Address:

Presidency University
86/1 College Street
Kolkata 700073