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June 30th, 2016, 03:55 PM
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AIIMS M Tech Biotechnology
Hello sir, will you please provide me syllabus for M.Tech in Biotechnology from AIIMS?
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June 30th, 2016, 03:58 PM
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Re: AIIMS M Tech Biotechnology
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences is established as an autonomous Institution of national importance and defined its objectives and functions. The Institute awards its own medical degrees and other academic distinctions. Eligibility for M.Tech in Biotechnology: Candidates have B.Sc. (Minimum 3 years duration in any subjects) B.V. Sc./B. Pharma with 60% marks (55% for SC/ST) OR MBBS/BDS with atleast 55% marks (50% for SC/ST) Syllabus for M.Tech in Biotechnology from AIIMS SECTION 1 PAPER I : Biomolecular, chemical bonding, structure and function of carbohydrates, proteins and lipid, water and its properties, cell composition, architecture and function, enzymes coenzymes, metabolism of carbohydrate, amino acids and lipids, in born of metabolism. Principles of thermodynamics, Bioenergetics and oxidative phosphorylation. Blood clotting – biochemistry, body fluids – pH and acid base balance and their importance in clinical biochemistry, muscle contraction. Techniques in the study of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. SECTION 2 PAPER II : Hormones – chemistry, mechanism of action and physiological effects. Nutrition and food assimilation, macronutrients and micronutrients, vitamins and trace elements, chemistry and metabolism of purines and pyrimidines. Immunology. SECTION 3 PAPER III : Nucleic acids - structure synthesis, regulation. Molecular biology and recombinant DNA technology, genomics and proteomics, DNA microarrays, biochemical genetics, environmental biochemistry. Oncogenes, group factors, biochemistry of cancer, clinical biochemistry. Experimental techniques in biochemical research and study of cell. Current topics, biostatistics and its application in research and clinical chemistry, Journal club seminars. PAPER – I MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, RADIATION BIOPHYSICS, ELECTRONICS AND DYNAMICS OF NONLINEAR PROCESSES CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Central Dogma, Genetic code, gene and operon, Structure of DNA and RNA, extrachromal elements, plasmids, selectable markers, gel electrophoresis, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), cloning PCR products, expression vectors, DNA sequence analysis, cDNA libraries, genomic libraries, applications of molecular biology methods, using internet resources in molecular biology RADIATION BIOPHYSICS Interaction of radiation with matter, ionizing radiation,nonionizing radiation, free radicals, ion pairs, radiation units and dosimetry, dose effect graphs and target theory, direct and indirect radiation action, radiation on proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, cell and whole organism, genetic effects of radiation, repair of radiation induced damage, radiation in diagnosis and therapeutics, protection from radiation. ELECTRONICS Passive circuit components, series and parallel circuits, circuit theory, power supplies, amplifiers, emitter followers, oscillators and basic digital circuits. DYNAMICS OF NONLINEAR PROCESSES Physico-mathematical foundations of the dynamics of nonlinear processes, phase plane method, different modes of excitations, nearly sinusoidal oscillations, building up of oscillations, effect of third harmonic distortion, Liapounov criteria of stability, limit cycles. PAPER II MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS (X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, SPECTROSCOPY, PROTEINS, VIRUSES, NUCLEIC ACIDS AND MEMBRANES) X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY X-ray Diffraction Structure factor expression, electron density equation, phase problems, Patterson function, molecular replacement method, heavy atom method, isomorphous replacement method, refinement procedure and interpretation of results. Data Collection Methods of data collection of crystal containing small molecule and large molecule, factors affecting the measurement of integrated intensities, photographic methods, diffractometers, area detectors and image plates. SPECTROSCOPY UV, IR, Raman ORD and CD, spectroscopy, basic principles, instrumenation and use. NMR/ESR: classical description of magnetic resonance in terms of precession moments, relaxation process, Bloch equation for line width and shape, spin Hamiltonian, ESR spectrometer, spin labelling in biological molecules, NMR: spectrometer instrumentation, pulsed and Fourier transformed NMR, scalar and dipolar broadening, line multiplicity, ring current shifts factors affecting relaxation time, Karplus equation and use of NMR for conformational study, Mössbauer spectroscopy, resonance absorption in biological samples. Line shape, line width, chemical shifts, quardruple and magnetic splitting in Mössbauer spectra of biological molecules. PROTEINS Stability of protein structures: flexibility, reversible folding and unfolding, pH titration, chemical denaturation, thermal denaturation solvent perturbation and chemical modification Prediction of protein structures: circular dichroism, NMR Methods, Structure-function relationship, catalysis, Study of three dimensional structures of Trypsin, Trypsinogen, Antibody molecules. NUCLEIC ACIDS Introduction of nucleic acids, definition of terms for nucleic acids, old nomenclature, IUPAC-IUB nomenclature. Basis of Watson Cricks original model Different, base- pairing schemes Unsatisfactory Course and Curriculum of Biophysics 11 nature of Hoogsteen and other base pairing schemes, biological implication of Watson Crick base pairing scheme refinement of Watson-Crick model by linked- atom least squares, fiber X- ray diffraction studies, single crystal X-ray diffraction, and NMR studies on mono- and oligo- nucleotides, DNA polymorphism, parameters for A-, B-, C-, D- and Z-DNA, definitions of roll, tilt and propeller twist, spectroscopic study of DNA polymorphism, interaction of DNA with proteins, drugs, dyes and carcinogens, experimental and theoretical studies on base stacking, hydrogen bonding interactions, structure of RNA, basic differences between DNA and RNA structures, structure of yeast phenylalanine tRNA. MEMBRANES Lipid structure and their organization, phase transitions in lipids, polysaccharides, molecular shapes and the conformation, comparison between different membrane models, diffusions and permeability, carrier transport, ion transport, active and passive transport, ion pumps, water transport, use of liposomes for membrane models and drug delivery systems. PAPER III MATHEMATICAL METHODS, QUANTUM BIOLOGY AND MICROSCOPY MATHEMATICAL METHODS Review of Fourier Series, Laplace transforms, transforms of derivatives, properties of Laplace transform, solution of linear ordinary differential equation with Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms, solution of partial differential equation with method of separation of variables. QUANTUM CHEMISTRY Atomic orbital models, the wave equation, molecular orbitals, the LCAO method the overlap, Coulomb and resonance integrals, the hydrogen molecule, charge distributions, approximate methods. Theoretical modeling Basic principle of modeling, Modeling by energy minimization technique, Concept of rotation about bonds, Energy minimization basic technique for small molecules. Ramachandran plot, Torsional space minimization. Energy minimization in Cartesian space. Molecular mechanics basic principle. Molecular dynamics basic principles. MICROSCOPY Optical Microscopy Theory and use of light, fluorescence, phase and polarising microscopes, selection of suitable samples, and observation in different optical systems, study of living cells, principle and techniques of photomicroscopy, applications and limitations of optical microscopy. Electron Microscopy Principle of electron microscopes, preparation of samples, interpretation of ultrastructure and cell function, confocal microscopy, atomic force microscopy. Address: All India Institute of Medical Science Ansari Nagar, New Delhi Pin code -110 608, India. Telephone Number: 91 – 11 – 26588500 Here I’m attaching PDF of syllabus for M.Tech in Biotechnology from AIIMS: |