Department of Entomology Other Department Specific Facilities

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Other Department specific facilities

  • Insectary
  • Screen house
  • 8 cents area for field/pot culture experiments
  • Apiary unit
S.No. Name of the Laboratory Space (sq.m.) Equipments/ facilities available Capacity 
1. Post Graduate Laboratory  22.8
  1. BOD incubator
  2. Muffle furnace
  3. Refrigerator 
  4. Insect rearing cages
 10
2.  Insectary 190.0 
  1. Screen house
  2. Screen cages
  3. Insect rearing cages
  4. Micro plots (at backyard)
  5. Insect rearing rooms
 30
3. Central Instrumentation facility 153.6
  1. GC-MS-MS
  2. Atomic absorption spectroscopy
  3. UV-Vis spectroscopy
  4. Flame Photometer
  5. Gas generator
  6. Refrigerator
  7. Deep freezer 
  8. Flash extraction chromatography
  9. PCR
  10. Gel Documentation system + Laptop
  11. Horizontal electrophoresis unit
  12. Ice making machine
  13. Refrigerated centrifuge
  14. Nanodrop spectrophotometer
  15. Autoclave
  16. Refrigerated centrifuge
  17. pH meter
  18. Water bath
  19. Ultra centrifuge
  20. Vortex 
  21. Electronic balance
  22. Gas chromatography
  23. Magnetic stirrer
  24. Hot air oven 
  25. Autoclave.
 20
4. Natural Pesticides laboratory 31.2
  1. Centrifuge
  2. Electronic balance (2 nos.)
  3. Head space volatile collection chamber
  4. Olfactometer
  5. Deep freezer 
  6. Soxhlet apparatus (4 nos.)
  7. Rotary evaporimeter
  8. Water bath
  9. Refrigerator
  10. Laboratory blender
  11. Hot air oven 
  12. Double distillation unit
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