16 Oct 2019
Report on Industrial visit to Genei laboratories Private Limited
School: Applied Sciences, Department of Biotechnology
Venue: Genei laboratories Private Limited, Peenya, Bangalore
Date: 16/10/2019
The Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences, REVA University has organised an industrial visit for M.Sc. First year Biotech students to Genei Laboratories Pvt Ltd, Peenya, Bangalore on 16th October 2019. Sixty five students from the Master degree programme accompanied by Dr. Santharam K.S (Assistant Professor) and Dr. Upendra R.S (Associate Professor), started our journey in 2 buses at 8:45 a.m. and reach the company at 10:45 a.m. Industry visit commenced around 11:00 a.m. after finishing all the formalities.
Students were divided into three groups for better visualization of the instruments and facilities, in a rotation basis. First of all, Dr. Hemalatha V., General Manager, Technical services addressed first group in the ground floor and briefed the students about the company activities and their expertise. Meanwhile, second group accompanied by Dr. Bindu, genomics expert, visited the Genomics division located in the first floor and third group accompanied by subject expert, visited the Proteomics division located in the second floor. Students got an opportunity to see the world-class research facility and were amazed by looking at their facilities. After all the three batches finished viewing all the facilities, we duly acknowledged the Genei company staff for giving their valuable time and for sharing their knowledge and expertise. We started our return journey around 1:30 p.m. and returned to the REVA university campus around 2:30 p.m.
Students evinced keen interest in knowing about the sophisticated instruments and techniques used by the scientists in the facility. Scientists in the facility explained in detail about the various instruments and also answered the questions asked by the students with enthusiasm and scientific vigour. This industrial visit has helped students to gain immense knowledge in the fields of genetic engineering, protein expression and purification, and immunology. This visit will go a long way towards improving scientific temperament of the students and nurturing the young minds to become scientists and entrepreneurs.
