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The Central Instrumentation Facility |
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The Central Instrument Facility (CIF) constitutes the heart of the cooperative research activities at the School set up from the University resources and assisted by UGC COSIST and DSA (SAP) supports.
This facility houses some hundred odd sophisticated specialized equipment for research works of students and the faculty. The CIF remains open 24 hrs a day through out the year.
Besides the SLS, the users of this unique facility are the researchers from other Schools and Centers of the University as well as from other Universities and Institutes in Delhi and other parts of the country. Under UGC University link activities the CIF facilities are permitted to researchers to carry out their short-term projects under the guidance and cooperation of SLS faculty and School’s technical staff. |
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The Teaching Instrument Facility |
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The School has from the very inception, placed importance on the laboratory works by the students at M.Sc. level.
The laboratory credits constitute a major proportion of M.Sc. course structure. In order to provide opportunities to students to develop experimental skills, the School has set up a Central Teaching Laboratory Facility that houses both indigenous and imported equipments that are dedicated for use by M.Sc. students for their laboratory exercises and independent group projects.
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The Photographic Facility |
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This facility at the School effectively caters not only to the needs of the School, but also helps other members of the university and institutions located on the campus. Specialized services available in the photographic unit include both color and black and white photography, preparation of slides, preparation of scientific artwork. The unit has facilities for taking of photographs of a variety of biological and scientific material including tissue culture, plant and microbial material, all types of electrophoresis gels, and autoradiograms.
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The Computer, E-mail and Internet Facility |
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The School has set up facilities for in-house use of computers, E.mail and internet services for the students, project staffs and the faculty. This unit provides a variety of services to the students in literature search, computation and graphics
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The Glass Blowing Unit |
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This unit at SLS serves the need of designing small apparatus, glass joints and chromatography columns etc. First semester M.Sc. students are allowed to learn simple glass blowing skills using this facility. This glass blowing unit is the only one of its kind in the University.
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Library |
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A departmental library has recently been started in SLS. This facility has been opened to provide the students textbooks, selected periodicals and reading materials during working hours. The School plans on further developing this unit and initiate a book loan system for needy students.
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The Experimental Botanical Garden |
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The Botanical Garden at SLS is used by Ph.D. students and faculty at SLS, SES & CBT for growing plants for use in their experiments.
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Central Laboratory Animal Resources (CLAR) |
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The Jawaharlal Nehru University Animal House is situated in the south corner of the campus adjacent to the post office. The nomenclature of Animal House was changed to the "Central Laboratory Animal Resources" (CLAR). The Central Laboratory Animal Resources (CLAR) was established in the year 1980-81. The facility is registered under Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CCSEA), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Governemnt of India (Reg. No 19/1999 CCSEA) which provide professional and technical services for the Animal research Project, awarded by different scientific funding agencies to the faculty and students of various science schools and centers in JNU. CLAR to ensure humane care to the animals and their use, necessary for the pursuit and achievement of scientific excellence and is build and maintained strictly in accordance to the CCSEA guidelines and Institutional Animal Ethics Committee (IAEC) of JNU. Different species and strains are kept separately in animal rooms maintained under standard room temperature of 22o to 25o C, 50-55% relative humidity, 12:12 hour light and dark cycle with 100% fresh air circulation and uninterrupted power and water supply. CLAR facility is looked after by a full time well qualified Sr. Veterinary officer led by a team of Technical Assistants and animal caretakers well experienced and trained in animal care, breeding and husbandry. All the procedures directed by the CLAR Advisory Committee in order to keep the CLAR hygienic and infection free are routinely followed strictly by the staff under the guidance of Sr. Veterinary officer. The Nude Mice facility has been made functional and the Nude Mice strain are available for research purposes.
Form B- Application for permission for Animal Experiments Form C -Record of animals bred / acquired / transferred. (to be maintained by Animal House) Form D- Record of Animals Acquired and Experiments performed (to be maintained by the investigator) |
