The main activity of the Department is to undertake research projects and guide researchers for Ph.D. and M.Phil degrees. The Master’s programme of the Department was specially designed and started on UGC guidelines. The curriculum of the M.Sc. course is different from that of the General M.Sc of the affiliated colleges under this University. Though the quality of the course is excellent, the intake of the students is limited to six per batch. The department intends to increase this number, provided adequate facilities are made available for this purpose.

The Department had already trained over 115 M.Phil and 90 Ph. D candidates till 2005 and the total out lay of research publications till date exceeds 600. An International Journal, Entomon, the official organ of the Association for the Advancement of Entomology (AAE) is published from the Department. There is a good library with over 3500 volumes and several scientific journals in the Department. The research laboratories are fairly well equipped with precision instruments such as the Scanning Electron Microscope, Spectrophotometers, Refrigerated High speed Centrifuges, Fluorescence Microscope, Laminar Flow, Microscopes with image analyzer, oxygraph, ELISA Reader, HPLC, PCR and accessories, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, flamephotometers etc.

Inter Departmental Courses
The Department has started a multidisciplinary M.Phil programme in bioinformatics. The Department also runs extra-departmental courses such as microscopy, biodiversity, genetics and ecophysiology. We propose to begin a multidisciplinary inter-institutional M.Sc integrated programme (B.Sc., M.Sc) in Biosciences jointly conducted by the Department of Zoology, Biochemistry, Botany and Computer Science. Further, we propose to start a M.Sc/ M.Tech Duplex degree in Bioinformatics and project it as a Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences.