1. Even Semester – 2012 - 2013

2. No of stUdents appeared : 14First place:SANGEETHA GOPAL9.84 No of stUdents cleared all paper: 14Second Place:MARIYA THOMAS9.36 Pass Percentage:100Third Place:MONI JOHN8.82

3. No of Students appeared : 24 No of Students cleared all paper: 23 Pass Percentage: 95.83 First place:CAROLINE ROSE ALUKKAL9.64 Second Place:EMILIA BABU9.27 Third Place:HARSHA MARY8.93 20 students out of 24 have a SGPA of 7 and above

4.  No of students appeared : 20  No of students cleared all paper: 09  Pass Percentage: 45%  First place: KRISHNAJA SASEENDAN [8]  Second Place: ANJALI V [7.86]  Third Place: BHAVYA.V.H, & DELNA MATHEW [7.43]

5.  No of students appeared : 20  No of students cleared all paper: 17  Pass Percentage: 85%  First place: KRISHNAJA SASEENDAN [8.89]  Second Place: BHAVYA.V.H [8.82]  Third Place: ANJALI V [8.71]

6. Manorama Yuva Mastermind 2013 - Dr. Satheesh John memorial Award of Rs.60,000/- PROJECT TITLE : “Electricity from Urine” Mr. Rothish Ramesh, Ms Gopika Kartha and Ms. Neenu Tom Guided by Mrs.Megha.P.M

7. - Second Prize of Rs 30000/- PROJECT TITLE :“An Effective Approach of Bioelectricity Production From Lignocellulosic Waste” Mr. Seby Antony, Ms Sangeetha Gopal, Ms Mariya Thomas and Ms Celine Thomas Guided by Rahna K Rathnan NATCON 2013

8.  7 Projects Selected for the final rounds in Techtop 2013 to be held at Technopark Trivandrum during August- 2013.  One project selected for the final round of Jed-i to be conducted at IISc, Bangalore on June 14 th 2013.  One Project selected for the final round of the student project competition organized by NRDC under the Dept of Biotechnology, Govt of India.

9. NATCON 2013  Mr. Pinto Paul, Ms Feba Jose & Ms Anju Paul, guided by Mrs. Praveena P. The project was “Effective Utilisation of Poultry Waste”.  Mr. Rothish Ramesh, Mr. Arjun S Kumar, Ms Gopika Kartha and Neenu Tom, guided by Mrs. Megha P.M.The project was “Electricity from Urine”.

10.  Mr. Pinto Paul, Ms Feba Jose & Ms Anju Paul, guided by Mrs. Praveena P. Project --“Effective Utilization of Poultry Waste”.  Mr. Rothish Ramesh, Mr. Arjun S Kumar, Ms Gopika Kartha and Neenu Tom, guided by Mrs. Megha P.M. Project --“Electricity from Urine”.  Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Ms Jesin Augustine, Ms Sreeshma Haridas & Ms Moni John guided by Mrs. Maria Cyriac. Project --“Slaughter House Waste Management Coupled with Biofuel Production”.

11.  Ms Sreeshma Haridas & Ms Moni John-first prize in the Paper presentation in GENSPIRE ’13-- “Phytoremediation of selected heavy metals by Azolla”, guided by Mrs. Mariya Issac.  Ms Jesin Augustine--participated in Paper presentation in GENSPIRE ’13-- “Diagnostic techniques for neurological disorders”, guided by Mrs. Ranimol.  Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan presented a paper in GENSPIRE ’13 -- “Mitochondrial DNA as diagnostic tool”, guided by Mrs. Ranimol.  Ms Celine Thomas and Mr. Seby Antony of S8 BT, guided by Rahna K Rathnan, presented a poster on the topic “Bioplastic from lignocellulosic waste” in 3 rd INCOFTECH- 2013.

12.  Ms. Rahna K Rathnan attended One day International workshop On “Amazing Career Opportunities in Food Sciences”.  Ms. P.Praveena (Asst Professor, BT) attended a workshop on Flow Cytometry in CARe KERALAM,Koratty on 15th February 2013.  Ms Celine Thomas, Ms Mariya Thomas, Ms Sangeetha Gopal and Mr. Seby Antony of S8 BT attended One day International workshop On “Amazing Career Opportunities in Food Sciences”.

13.  On 5th December BEATS arranged an invited talk by Mr. Simson Jose, Executive, Cluster Innovation Center from CARe KERALAM,KINFRA Park, Koratty.  On 7 Jan 2013 BEATS arranged a motivational talk on “How to excel in one’s profession” by Dr. George Kovoor.

14.  Inauguration by Dr. Ranjan S Karippai

15. Dr. Suma T.B, Scientist, Department of Biotechnology, KFRI, Peechi, delivered a talk on “DNA Bar coding” Dr. Gireesh (Scientist, Rubber Research Institute ) on Rubber propagation

18. FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME

19. HOD Biotechnology St. Joseph’s College, Irinjalakuda.

20. Forging Links into Biochemical Pathways

21. Biotechnology for the betterment of society

23. On Feb 9 th 2013 BEATS volunteered the Sports & Arts Meet for the differently abled students of Thrissur district organized by the Lion’s Club of Irinjalakuda.

24. KSCSTE  “Electricity from Urine” –Mrs. Megha  “Complete utilization of poultry waste”-Mrs. Praveena  “Waste plastic-Golden fuel”- Mrs. Praveena  “An Effective Approach of Bioelectricity Production from Lignocellulosic Waste”-Mrs. Rahna  “Production of bioplastic from tamarind and jackfruit seeds”-Mrs. Marria IEI  “Electricity from Urine” –Mrs. Megha

25.  Amitha Joy, Jubil, C. A, Syama, P. S and Rohini Menon – Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research(April 2013).  Rahna. K. Rathnan, Ambili Mechoor, Celine Thomas, Mariya Thomas, Sangeetha Gopal and Seby Antony -- International Journal of Environmental Sciences. (March 2013).  Smeera Thomas1, J. Grace Nirmala2 and R. T. Narendhirakannan2*. Free Radical Scavenging Activities of Nyctanthes arbor-tristis. L on Adjuvant Induced Arthritis in Rats. -- British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research 3(4): 536-547, 2013

26.  Faculty in the editorial/reviewer board 1. Ms. Rahna K Rathnan – Carbohydrate Polymers; Elsevier publications (ISSN: 0144-8617) 2. Dr. Ambili Mechoor – IJBB, (ISSN:0975-0959 (Online); 0301-1208 (Print) ) 3. Dr. Ambili Mechoor - Agronomy for Sustainable Development ( Print ISSN: 1774-0746; Online ISSN: 1773-0155)

27.  GenBank: KC686840.1  DEFINITION : Penicillium citrinum strain SCET3 28S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence. ACCESSION KC686840 VERSION KC686840.1 GI:484400121  TITLE Novel cellulolytic fungi isolated from natural source JOURNAL Unpublished REFERENCE 2 (bases 1 to 543)  AUTHORS : Rathnan,R.K., Antony,S., Thomas,M., Gopal,S., Thomas,C. and Mechoor,A. TITLE Direct Submission JOURNAL Submitted (24-FEB-2013) Department of Biotechnology, Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Kodakara, Thrissur, Kerala 680684, India  Sequencing Technology :: Sanger dideoxy sequencing  organism=" Penicillium citrinum" /mol_type="genomic DNA" /strain="SCET3 " /db_xref="taxon:5077" rRNA 543 /product="28S ribosomal RNA" /note="D1-D2 region" ORIGIN 1 cggcaagagc tcaaatttga aagctggccc cctcggggtc cgcattgtaa tttgcagagg 61 atgcttcggg aacggccccc atctaagtgc cctggaacgg gccgtcatag agggtgagaa 121 tcccgtctgg gatggggtgg ccgcgcccgt gtgaagctcc ttcgacgagt cgagttgttt 181 gggaatgcag ctctaattgg gtggtaaatt tcatctaaag ctaaatattg gccggagacc 241 gatagcgcac aagtagagtg atcgaaagat gaaaagcact ttgaaaagag agttaaacag 301 cacgtgaaat tgttgaaagg gaagcgcttg cgaccagact cgcccgcggg gttcagccgg 361 cactcgtgcc ggtgtacttc cccgcgggcg ggccagcgtc ggtttgggcg gccggtcaaa 421 ggcctctgga aggtaacgcc tctcggggcg tcttatagcc aggggtgcca tgcggcctgc 481 ccggaccgag gaacgcgctt cggctcggac gctggcataa tggtcgtaag cgacccgtct 541 tga5077rRNA

28.  Mr. Francis John  Ms. Amitha Joy  Ms. Maria Cyriac Soaring high………………..

29.  Workshop for faculties - Bioinformatics and Molecular Drug designing - Preliminary work initiated. Had talks with KSSTEC & Kerala Biotech Commission. Application under process  Technical talks by eminent scientists and faculty from esteemed institutions  Some speakers contacted – ( Dates yet to confirm)  Dr. M V Joseph, Former HOD, Biotech Dept, Calicut Uty  Dr. S. Mini, Reader Biochem Dept, Kerala Uty  Dr. Anitha Santhosh, ILA laboratory, Dubai

30.  Add on courses proposed and will be conducted in Biostatistics for the final year students.  Proposal for an add on course in Molecular Drug Design.

31.  Projects under process to KSSTEC & DBT Both Staff as well as student projects Major Projects 1. Anticancer effects of Garcinia Cambogia 2. Design of Bioreactors and fuel production from natural sources Minor Projects Students projects are getting prepared by each faculty for the 5 th and 7 th Semester Project grants

32.  S for S programme  T for S programme  Good Lab practices  Uniform code  Campus Language  Use of Dept Library

36.  5 th June – World Environment day  Sep 16 th - World Ozone day  Oct 4 th – World Animal welfare day  Oct 18 th – Karl Ereky’s birthday (Father of Biotechnology)  Dec 1 st – World Aids awareness day