The premier institute of North East India, Assam Agricultural University was established on April 1, 1969 under The Assam Agricultural University Act, 1968, with the mandate of imparting farm education, conduct research in agriculture and allied sciences, and to effectively disseminate technologies so generated. One of the mandates of AAU is to undertake basic, strategic and applied research in the sector for agriculture centric business and employment avenues in the production to consumption chain. The University is the recipient of prestigious “Sardar Patel Outstanding Instituion Award, 2014”.
Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) laboratory at Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat was established in the year 2006 as a separate unit in the Department of Bio-chemistry and Agricultural Chemistry. The aim of establishing this laboratory was to provide central instrumentation facilities to those M.Sc./Ph.D. students who didn’t have such facilities in their respective Department. In August, 2019 this lab was shifted to DBT-AAU Centre/Department of Agricultural Biotechnology under the supervision of Professor Bidyut Kumar Sarmah, Director of DBT-NECAB.
So far, many students and faculties of both AAU and outside AAU were benefitted by the facility of the CIFL during their post graduation research. Moreover, CIFL helps the farming community/ budding entrepreneurs to analyze their products for microbial contamination and /or various biochemical components.
Recently, the vision of the laboratory has been changed to make it more active and accessible for other public and private institutes. This laboratory basically targets the biochemical, microbial and biotechnological analysis on payment basis so that it generates revenue for its long term sustainability. Along with analysis, there is short term training facility for the students pursuing B. Sc. / M. Sc. dgree programme and labroratory technicians of other colleges/universities.
Candidates should apply through proper channel to Dr B.K.Sarmah, In Charge, CIFL and Director, DBTNECAB, AAU, Jorhat:785013, email : bidyut.sarmah[at]aau.ac.in
A short term hands-on-training (10days) will be conducted on Biochemical, Microbiological and Molecular techniques by the Central Instrumentation Facility Laboratory (CIFL), Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat for the students of general colleges of Jorhat and neibouring districts.
Information regarding future training will be announced in due time
Subject-wise specific Training| Module | Team Members |
| Biochemical analysis |
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| Microbiological analysis |
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| Molecular biology related analysis |
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