Introduction
The Faculty of Biotechnology and Biology is the oldest and at the same time one of the most advanced division under the National Research Mordovia State University with a modernised infrastructure that empowers teaching staff and learners to do high-tech research at all levels of living matter. Modern research methods are regularly introduced into the learning: cultivation of objects in software-controlled bioreactors, digital imaging microscopy with a computer analysis system, analytical control methods using modern spectral, chromatographic and electrophoretic equipment with electronic data processing, various PCR modifications, DNA sequencing, genetic engineering manipulations with various objects, etc.
Resources and facilities
Apart from academic departments and internal divisions, the Faculty owns a biological research station, a botanical garden, a biological museum, a Biotechnological Centre, which incorporates two science and education centres (Nanobiotechnology; DNA diagnostics and genomic research).
The Faculty’s academic and research laboratories are furnished with the state-of-the-art equipment of the world's leading manufacturers (Japan, the USA, Germany, etc.) enabling scholars to pursue a range of research from the molecular genetics to the cellular and organismic level.
Research
The Faculty’s research groups have established firm contacts interacting with scholars from many countries of the world.
The research successfulness of any scientific and educational institution is measured by its achievements. As of today, more than 90 scientific and technological developments have been registered by the Faculty, in particular by the scholars of the Department of Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Bioengineering. Many of them have been commercialised and are actively upscaling. Considering the amount of published research papers and the number of grants awarded and realised, the Faculty is one of the best in related areas among Russia’s universities.
The Faculty organises scientific expeditions and field practice of students to picturesque places of Russia: to Lake Baikal, the Altai Mountains, the Astrakhan semi-deserts, the coast of the White and Barents Seas, the Crimean peninsula.
