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Outreach Activities
Include on farm trials, consultancy services, training programmes, symposium, seminarsand publications.
Technical support to self-help groups to establish TC/ hardening units.
Biotechnology awareness programmes to school students and farmers
National Symposium & Seminars organized
National seminar on GM crops prospects and isssues was conducted on 17th & 18th March 2014.
National seminar on New Frontiers in agricultural Biotechnology was conducted on 3rd March 2015
NAIP sponsored Training Programme (15 days) on “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture” was organized from May 2nd -16th, 2011.
NAIP sponsored Training Programme (15 days) on “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture” was organized from May 2nd -16th, 2009.
National Training on "Techniques and applications of biotechnology to combat climate change" was organized from September 18th -25th, 2009.
Workshop on "Kerala Biotechnology Policy and Biodiversity Conservation’. ‘GM crops – Food security and environmental integrity" was conducted on April 30, 2009.
Annual Task Force meeting for Women in Science' was conducted on August 31st - September 1st , 2009.
Symbiohort – 2005, National Symposium on "Biotechnological Interventions for Improvement of Horticultural Crops – Issues and Strategies" was organized from January10th - 12th, 2005.
Winter School organized
ICAR sponsored Winter School (21 days) on "Advances in micropropagation of Horticulture Crops" was organized from December 1st - 21st, 2011.
ICAR sponsored Winter School (21 days) on “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture” was organized from December1st -21st, 2009.
ICAR sponsored Winter school (21 days) on "Identification and cloning of defense genes in plants" was organized from January 8th – 28th, 2009.
Trainings Conducted at CPBMB
Summer training on techniques in Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture was conducted from 10th – 30th June 2013.
Sponsored training by Planning Board, GoK. Two month training programme on Micropropogation of banana was conducted from 2nd December 2013 to 31st January 2014.
Sponsored training by Planning Board, GoK. Two month training programme on Hardening Micropropogated banana was conducted from 3rd January 2014 to 28th February 2014.
ICAR sponsored training on techniques in Proteomics & Genomics for Crop Improvement was conducted from 24th - 28th March 2014.
Hands on training on Techniques in Molecular Biology was conducted from 16th – 30th June 2014.
Hands on training on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology was conducted from 10th – 24th July 2014.
Hands on training on Micropropogation of banana for Enterpreneurship Development was conducted from 22nd – 29th January 2015.
Centre of Excellence training was conducted from 23rd – 29th March 2015.
Training on Plant Tissue Culture and Applications was conducted from 11th – 30th May 2015.
Training on Tools and Techniques in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics was conducted from 18th May - 2nd June 2015.
Hands on training in Techniques in Molecular Biology was conducted from 15th – 30th June 2015.
Hands on training on Plant Tissue Culture and Applications was conducted from 29th June - 22nd July 2015.
Vocational training on Micropropogation for Entrepreneurship Development was conducted from 1st October – 31st December 2015.
Hands on training on Micropropogation for Entrepreneurship Development was conducted from 1st March – 31st May 2016.
Training on techniques in Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture was conducted from 13th – 25th March 2017.
Training on Techniques in Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture was conducted from 19th May – 2nd June 2017.
Books Released
Molecular Profiling of Piper Species,
Biotech Research in KAU
Recent Trends in Horticultural Biotechnology – Vol I & Vol II
Plant Biotechnology - Methods in Tissue Culture and Gene Transfer
Awards
Biotech process, product development and commercialization award 2003 (Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India)
Dr. H.S. Mehta Memorial national awards 2003 and 2006
Jawaharlal Nehru awards 1997 and 2007
NAAS Associateship
Review & Monitoring
National level advisory and monitoring committees to evaluate EAPs
Institutional Biosafety Committee for rDNA research
Recognitions
Co-ordinating centre for
DBT funded multi institutional project on spices
Biotech HRD in Kerala
Membership in DBT Taskforce, National Bioresource Development Board, University Syndicates & Board of Studies
Sales & Recepts
Tissue culture derived quality planting materials of banana, black pepper, anthurium, orchids, curry leaf, medicinal plants etc. in revolving fund mode Biofertilisers and biocontrol agents
Future Programs
Scaling up & commercialization of in vitro regeneration protocols
Refinement of protocols for regeneration of recalcitrant crops
Genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics for exploitation of genes coding for desirable traits
Linkage mapping & marker assisted selection for stress tolerance and quality
Transgenics for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance
Molecular profiling and utilization of under exploited high value microbes.
Bioprospection and metabolome analysis
To serve as a Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology
