Department of Zoology

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change
---Charles Darwin

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Courses
Undergraduate

Semester wise Three year B. Sc. Honours Degree Course (under CBCS), University of Calcutta

Syllabus

CBCS Syllabus | CCF Syllabus
 

Intake Capacity : 44

Postgraduate

Semester wise Two year M. Sc. Course (under CBCS), University of Calcutta. - View Syllabus

Intake Capacity : 21

About the Department

Updated : 14 March 2023

The Department of Zoology, Bethune College has been considered as one of the highly rated departments of the College. The teaching of the subject at the Intermediate level began in this college in 1952, Under Graduate (Pass) in1964, Under Graduate (Honours) in 1973 and Post Graduate in 2005. All the aforesaid courses are under the affiliation of the University of Calcutta.From the academic session 2018-19, the Department of Zoology has introduced the Semester system of evaluation at the under graduate level (CBCS system).From the academic session 2018-19, the Department of Zoology has shifted to the Semester system of evaluation at the post graduate level (CBCS system), affiliated to the University of Calcutta.The academic excellence of the Department is evident from the outstanding performance of both the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students in the University- and competitive-examinations.

Faculty

Tapas Kumar Misra
Dr. Tapas Kumar Misra

Associate Professor and HOD
M.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D.
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Samiran Ghosh
Dr. Samiran Ghosh

Associate Professor
M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Paramaa Raha
Dr. Paramaa Raha

Assistant Professor
M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D.
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Suchandra Chowdhury
Dr. Suchandra Chowdhury

Assistant Professor
M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Sutapa Datta
Dr. Sutapa Datta

Assistant Professor
M.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D.
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Srinjana Ghosh
Smt. Srinjana Ghosh

Assistant Professor
M.Sc., M.Phil.
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Hiroj Kumar Saha
Dr. Hiroj Kumar Saha

Assistant Professor
M.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D.
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Adrita Chakrabarti
Dr. Adrita Chakrabarti

Assistant Professor
M.Sc, Ph.D.
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Seemanti Chatterjee
Dr. Seemanti Chatterjee

State Aided College Teacher (Category-I)
M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Seemanti Chatterjee
Dr. Srimanta Kumar Raut

Invited Lecturer
M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc.
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Infrastructure

Library: Departmental library has about 100 books; Book bank has about 300 books addressing different aspects of Zoology.

Special equipment/Teaching Aid: Two class rooms with ICT are available along other classrooms.

Museum: A collection of about 300 zoological specimens are well preserved for studying of students.

Laboratories Infrastructure
General Laboratories (2) for UG teaching
For PG teaching, the department has

  • Well equipped Air conditioned Parasitology & Immunology Laboratory.
  • Well equipped Air conditioned Cytogenetics Laboratory.
  • Well equipped Air conditioned Entomology Laboratory.
  • Well equipped Air conditioned Ecology Laboratory.
  • An Animal House is also provided by the college to facilitate research.

Instruments

  • Cold Centrifuge with two rotors
  • ELISA reader
  • Thermo cycler [PCR machine]
  • Gel apparatus [DNA & Protein]
  • B.O.D incubators
  • Laminar flow
  • Trinocular microscope with photographic attachment
  • Binocular microscopes
  • Hot air ovens
  • Bacteriological Incubators
  • Trans blot apparatus for Western blotting
  • Power packs
  • Micro pipettes of different calibrations
  • Millipore Distillation plant
  • -20 and -80 degree freezer
  • CO2 Incubator
  • UV Spectrophotometer
  • Homogenizer
  • Magnus Stereoscopic Binocular

Research Activities

The faculty members are actively involved in research in their respective fields like Ecology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Parasitology, Immunology and Entomology. Dr. Samiran Ghosh has completed a project titled "Development of nano-silver impregnated muga silk bandage with inherent anti-bacterial property (DBT, New-Delhi)" in 2017.

Departmental Prizes/Scholarships

  • Papiya Dutta Roy Memorial Stipend (for compulsory excursion) for economically weaker students of PG Course in Zoology
  • Arunava Manna Memorial Prize (initiated in 2009): Awarded to two students, one in the first year and the other in the second year of Zoology Honours for highest attendance in Honours and General subjects.
  • Jyotsna Manna Memorial Prize (initiated in 2009): Awarded for highest proficiency in Zoology Honours in the B.Sc. Examination.
  • S. N. Pal Memorial Prize (initiated in 2010): Awarded to M. Sc students for securing 1st class in Zoology in M. Sc Examination from Bethune College.
  • Madhusudan Banik Meorial Prize (initiated in 2010): Awarded for securing First class first position in Zoology in the M.Sc. Examination.
  • Minati Banik Meorial Prize (initiated in 2010): Awarded for securing First class first position in Zoology in the B.Sc. Examination.
  • Departmental Staff Prizes - to top five scoring students amongst students securing 1st class in Final Zoology Honours University Exam.
     

Extension Activities

The department conducts seminars and workshops from time to time for the benefit and upgradation of knowledge of both faculty and students 

Seminars/Conferences/Lecture organized by the department

Funding Agency Seminar / Conferences / Workshops with Date Speakers No. of participants
DBT Star College Scheme Workshop on Computational Statistics: How to utilize R organized by Dept. of Zoology.

Date: 21.11. 2022 (11A.M -4.00 P.M)
Venue: Dept. of Zoology, Bethune College.
Topic: How to Utilize R:
programming language


Topic: Application of Analysis of
Variance (ANOVA)



Date: 22.11.2022 (11A.M -4.00 P.M)
Venue: Dept. of Zoology, Bethune College.

Topic: Introduction to R



Topic: Computational Statistics:
How to Utilize R		 Dr. Samiran Ghosh
Associate Professor
Dept. of Zoology, Bethune College

Dr. Hiroj Kumar Saha
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Zoology, Bethune College

Dr. Saptarshi Mondal
Assistant Professor Dept. of Statistics, Bethune College.

Sri Soumya Chakraborty
Assistant Professor Dept. of Statistics, Bethune College.		 39



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45





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DBT Star College Scheme FDP on Introduction of R Programming organized by Dept. of Mathematics and Dept. of Zoology.
Date: 09.12. 2022 at 10.30 A.M
Venue:Gallery 5, Vidyasagar Bhavan, Bethune College.



Topic: Introduction of R
programming		 Dr. Saptarshi Mondal
Assistant Professor Dept. of Statistics, Bethune College.

Dr. Abisa Sinha
Assistant Professor Dept. of Statistics,
Amity University.		 34
DBT Star College Scheme Introductory Workshop on Biological Modelling organized by Dept. of Mathematics and Dept. of Zoology.
Date: 19.12. 2022 at 2P.M
Venue:Gallery 5, Vidyasagar Bhavan, Bethune College.
 		 Dr. Debprasad Pal
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics,
Bethune College.		 63
DBT Star College Scheme Estuarine Dynamics With Reference To Indian Sundarbans.
Date: 06.6. 2022 at 2P.M
Offline mode at Centenary hall, Bethune College.
 

Prof. Dipak Ranjan Mandal
Former DPI, Govt. of W.Bengal & Former VC, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha
University
 

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DBT Star College Scheme

Virtual Workshop on 'Bioinformatics: How to handle genomic data'

Date: 28.06.2021
'An algorithmic approach to bioinformatics
beginners hands-on-training'

Date: 29.06.2021
A landscape of Human Genome

Date: 30.06.2021
'Bioinformatics: Biology in terms of information techniques'

Webinar
 



Dr. Krishnendu Sinha
Assistant Professor,
Department of Zoology,
Jhargram Raj College

Ms. Swati Saha
Doctoral student, University
of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Ms. Poulami Goswami
JRF, Delhi University,
Department of Botany
 

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DBT Star College Scheme

Role of traditional biotechnological practices in sustainability: A case study from East Kolkata wetland
Jointly Organized by the Department of Botany and Zoology.
Date: 25.06.2021 at 11a.m.
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https://youtu.be/25IUKPrd2NE
 

Dr. Punarbasu Chaudhuri
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Science
University of Calcutta
 

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Govt of West Bengal

Termite- the neglected natural recycler and soil engineer in the environment.
Date: 5.06.2021 at 11am
Webinar

Ms. Rituparna Sengupta,
Senior Research
Fellow, Zoological
Survey of India
 

 100
DBT Star College Scheme

In silico approaches for drug designing and discovery: an overview.
Date: 26.3. 2021 at 7P.M
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https://meet google.com/ttt-tskb-wdw
 

Ms. Shruti Mukherjee,
Senior Research Fellow (UGC), Department of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata

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Bethune College, Kolkata

After a century, Progess in Zoology

Date: 05.03.2019
Offline
 

Prof Silanjan Bhattacharya,
West Bengal State University

Dr. S. N. Ghosh,
Scientist, West Bengal Biodiversity Board

Prof. D.RoyChoudhury,
University of Calcutta

Prof Parthib Basu,
 University of Calcutta
 

  


 

Excursion

As a part of the academic curriculum, the department arranges regular compulsory excursion/ educational tour befitting the curriculum, for both UG and PG students to extendtheir exposure to the bio-diversity of the country. The forest, marine and aquatic ecosystems are usually selected for such visit.

 

Place Visit  Date Year of the Student
Central Inland Fisheries Institute, Barrackpore 20.12.22 B.Sc. Sem I Hons
(DBT STAR College Scheme)
Manas National Park 25.11.22-30.11.22 B.Sc. Sem V Hons and M.Sc Semester III
Indian Museum 13.05.2022 GE IV
Shibpur Botanical Garden, Howrah 19.04.2022 PG semester IV
Zoological Garden, Alipore 05.04.2022 B.Sc. Sem VI Hons
Indian Museum 22.01.2020 B.Sc. Part III(Hons.)
Gopalpur, Odisha 08.11.19 - 12.11.19 B.Sc. Part III(Hons.) and PG Semester III .
Digha, Shankarpur and associated areas 29.10.18 to 1.11.18 B.Sc. Part III(Hons.)
Zoological Garden, Alipore and Indian Museum 2017 B.Sc. Part II General
Zoological Garden, Alipore 28.11.2017 M.Sc Semester III
Chandipore coastal zone on the Bay of Bengal and Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary February, 2017 B.Sc. Part II (Hons.)
Institute visit at Human Genetics Unit, ISI, Kolkata 02.5.2016 M.Sc. 2 nd final year students of Genetics special paper



 

Results

U.G. Results 2022

No. of Students Appeared : 26
No. of Students Passed : 25
No. of Students Not Cleared Semester (Fail) :01
 

Results No of Students
CGPA 5 to 6 0
CGPA 6 to 7 0
CGPA 7 to 8 0
CGPA 8 to 9 25
CGPA 9 to 10 0
Semester
not cleared		 1

The CGPA of any student is placed in the higher class of CGPA
 

Zoology UG Result 2022

U.G. Results 2021

No of Students:27

Results No of Students
CGPA 5 to 6 0
CGPA 6 to 7 1
CGPA 7 to 8 10
CGPA 8 to 9 16

The CGPA of any student is placed in the higher class of CGPA
 

Zoology UG Result 2021

U.G. Results 2015-2020

Year Candidates appeared First Class
2020 19 19
2019 27 21
2018 22 17
2017 27 25
2016 25 22
2015 22 22
Zoology UG Result

P.G. Results 2022

No. of Students Appeared :19
No. of Students Passed : 19
No. of Students not cleared Semester (Fail) : 0
 

Results No of Students
CGPA 5 to 6 0
CGPA 6 to 7 2
CGPA 7 to 8 17
CGPA 8 to 9 0
CGPA 9 to 10 0
Semester
not cleared		 0

The CGPA of any student is placed in the higher class of CGPA
 

Zoology PG Result 2022

P.G. Results 2021

No of Students:19

Results No of Students
CGPA 5 to 6 0
CGPA 6 to 7 3
CGPA 7 to 8 16
CGPA 8 to 9 0

The CGPA of any student is placed in the higher class of CGPA
 

Zoology PG Result 2021

P.G. Results 2015-2020

Year Candidates appeared First Class
2020 20 20
2019 21 21
2018 21 19
2017 18 17
2016 18 18
2015 20 20
Zoology PG Result

Students' Section

Achievements of Ex-Students

# Name Academic achievement Present position
1 Parna Chakraborty
(UG 2017-20)		 CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 58), 2022  
2 Deblina Nath
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 59), 2022 Joined as JRF in NICED, Kolkata
3 Chayanika Roy
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2022
WBSET, 2022
GATE 2022
GATE 2020		 Joined as JRF in NICED, Kolkata
4 Urbee Banerjee
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 79), 2021 Pursuing Ph.D in Human Genetics Unit at ISI, Kolkata
5 Mauli Dey
(PG 2020-22)		 CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 81), 2021 Joined as JRF in Complement Biology at NCCS, Pune from 1st March 2023
6 Mrittika Dasgupta
(PG 2019-21)		 CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 123), 2021 Joined as JRF in Structural virology at IIT Delhi
7 Srijita Kundu
(PG 2018-20)		 GATE-2021 Pursuing Ph.D at LVPEI, Hyderabad
8 Sudeshna Mandal
(PG 2019-21)		 CSIR-NET JRF (AIR 238), 2020 Joined as JRF in the Environmental Science Department, CU.
9 Srijata Chakraborty
(PG 2018-20)		 GATE-2020 Joined as Project Fellow at THSTI, Delhi
10 Sanchari Chakraborty
(PG 2018-20)		 GATE-2020 Pursuing Ph.D - IIT, Mandi
11 Anusha Banerjee
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-UGC NET LS, AIR -33; 2019
GATE-XL; 2019, 2020
DBT JRF; 2020
CSIR- UGC NET JRF,
AIR - 42, 2020		 Pursuing Ph.D in Cancer Biology from CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow.
12 Priya Saha
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-NET JRF AIR 10); 2020
GATE XL 2021; WBSET 2020.		 Pursuing Ph.D at CDRI, Lucknow.
13 Samhati Bhukta
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR- UGC NET JRF,
AIR -116, 2020		 Pursuing Ph.D at NCBS-Bangalore
14 Sreemoyee Ghosh
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-NET JRF, AIR -89, 2020
GATE-XL , 2021		 Pursuing Ph.D at THSTI, Delhi
15 Monalisa Mukherjee
(PG 2017-19)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2019
ICMR-JRF, AIR-2, 2021		 Pursuing Ph.D in Breast cancer epigenomics at - NIBMG, Kalyani
16 Souporni Ghosh
(UG 2015-18)		 CSIR NET JRF Pursuing Ph.D in Neuro-immune communication in autoimmunity at NCCS, Pune
17 Samrita Mondal
(PG 2016-18)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2019 Pursuing Ph.D at DIPAS DRDO
18 Debasmita Ghosal
(PG 2015-17)		 GATE,2018;
NET-LS, 2018		 SACT - I in Dr. Kanailal Bhattacharya College
19 Jayita Roy
(PG 2015-17)		 NET- LS, 2018, 2019;
SET, 2018;
GATE, 2019 		Pursuing Ph.D AT NIBMG, Kalyani
20 Susmita Das
(PG 2015-17)		 SLET, 2017 SACT - I in Seth Anandram Jaipuria College
21 Poulami Goswami
(UG 2015-18)		 GATE, 2020 Joined as JRF in June 2021 at the Dept. of Botany, Delhi University.
22 Somdutta Paul
(UG 2014-17)		 GRE Graduate student, Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine, Darthmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
23 Oindrila Roy
(UG 2014-17)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2019 Pursuing Ph.D at the Dept. of Biochemistry, CU
24 Swati Saha
(UG 2013-16)		 GATE 2018,
GRE		 Pursuing Ph.D in Bioinformatics from University of Louisville, Kentucky.
25 Debleena Basu
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2017 Pursuing Ph.D at University Hospital, Zurich
26 Sudeshna Majumdar
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2017 Pursuing Ph.D at IISC, Bangalore
27 Priyanka De Talukdar
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2017 Pursuing Ph.D at the Dept. of Zoology, CU
28 Angira Saha
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2018
ICMR JRF, 2018		 Pursuing Ph.D at IICB, Kolkata
29 Audditiya Bandopadhyay
(UG 2013-2016)		 GATE Pursuing Ph.D in cardiovascular genetics from BHU (Genetics and Disease Genomics lab)
30 Debashruti Das
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-LS-2019 Pursuing Ph.D at BHU
31 Sukanya Ghosh
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-LS-2019
GATE-2019		 Pursuing Ph.D on Cancer Biology at CNCI
32 Priyanka Saha
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-LS-2019 Pursuing Ph.D on Cancer Immunobiology at CNCI
33 Priyanka Das
(UG 2013-2016)		 CSIR-NET JRF, 2018
GATE-2018, 2019
WBSET, 2018		 Pursuing Ph.D at ZSI

 

Student progression to higher education in percentage during the year:

Year Number of students enrolling
 into higher education		 Programme graduated from Department graduated from Name of Institution joined Name of Programme admitted to
2022 19 B.Sc. Honours Zoology University of Calcutta-3
Bethune College--2
Lady Brabourne College-3
Maulana Azad College-1
Ashutosh College-1
Vidyasagar College-3		 M.Sc. in Zoology
University of Calcutta-2 M.Sc. in Neuroscience
University of Calcutta-1 M.Sc. in Genetics
BHU-1 M. Sc. in Environmental Science
Pondicherry University-1 M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Burdwan-1 M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Human Genetics
JNP College of Education under WBUTTEPA University B.Ed in Life Science
2022   M. Sc. Zoology 19 Qualified NET - 1
Employed at ICAR-NBSS & LUP-1
Remaining preparing for
Competitive examination