Faculty Training
Training workshop on HPTLC was organized on 5th March 2022 and 19th March 2022 at Anchrom Enterprises Pvt Ltd. 16 Teachers from various colleges actively participated in workshop. The session was divided into presentation and demonstration of sample analysis using HPTLC.

Skill development
Department also conducted 2 hands on student’s training workshop on ‘16s-rRNA isolation’ and ‘ELISA’ on 8th March 2022 and 22nd March 2022 respectively. The students beneficiaries for the event were around 90 and 60 respectively.

Entrepreneurship Development
SY biotechnology students participated in an event on Unique products for entrepreneurship paper on 17/2/23. They made unique and useful products from the waste and laboratory equipments.

Industrial Visit II
An industrial visit to Lucknow-Nainital was arranged in the month of February 2024 for 6 days for 73 students along with 4 teachers from the departments of Biotechnology and Microbiology, The students got an opportunity to explore institutes such as IITR, Biotech park, CSIR-CDRI, Jim corbet museum etc.

Industrial Visit I
An industrial visit to Hyderabad was arranged in the month of January 2023 for 4 days for 92 students along with 5 teachers from the departments of Biotechnology and Microbiology, The students got an opportunity to explore institutes such as NIPER, CDFD,ICRISAT etc.

Seminar
Career-Counselling for studies in abroad’ session for all the students of Microbiology and Biotechnology was conducted by SI-UK company on 9/3/23.

Outreach Activity III
TY biotechnology students were taken to show the National Burns Center on 16/03/23 to Airoli, Navi Mumbai

Outreach Activity II
Departmental annual event Inspirus-23 was held on 1st March 2023. Undergraduate students of the department presented their innovative ideas in poster Competition. Around 30 students participated. This year along with Inspirus there were other events also such as Z-maze and Bio-Jam organized by the department in collaboration with microbiology department.

Outreach Activity I
TY biotechnology students were taken to visit the Open Day at UM-DAE at Center for
Excellence in Basic Sciences in University of Mumbai on 26/08/22.

SCINAPSE CLUB
SciCodE began in 2018 as an ambitious prospect by our esteemed visionary, Dr. Hemlata K. Bagla, Vice Chancellor of HSNC University. SciCodE#23 reflects the success of this endeavour as it shines bright today, under the organising committee- SCINAPSE CLUB of K.C College, represented by the Biotechnology and Microbiology departments collectively. It provides a platform for multifaceted events, where participants showcase their skills, talents, engrossing in a healthy competition that promotes growth and positivity.

Outreach Activity II
Inspirus’19, an intercollegiate poster presentation event organized for the F.Y.B.Sc students, to ignite innovation and moral science in young and novice researchers.

Outreach Activity I
The S.Y.B.Sc students (17) volunteered to make posters on topics of genetically modified crops, pollution and environment, and transgenic animals and present those to the students of S L & S S Girls’ High School (Kamlabai High School) to spread awareness on science and technology under the incharge of Ms. Prachi Bhatia (23rd December, 2019).

Field Visit II
The T.Y.B.Sc (37) and S.Y.B.Sc (29) students visited the Common Effluent Treatment Plant, MIDC, Kopar Khairane, to observe the different waste water treatment procedures under the in charge of Ms. Prachi Bhatia and Ms. Neha Manoti (7th December, 2019).

Field Visit I
The T.Y.B.Sc students (10) were invited for ACTREC’s Open day and given a tour of Tata Memorial Centre’s research labs under the incharge of Ms. Hajra Gupta (29th November, 2019).

Skill Development Program
The Departments of Biotechnology & Microbiology jointly organized a Three day Workshop on ‘Molecular and Immunological Diagnostic Techniques’ sponsored by Lady Tata Memorial Trust that witnessed S.Y.B.Sc student participation in hands on training in molecular biology techniques (10-12th July, 2019).

Faculty Development ProgramThe Departments of Biotechnology & Microbiology jointly organized a Three day Workshop on ‘Molecular and Immunological Diagnostic Techniques’ sponsored by Lady Tata Memorial Trust (10-12th July, 2019).

Entrepreneurship Development Program
The S.Y.B.Sc students (34) developed innovative useful products from waste and discarded items with the application of emerging simple science under the in charge of Ms. Hajra Gupta and Ms. Kulvinder Kaur.

Seminars
The department organized two talks from eminent scientists and experts in their field on Neuronal Crosstalk during Development by Dr. Shubha Tole. Neuroscientist, TIFR; and on Scientific Writing by Ms. Mugdha Ambatkar, Academic Editor, Scholarly Editing and Translation Services Pvt Ltd.

Faculty Training
Assistant Professors of the department, Ms. Hajra Gupta and Ms. Richa Shah, participated in a two day workshop on Gender and Science.