Infrastructure Facilities

Animal House Facility
DRL, Tezpur has a well-maintained Animal House Facility, housing four species of animals, namely Swiss Albino Mice (Mus musculus), Wistar Rats (Rattus norvegicus), English Guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and New Zealand White Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). It is registered with the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), under the Prevention of Cruelty to the Animals Act, 1960 (Chapter 4, Sec.15-1). The laboratory has a CPCSEA approved standing Institutional Animal Ethical Committee (IAEC). The committee conducts regular meetings as per CPCSEA guidelines.

Plant Tissue and Algal Culture Facility
This facility is meant for in vitro cultures of plants and microalgae under controlled condition for their optimum growth. The growth condition is maintained at 25±2°C with a photoperiodic light and dark cycle of 16: 08 hours. It also has facility for cell suspension cultures for production of secondary metabolites.

Mosquito Rearing and Bioassay Facility
The Entomology section has a well-maintained mosquito rearing and bioassay facility in which all developmental stages of Anopheles, Culex and Aedes mosquitoes are being reared at ambient temperature and humidity for experimental purpose. The larvae are used for evaluating the efficacy of natural or synthetic larvicides, whereas the adult females are used for evaluating mosquito repellents or other mosquito control agents.

Inoculums generation facility for DRDO Biodigester.
DRL has developed quality anaerobic microbial consortium containing bacteria for use in the DRDO Biodigester system, a technology for human waste degradation at different climates and situations. This facility is used to develop and maintain quality microbial consortium which are required for generation of inoculum for DRDO Biodigester.

DRL has a R&D Centre at Salari in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh. It is located in the mid hills at an altitude of 3500 feet above MSL.

DRL has a R&D Centre at Tawang in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, located at an altitude of 10000 feet above MSL. The detachment has facilities for field trialfor DRL developed technologies. Besides DRL, other sister DRDO laboratories are also involved in research activities in this centre.

Instrumentation Facilities

1. Upright Fluorescent Microscope
2. Inverted Fluorescent Microscope
3. Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
4. Gas Chromatography- Mass Spectroscopy
5. Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy
6. In-Vivo Imaging
7. Accelerated Solvent Extractor
8. High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography
9. Nano-pore Sequencer
10. BMP Analyser
11. UV visible spectrophotometer
12. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer
13. Gas Chromatography

Infrastructure Facilities

• Mosquito culture facility
• Animal House
• Inoculums generation facility for Biotank cum reed bed system.
• Plant Tissue & Algal culture facility
• Water quality testing facility
• Fully equipped molecular biology laboratories for handling DNA/RNA/Protein works
• Experimental field for R&D  at DRL R&D Centers Tawang and Salari, Arunachal Pradesh

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