The department of Microbiology was established in 1993. The department offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral degrees with an objective to generate competent man power in sundry avenues of Microbiology. The department has received support from DST under FIST programme. The department has been recognized as “Centre of Excellence” by Government of Uttar Pradesh. It is well equipped with the basic and latest facilities to carryout research in Microbiology. The trained students from the department are pursuing research at various national and international institutes including NBRI, IITR, CIMAP, KGMU, IIT, JNU, ICGEB, DRDO, BHU. Several original research papers and reviews in international journals have been published by the faculty members of the department. The faculty members have published several books and book chapters in edited books. More than10 projects have been completed by the faculty members. The department has organized four International webinars during COVID-19 pandemic and extended knowledge in the society about health and hygiene to prevent microbial infections.

The department offers a wide spectrum of experimental exposure to the students. The main aim of the department is to focus on practical learning along with the regular theory classes. The department is equipped with some advance instruments like Phase Contrast Microscope, Spectrophotometers, Refrigerated Centrifuge, Gas Chromatography, HPLC, Lyophilizer, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, PCR, Gel Doc system, FTIR, CO2 incubator, Hybridization Oven, Fermenters etc. Department has been engaged in consultancy services to the farmers and industries. In addition to research facilities the department has independent departmental library cum internet facility with sufficient number of books on subject and 10 desktop computers to support studies and research of the students in the department. Every day, the department is adding stars in its name by producing qualified students and good research, which will be extended with patents in near future.

More than 150 students from department are working as Scientist at several national research institutions of ICAR, ICMR, CSIR, DBT, professors in the Universities in India and abroad and lead personals in multinational pharmaceutical /Biotechnology companies. The department has produced several entrepreneurs who are working on their self developed startup companies and expect very good performance in near future.

Besides students, faculty members are also engaged in furtherance of research in various fields of Microbiology such as industrial, agricultural, environmental, medical, molecular biology and nanotechnology. Prof. Shailendra Kumar has received several awards from various national and international organizations for teaching and research. He has received INSA –VSP fellowship during 2019. Prof. Rajeeva Gaur also has several awards to his credit. Prof. Tuhina Verma received Eminent Scientist Award -2021 by Agro Environmental Development Society (AEDS), RampurIn5thInternational Conference on “Advances in Agriculture, Environmental and Biosciences for Sustainable Development (AAEBSD-2021)” during 05-07 August, 2021. The faculty members have recently received research funds from various funding bodies including UGC, DST, CSTUP, UPHEC-Govt. of UP