The students of 4 semester MSc Biotechnology were taken for a research lab tour by Dr Suma S and Dr Biljo V Joseph to Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Trivandrum and Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute, Palode in Kerala. The students were taken to different research labs and instrumentation labs in RGCB and JNTBGRI and the scientists briefed them on the mandates of the lab (Infectious diseases biology, Cancer Biology, Micropropagation, Plant Molecular Biology etc) and the uses of the sophisticated instruments.