Faculty members in the department of biology have the infrastructure and laboratory facilities necessary for research, and are highly motivated to carry out advanced research on life sciences for humanity. The information from this research is used to transform industry in Kyrgyzstan and make it more competitive.
Research in our department focuses on biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, anatomy, physiology, biotechnology, ecology, and biodiversity of microorganisms, plants and animals, and is carried out in the Biochemistry and Histology research laboratories. The Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory is still under construction.
Department of Biology at KTMU aims to establish advance infrastructure and modern laboratory facilities for providing a better undergraduate and graduate education. Laboratory trainings in our department are carried out in total 5 laboratory facilities, including a computer laboratory (80 m²). The total laboratory area of the department is about 471 m².
Our biology program at the undergraduate level offers a curriculum, which allows students to receive lectures and practical hands-on experience in combined courses. The 20 experimental training courses include General Botany, General Zoology, Informatics, Cytology, Cytogenetics, Histology, Systematics of Seedless and Seed Plants, Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Plant Physiology, Comparative Animal Anatomy, Genetics I and II, Biochemistry I and II, Human and Animal Physiology, Physiology of Nervous System, General Microbiology and Virology, Research Methods in Biology. Our educational laboratories are provided by research instruments and materials and students gain experience with applicable experiments in laboratory courses.