Conference Report
International Biological Engineering
conference at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) from March 26-28, 2017)
Conference was inaugurated
by Chief Guest:- S.S. Chandrasegaran, Johns Hopkins University after Lightening
the lamp.
Welcome
address was given by V.Ravichandiran, Director, NIPER Kolkata followed by Introduction
of iBEM by Prof. Pawan K. Dhar, SBT, JNU around 10 AM on March 26th
2017.
After
tea Keynote address was presented by:
S.S.CHANDRASEGARAN, Johns Hopkins University on topic Rewriting the
blueprint of life by synthetic genomics.
Post
lunch session was chaired by ATUL JOHRI,
SLS and AMULYA PANDA,
from National Institute of Immunology (NII).
The
main speakers were-UTTAM SURANA, IMCB,
Singapore & GUHAN JAYARAMAN, IIT Madras.
The most amazing session was panel discussion on Entrepreneurship
and Policy and session
CHAIR was SATYAPRAKASH DASH, BIRAC, New Delhi (Biotechnology
Industry Research Assistance Council)
The main panellists were MRUTUYNJAY SUAR, KIIT Bhubneshwar,
SHRIRAM RAGAVAN, Evolva Biotech, Chennai & RAVI BHOLA, K & S Partners,
Bangalore.
This session gives insight and solution for
legal and other technical aspects of Genetic Engineering based Entrepreneurships.
First day was concluded by poster presentation
at 6 PM.
Our students were having informal talks with
research scholars from different institutions.
The dinner was served near the convention centre.
Day 2-Session was started with the Keynote of BALAJI
PRAKASH, CFTRI, Mysore (Central Food Technological
Research Institute) on Designer
proteins for the synthetic cell.
Session by SIVAPRAKASH RAMALINGAM, IGIB, New
Delhi on
Targeted Genome Engineering using Programmable
Site-specific Nucleases and SHAILJA SINGH, JNU, New Delhi on Genome editing
approaches and applications in malaria was a real time examples of application
of Biotechnology to solve modern world problems.
Dr Shailja Sing
demonstrated the role of molecular players such as CDPK and Perforin like
proteins in the process of merozoites egress from host erythrocytes in her
presentation.
Session about the
Protocell:cell communication was presented by Dr. Sudha from IISER, Pune.
Last session of the day was on CRISPR/Cas9 based genome editing tool box and
it was over by 6 PM.
Post dinner we had a long walk in JNU Campus
escorted by Ankita and refreshed by Mango shake in JNU.
DAY 3
TUESDAY, MARCH28, 2017-
Last day
of Conference was started with TUTORIAL by VIKRAM SINGH from CUHP, Dharamshala
on Designing gates and networks .This session was very difficult for us to
understand designing different circuits to mimic the biological systems.
We went to visit Centre for Nano science to see
working of PCR ,Gel electrophoresis and JNU library.
iGEM [International Genetically Engineered
Machines] session were chaired by ANDREW M. LYNN, SCIS and VIBHA TANDON, SCMM.
A short
session on robotics- use of artificial intelligence along with 3D-printer was
presented.
Finally conference was ended with Valedictory
session and vote of thanks by Dr.SHAILJA SINGH from SCMM JNU, Dr. Ravichandrian from NIPER, PAWAN K. DHAR
of SBT,JNU.
Learnings-
How research is going on in the field of synthetic
Biology.
Scientific paper presentation skill.
Open discussions on research.
Interaction with Scientists & post Doc.
research scholars.
Glimpse of
JNU Culture.
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