A talk by Pankaj Sekhsaria on his new book 'Instrumental Lives - an intimate biography of an Indian laboratory'
]]>A talk by Pankaj Sekhsaria on his new book 'Instrumental Lives - an intimate biography of an Indian laboratory'
]]>This webinar is the second of the 'Science Policy 101' series from the Science Policy Forum (SPF)
In this second webinar of the ‘Science Policy 101’ series, we will walk-through the history of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in India so far. We will also learn about each of their highlights, and significant outcomes.
Date & Time: Wednesday, 27th November 2019 | 3 PM - 4 PM
]]>The focus of this meeting is to bring amyloid researchers of India together to share their research in the areas of amyloid disease diagnosis, mechanism of amyloid formation, drug discovery and using amyloid for material design.
For more information click here.
]]>Leaving academia for the private sector can be confusing and frustrating for many PhDs. How should you prepare differently for a private sector job? How might employers perceive your PhD? More importantly, how can use your superb education as an advantage in the search process?
Leaving academia for the private sector can be confusing and frustrating for many PhDs. How should you prepare differently for a private sector job? How might employers perceive your PhD? More importantly, how can use your superb education as an advantage in the search process?
Dr Angela Murphy turned an English PhD into a successful career at a leading financial technology company. In this webinar, Angela will de-mystify the job search process by sharing her own experiences and insights on private sector employers, including how to best prepare and leverage your skills to find meaningful work.
There are many non-traditional pathways to success. Dr Murphy’s story is one of them.
Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, a premier institution for higher learning in Mumbai is organising an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PLANT BIOFACTORIES: STRATEGIES & CHALLENGES (PBSC 2019) on 19th, 20th and 21st DECEMBER 2019. The Conference is being organized in association with the SOCIETY FOR PLANT RESEARCH (VEGETOS), New Delhi. The conference has been planned as an international platform in the Indian subcontinent region to foster global exchange of innovative ideas and technologies in harnessing the bio-synthetic capabilities of green plants.
Green plants form the resource base for all life forms on this planet and their unique biology make them the most abundant primary producers on earth. Today, the pressing needs to conserve fossil fuels and to utilize natural resources sustainably, has made us look back to the plant kingdom for more viable alternatives. With advanced techniques in molecular biology and biotechnology, scientists are also exploring novel means to address issues of environment and human health. Industries are eager to imbibe technologies which are more environment friendly and use resources more sustainably. Thus, to enable exchange of ideas and experiences, an international conference can enable a global platform that would encourage scientists to share results and also attract industries who could showcase their latest technologies.
The International conference on PLANT BIOFACTORIES: STRATEGIES & CHALLENGES (PBSC – 2019) has been planned as an international platform in the Indian subcontinent region to foster global exchange of innovative ideas and technologies in harnessing the bio-synthetic capabilities of green plants. The conference is being organized by the S.P. MANDALI'S RAMNARAIN RUIA AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, MUMBAI, in Association with SOCIETY FOR PLANT RESEARCH (VEGETOS). The deliberations at the conference will encourage interdisciplinary approach to alternative energy resources, sustainability and improvement of food resources, plant based medicines with technologies that will enable harnessing the synthetic power of green plants. This international conference would result in a confluence of scientists, industry representatives and decision makers where not only ideas will be exchanged but also new collaborations will emerge for solving pressing issues of environment, health and wellbeing which have more global implications.
Key Areas:
· Algal Biotechnology
· Phyto-microbial technologies
· Plants as Bioreactors
· Agri-based Processing Technologies
]]>Machine Learning For Science
Symposium and Discussion Meeting
29 - 30 November, 2019, IIIT Hyderabad
Tutorials and hands-on sessions
01 December, 2019, IIIT Hyderabad
Organized by
International Institute of Information Technology
Hyderabad, INDIA
Machine Learning methods have several prominent successes in various areas of science research in recent times, leading to an outlook that these methods will become significantly important research tools. This meeting aims to bring together researchers the areas of machine learning and natural sciences for discussions and brainstorming. The meeting will consist of two keynote talks, short invited talks by scientists who are working in the area of ML applied to natural sciences and two tutorial style talks by experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The organizing committee is pleased to invite researchers working/planning to work in the interface of machine learning and physics, chemistry & biology.
For more information click here.
]]>Evolution is the underlying framework that unites the various sub-disciplines of biology across all scales, from molecules to ecosystems. Importantly, Evolutionary Biology in the 21st Century informs in critical ways issues of central societal relevance, such as those concerning human health or the current biodiversity crisis. These problems affect the whole of humanity, and therefore, there is a growing recognition that the effort to tackle them also needs to unite scientists and experts from all over the world.
Switzerland has become a major force in research in evolutionary biology over the last two decades and has attracted some of the most well-known names from all over the world. The Indian research community is evolutionary biology is much smaller, but also vibrant, and has been making steady contributions to the field. Therefore, a coming together of experts from these two countries, is not only expected to benefit the respective communities, but will also give a boost to the field in general.
With this purpose in mind, evolutionary biologists of the two countries formed an informal group to promote the organization of joint conferences between scientists from the two countries. In 2018, six Indian evolutionary biologists visited University of Zurich to take part in the first Indo-Swiss collaboration primer in evolution and ecology. The aim was to promote both exchange of scientific ideas, as well as promote collaborations among the two groups of scientists. "ISEB2: Indo-Swiss Meeting on Evolutionary Biology" is the Indian counter-part to the previous meeting.
For more information click here.
Open Access seeks to return scholarly publishing to its original purpose: to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon. Price barriers should not prevent students, researchers (or anyone) from getting access to research they need. Open Access, and the open availability and searchability of scholarly research that it entails, will have a significant positive impact on everything from education to the practice of medicine to the ability of entrepreneurs to innovate.
International Open Access Week [www.openaccessweek.org] (October 21-27, 2019) is a global, community-driven week of action to open access to research and knowledge in general. The event is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations across the world and its organization is led by a global advisory committee. This is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress to build more equitable foundations for opening knowledge.
This event is jointly organized by the Centre for Society and Policy, the DST-Centre for Policy Research and JRD Tata Memorial Library at IISc.
Kindly, RSVP here: https://bit.ly/2J753Mt
Click here for more information.
]]>Computer models are increasingly used by researchers as well as the pharmaceutical industry to investigate disease initiation, progression and therapy. Modelling of biochemical pathways deregulated in disease condition offers mechanistic insights into the pathology; helps to elucidate mechanisms behind dug action and predict dose required for treatment and thereby greatly facilitates fundamental research and drug discovery. Such modelling requires a background in both molecular biology and mathematics.
Registration fee: Student/Postdoc ₹2,500 / Faculty ₹5,000 / Industry ₹10,000
The four days workshop will train researchers from life science and mathematics to communicate and work together to learn to build and analyse computer models using user-friendly open-source software. The workshop will be jointly organised by EBI and Indian Institute of
Technology Madras (IITM; https://www.iitm.ac.in/), more specifically, BioModels team from EBI along with Initiative for Biological Systems Engineering (IBSE; https://ibse.iitm.ac.in/) and Robert Bosch Centre for Data Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI; https://rbcdsai.iitm.ac.in/)
from IITM. This national-level workshop will be organised locally at IITM. Various modelling approaches and tools will be introduced to the participants. They will explore a few of the disease-specific computer models from a recent publication, freely available in BioModels
repository (//www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels/).
For more details check here.
Join Dr. Mohammad Aslam in the fourth instalment of the interactive webinar series from the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India. This webinar will be on DBT's competitive grants systems.
These webinars are conducted with the aim to promote Biotechnology by reaching out to a larger audience. This includes students, young researchers and scientists from across the country especially those from the remote regions. The webinars will provide a virtual opportunity to engage, stimulate interaction and apprise the scientific community of not only the latest schemes and programmes of the department and also keep them abreast of current research trends by domain experts.
Join the first of the three part webinar series on "Science Policy 101", from the Science Policy Forum - a collaborative platform by IndiaBioscience, DST-Centre for Policy Research, Bangalore and Future Earth, South Asia.
]]>The Centre for Climate Change Studies at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai is organizing a 3-day training course on "Intertidal Ecology and Climate Change - IECC 2019" between 11 to 13th of December 2019.
Course Overview
This field course (first of its kind in India) consists of 25 hours of rigorous training to learn anything and everything about intertidal ecology, and climate change Through this course, we intended to introduce subjects including dynamic intertidal ecosystem, its types, flora and fauna diversity and their identification, climate change and its consequences ocean acidification, warming, sea level rise, etc We will also provide demo as well as hands on training sessions on sampling strategies ( quadrats, sieve, and plankton net), physico chemical parameter measurements, morphological and molecular identification of common organisms, guide to best practices for climate change experiments with intertidal organisms (including in situ and laboratory based experiments using pH computers and thermostats) Intended learning.
For more information about the course please go through the brochure here.
Download registration form here.
The graduate student fraternity of Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer (ACTREC) organises an annual conference, the National Research Scholars Meet in Life Sciences (NRSM) which stands for the motto “by the students, for the students”.
The conference aims to promote a robust research network across the country and has successfully gathered popularity and prestige among the student community from diverse fields of biological sciences since its inception in 2005. Over the years, NRSM has involved scientists and research scholars from different areas of life sciences to discuss and brainstorm new ideas concerning their scientific interests. It helps to bridge the gap and foster the dynamics between the faculty and the student communities, thereby promoting scientific growth. Government agencies and private companies have generously funded our event.
The NRSM is now stepping into its 15th year. This year, through the theme “Need of the hour: To seek new doors or knock the ones in sight”, NRSM aims to provide a unique platform where scientific community and clinicians belonging to Cancer and Infectious disease biology to have talks, debate, and discussion on whether we as scientist should ask new questions based on curiosity or delve deeper into the already existing problems in the society.
Read more here.
“Accelerator program for Discovery in Brain disorders using Stem cells” (ADBS) and “Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology” (IBAB) organizes a 3-day Workshop on Genome/Transcriptome Sequence Analysis. The main focus of the workshop will be on variant calling, population genomics and differential gene expression analysis.
Participants will be given complete hands-on experience on the tools used to analyze the data. Invited lectures from experts in the field of genomics will be a part of the workshop.
Date: November 13th-15th, 2019
Venue: Raspuri, NCBS, Bangalore
Who can apply: The training program is primarily targeted to post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D students, SRFs and JRFs who wish to employ genetic variants and/or differential transcriptome to understand human diseases.
Selection procedure: An expert committee will screen the applications and the selection is based on qualification, prior experience and a statement on the requirement of expertise from this training program for ongoing research and future prospects.
How to apply: Please apply via the Google form at the link below
The deadline for the receipt of complete application is 18th Oct, 2019. Incomplete applications will not be processed for selection.
There is no registration fees for the workshop. Accommodation will be provided for all selected candidates.
For poster: Click here
For further queries, please write to us at: adbs@ncbs.res.in
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