17 Jan 2020
The Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences organized a guest lecture by Dr. Shailesh Kumar, Staff Scientist II, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, on 17.01.2020 at APJ Abdul Kalam Hall, Science Block. Dr. Shailesh is an accomplished bioinformatician, published more than 40 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals. Dr. Shailesh’s talk was focused on various aspects of bioinformatics including databases, portals and methodologies. Speaker explained lucidly about different databases such as cancer drug resistance database, pancreatic cancer methylation database and Arabidopsis thaliana fusion transcript database, and Plant virus SiRNA database. He spoke about his first project (during his Ph.D.), which involved assembling of Burkholderia species SJ98 genome sequences at IMTECH, Chandigarh. He introduced the audience to a very interesting database on fusion transcripts which is useful in the diagnosis of several cancers and diseases. He answered many interesting queries on next generation sequencing techniques and discussed advantages and disadvantages of several NGS techniques. Along with the lecture, speaker spoke about career opportunities for the students in the Bioinformatics field. Over all, Dr. Shailesh kumar delivered a very inspiring talk and apprised the students about the latest development in the bioinformatics field.
