27 Sep 2019
Report on the Interdisciplinary Research avenues
Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences
Venue: Junjappa Seminar Hall, Science block.
Date: 27-9-2019
The presentation on “Interdisciplinary Research Avenues: Science (Biotech) and Technology (Engineering) Disciplines" was arranged by Dr. Divakar, Dean and Dr. Viswanath deputy dean Research and Innovation Council. Dr. Divakar, Dean, Research and Innovation Council, Inaugurated the presentation.
The talk was delivered on the importance of interdisciplinary research to cater the scientific needs of the modern day world. Resource person Dr. Raje Siddiraju Upendra, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences, gave an insightful presentation on the need, challenges, thrust research areas and possible avenues of interdisciplinary outcome based collaborations research between streams of Biotechnology with other Engineering disciplines. The forum was opened for the discussion and the Dr. Raje Siddiraju Upendra invited Professor Renuka Madhu, Incharge, Department of Biotechnology and Prof. Prashantha, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology to join for the discussion with the forum and Prof. Prashantha shared his research potentials (Computational Biology) in regards to collaborative research opportunities. At the end of presentation the forum discussed about the possible opportunities and thrust research venues for progressive collaborations and the Associate dean and the Dean Research and innovations council were decided to take this forwarded within the dead line of couple of weeks.