12 Mar 2022
School:Applied Sciences
Venue:Virtual mode
Date:12th May,2022
Resource Person:Dr. B. Ramalingam (Scientist ‘E’ (Deputy Director) & DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow, ICMR-NIRT).
Description:
The Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences had organized the webinar on “Exploring aspects of biotechnology research” by Dr. B. Ramalingam (Scientist ‘E’ (Deputy Director) & DBT-Ramalingaswami Fellow, ICMR-NIRT) on 12.5.2022 via virtual mode. The session started with the Introduction of resource person by Dr.R.Senthilkumar (Associate Professor, School of Applied Sciences). The students of 2nd Semester M.Sc. Biotechnology, 2nd Semester MSc. Microbial Technology and 6th semester B.Sc. BBG attended the session. The session was very informative which provided the insights of vaccination strategies aiming to how to protect viral diseases taking vaccination especially recent trends of Covid 19 vaccinations such as coviefield and covaxin and etc.,, and Pharma Industries.
The multi-dimensional prospects of biotechnology were made understood to students, enabling the efficacious application of this science domain to strengthen the Vaccination, monoclonal antibodies used as a vaccine and different type’s vaccines, medical health etc. Later the students were assigned with the task to come up with the concepts relating the applicative potential of biotechnology to intervene and solve the issues discussed. The session provided the practical understanding of vaccination to students which were a steppingstone for students to initiate the microbiology research. Lastly the session ended with the vote of thanks delivered by Prof. BR. Shilpa (Deputy Director, SOAS, REVA University).
Link for the session: https://bit.ly/3JZ8X6w
Activity Report - Webinar by Dr. B.Ramalingam
