BioTechnology
Events and Seminars
Guest Lectures:
The educational strategy of using guest lectures is expected to enhance our students’ learning experience by providing current and relevant examples of the practical applications of theory. They also enrich students’ knowledge with the latest updates of the Industrial technicalities. In order to achieve this department organizes such informative guest lectures on regular basis. Department has organized more than 50 guest lectures so far.
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Sl. No |
Date |
Title of the Guest Lecture |
Resource Person |
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1. |
21-04-2025 |
Cutting Edge Technologies in Molecular Biology |
Prof. Dr. M.S. Reddy and Dr. Surendra Nath from MC Biosciences, Bangalore |
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2. |
16-04-2025 |
Bioinnovate: Design Thinking for Future Biotech Leaders |
Dr. Pratima Khandelwal |
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3. |
18-03-2025 |
Start-Up Opportunities for Biotechnology Engineers in AI and Machine Learning |
Mr. Mohammed Aamid |
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4. |
18-02-2025 |
Process of Innovation Development, Technology Readiness Level (TRL) |
Mr. Prakash & Mr. Sagar Krishna |
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5. |
19-02-2025 |
Data Scientist at Mercedes Benz, Bangalore, deliveed a lecture on "National Start-Up Day |
Mr. Mohammed Aamid |
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6. |
14-12-2024 |
Design Thinking & Critical Thinking on Molecular Docking and Dynamics |
Dr. Vivek Chandramohan |
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7. |
11-12-2024 |
Design Thinking for Shaping the Future of Higher Education in Biotechnology |
Mrs. Vivienne Fernando |
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8. |
20-11-2024 |
Basics of Intellectual Property Rights and Its Importance for Innovators and Entrepreneurs |
Mr. Revanth Diwakar |
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9. |
12-11-2024 |
NEXGEN JOBS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS |
Dr. Rajani Kanth Vangala |
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10. |
25-09-2024 |
Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey from Ideation to Sustained Success |
Mr. Aniruddha Maram |
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11. |
19-09-2024 |
"Biotechnology Unleashed: Exploring the Cutting-Edge Trends Shaping the Future |
Dr. Veeranna |
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12. |
04-06-2024 |
Startup Opportunity In Biopython |
Dr Vivek Chandramohan |
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13. |
31-05-2024 |
Innovative Ideas For Prototype Conversion From TRL 4 – TRL 9 |
Dr. P. Bindhu Madhavi |
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14. |
30-04-2024 |
Workshop on “Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and IP Management for Start Up |
Dr Mary Mangayarkarasi |
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15. |
27-04-2024 |
Celebrated World Intellectual Property Day |
Dr. Manjunath B K & Dr. Valarmathy |
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16. |
28-03-2024 |
Entrepreneurship opportunities in IPR |
Dr Mary |
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17. |
16-02-2024 |
R& D Innovation in Clinical Genomics |
Dr Vivek Chandramohan |
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18. |
14-02-2024 |
StartUp Journey of Synbioworks in “Accelerating Vaccine Development through Synthetic Biology Strategies” |
Dr Ajay |
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19. |
05-02-2024 |
RND Innovations in Next Generation Sequencing |
Dr. Viswanathan. C |
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20. |
17-01-2024 |
Celebration of National Start Up Day |
Mr. Anand Kannan |
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21.
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28-11-2023 |
My Story – Motivational Session By Successful Entrepreneur/Start-Up Founder |
Dr. Nidhin Sreekumar |
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22. |
25-11-2023 |
Bioethics, biosafety, and intellectual property rights (IPR) |
Dr. RamGopal Varma |
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23. |
18-11-2023 |
Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Sericulture Byproduct Utilization |
Mr. Sangappa Shallin |
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24. |
31-07-2023 |
Workshop on Fermentation Technology |
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25. |
24-07-2023 |
Know Your Intellectual Property Series-2 |
Dr. Kapil Arya |
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26. |
27-04-2023 |
Prospecting Medicinal And Aromatic Plants For Human Well-Being And Enterprises. |
Dr. V. Sundaresan Principal Scientist CSIR-Central Institute of Medical and Aromatic Plants, Research Center, Bengaluru. |
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27. |
21-04-2023 |
Intellectual Property Rights And IP Management For Start Ups |
Smt. Prabhavathi Rao Facilitator-IP Initiatives Visvesvaraya Trade Promotion Centre Department of Industries & Commerce Govt of Karnatake Smt. Soumya Shree Associate Partner and Head Altacit Global Bengluru |
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28. |
25-02-2023 |
Innovation Approaches To Silk As a Biomaterials |
Mr. S A Hipparagi RTD. Scientist Central Silk Board Mr. V H Maharaddi RTD. Scientist & Registrar Karnataka state Sericulture Research and Development |
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29. |
24-02-2023 |
Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) & Patents and Design Filing |
Dr.Bharat N Suryawanshi Assistant. Controller of Patents & Designs, RGNIIPM Nagpur. |
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30.
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16-02-2023-17-02-2023 |
Innovation and Design Thinking for Environment Sustainability |
Dr.SreenivasaRao Amaraneni Professor,Department of Chemistry,Dayananda Sagar University,Banglore. Dr. Kumudini Ravindra Chief Mentor & Business Transformation Consultant and CSO & Co-Founder,Inytu Inc Smt. Girija Sriram IP specialist,Patent Attorney and Founder IPaatEntiti IP, Banglore Dr. Vivekanand Mishra Professor,Department of Science, Alliance University,Banglore. |
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31 |
11-02-2023 |
Medical Health Care |
Dr. N. Sriraam Professor, Dept.of Medical Electronics Engineering, M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology Dr. Roshan Joy Martis |
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32 |
02-02-2023 |
Organic Waste Management – Circular Economy Perspective |
Sri.Dinesh D Rao Founder & MD One Hop Organics Pvt Ltd & Earth First Solution. |
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33 |
09-12-2022 |
Medical Coding |
Ms.Saimara Kaur Managing Director,Afitech,Banglore |
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34 |
02-12-2022 |
Funding opportunities in department of Scientific and Industrial Research |
Dr.Sujata Chaklanobis Scientists G and head-CRTDM Dr.M.S. Shashi Kumar Scientists E,DSIR,GoI |
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35 |
05-11-2022 |
Clinical Trials Narrative |
Mr.Sidharth A Clinical Trail Specialist, Atara Biotherapeutics, California.US |
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36 |
15-07-2022 |
Entrepreneurship Awareness on Converting Agricultural Residues into Bioproducts as Replacement for Plastics |
Dr. Narendra Reddy Professor, Centre for Incubation Innovation,Jyothy Institute of Technology, Banglore. |
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37 |
22-07-2022 |
Entrepreneurship opportunities in Coffee Value Chain |
Ms. Akanksha Guptha Founder & CEO, BerryCo, Bangalore.
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38 |
12-04-2022 |
Accelerators/Incubation – Opportunities for Students and Faculties – Early-Stage Entrepreneurship |
Dr. Anu Appiah K A |
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39 |
04-02-2022 |
Patent Awareness Program |
Mr. Abhishek Singh Dr. Sharan Gouda |
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40 |
04-02-2022 |
Startup and Innovation: Karnataka Biotechnology Policy for Leveraging Government – Industry – Academia Collaboration to Promote the Sector |
Dr. Balasubramanium |
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41 |
13-01-2022 |
BIG Awareness and A Virtual Field Trip to Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre |
Dr. Mary Mangaiyakarasi Ms. Harshitha Choudary |
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42 |
04-01-2022 |
Copyright, Industrial designs and Trademark 1. Intellectual property rights 2. Copyright, Industrial designs and Trademark |
Dr. Prabhavathi Rao Dr. Farah Deeba |
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43 |
26-11-2021 |
Panel Discussion on Atmanirbhar Bharat-Vocal for Local, Make in India for the World |
Col. B. Venkat |
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44 |
25-11-2021 |
My story –Motivational Session by Successful Innovators |
Mr. Sunil Jose |
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45 |
18-11-2021 |
Patent Databases and Prior Art Search |
Dr. Sarasija Padmanabhan |
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46 |
17-11-2021 |
Geographical Indications: A Significant Property Tool Impacting the Grass roots |
Dr. Nandhini Dholepat |
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47 |
17-11-2021 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation as career Opportunities |
Dr. Vivek Mishra |
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48 |
10-11-2021 |
Snake Venom Toxicity & Management |
Dr. Srimathi R |
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49 |
05-11-2021 |
Orientation Session on National Education Policy |
Dr. H. S. Ravikumar Patil |
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50 |
22-10-2021 |
My story –Motivational Session by Successful Entrepreneurs/Startup Founder |
Dr. Basavarj Giriyannavar |
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51 |
05-10-2021 |
Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop |
Dr. Sarasija Padmanabhan |
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52 |
18-08-2021 |
BIG Awareness programme 1.Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre 2. Innovation and startup ecosystem at IIT Delhi |
Dr. Mary Mangaiyakarasi Ms. Sankriti Pawan |
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53 |
13-08-2021 |
Building Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem |
Dr. Manpreet Singh Manna |
Faculty Development Programs:
Department organizes FDP programs to assist up-gradation of skill and knowledge of faculty members towards new concepts, methods and techniques, pedagogy educational technology and other relevant issues to keep pace with the changing scenario in Technical Education. It will also serve as a plat form to bring Researchers, Academia and Technocrats from different parts of the country to a common gathering for exchanging and sharing the recent developments in the field of Biotechnology.
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
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S.NO |
DETAILS OF THE FDPs ORGANIZED |
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1. |
Organized Phase 1-AICTE sponsored FDP on Bioinnovation Patenting and Entrepreneurship oppurtunities in Biotechnology for sustainable environment from "15 to 26th February 2021 |
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2. |
Organized Phase 2-AICTE sponsored FDP on Bioinnovation Patenting and Entrepreneurship oppurtunities in Biotechnology for sustainable environment from " 8th to 20th March 2021. |
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3. |
Organized two days AICTE sponsored FDP on Bioinnovation Patenting and Entreprenuership oppurtunities in Biotechnology for sustainable environment from from 29th to 30th March 2021. |
SHORT TERM TRAING PROGRAMMES ORGANIZED
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Sl.NO |
DETAILS OF THE FDPs ORGANIZED |
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Organized Phase-1AICTE Sponsored One Week short Term training Programme (STTP) on “Startup driven Bioinnovation and IOT for Sustainable Agritech’’ from 23rd August to 28th August 2021 |
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2. |
OrganizedPhase-2 AICTE Sponsored One Week short Term training Programme (STTP) on “Startup driven Bioinnovation and IOT for Sustainable Agritech’’ from 20th September to 25th September 2021 |
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3. |
Organized Phase-3 AICTE Sponsored One Week short Term training Programme (STTP) on “Startup driven Bioinnovation and IOT for Sustainable Agritech’’ from 13th December to 18th December 2021 |
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4. |
Organized Phase-4 AICTE Sponsored One Week short Term training Programme (STTP) on “Startup driven Bioinnovation and IOT for Sustainable Agritech’’ from 20th December to 27th December 2021 |
Value Added / Career Oriented Technical Training Programs:
In order to improve the technical skills of the students, department will conduct the technical training programs regularly
| Sl. No. | Module Description | Contributory Industry | Date | Resource Persons |
| 1 | R Proghramming and Biopython for Biologist | Sciomics, Bengaluru | 4th & 4th March ’ 2024 | Mr.Vivek Chandra Mohan,CEO,Sciomics, Bengaluru |
| 2 | R & D Innovation in Clinical Genomics | Sciomics, Bengaluru | 4th & 19th Feb ’ 2024 | Mr.Vivek Chandra Mohan,CEO,Sciomics, Bengaluru |
| 3 | Intellectual Property Rights | Sciomics, Bengaluru | 13th-29th & JulyFeb ’ 2023 | Dr.Pavankumar, Dr.Lipika, MrNagrjunn |
| 4 | Binding affinity and ADMET in drug discovery and candidate selection | Zastra Innovations, Bengaluru | 4th & 5th April’ 18 | Girinath G Pillai, CEO, Zastra Innovations Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru |
| 5 | Genomic Informatics | Bionivid Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru | 27th-28th October 2017 | Mr. Avinash Dhar, Bionivid Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru |
BIOXFORUM Activities
Industry-Academia Interaction
The Department provides techno-platform for the students and faculty to upgrade their technical skills and to augment their knowledge domain in the cutting edge technologies by inviting Industry experts, Scientists & Entrepreneurs and providing a platform to interact. The Department regularly conducts Expert lectures and Webinars. Expert lectures/Webinars is expected to enhance our students’ learning experience by providing current and relevant examples of the practical applications of theory. It also enriches students’ knowledge with the latest updates of the Industrial technicalities, more than 200 domain experts across the globe visited the Department and shared their domain knowledge.
WEBINARS
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S.NO |
DETAILS OF THE WEBINARS ORGANIZED |
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A webinar lecture series 1 was organized by the Department on “Drug Discovery in SARS CoV2 Targets” by Dr. Girinath G Pillai, Zastra Innovations, Bengaluru, on 18th June, 2020 |
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2. |
A webinar lecture series 2 was organized by the Department on “Generations of Biofuels and future challenges: Is Algae the Biofuel of the future” by Dr.Kishore G, Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne state University, Detroit, USA 6th July, 2020. |
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3. |
A webinar lecture series 3 was organized by the Department on “Clinical trials & Clinical Data Management” by Mrs. Tanuja T, clinical data lead, ICON clinical research India pvt ltd, Bengaluru on 25th July, 2020. |
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4. |
A webinar lecture series 4 using online platform was organized by the Department on “A Candidate Multi-epitope vaccine against SARS-Cov-2” by Dr.AnuragSrivatsav, professor from Garden City University, Bengaluru on 28th July 2020. |
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5. |
A webinar lecture series 5 was delivered by Mr. Abdul Waheed Alumnus of the Department on the topic “Upstream Process Development- Best Practices in Scale Up & Tech transfer” MSAT-Associate manager, Biocon Biologics India LTD, Bengaluru on 29th July 2020. |
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6. |
A webinar series 6 lecture was organized by the Department on “Research and funding Opportunities in AICTE with respect to New Education Policy of India” by Dr. Manpreet Singh Manna, Former Director AICTE ,New Delhi and Associate Professor,SLIET, LONGOWAL(University by MoE on 5th November 2020 |
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7. |
A 5-days international virtual symposium on “An Insight to Biotechnological Applications” was organized by the Department from 5th to 10th August 2020. |
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8. |
Expert talk on "Career Prospectus in the Context of Covid-19 Outbreak" was organized by the Department of Biotechnology on 22nd may 2021 |
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9. |
Organized webinar series on "Know Your Intellectual Property rights" on the Occasion of world IPR day from 26th to 30th April 2022 |
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10. |
Organized a technical talk by Final year students as a series during the period May – June’2021 under Biox Forum in association with IEEE student chapter |
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11. |
Organized TOCE-BT-Alumni webinar series-2 on “Cutting edge technologies in Biotechnolgy” on 21st and 22nd June 2021 |
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12. |
Organized TOCE-BT-Alumni webinar series-3 on “Cutting edge technologies in Biotechnolgy” on 25th and 26th June 2021 |
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13. |
Organized two days webinar on “Research and Career in Life sciences:A Technical Outlook:” on 1st and 2nd July 2021 |
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14. |
Organized a webinar on “Career opportunities in Biotech Sector” on 8th July 2021 under NCSEM-2K21 |
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15. |
Organized a webinar on “3D Bioprinting Applications and its Career” on 9th July 2021 under NCSEM-2K21 |
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16. |
Organized one day workshop on Copyright,Industrial designs and Trademark” on 4th January 2022 in association with VTPC and IIC
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17. |
Organized Webinar on “Geographical Indications :A Significnat Property tool Impacting the Grass roots on 17th Novemeber 2021 for 66th Kannada Rajyotsava Celebrations in association with The Oxford KSCST VTPC Centre for Patent & Technology Transfer and VTPC,Govt.of Karnataka |
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18. |
Organized One day Workshop on “Patent Databases and Prior Art Search “ on 18th November 2021 in association with The Oxford KSCST VTPC Centre for Patent & Technology Transfer . |
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19. |
Organized an expert lecture on ““SNAKE VENOM TOXICITY; MANAGEMENT” on 10th November 2021 by Dr.Srimathy,Research Scientist,IISC |
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20. |
Organized webnar on “Entrepreneurship and Innovation as career Opportunities “ on 17th November 2021 by Dr.Vivek Mishra ,Co founder and Director,Fibroheal |
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21. |
Organized Webinar on “My story –Motivational Session by Successful Innovators” on 25th November 2021 by Mr.Suni Jose ,Managing Partenr, Hydroblooms |
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22. |
Organized Webinar on “My story –Motivational Session by Successful Entrepreneurs/Startup Founder” on 22nd October 2021 by Dr. Basavarj Girivannvar ,Managing Director, Cryagene |
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23. |
Organized Webinar on” Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop” by Dr.Sarsija Padmanaban,IP specialist on 5th October 2021 |
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24. |
Organized Webinar on “Panel Discussion on Atmanirbhar Bharat-Vocal for Local,Make in Inida for the World” on 26h Nov 2021 by Col.B. Venkat, Director,FDC ,AICTE |
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25. |
Organized Webinar on “National Education Policy” on 5th November 2021 by Dr.Ravikumar Patil H.S, Chairman, Dept of Food Technology, Davangare University |
International virtual symposium
A 5-days international virtual symposium on “An Insight to Biotechnological Applications” was organized by the Department from 5th to 10th August 2020. Eminent speakers from various domains in the field of biotechnology delivered an expert talk from the field of their specialization.
National conference on science,engineering,management and architecture (NCSEM-2k20).
VIRTUAL ONLINE CONFERENCE NCSEM 2k20 Was organized by Department of Biotechnology on 15th and 16th July 2020.The virtual provides an excellent opportunity for the participants all over India to interact through online sessions, present papers and discussions with other delegates. This Virtual online NCSEM-2k20 conference provided an opportunity to engage more people in new and meaningful ways to interact with eminent scientists, to explore new realm of online events and move on to a digital event platform. Various webinars by eminent scientists and Industrialists had also been organized under NCSEM-2K20.