Every year
RGCB conducts a competitive event where all the graduate students who have
completed at least two years of their research studies in RGCB can compete
against each other through a transparent and fair evaluation for the much-valued
Student Merit Award that comprises a citation and cash award of Rs. 20,000. This will be
awarded on RGCB Foundation Day, which falls on 18th of November
every year.
Eleven graduate
students from various laboratories of RGCB presented their work before a packed
hall of scientists and students in the M R Das Convention Centre on Friday, the
6th of November. The panel of judges comprised two eminent Indian
scientists.
Professor
Tapas Kumar Kundu is the Silver Jubilee Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre
for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore. He holds a doctoral
degree in Biochemistry from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He earned
his postdoctoral experience from the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology of The Rockefeller University in New York. He started his scientific
career as a Faculty Fellow at the Transcription and Disease Laboratory of
JNCASR in 1994. Currently, he heads the Laboratory and has 117 publications to
his credit. With an aggregate of more than 5500 citations, his works on
transcription and chromatin are of high regard in the scientific community.
Dr. Jomon
Joseph is currently Scientist E at National Centre for Cell Science, Pune.
Earning a doctoral degree in Biochemistry from Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore, he worked as the Fogarty International Research fellow at National
Institutes of Health, Bethesda for five years after which he joined NCCS in
2005. He works extensively on inter-cellular communications, cellular
polarizations and nucleoporins.
Akhilandeswarre
D, Amritha Vijayan, Aneesh B, Deivendran S, Lekshmi.R.Nath, Mantosh Kumar,
Mudaliar Prashant Pandurang, Sajith R, S. Satheesh Kumar, Subashini C and Swathy
B of RGCB presented their works. The areas of interest varied from cerebellar
development, neuronal protection from neurotoxins, molecular signatures of
infectious agents like Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Vibrio cholera and
Chikungunya Virus to signaling pathways in carcinogenesis and metastasis,
anticancer effects of herbal extracts, pharmacoepigenomics, hybrid scaffolds
and natural biopolymers. It was both interesting and informative at various
levels.
The judges
acknowledged the commendable efforts of each of the students and the support of
each of the mentors. They were quite impressed by the very thought that went
behind the implementation of a platform for nurturing healthy competition among
graduate scholars and identified this program in RGCB to be the first of its
kind in the entire nation. They urged all the students of RGCB to keep up the
spirit of the program by both participating and supporting. With great words of
wisdom from both the judges on simple life hacks in science laboratories, it
was a very productive day for all the students of RGCB.
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