Amity Institute of Biotechnology
Organised
Popular Lecture Series on Biotechnology-2016
September 7-9, 2016
A REPORT
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Gwalior organised three days Popular Lecture Series from 7th Sept. to 9th Sept. 2016. On the first day of lecture series, Prof. (Dr.) Anjana Sharma, Professor & Head, Dept. of Biological Science, Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur delivered her talk to a large gathering of students including those from various schools of Gwalior. Dr. Sharma’s lecture was focused on action, management and mitigation of communicable and non communicable diseases. She discussed the facts related to the spread of various diseases as a result of uncountable, unpredictable physical and biological challenges together with its mitigation strategies. During her lecture, she also mentioned the impact of environmental pathogens which pose a threat to human life. She also elaborated the effect and role of biomolecules used in the pharmaceuticals along with food and feed industries such as hormones, growth factors, antibodies, enzymes, interferons, blood factors etc. She discussed in detail about the use of microbial enzymes such as Streptokinase, Asparaginase and Phytase as therapeutics.
On the second day of lecture series i.e. 8th Sept., Prof. (Dr.) R.S. Tomar, Director AIB, Dean (Life Sciences) & Dean (Academics) delivered his talk to a large gathering of school and University students. Prof. Tomar’s lecture was focused on simple and rapid detection method of pathogens by using nanobiosensors which can be a breakthrough in the improvement of current diagnostic technologies. During his lecture, he also mentioned the features and futures of diagnostic nanobiosensors. He also discussed about various analytes like enzymes, proteins, antibodies and nucleic acids, detected by these peculiar nanobiosensors.
On the third and last day of popular lecture series i.e. 9th Sept. 2016, Prof. (Dr.) Abbas Ali Mahdi, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow delivered his talk. Prof. Mahdi’s lecture was focused on the negative and adverse impact of toxic elements on human health which can be reduced by recent biotechnological advances and its implications. He described various hazardous toxic metals such as lead, aluminium and fluoride, their significant exposure, source of exposure, distribution in the body, the mechanism of metal toxicity and ultimately their impact on human health.
Each lecture was followed by discussion with the students of various schools. The contribution of Amity University Gwalior in the field of biotechnology education has put it in the limelight of the academic circle and today it is counted in the list of best biotech colleges in Gwalior city as well as also acclaimed as the best biotech colleges in Madhya Pradesh.