Symposium & Alumni Meet “Frontiers in Biochemistry”, 2019 organized by Department of Biochemistry, PU

Chandigarh, November 30, 2019: The Symposium & Alumni Meet "Frontiers in Biochemistry", 2019 was organized by the Department of Biochemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh on 29th -30th November, sponsored by UGC-SAP, UGC, New Delhi with Dr.Dipti Sareen and Dr.Nirmal Prabhakar as the Organizing Secretaries. The symposium started with the inaugural session having Prof. H.M. Dani an alumnus and Former Dean (Faculty of Sciences) & Head, Department of Biochemistry, P.U. , Chd as the guest of honour and Prof. Sarit K Das, Director IIT Ropar as the keynote speaker. The address entitled as "Micro fluidics devices in Chemical Biology" was exciting, thought-provoking and stressed upon the need of interdisciplinary marriage of all kinds of Medical and Engineering Sciences. This was followed by the Young Scientists session comprising of six oral presentations and fourteen poster presentations judged by our eminent alumni from PGI and other CRICK institutes. The alumni interacted with the students and faculty of the department in the evening with musical games and dinner. The talks on next day were on the mesmerizing work being carried out by the eminent scientists, Dr. J. Agrewala (IIT- Ropar), Dr. Charu Sharma (IMTECH, Chd) , Dr. P. Guptasarma ( IISER,Mohali) and Dr. Monika Garg (NABI, Mohali). A special session on "Innovative Practices & Patents" was the highlight of the symposium with three talks delivered by faculty , Prof. Bishwajit Kundu ( IIT-Delhi), Dr. Divya Kaush (PSCST ), Dr. Indrani Ghosh (Intellectual Protective Unit, CSIR). The Symposium concluded with prize distribution and vote of thanks in the Valedictory Session.