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Jadavpur University Alumni Association Hyderabad Chapter

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Agenda

Symposium Program Schedule 2009

 Registration and kit distribution 8.45 am
 Inauguration 9.15 am
First Session
 Genetic diversity in Indian Populations and its implications in health & Disease by Dr. Lalji Singh9.45 am
 Indian Missile systems & Technologies by Dr. SK Chaudhuri10.45 am
 A brief discussion on Heart attack by Dr. Suman Mukerji 11.30 am

 Biology & Mathematics-Can we Merge them by Dr. Ram Rup Sankar

 Techniques & Instrumentations in Protein research by Dr. MV Jagannadham

 What is Genetic material-DNA or RNA by Dr. Utpal Bhadra

12.00 pm
 Lunch break1.00 pm
Second session
 Science Quiz ( 5 - 6 teams from Qualified team from written round)1.45 pm
 Prize distribution3.30 pm
 Day closure with National Anthem4.00-4:30 pm

 

Symposium-Edition Aug 2009

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COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
Anusandhan Bhawan, 2, Rafi Marg, New Delhi-110001

Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari
Director General, CSIR & Secretary, Government of India
Department of Scientific & Industrial Research

MESSAGE
It gives me great pleasure to learn that the Jadavpur University Alumni Association, Hyderabad Chapter is organizing a Symposium on Popular Science for school children
on 29 August 2009.

The importance of the Symposium on Popular Science cannot be ov…

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Session 1: Genetic diversity in Indian Population & its implications in Health & Disease

Dr. Lalji Singh

Bhatnagar Fellow  
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad 500 007  
Email: lalji@ccmb.res.in

BIO-DATA: Born at Jaunpur, UP on 5th July, 1947. Working at CCMB since 1987. Headed the institute from 1998 to 31st July 2009. Obtained M.Sc., and Ph.D (Cytogenetics) from Banaras Hindu University; Spent 13 years in the Institute of Animal Genetics, University of Edinburgh (1974-1987). Research Interests: Molecular basis of Sex-determination; DNA Finger- print…

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Session 1: Indian Missile systems & Technologies

Dr SK Chaudhuri

Outstanding Scientist & Associate Director, RCI (DRDO), Hyderabad

E-Mail: subirchaudhuri@hotmail.com

BIO-DATA: Outstanding Scientist, Associate Director, RCI, Hyderabad. obtained B.E.E. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1971 and M.Tech from IIT, Madras in 1978. Awarded Common Wealth Scholarship for Ph.D. on Aerospace Electronics System with Flight Control System specialization from Cranfield Institute of Technology, United Kingdom in 1985.  
Established Hardw…

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Session 1: A Brief discussion on Heart Attack

Dr Suman Mukerji

A Delhi-based medical professional, working in Employees State Insurance  
 
BIO-DATA : Corporation, (ESIC) a statutory Body under Ministry of Labour, Govt. of India, since 1978, at various capacities, in Delhi and Kolkata. At present posted as the Senior State Medical Commissioner, ESIC, AP region. Passed MBBS from the Maulana Azad Medical college (Delhi) in 1975. Visited U.K, Italy and Germany in 1991 with WHO Fellowship on occupational health. Attended various workshops …

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Session 1: Biology & Mathematics-Can we merge them?

Dr Ram Rup Sarkar

Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology. Hyderabad 500 007  
E-mail: ramrup@ccmb.res.in Tel: +91-40-2719 2786 (Lab.), Mobile: +91-9885608640  

BIO-DATA: Received Ph.D in Applied Mathematics with specialization in Biom- athematics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2004 (thesis work done at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata). Received Humboldt Research Fellow- ship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany for his post-doc- toral research at Unive…

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Session 1: Techniques & Instrumentation in Protein Research

Dr.M V Jagannadham

Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad-500 007  
E-mail: jagan@ccmb.res.in 

BIO-DATA: M. Sc (Applied Chemistry) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (1987). Obtained Ph.D in life sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1998, working on the role of carotenoid pigments in cold adaptation in an Antarctic bacterium. Worked as a post doctoral fellow at Department of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan durin…

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Session 1: What is the Genetic Material-DNA or RNA ?

Dr. Utpal Bhadra  
Group Leader and Senior Scientist Functional Genomics and

Gene Silencing Group Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,

Hyderabad-500007 E-mail: utpal @ccmb.res.in  

BIO-DATA: Obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Advanced Cytogenetics from University of Calcutta, India. Received the "Young scientist Award" in 1991 and "Nehru Cente- nary British Fellowship" to continue his doctoral work in UK. Joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Biology, Harvard Uni…

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Session 2: Science Quiz

QUIZ MASTERS  

Bedadyuti Chakraborty 
Manager Biologics Division  
Dr. Reddy's Laboratory (www.drreddys.com)

Survey No. 47, Bachupally, Qutubullapur RR District, Andhra Pradesh, PIN: 500072

E-mail: bedadyutic@drreddys.com  

A biotechnologist by profession. The Best All Round Graduate (B. Pharm 1992) and Post-Gradu- ate (M.Tech 1996) medal holder of Jadavpur University. Presently engaged in an anti-cancer drug development program at Dr. Reddy's Lab, Hyderabad. Participated in the final round …

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JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, HYDERABAD - A BRIEF

Arindam Dasgupta  
BHEL R&D, Balanagar, Hyderabad

E-mail: dasgupta@bhelrnd.co.in  

The journey of the Alumni association started in the mid 1970's and the first footstep was made by a group of young engineers from defense labs and public sector like ECIL,BHEL and IDPL and also some senior members from the private sector like Coromandel fertilizers. During those initial days total strength of the association was bordering around thirty. The bonding between members was like a joint family w…

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FAITH AND RATIONALITY

M. K. CHATTOPADHYAY

Inst. Jacques Monod,  
2 Place Jussieu, T 43, F 75251 Paris, Cedex 05, France  
e-mail: mkc@ijm.jussieu.fr  
Reprinted from Current Science (Bangalore), 25 July 2001, Vol. 81, No. 2  
Courtesy: The Editorial Board, Current Science  


This is with reference to the editorial 'The astrology fallout' (Curr. Sci., 2001, 80, 1085-1086). Learning from Meghnad Saha about his work on a problem of astrophysics, a friend of his father commented, 'What's great with it? All the…

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SCIENCE VS SUPERSTITION

Anima Bhattacharya  
Diploma in French Language (2009)  
Department of International Relationship  

It is mid-day- three cats, one black, one brown and white mixed and the third one white, are chatting at the back side of a building. The names of the cats as given by their masters are Baddy,  
Mini and Jenny, respectively.  

Baddy: My friends, you are very lucky. Your master, mistress and their children love you so much. They pat you, children allow you to sleep on their beds, Is it not…

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GLIMPSE OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IN THE HUB OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sanjukta Roy Chaudhury  

In the twenty first century, we are living in the world of science. Our daily life is obsessed with the science. It has made our life easier and kept us in comfort. Our homely happiness and affluence achievements of science. From morning to night, wherever we turn our eyes, we feel the blessings of depend largely on the wonderful discoveries of science. We are habituated to this comfort. However, there are many people still existing in this earth, who are far away fro…

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CONTINUING A SCIENCE MONTHLY FOR 33 YEARS

Debananda Dam
Editor, Jnan Bichitra, Agartala, Tripura

Tripura is located in the north-eastern corner of India, Inhabited by 3 million people, 30% of which are tribal. This hilly state is surrounded by Bangladesh on three sides and linked with the rest of India the noble mission to make science more popular and useful to people in general. It was indeed a by air through Kolkata and by road and railways through Assam. About three decades ago, it was a dream for a young enterprising science ac…

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PRICE OF VIRGINITY

Bijaya Ghosh 
Department of Pharmaceutical Technology KLE University's College of Pharmacy Bangalore-560 010  
E-mail bijaya bijoya@rediffmail.com

It had turned into a regular occurrence. Three days in a row my sandals had gone missing during the midday but reappeared in the evening. One does not need much intelligence to solve such cases. The pattern indicated it was an insider's job. I too caught the culprit-Narsamma. Only in reply, she unashamedly showed her full set of teeth. 

Narsam…

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Our Chair Person

Dr N.Madhusudhana Rao
Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,
Hyderabad 500 007. E-mail: madhu@ccmb.res.in
40-2719 2514 (WP)

Received Ph.D in Biochemistry with specialization in Membrane biology from National Institute of Nutrition Hyderabad in 1988 (Degree awarded by Osmania University). Research focus: application of in vitro evolution methods for protein engineering especially to understand the stability of proteins. Involved in development of several formulations for delivery of genes and RNA into the cells. In addition to collaborative projects with labs in USA and Japan, Dr.Rao is coordinator of a CSIR network project on nanomaterials and CCMB-Purdue program on nanodevices.


 

Quotes

Jawaharlal Nehru

“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening of custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving poor... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.


Mahatma Gandhi

Seven deadly sins

  • Wealth without work.
  • Pleasure without conscience.
  • Knowledge without character.
  • Commerce without morality.
  • Science without humanity.
  • Religion without sacrifice.
  • Politics without principle

 

Shradhanjali

SHRI MANAS JYOTI RAY

Born: 17 September 1949 at Kalighat, Kolkata
Expired: 29 July 2009 at Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

IN FOND REMEMBRANCE OF

Permanent Residence in Kolkata: Pa schim Putiary, Kudghat
Permanent Residence in Hyderabad: Attapur
Qualification: M.Sc (Inorganic Chemistry) with First Class from Jadavpur University, 1970

Service career: Worked as a lecturer of Chemistry for 3 months in the Sri Chaitanya College, Habra, West Bengal. Subsequently, joined India Government Mint as Asst. Assay Superintendent. Transferred to Hyderabad in June 1989 as Deputy Chief Assayer. Promoted to the post of Chief Assayer in 2002.

Positions Held: Highest Authority in India to certify the quality of precious and semi-precious metals including gold, silver, Platinum, diamond etc. Chairman of the All India Diamond Committee. Worked extensively as an expert on the Gold Hallmarking Project of the Government of India along with the Bureau of Indian Standards.

Other Activities: Widely known in the twin cities for multifaceted cultural activities. Completed a five-year course on Rabindra Sangeet from Dakhinee (South Kolkata)..Had training in Dramatics from Dilip Ray's School of Drama and also from eminent personalities like Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Sreela Majumdar, Biplab Chatterjee, Dilip Ray. Had keen interest in Music, Recitation, Dramatics etc. right from childhood. Won many competitions. Played various roles in more than 100 dramas. Associated with the activities of Jadavpur University Alumni Association. Contributed an article to the first issue of the souvenir.