In another stellar display of its academic excellence, 42 students and young researchers from the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) have presented 11 peer-reviewed papers at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) held between 11th and 15th of September, 2018 at PES University, Bengaluru, India.
The collaboration between Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Biotechnology and Tata Institute of Genetics and Society (TIGS) will focus on developing new tools to reverse antibiotic resistance in pathogens like Pseudomonas aeruginosa which have been declared as ‘critical priority’ by the World Health Organization.
Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Lab Director of the Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology Laboratory and Associate Professor of Amrita School of Biotechnology, was invited to present at the 5th Bangalore Cognition Workshop 2018 held at IISc from June 17-29, 2018.
Amrita School of Biotechnology faculty and students recently published a journal paper in the high impact Nature publishing group’s Scientific Reports.
On March 23, 2018, Amrita’s Virtual Laboratories and its deployment outcomes won the GOLC Online Lab Award 2018 for visualized experiment category.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, jointly won the Aegis Graham Bell Awards (AGBA) 2017 in the Innovation in mHealth category.
Dr. Indulekha C. L. Pillai, Assistant Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, has been awarded the prestigious Ramalingaswami Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, on 15th November 2017, for a period of 5 years.
Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology and Associate Professor, Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amritapuri, was an invited speaker for the third time at an event organised by the International School of Brain Cells & Circuits.
Amrita Computational Neuroscience & Neurophysiology Lab recently developed a ‘Narrative Construct Sequence Learning’ method based on human capability towards narration of stories. The method was evaluated in the context of online systems.
An international workshop and paper session on bio inspired modeling and computational neuroscience was organized at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), conducted at Manipal University, Karnataka,. . .