Amrita School of Biotechnology conducted a seminar titled “Phytochemicals: validation of Mother Nature’s values: A brief glimpse of evidence based research”, on 14th August, 2017, and the resource person of the event was Dr. Sanjit Dey, Professor at the Department of Physiology, University of Calcutta.
The 2nd year BA and 1st year MA Mass Communication students, Department of Communication, Coimbatore, attended an interactive session on photography on 4th August 2017 hosted by Shri Aditya Arya, a well-known travel and ad photographer with 32 years of experience in the field.
Dr. V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, visted Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, Amrita School of Boitechnology, from July 20-22, 2017, and delivered talks on Basal Ganglia and Bharati – a common script for Indian languages.
Amrita School of Business, Amritapuri Campus, organised a workshop on ‘Digital Transformation & Marketing- Are You Future Ready’ on 3rd March, 2017.
The Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) Director, Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, was invited as the chief guest for the National Technological Day celebrations held at Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), DRDO in Kochi on May 11, 2017.
Dr. V. Anil Kumar, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, AIMS, Kochi, visited the Amrita School of Biotechnology on February 22, 2017, and gave a talk on “Rapid Molecular Diagnostics for Infection – a New Frontier?”, focusing on the molecular techniques used in clinical pathology.
Dr. Peter Struss, Professor, Model-based Systems and Qualitative Modelling Group, Department of Computer Science- Artificial Intelligence; Faculty of Informatics Techn. Univ. Muenchen (TUM), Germany, addressed the students and faculty of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA).
Dr. Sujay Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, with established expertise in Computational Genomics, visited the Amrita School of Biotechnology on December 14th, 2016. He gave a very insightful talk on “Adaptive Evolution in Microbial Genomes”, as a part of the invited lecture series.
Dr. Sankarprasad Bhuniya currently serves as a research professor at Amrita Center for Industrial Research & Innovation and Amrita Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies. He is also a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering, Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore. During his visit to Amrita School of Biotechnology on December 9, 2016, he delivered an excellent,informative talk on Chemoselective Fluorescent Probe for Tracking of Small Molecule and Chemotherapeutic in Living Cells.
An invited talk on Gender Sensitivity was organized by the Student Nurses Association of Amrita College of Nursing on November 24, 2016.