1 Feb 2023 – Guest Lecture
The Secret of the Unicorn: Intellectual Property by Dr. D J Nag, President, Innovaito LLC – an intellectual property strategy think tank.
Venue: IGIB Mathura Road campus | Time: 11:00 am
Dr. DJ Nag is widely recognized as a global intellectual property strategist working with governments and universities. He has been recognized as one of the top IP strategists by IAM300 in 2022 and 2019. He currently serves as an independent board member and Chair of the Governance committee at Crown Electrokinetics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRKN) – an energy-saving technology company. He has recently launched Brevelex Inc. as the Chairman of the company, focused on transparent IP protection.
Dr. DJ Nag talked about building a startup innovation ecosystem and how IP right plays a huge role in it.
6 Feb 2023 – Open Day at Mall Road Campus
Students from Zoology department, University of Delhi visited the genomics facility and interacted with Dr. Rajesh Pandey and his lab.
9 Feb 2023 – Open Day at Mathura Road Campus
Students from DPG Degree College visited the Mathura Road campus.
10 Feb 2023 – IDWGS 2023 Celebration at CSIR-HRDG
International Day for Women and Girls in Science 2023 was celebrated at CSIR-HRDG, where the outreach team interacted with girls from Rabea Girls’ Public School and conducted a hands-on activity along with introducing them to the CSIR Jigyasa Virtual Lab portal.
16 Feb – Guest Lecture
A Career Path in Cellular Biophysics.
Speaker: Erdnic Sezgin, Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institute
Venue: Online (Zoom) | Time: 3:30 pm
17 Feb – Guest Lecture
Systems biology of epithelial mesenchymal plasticity: an integrated computational – experimental approach
Speaker: Mohit Kumar Jolly, Assistant Professor, Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Venue: Mathura Road campus auditorium | Time: 3:00 pm
21st February – Guest Lecture
A mitochondrial paradigm for sulfide signaling
Speaker: Ruma Banerjee, University of Michigan
Venue: Mathura Road campus auditorium | Time: 3:00 pm
Wednesday Seminars
List of seminars
1st February 2023
Akanksha Sharma – Delineating the response mechanism to altered proteostasis in cytosol
Babita Sharma – Deciphering the role of selective N-glycosyl modification in the development and maturation of melanocytes from progenitor cells
8th February 2023
Yasmeen Khan – Dissecting the binding mechanism of nucleolin towards nucleic acid secondary structures
Shweta Verma – Deciphering the role of KAT3 transcription coactivators in neural crest development
15th February 2023
Vandana Singh – Delineating the role of cellular stress pathways upon steatosis development and progression
Vikramaditya Singh – Understanding the contribution of metabolic regulation on proteostasis
22nd February 2023
Rhythm Phutela – Molecular dissection of DNA targeting properties of FnCas9 for monogenic disease detection and correction
27th February 2023 – EMBO – India Research Partnership Meeting
EMBO life science members from Europe and Taiwan visited New Delhi on 27th February, 2023 as part of their research partnership program. CSIR-IGIB had the marvelous opportunity to host them. The program was spread across the entire day, including a special soft skills workshop on “Scientific integrity: How to publish reproducible results”.