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Chandigarh November 5, 2019

The Second day of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) -Asia Pacific Regional Committee (APRC) supported school on the theme ‘Blood-Brain-Barrier: From Basic Physiology to Neurological Disorders started with a Skype lecture from Dr Ajeet Kaushik, Florida Polytechnic University, U.S.A. He highlighted his work on the use of personalized nanotherapy to treat neurological disorders. He also discussed his work on MENS (Magneto Electric
Nanoparticles), which can pass through the blood brain barrier (BBB) and can be a potential source of future therapeutics.

Prof. Prakash Babu, Dean, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, discussed that despite several advancements in the treatment people affected with malaria is growing. The major challenge is posed by the severe form of malaria, called Cerebral Malaria (CM) and drug resistance. Unresolved issue of the CM is cognitive impairment especially with the children and young adults who suffered from CM. In this connection his lab has recently reported the
association of BBB and inflammation in CM as well as in ischemic stroke.

The session was followed by Dr. Girdhari Lal, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune.  He highlighted how current lifestyle and exposure to different types of stressors like socio-economic stress, substance abuse etc can lead to several chronic diseases.  How in these chronic diseases, immune cells and brain cells communicate with each other and participate in neuroinflammation is being investigated at NCCS, Pune. The centre also uses cutting edge tools and technology to investigate neurological disorders and provide a new platform to benefit the patient.

Dr. Deepak Sharma, CSIR-IMTech, Chandigarh discussed about various model organisms like worms, mice, etc, to study Parkinson’s disease. He also emphasized the importance of simulating similar environment for the model studies to reflect the conditions experienced by human patients. Dr. Deepak also showed various behavior studies performed in
these models. Concluding, he mentioned the importance of our eating habits as there is a saying that root of every disease starts from the gut.

The extensive talk was then followed by the laboratory session where participants were given hands on training on experiments used for studying the structure of BBB. Lastly, today’s session to the young scientists participating in the IBRO workshop elucidated importance of structural and functional integrity of BBB.

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Chandigarh November 4, 2019

National Seminar cum Workshop on Designing and Development of MOOCs is organised by Centre for Academic Leadership & Education Management (CALEM), Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh in collaboration with SWAYAM CELL, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Prof Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh 
enlightened the audience about the importance of MOOCs and the initiatives by MHRD (GOI) in this direction. He mentioned that this area of learning has huge potential. MOOCs have reached remote places, deprived ones, marginalized and people from diverse financial status. He motivated the participants and said that we need to come out in a mission mode to develop MOOCs.

        Prof. Manpreet Manna, Former Director, AICTE, MHRD, GOI shared with participants the journey and challenges of implementing SWAYAM platform initiatives in India. He mentioned that SWAYAM is the only structured academic e-learning platform in the world which is free of cost. Learners can find lectures on biotechnology to modern mysticism on MOOCs. He elaborated on the meaning of blended learning, flipped learning and pedagogy of MOOCs. In the first academic session, Dr. Tajinderpal Singh from UBS,PU,   discussed about the introduction and various technical aspects involved in the designing and submission of the MOOCs proposal to competent authorities.The four quadrant approach(
e-tutorial, e-content, discussion platform and assessment) in the  development of the MOOCs was also discussed.

Dr. Vishal Sharma, PU Coordinator SWAYAM highlighted the importance of MOOCs in the higher education sector for taking knowledge to diverse learners in our country and across the globe.

Prof. Jatinder Grover, Coordinator,Centre for Academic Leadership and Educational Management (CALEM ), PU,addressed the participants and introduced the theme of the 7 days’ workshop on developing MOOCs and shared that the MOOCs  are supplementto the formal learning, distance learning and for lifelong learning.

        He also shared that there are only four CALEMcentres in India.  PU is one of the University having this Centre approved by Govt. of India. He also highlighted that till date CALEM has organised 5 workshops of seven days and five workshops for 2 days for Faculty development.

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