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CHASCON2020 commences today in Online Mode at PU

Chandigarh December 17, 2020

The 14th Chandigarh Science Congress (online mode) CHASCON 2020 commenced today which
is being organized by Panjab University in association with Chandigarh region
Innovation and Knowledge Cluster(CRIKC). 

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 This event was initiated with a brief introduction and a warm welcome by the
Coordinator Prof Deshdeepak Singh.  Also, the Dean Sciences, Prof Prince Sharma
enlightened the students with his views about the event and its history.


Professor Anil Bhardwaj, Director, Physical Research Lab, Ahmedabad graced the
inaugural session and spoke   on the topic Indian Planetary Missions. He included
various aspects of space missions, Mission Mangal, moon solar Wind interactions, brief
introduction about Chandrayaan 2 and a lot more. Prof Anil gave his views on the
success of Mangal Yaan and he motivated the students to join Planetary Science and
pursue Space research. The students were motivated and inspired which was evident with
their curiosity, inquisitiveness and interest with which they added comments online. He
added that India had sent satellite to Mars for six months initially but India has now
got six years to get information from Mars which will be very useful for research
purposes. 

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The next speaker, Prof Amulya K Panda, Director, NII, New Delhi gave a very informative
talk about the recent Vaccines. His talk was focused on the topic Challenges in the
development of vaccines. He illustrated with his presentation that normally it takes a
decade for the vaccine to come to the market but what could be the major hurdles for
the coming of the vaccine in reference to the Corona Pandemic.


Nextly, a very eminent scientist, Prof MRN Murthy, AstraZeneca Chair, Institute of
Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bangalore, gave an amazing talk on the
title the structural Biology of Coronaviruses. He emphasized on how SARS Cov2 is
evolving at a drastic fast rate and why the transmission rate is relatively faster than
other viruses.


The session for the Pandemic Covid 19, also included another prominent scientist, Prof
R Vardarajan, Molecular Biophysics Unit, IISc, Bangalore. He presented a very
informative talk on Immunogen Design for COVID Vaccine. He gave very useful insights of
what are the types of corona Vaccines being introduced till now and how we can fight
against the novel virus. He told about a very important aspect that these vaccines
don’t elicit a memory response, which can be a great hurdle in providing immunity.
Post Lunch, speaker, Prof Ravi Gupta, Medical Superintendent, GMCH 32, Chandigarh, gave
a talk on the ‘Clinical Management of Covid and the way forward for innovation’. His
talk was divided into three parts: their experience at GMCH and the Challenges faced
during the corona pandemic, the standard Treatment of COViD as of Today and Innovations
during Covid era.


The event was graced with another speaker, Prof Paula Videira, Glycoimmunology Group at
UCIBIO, Lisbon, Portugal. She delivered a lecture on the topic ‘Glycoimmunology: sugars
on the fuss for improved immunotherapies?’ She gave her insights into the different
glycans and how they play a role in providing immunity, acting as a receptor and many
more. Herein she explained how ACE2 Receptor in Sars Cov2 plays a vital role for high
transmission.


 Today ,around 400 students  joined the conference on CISCO WEBEX platform. 
The Students were delighted to listen to all the speakers and this was a great success.