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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.

Chandigarh:

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As many as 750 participants have registered from across India and few international for the forthcoming online CHASCON 2020

Conference starting on 17th December,2020, informed Prof Desh Deepak, Coordinator which is being organised in association with Chandigarh region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster(CRIKC). on the theme” Science and Technology Innovations: Ushering in the era of Make in India” .The Webcast of proceedings can be seen at  PU webcast. Also, 15 reputed speakers out of which 3 are international , have agreed to speak during the conference.

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CHASCON is an annual event since 2007 in PU which encourages the young and innovative minds for interaction with researchers, academicians and industry leaders. CHASCON will be an exciting platform to deliberate, exchange views on scientific challenges and innovations and would showcase the contributions from the region and define the future roadmap for making India the Innovation Hub.

Many eminent speakers will give plenary lectures and there will be panel discussions and opportunity for e-posters, abstracts and oral presentations.

Chandigarh December 14, 2020

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On the second and third day of the 14 day online workshop on Yoga for Self
Management organized by Centre for Swami Vivekananda Studies, Panjab University
Chandigarh. Dr.Laxminarayan Joshi, Head and Dean Students Welfare, Uttarakhand Sanskrit
University, Haridwar gave a live presentation on the yoga for healthy spine.

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        Prof.Renu Thakur welcomed the guests. Mr Mohit introduced the speaker to the
participants. The session started with the chanting of Om and Gayatri Mantra for over
all good health and positivity of one and all. Dr.Laxminarayan is a renowned yoga
therapist. He stressed that health of our spine is a key to the health of our whole
body , Thus one needs to take care of spine by doing regular yogic activity. The spinal
cord connects brain to the rest of the body hence it is most important. He demonstrated
that how different asanas can help us to have healthy spine. While doing asanas we need
to be careful and front bending should totally be avoided by the people who have
cervical or lumber spondylitis. The problems due to wrong postures can be corrected by
performing yogic asanas. He highlighted the benefits of Suryanamaskar for keeping our
spine healthy. He referred to important asanas such as Vakra, Bhadra, Katichakra,
Bhujang,Shalbha, Setu etc for keeping our spine healthy. Live demonstrations of these
asanas helped participants to practice the same and correct their postures.

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        The participants interacted with the expert .Series of questions related to
healthy spine were answered by the eminent speaker. The live demonstration was given by
Ms Akansha from the same University.

        The formal vote of thanks was proposed by Prashant Verma.The sessions were
attended by large number of participants belonging to different age groups from
different parts of the country.