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Chandigarh November 5, 2019

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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

Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology, Panjab University organised a special lecture on ⌠Scientific Vision of Guru Nanak Dev■ to commemorate 550th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji.  Prof. H. S. Virk (Prof. of Eminence and Former Dean, GNDU, Amritsar (Punjab) explicated the scientific vision of Guru Nanak Dev Ji where he correlated Gurubani with modern science along with highlighting Guru Nanak as reformer, humanist, intellectual, divine poet and to the worth a scientist.

        Prof Virk briefed that the divine sage challenged the entrenched practices and uploaded the universal values like truth, reason, logic, analysis and ethics with his scientific method and logical thinking. Connecting to science, Prof Virk elaborated the ⌠theory of relativity and its impact■ through ⌠Gurmat Nirnay■ and the Sardar Kapoor Singh exploration regarding cosmological idea of Sri Guru GranthSahib. The lecture conveyed the richness of Vaani of Guru Nanak Devin terms of His scientific vision.

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Chandigarh November:

 One day workshop on “Institutional research collaboration for young India- Preparedness towards space and informatics intelligence” was jointly organized by Centre of Advanced Study in Geology Panjab University, Chandigarh and Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) PAU campus, Ludhiana, here today. This workshop was in line with Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC) and Panjab University, Chandigarh on 7th August 2019. In this MoU both institutions joined hands to enhance research and academic collaboration for application of Remote sensing and geospatial technology.

        The workshop held at the Centre of Advanced Study in Geology Panjab University, Chandigarh and scientific group from both the above mentioned institutions came together to hold technical discussions and deliberations following a presentation session.

        In this workshop key speakers from PRSC scientific group were Dr R. K. Setia (Soil, water and Environment)  Mr. S.K. Sahoo (Geology, water resources and disaster management) Mr. S.K. Patel (Geo-informatics and spatial analytics), Mr. Dhruval Bhavsar (Forest and environment), and Dr. Mohit Arora (Geophysics and remote sensing).

        Speakers from Panjab University were Dr. Simrat Kahlon, Dr. Vishwa Bandhu Singh (Geography and geoinformatics) from Department of Geography, Dr. Madhuri Rishi (Environmental Issues) from Department of Environment Studies, Dr. Mahesh Thakur (Landslides, Active Faults and Heat flow) from Department of Geology, who was also organizing secretary of the event and Dr. Naveen Aggarwal and Dr. Sukhvir Singh (UAV and wireless sensors) from University Institute Engineering and Technology.

        All the eminent speakers talked about their research work and future prospective and discussed how the remote sensing and GIS resources can be used efficiently and collaboratively for sustainable development of society and encouraged young students and research scholars in this direction.

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