The Departments of Biotechnology and
Bioinformatics of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya jointly organized an international
webinar on the topic “Role of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics in the era of
covid-19” under the aegis of Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the college.
Principal Prof. Dr. (Mrs.) Ajay Sareen who highlighted the role of these
upcoming fields of life sciences in the present situation of covid-19 regarding
development of vaccine against these viruses in her ingural speech of this
webinar
. Professor Dr. S. K. Soni from Department
of Microbiology, Punjab University Chandigarh, Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj, Senior
Scientist, IMTECH, Chandigarh and Prof. Kumardeep Chaudhary from USA
were the resource persons. First talk
was delivered by Prof. S. K. Soni on the topic “Tools and Technique used in
exploiting microbial world for sustainability of mankind” and in his presentation
he has explained various microbiological techniques like fermentation
technology, culturing techniques of different microbes etc through ppt. The
second talk was delivered by Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj on the topic “SAVIOR-SARS COV-2
inhibitor open repository of bioinformatics” and explained various tools used
by bioinformatics and their utilities. Third talk was given by Prof. Kumardeep
Chaudhary on topic “Emerging role of bioinformatics in COVID-19 era” in which
he explained different tools and techniques used in bioinformatics studies like
sequencing, identification of genes etc. and their relative usefulness. On this
occasion Dr. Neelam Sharma, Dr. Jitender Kumar, Dr. Harpreet Singh, Mr. Sumit
Sharma, Ms. Purnima Sharma were also present. In the last vote of thanks was
given by Dr. Jitender Kumar. The moderators of the webinar were Dr. Harpreet
Singh and Mr. Sumit Sharma. Principal Prof. Dr. Sareen congratulated IQAC
Coordinator Dr. Kanwaldeep Kaur, International webinar coordinator Dr. Ramnita
Saini Sharda
and Technical Coordinator
Mr. Jagjit Bhatia.
