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7th Indo-US, JNU, Delhi
8th Indo-US, SGPGI, Lucknow
1st Turkish-US Workshop
9th Indo-US, Bangalore
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Workshop Report
The 8th Indo-US Cytometry Workshop
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
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The Inaugural Meeting of “The Cytometry Society – India”
December 17-22, 2007
Photo Album to come
The inaugural meeting was organized and hosted by the Department of Immunology at SGPGI and held in the beautifully equipped and decorated auditorium of the Telemedicine facility. The inauguration in the traditional manner started with a beautiful Saraswati Vandana and lighting of the lamp by Dr. A.K. Mahapatra, (Director SGPGI), Dr. Sita Naik (Head of Immunology), Dr. Gopal Pande (President of TCS) and Dr. Awtar Krishan (International advisor to the Society) and other invited guests. Dr. Paul Robinson, President of the International Society for Analytical Cytology and Head of the Purdue Cytometry Laboratories, was guest of honour and key note speaker.
The two day conference had excellent scientific presentations by Drs. Gopal Pande (CCMB, Hyderabad), Awtar Krishan (Pathology Department, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA), H. Krishnamurthy (NCBS, Bangalore), B. Dwarkanath (INMAS, New Delhi), Mitali Chaterjee (IPGMER, Kolkota), K. Natarajan (ICGEB, New Delhi), Madhu Dixit (CDRI, Lucknow) and Swami Padmanabhan (Rosewell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA). Seventy delegates registered for the meeting and there were 5 oral paper presentations and 13 posters. The interactive poster session, judged by Drs. Paul Robinson and H Krishnamurthy, was the highlight of the meeting and following awards were given:
First prize for oral paper: Aalia Shahr Bano of NII, New Delhi, “Gene regulation by small interfering RNAs (siRNA), anti-sense DNA and catalytic antibodies”.
Second prize for oral paper: Shubhankar Suman of INMAS, New Delhi, “Reduced nitric oxide synthase induction may contribute to the unusual radio-resistance of Sf9 insect cells”.
Prize for best poster: Ratika Srivastava of SGPGI, Lucknow, “Alterations in natural killer and natural killer T cells during acute viral hepatitis E”.
There was grand reception on 17th evening with music and excellent Lucknowi food.
The Indo-US cytometry workshops were held in the well equipped laboratories of the Immunology Department headed by Dr. Sita Naik. Flow cytometers from BD, Beckman Coulter and Guava were available to demonstrate various procedures for flow analysis. Lectures in the morning were followed by wet labs and tutorials. Thirty five students had registered for the wet labs.
Drs. Robinson and Krishan donated funds for student awards and for sponsoring the ISAC student membership of 35 attendees.
Students were presented with a CD containing copies of the slides and other material presented at the workshop.
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