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Contents.
In this fascinating, miniature world of archaea
Shilpi Sharma - 1
Indo-Swiss collaborative effort on Biofertilizers
V.S. Bisaria -
The Final year paradox
Sumedha Roy -
Edible Vaccines-Adieu Needles!!!
Anamika Singh -
EPIGENETICS : Why your DNA is not everything !
Sana Naz and Kriti Gupta -
Stem Cells: Science, Policy and Ethcs
Chetan Krishna and Chirag Arora -
Non injection insulin
Sunil Nagpal and Shika Gupta -
What it takes to have 12 billion dollar market cap?
Kanika Khanna -
An Interview with Professor John Villadsen
Nikita Gupta -
New faculty profile -
News bulletin -
Puzzle -
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STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The undergraduate students of our department participated in the
International Genetically
Engineered Machine competition (iGEM), a premier Undergraduate
Synthetic Biology Competition
organized by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA in
November 2010. The Faculty
mentors for the IIT Delhi team were Profs. Atul Narang and D.
Sundar.
IIT Delhi iGEM website :
http://2010.igem.org/Team:IIT_Delhi_1
IIT Delhi iGEM presentation at MIT:
http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sundar/iGEM-Video.mp4
Background of the competition
The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition
(iGEM) is a premier Undergraduate
Synthetic Biology competition being organized by Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT)
since the year 2003. The student teams are given a kit of
biological parts at the beginning of the
summer from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Working
at their own Institutions over
the summer, they use these parts and new parts of their own
design to build biological systems
and operate them in living cells. Synthetic biology is one of
the most exciting directions in current
science. The iGEM design and competition format is an
exceptionally motivating and effective
teaching method for the undergraduate students. The competition
format fosters hands-oninterdisciplinary education. Biotechnology
students learn engineering approaches and tools to
organize, model, and assemble complex systems, while engineering
students are able to immerse
themselves in applied molecular biology.
News bulletin:
Dr Ritu Kulshrestha has received a 85 Lakh grant on neuroscience
from DBT Dr. D. Sundar has received the "Lady Tata Memorial Trust'
sponsored "Young Researcher
Award" for the year 2011 and also selected for membership of
Indian National academy of
sciences of India in April 2011
Prof. V.S.Bisaria has been appointed as Vice President of Asian
Federation of Biotechnology(www.afob.org) from India. Interested
person can become member of AFOB by following the
application procedure mentioned in the website.
Dr Shilpi Sharma has been awarded Young Scientist Awards by
Association of Microbiologists ofIndia (Nov 2011) and by National
Environmentalists' Association (Dec 2011).
Some important visitors (2010-11)
1. Prof. Ron APPEL, Executive Director, Swiss Institute of
Bioinformatics (SIB), Basel2. Dr. Stefan Klumpp, Max Planck
Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, Germany.3.
Prof. Anton Hartmann, Head, Department of Microbe-Plant
Interactions, German Research Center
for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.
4. Prof. John Villadsen, Department of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering, Technical University ofDenmark.
5. Dr. Torben Vedel Borchert, Senior DirectorProtein
Optimization, Novozymes, Copenhagen.6. Dr. Mahak Sharma, Harvard
Medical School / Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, MA, USA7. Dr.
Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Dear DBEBians,
Welcome you to the inaugural edition DBEB et al, a newsletter
plus journal of department of
Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Our motivations to
begin this journal are many e.g., to
- encourage students to write an original article- keep the
community informed of developments in industry and academia- even
to put out a view point- important events or news
Simply put an opportunity to share your thoughts on any subject
related to BIO with everybody in the
department. We believe highest form of scholarly is being able
to put your observed/acquired
knowledge in a written format. We would like you to write on
anything that you think you would like to
share with the whole department it may be a news, research
insight or debate or simply put your
opinion. Here in this inaugural edition we have articles ranging
from understanding a emerging field to
dreaming the future of vaccines/drug delivery to debate on bio
ethics policy issues. We sincerely hope
you will enjoy reading this journal during class breaks or
between the incubation periods of your
experiments or whenever you find time.
DBEB et al is edited by mixture of faculty and students of the
department. If you have an interesting
topic to share with us or willing to contribute for the DBEB et
al please contact any of the editorial
members. We would like to publish this bi-annual depending on
number of articles submitted. Wish you
good luck for your academic pursuit and may this New Year give
the opportunity to write a new story of
achivements and success in your academic pursuit.
Best wishes
T.R Sreekrishnan
Ravikrishnan E
Sumedha Roy
Sunil Nagpal
Sachi Mittal
