1. Proposed Workshop on "Advance Techniques of Molecular Biology " February 8-11, 2008
   
   
2. Proposed Workshop on "Standardization of Herbal Medicine " January 18-21, 2008
   
   
3. National Seminar on "Novel tools of Nano-technology, Material Science and Geological techniques in Standardization of Ayurvedic Bhasma " December 28-29, 2007 And Satellite Conference on “Nano-Medicine30th December 2007 At BBS College of Eng. and Tech., Allahabad
   
   
4. Workshop on "Advance Techniques of Molecular Biology and Advances in Herbal Drug Manufacturing & Standardization" October 12-15, 2006.
   • Circular
   • List of Participants
   • Report

Circular

List of Participants in October workshop

Reg. No	Name and Address
1	Madhumita Patel Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
2	Vikash Kumar Agriculture Institute, Allahabad
3	Ms. Abhilasha Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra
4	Manish Mohan Verma Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra
5	Mr. G.S. Chakraborty Plant Tissue Culture Lab, Dept. of Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry F/o Pharmacy N.D. 62, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard University, New Delhi
6	Mr. Rajeev Ranjan 21, Sheetla Dham. Dayalbagh, Agra-282005
7	Riti Singh Agrasen Girls P.G. Autonomous College, Varanasi
8	Akanksha Singh Agrasen Girls P.G. Autonomous College, Varanasi
9	Shikha Singh Agrasen Girls P.G. Autonomous College, Varanasi
10	Reena Baral Agrasen Girls P.G. Autonomous College, Varanasi
11	Garima Srivastava Agrasen Girls P.G. Autonomous College, Varanasi
12	Nidhi Pathak Agrasen Girls P.G. Autonomous College, Varanasi
13	Jayanti Singh Department of Botany, BHU, Varanasi
14	Ms. Nidhi Pandey Department of Medicinal Chemistry Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi E-mail : nptwinckle@rediffmail.com
15	Mr. J.K. Chaurasia Department of Medicinal Chemistry Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, E-mail : jkchaurasia@rediffmail.com
16	Mr. Santosh Nagawani Department of Medicinal Chemistry Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, E-mail : santosh.nagwani@gmail.com
17	Mr. Gulam Mohammad Department of Biochemistry Faculty of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi E-mail : gmk_20@rediffmail.com

Report

The 4 days workshop began at 9 AM on 12-10-07 at R and D centre of Prof SN Tripathi Memorial Foundation. Prof. S.S. Kushwaha, Ph.D. Physics and Vice Chancellor, M.G. Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, was the chief guest and inaugurated the workshop. In his inaugural address he addressed the periodical need of such workshops, where students can learn practical aspect of these advance techniques. Prof. Kushwaha was concerned to the substandard training programme of B.Sc. & B-Tech students of Biotechnology in various colleges of UTTAR Pradesh. He verged the GOI to support such training programmes from the Feedback Proforma, a conclusion was drawn that this training was highly beneficial to all the participants.

Prof. M.S. Kanungo, FNA, Professor Emeritus, Department of Zoology, BHU delivered the keynote address “Molecular Biology : History and Now” In his oration he mentioned that University possess knowledge where as Industries possesses infrastructure. Therefore the hybridization under such organization like Prof. S.N. Tripathi Memorial Foundation be of great notification interest.

Prof Yamini Bhusan Tripathi, the President of the Foundation, while giving his Presidential address, narrated the objective of the workshop. He said very clearly that there are several colleges inn UP, which are imparting the degree in M. Sc. and B.Sc. of Biotechnology to the students, but these students do not exposed to the real experimental technique for several advance experiments, which is already in their courses. He said hat by such workshops, the Foundation will try to expose these students with newer advance technologies.

For all four days, the participants were engaged from 9 AM to 6 PM, which covered 2 lectures and whole day practical classes. 17 students participated in the workshop. Out of them 7 were Ph.D. students, 2 were M.Sc. students and remaining 8 students were B.Sc. students of Biotechnology.

They learnt different technique like microphage culture, isolation of DNA, antioxidant assay, tissue culture method, bacterial culture etc. Many experienced teachers namely Prof. Ramesh Chandra, Mycology and Plant pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Dr. Gopal Nath; Prof. Yamini B. Tripathi; Dr. K.M. Tiwari; Prof. B.D. Tripathi and Dr. Vachaspati had giving lectures and trained students that how to performed experiments.

All the participants got a chance to perform Polyaccrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and Agrose gel electrophoresis, gel casting, running and staining. They did enzyme kinetics for super oxide dismutase (SOD). They learnt the techniques of Hematology, Bleeding the rats, Microbial assay and plant tissue culture. There was one session dedicated to phyto-chemical techniques, which covered & soxhlet extraction, column chromatography, thin layer chromatography, melting point determination etc.

In plant tissue culture experiment, they learnt the several techniques such as sterilization & preparation of media, explants preparation for culturing the plants, standard conditions of plant tissue culture room. They were also exposed to the conditions of eukariotic cell culture, taking rat peritoneal macrophages as example. The techniques related to cell viability assay, plating and culturing were shown. They got the chance to handle the equipments related to culture of cells. The techniques related to animal handling, hygienic conditions of animal house, ethical issues related to animal experiments were discussed at great length.

On 4th day the participants were taken to a company Surya Pharamaceuticals, where they stayed for 4 hours and observed the process of herbal drug manufacturing, starting from identification of herbs, their extraction, powdering tablet making, strip backing capsule filling etc.

All the participants filled a From the Feedback Proforma. From that it was found that students were very much satisfied with the standard of lectures. They were very eager to learn newer techniques of Biochemistry and Biotechnology.

(Dr. Prathibha Tripathi)
Chief Coordinator
Research & Development Centre
Prof S.N. Tripathi Memorial Foundation
(Under Society act of India 1860 No. 829/92-93)
1, Gandhi Nagar Naria, Varanasi-221005