Self Support Short Term Courses
Advances in Vaccine Technology
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Advances in Vaccine Technology
Course co-ordinator: Prof. N. Ravi Sundaresan
Course Schedule
25 – 29 November, 2024
From 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Course Mode: Online
Course Fee per participant: Rs. 2000+18%GST
Registration Deadline: 20th November, 2024
Topics covered:
Principles of vaccine technology, Type of vaccines, Development of novel inactivated vaccines, attenuated vaccines, recombinant subunit vaccines, DNA vaccines and RNA vaccines.
Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms
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Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms
Course co-ordinator: Prof. Amit Singh
Course Schedule
18 – 22 November, 2024
From 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Course Mode: Online
Course Fee per participant: Rs. 2000+18%GST
Registration Deadline: 15th November, 2024
Topics covered:
History of Antibiotics, antibiotic functions- mechanism of killing, assays to measure AMR, genetic basis of drug resistance, heteroresistance, phenotypic antimicrobial resistance, drug tolerance, persisters, biofilms, host-pathogen heterogeneity.
Genome Editing by CRISPR-Cas9
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Genome Editing by CRISPR-Cas9
Course co-ordinator: Prof. N. Ravi Sundaresan
Course Schedule
25 – 29 November, 2024
From 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Course Mode: Online
Course Fee per participant: Rs. 2000+18%GST
Registration Deadline: 20th November, 2024
Topics covered:
Principles of CRISPR- Cas9, Applications of CRISPR- Cas9 technology, Genome editing in cultured cells, Genome editing in worms, Genome editing in plants, Genome editing in animals.
RNA-based Therapeutics
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RNA-based Therapeutics
Course co-ordinator: Prof. Sandeep Eswarappa
Course Schedule
18 – 22 November, 2024
From 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Course Mode: Online
Course Fee per participant: Rs. 2000+18%GST
Registration Deadline: 15th November, 2024
Topics covered:
Basics of RNA biology; different kinds of RNAs and their functions; Cellular processes mediated or regulated by RNAs; Antisense oligonucleotide-based therapy; mRNA vaccines; Targeting RNAs by CRISPR-Cas system. Overview of RNA-based drugs approved for clinical use. Present challenges and future perspectives.
Understanding the Functioning of a Cell
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Understanding the Functioning of a Cell
Course co-ordinator: Prof. Sachin Kotak
Course Schedule
02 – 06 December, 2024
From 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Course Mode: Online
Course Fee per participant: Rs. 2000+18%GST
Registration Deadline: 25th November, 2024
Topics covered:
Fundamental of light microscopy; Intracellular organization and their functioning-a eukaryotic cell perspective; In and out of the nucleus; Organization of membrane-less organelles; Centrosome; Cytoskeleton and spindle morphogenesis, Cell division pathways; Art of the screens.