Online ‘Open Day’ with CSIR-CCMB scientists from Sept. 23
The Hindu
CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)’s ‘Open Day’ will be an online affair this year too due to the pandemic and there is an an interesting mix of webinars being made available
CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB)’s ‘Open Day’ will be an online affair this year too due to the pandemic and there is an an interesting mix of webinars being made available to students, researchers and science aficionados for the next four days starting Thursday.
Top scientists will discuss the work they do in life sciences like studying cells, molecules in those cells and how they function, besides answering questions posed by participants. There will be discussions on ‘how to be a scientist’ and ‘how to find the right information’ and competitions for school children.
Director Vinay Nandicoor will formally begin the proceedings on the first day (Sept.23) and it will be followed by talks on model organisms by former director Rakesh Mishra and Sonal Jaiswal, about Zebrafish facility by Megha Kumar, DNA- the thread of life again, by Dr. Mishra, genetics and diagnostics by Chandok.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.