DBT-AAU
CENTRE
ASSAM
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
JORHAT
-785 013
Call
for Abstract for Poster Session in the Workshop-II: DBT-AAU Centre for
Agricultural Biotechnology
26-28
Sept, 2012INTRODUCTION
Biotechnology
has emerged as a powerful tool in addressing various issues confronting
agriculture today. Biotechnological tools provide powerful avenues for meeting
food and nutritional security as well as development of eco-friendly organic
products to aid and assist in increasing and sustaining crop production.
Considering the richness and variability of biodiversity that exists in the
North-East of India, this region holds good promise to deliver on the
biotechnological solutions. The DBT-AAU centre has been established with a
vision to produce quality human resources in the field of Agricultural
Biotechnology and scientifically exploit the potential bio-resources of the
region to provide gene based solution to the current and upcoming challenges
confronting agricultural production.
OBJECTIVES
As
a part of this endeavour, the Centre is organizing a poster competition during
its 2nd workshop with an aim of encouraging the post graduate students in the
Institutes of the NE Region to take up research in Biotechnology and provide a
platform for showcasing their work. The students will also get an opportunity
to hear international and national experts talking about their research and
other advances in modern Agricultural Biotechnology.
ABOUT ASSAM AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY
Assam
Agriculture University is a premier institute of agricultural and educational
research in the North East India. The Department of Biotechnology, Government
of India established the DBT-AAU Centre at AAU in 2011, making it one of the
first such Centres in the entire NE region. In addition to courses that
integrate biology with the information sciences, the educational program also
offers academic and student internships. It also includes opportunities for
research and trainings designed to provide researchers and students with
facilities in this emerging field. The research program includes areas in Gene
Technology, Allele Mining, Microbial Biotechnology and Systems Biology.
HOW TO REACH
The
Assam Agricultural University head quarter is located at Borbheta which is
about 5 km from both bus station and railway station and 2 km from airport of
the Jorhat city. The city can be reached easily from Guwahati, the capital of
Assam, by air/bus/train. The latitude, longitude and altitude of Jorhat are
26°44´N, 94°l0´E and 9l m above mean sea level respectively.
LEVEL OF PARTICIPANTS
Students
undergoing post graduate studies in Biotechnology / any Branches of Life
Science/Agriculture
DURATION AND VENUE
The
poster session will be held during 26 – 28 September, 2012 and will run
parallel along with the lecture session.
Poster specifications:
Poster Size: 4ft (Length) by 3ft (width)
Poster Orientation:
Portrait
Poster Text specifications: Text should be of sufficient
size for easy reading at a distance of 1.5 meters. Recommended parameters are
listed below
Plain fonts with size: 24-32
Authors names: 18-20
Text: 16-20
REGISTRATION FEE
Registration
is free. Abstracts of the posters should reach the undersigned on or before 1st
September 2012. Selected participants will be informed by email/phone. The
selected students will be provided with free working lunch and dinner.
Travelling cost will have to be borne by the candidates themselves.
ACCOMODATION
Accommodation
will be provided free of cost to the selected candidates at University guest
house/ research scholar hostels at AAU, Jorhat.
(B
K Sarmah)
(Madhumita
Barooah)
Centre
Director
Chairman- Poster competition
Email:
bidyutsarmah@yahoo.co.in Email: m17barooah@yahoo.co.in
FOR DETAILS, PLEASE REFER http://www.aau.ac.in/classified/DBT_AAU6.html
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