Activities & Programs

Departmental activities and programmes organized so far (subject association, periodic special programs / seminars / conferences / workshops / symposia, etc.)

 
i. DST funded discussion meeting on Evolutionary Biology in 1995. 
 
ii. National seminar on Vermitechnology and Waste Management in 2005, DST interaction meeting in 2005 & 2008. 
 
iii. Indian Academy of Science funded lecture series in 2002 and 2006, 2016.
 
iv. National workshop on Biodiversity Assessment in 2009.
 
v. KSTA sponsored lecture series in 2010 and 2014.
 
vi. National Conference on Recent Advances in Animal Sciences, 2015. 
 
vii. Workshop on Wildlife photography-Current trends and Techniques, March 23, 2013. 
 
Viii. Indian Science Academies’ lecture workshop on Recent Trends in Biological Research: Health and Disease Perspective, October 7-8, 2016.
 
ix. Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) Bangalore, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, The National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad,  Science  Academies Lecture Workshop on the topic “Recent trends in biological  research : health and disease perspective” October 7- 8,  2016. 
 
x Two days workshop on ‘Confocal microscopy and its application’ November 29-30, 2016.
 
xi. Special Lecture on the topic “Understanding the Free Radical” by Prof (Emeritus). T. Ramasarma, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on 14th December 2016. 
 
xii. International Symposium on ‘Genomic Instability and Human Diseases’ January 30, 2017.
 
xiii. Special Lecture on the topic “Chemical Communication in
Biology” by Padmabhushan Prof (Emeritus) P. Balaramfrom Indian Institute of Science, February 27, 2017. 
 
xiv. Two days workshop on “Biodiversity Assessment” March 17 – 18, 2017.
 
xv. A two day National Conference on “Reaching the Unreached through Science and technology – recent Advance in Physical, Chemical, Mathematical and Biological Sciences for Energy, Health and environment”  on September 8-9, 2017. 
 
xvi International Faculty interaction programme on the theme Molecular and Medical Genetics, November 15, 2017. 
 
xvii Two days workshop on “Methods in Anatomy and Animal Preservation” March 18-19, 2018. 
 
xviii Special Lecture on the topic “Oxidative genome damage and repair: ubiquity, complexity and pathological implications” by Prof. Sankar Mitra, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA, March 6, 2018. 
 
xix. Special Lecture on the topic “Chemistry at the Interface of Biology and Medicine” by Padmabhushan Prof (Emeritus) P.Balaram from IISc , Bangalore on February 5, 2019.
 
xx A two day workshop on “Animal Conservation” March 14-15, 2019.
 
xxi ‘Wildlife Week’ 2019 was organized with a Wildlife Photo & Art Exhibition, October 16-18, 2019
 
xxii A two days workshop “Animal Diversity & Conservation”  on October 7-8,  2020.