Centre for Biodiversity Exploration and Conservation - CBEC

09/05/2025

Registration is Now Open!
Join Geological Survey of India for the conference on “Next-Gen Geophysics 2025: Unlocking Earth’s Hidden Treasures”, on 9th & 10th June 2025 at GSITI, Hyderabad. This conference will spotlight breakthrough geophysical technologies driving the strategic and sustainable exploration of deep-seated and concealed mineral resources, especially critical minerals powering India’s energy transition.
Connect with leading experts, trailblazing innovators, and visionary thinkers as you immerse yourself in dynamic knowledge exchange and collaborative learning.
What’s more, there is no registration fee and no charges for exhibition space.
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09/05/2025

19/04/2025

Hard work and dedication in the CBEC lab! Students pouring their hearts into their dissertation projects. Wishing them all the best for their future endeavors!




Shaifali Sharma
Rohit Sharma

19/04/2025

BISMiS Live - 43rd Session
Date & Time Apr 19, 2025 12:30 PM India

Webinar ID 824 2060 2795

Passcode 939456

Description About the Upcoming Session

Speaker: Prof. Rup Lal, University of Delhi, INDIA

Title of the Talk: Tracing Our Scientific Evolution: 25 Years from Microbial Diversity to Genomics and Beyond

The complete list of speakers is available at https://bismis.net/bismislive.html

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09/04/2025

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04/04/2025

Exciting Upcoming Publication!

MycoAsia is thrilled to announce that the original research article “The assessment of apple pomace as a basic substrate and a nutrient supplement for Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) cultivation in Bhutan” by Karma Thinley and co-authors will be published this weekend or early next week!

This insightful study explores the innovative use of apple pomace waste for sustainable mushroom cultivation, highlighting significant yield improvements and waste reduction potential. A perfect example of turning agro-waste into agricultural value!

Stay tuned on mycoasia.org — we can't wait to share it with you!

14/03/2025

📢 Call for Manuscripts! 📝✨

🔬 MycoIndia: Journal of Indian Fungi invites researchers and academicians to submit their original research, reviews, and short communications.
🌿 Scope: Indian fungal diversity, taxonomy, biotechnology, pathology, ecology, and applied mycology.
📅 Submit Now and contribute to advancing fungal research!
📧 For submissions & guidelines, visit: https://mycoindia.org/
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12/01/2025

A must listen talk by Dr. Omprakash!

AFB-MycoAsia Talk Announcement! 🌿

🗓 Mark your calendars!
📅 Date: 08, February 2025 (Saturday)
🕒 Time: 11 am - 12 pm IST
📍 Platform: Google Meet

We are thrilled to announce an exciting talk by the distinguished Dr. OM PRAKASH SHARMA, Deputy Head of the Symbiosis Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (SCCCS), Pune, India.

🎤 Talk Title: "Conditional Drug Resistance in Medically Important Fungi: Emerging Challenges and Solutions"

Dr. Prakash is an eminent researcher with over 22 years of interdisciplinary expertise in microbiology, climate change, and public health. His groundbreaking contributions to microbial ecology and his role as Chairman of the ICSP Subcommittee on Methanogenic Archaea underscore his global impact.

Join us for an insightful session exploring the complexities of fungal drug resistance and its implications for medical science.

💡 This event is a must-attend for microbiologists, fungal biologists, medical researchers, and students passionate about advancing fungal biology and health sciences.

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10/01/2025

Folks! Registration closing soon!

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09/01/2025

The correct date of medicine laureate Har Gobind Khorana's birth is not known, but it is recorded as 9 January 1922 in documents. Khorana was born in a little village in Punjab named Raipur. His father was a village agricultural taxation clerk in the British Indian system of government. Although poor, his father was dedicated to educating his children and they were practically the only literate family in the village inhabited by about 100 people.

Despite poor educational facilities, Khorana completed high school and went on to receive bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from University of the Punjab in Lahore. In 1945, Khorana moved to the University of Liverpool, UK, under a Government of India Fellowship where he obtained a PhD in 1948.

Khorana spent a postdoctoral year (1948-1949) at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, before he moved to Cambridge for two years. A job offer in 1952 from Dr. Gordon M. Shrum of British Columbia took him to Vancouver, where Khorana worked in the field of biologically interesting phosphate esters and nucleic acids. His work ultimately took him to the United States and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

However, it was during his time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that Khorana did his Nobel Prize-awarded work on the genetic code. Khorana shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Marshall Nirenberg and Robert Holley "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."

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