Thursday, May 30, 2013


The IndiaBioscience initiative: Research Opportunities in India


A talk by Dr. Swetha Suresh , Associate Director for IndiaBioscience

Venue: 434 Barker Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Date:  Friday , 31st May , 2013
Time: 1:30PM
Please RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/561771733875538/
Event contact: sharmistha@berkeley.edu


Abstract: IndiaBioscience (http://www.indiabioscience.org/) is an
outreach initiative with the aim of strengthening life-sciences in
India by creating a platform that caters to the rapidly increasing
needs of the life science community in India as well as overseas.This
talk will showcase opportunities for pursuing research in India
(fellowships/grants); about various collaborative, informational
outreach, recruitment and networking activities that IndiaBioscience
has initiated and how best to get involved. More details at
http://www.indiabioscience.org/,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/indiabioscience/

The talk will provide a good opportunity to those interested in
building a teaching and research career in India to gain first hand
perspective on the opportunities and
possibilities that lie ahead. The talk will be followed by a
discussion and a question & answer session.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Swetha Suresh is the Associate Director for
IndiaBioscience, a pan-India outreach initiative. Her specialty is in
knowledge exchange, liaising and working at interfaces. She has
dabbled in biosensors, assessing viability of optical materials,
membrane-protein interactions, microeconomics, imaging, communications
and editing. Her academic background is in Industrial Biotechnology
(BTech) from Anna University, Chennai and Pharmacology (PhD) from
Cambridge, UK.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Milind Watve at UCSF

Talk by Milind Watve at UCSF
"Type 2 diabetes: how undergraduate inquiry changed the picture"
 Venue: S-201, Genentech Hall, UCSF
Time: 10 AM, Thursday, March 21, 2013
 Speaker: Professor Milind Watve, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
 Dr. Watve is well known for engaging undergraduate classrooms in tackling real and challenging problems and thus changing the education model. You can read more about him on his group web page