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.

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