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Visitors:
Mr. Adinarayana from Filaria Training Centre, Guntur visited the centre for collaborative research work in filariasis during 26th to 31st March, 2003.
Mr. Thirugnanam, PhD student from Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai visited the centre during 4th April to 29th May, 2003 for collaborative work in filariasis
Participation
in Meetings / Conference / Symposia:
Attended Filaria Task Force meeting as member of Advisory Group of Task Force on filariasis at ICMR, New Delhi on April 4, 2003.
Attended meeting of Scientific Advisory Group of Basic Medical Sciences and Traditional Medicine at ICMR, New Delhi on April 23, 2003.
Delivered a Guest Lecture on ‘Immunodiagnostics for detection and monitoring filaria and tuberculosis’ at Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun on April 24, 2003.
Attended Filaria
Task Force meeting as member of Task Force on filariasis at ICMR, New Delhi on
April 4, 2003.
Mr. Pankaj Dabir visited Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai during 21st April – 9th May, 2003 for immunoscreening of filarial cDNA libraries for identification of clones of diagnostic importance.
Summer Training:
Mr. Saroj Kumar and Mr. Pramod Yadav from Dept. of Biotechnology, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi have started summer training in Biotechnology methods at JBTDRC from 2nd June, 2003.
Mr.
Vinay Prasad and Mr. Amit Kumar
Kaushal have been awarded and joined short term student training fellowships
by ICMR to work on Research projects in Filariasis and Tuberculosis at JBTDRC
during June – July, 2003.
Research Publications:
B. Bhunia, Y. P. Bhandari, M. V. R. Reddy and B. C. Harinath Analysis of IgG subclasses and IgE antibodies across the clinical spectrum of bancroftian filariasis in an endemic area. Indian J Patho Microbiol 2003,Vol 46 ,No1,113-117.