Announcement of BIIS Webinar
SITARE BIIS: Opportunity for technology students to work on grassroots innovations
SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) in collaboration with BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India) is organizing a three-week SITARE BIIS (Students Innovations for Translation & Advancement of Research Explorations-Biotech Innovation Ignition School) for validating, value-adding and product development around grassroots innovations. The BIIS will try to develop solutions for grassroots applications for humans, animals, and agricultural applications including herbal technologies, medical devices, and microbial applications.
This time due to COVID-19 pandemic we are announcing BIIS-5 course as a webinar June, 8-27, 2020.
The topics for the online courseBIIS-5 are designed based on following fields. As a part of webinar we will assign some projects to the students primarily in five action-research areas drawing upon the Honey Bee Network Database:
- Pharmacognosy/Phytochemistry – SRISTI’s Grassroots database contains many traditional knowledge practices as well as contemporary innovations from across the country. These projects would involve validation/ value addition to these practices. A few of these practices are presented here- http://www.sristi.org/hbnew/honeybee_database.php
- Soil Microbiology-SRISTI has a Microbial diversity bank containing 8000+ organisms (bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes) isolated from the soil samples collected during ShodhYatras (learning walks for scouting and sharing innovations and local practices) in different parts of the country (http://www.sristi.org/cms/shodhyatra). An extensive study of screening these isolated microbes for novel human, animal, and agricultural applications would be conducted.
- Veterinary Medicine- Validation of traditional practices for the improvement of livestock health, nutrition, and productivity.
- Agriculture- Validation of grassroots practices by conducting trials in the lab, on the station, and in the field for product development/improvement.
- Medical devices- Value addition/product development of any of the open-source projects listed on our summer school website (http://summerschool.sristi.org/) or medical devices for human and animal health care or meeting any other unmet social needs.
Eligibility to apply
Students pursuing Bachelors program in any discipline can apply. The student should have a valid ID issued by the Institution/University.
A few seats are reserved for post graduate students also. In exceptional cases, even school children with interesting ideas may be considered.
The reading material for each subject will be shared with the selected students in advance. The participants would be expected to do literature review before joining the School. These students will be having expert lecture in various techniques of microbiology, phytochemical extraction procedures, live experiments and demonstration of various lab equipment (AAS, HPTLC, HPLC, ELISA, PCR, BSL-I & II etc.) during the webinar. They are likely to develop a project proposal as well as work plan. These students would receive an expert feedback on their proposals from the reviewers.
The assignment, quiz and work done by students during BIIS webinar will be assessed on the last day of the school. The outstanding studies (up to 10 per BIIS) may be identified for further support of INR 1 lakh each as SITARE-Appreciation Award Grant. The grantees are expected to conduct further research on the topic given either at home institution or at SRISTI’s lab.
Above all, students would get an invaluable opportunity to interact with both national and international experts as well as grassroots practitioners/innovators in their respective fields. It is hoped that each participant becomes a volunteer of the Honey Bee Network which has helped in scouting and disseminating rural creativity and innovation over the last three decades.
All the output will be credited to the grassroots knowledge providers and can be published thereafter with prior written concurrence of the BIIS team and knowledge providers.
Highest ethical code of biotech research is expected to be followed. Team spirit and willingness to develop open source solutions will be highly encouraged. Peer learning will be strongly encouraged. The findings will be shared with knowledge providers in local language with the help of SRISTI and Honey Bee Network team.
Kindly email at biis@sristi.org or call at 9426140041 (Dr. MeghaBarot) for further queries.
Schedule of the BIIS webinar
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Topics |
Experts |
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1st Week Introduction of Honey Bee Network, Grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge |
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6/8/2020 |
11 AM-11:40 PM |
Welcome and introductory remarks on grassroot innovations |
Prof. Anil K Gupta, Founder-Honey Bee Network, Coordinator-SRISTI, GIAN, Visiting faculty-IIM-A & IIT-B |
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11:45 AM- 12:30 PM |
Role of BIRAC in nurturing biotech entrepreneurship |
Ms. Shilpy Kochhar, Entrepreneurship Development Manager, DBT-BIRAC |
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12:30- 1:15 PM |
Innovations and Entrepreneurship (Focus on Biotech Entrepreneurship) |
Dr. Anand Bhadalkar, Joint Director (BD) ,GSBTM, DST, Govt. of Gujarat |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Innovations and entrepreneurship |
Dr. Vipin Kumar, Director, National Innovation Foundation, Grambharti |
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6/9/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
Integrative approaches for health, Biomedical research, Ayurveda & Yoga. |
Dr. Bhushan Patwardhan, Vice-Chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi |
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12:10-1:40 PM |
Exam (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
Descriptive |
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6/10/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
SodhYatra |
Mr. Chetan Patel, SRISTI |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Connection of Soil nutrition and human health |
Dr Nirmal Sahay, Advisor-SRISTI, ; V. P. R & D – Super Crop Safe Ltd., At: Himmatpura ( Bilodra ) , Ta. Mansa; Dist. Gandhinagar, Gujarat |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Traditional Vs Modern food : SRISTI’s tradition food recipe database |
Dr. Raksha Bhatt,Dietician, Bardoli and Mr. Ramesh Patel, SRISTI |
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6/11/2020 |
11 AM-12:30 PM |
Exam (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
Descriptive |
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6/12/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
creativity and coping at farm level through agro-biodiversity conservation for higher resilience to climate fluctuations. |
Dr. Anamika Dey, CEO GIAN |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Research Methodology |
SRISTI Lab Team |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
IPR, Patent and Ethical framework for accessing and exploring people’s knowledge and grassroots innovations |
Mr. Anil Pandey Coordinator – CIIMSME Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) CII House, Gulbai Tekra Road Near Panchwati, Ahmedabad 380 006 |
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6/13/2020 |
11 AM-12:30 PM |
Exam (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
Descriptive |
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2nd Week Grassroot practices and basics of Agriculture, veterinary and life sciences |
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6/14/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
Extraction, Isolation and purification techniques of Phytocompounds |
Dr. Mamta Shah, LM College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad, India. |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Modern Techniques for Identification of Bioactive compounds and Dereplication Approach |
Dr. Abhijit Kate, Assistant Profesor, NIPER, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Screening of Phytochemical compounds |
Dr. Megha Barot, SRISTI |
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6/15/2020 |
11AM-12:30 PM |
quiz (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
MCQ |
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6/16/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
Soil microbial diversity and screening for industrial applications |
Dr. Vijay Kothari, Assistant Professor, Institute of Science, Nirma University, Ahmedabad |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Role of Microbes in sustainable agriculture |
Dr. R V Vyas, VC Anand Agriculture University |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Current issues in Agriculture, Role of herbal solution in agriculture problems and to improve yield |
Dr. Nirmal S Sahay, Advisor-SRISTI, ; V. P. R & D – Super Crop Safe Ltd., At: Himmatpura ( Bilodra ) , Ta. Mansa; Dist. Gandhinagar, Gujarat |
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6/17/2020 |
11 AM-12 PM |
quiz (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
MCQ |
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6/18/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
Importance of crop rotation and crop selection, soil health, and crop nutrition. |
Dr. Arvind Pathak, Former Vice Chancellor, Agriculture University, Navsari and Junagadh, Gujarat |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Livestock of India and major problems |
Dr. Sameer Patel, Veterinary Doctor, Sabar Dairy, Himatnagar |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Herbal Formulation and Quality control |
Dr. Dinesh Kumar, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-CIMAP |
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6/19/2020 |
11 AM-12 PM |
quiz (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
MCQ |
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3rd Week Instrumentation and biostatistics |
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6/20/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
Working and applications of general intsruments in the field of biotechnology : UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, pH meter, Centrifuge, Microscopy, Autoclave |
Dr. Preety Bansal, Post doc, Jamia millia, New Delhi. |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Working and applications:HPLC |
Dr. Shyam Reddy, SRISTI |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Working and applications:HPTLC |
Dr. Jayanta Kumar Maji, SRISTI |
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6/21/2020 |
11 AM-12 PM |
quiz (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
MCQ |
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6/22/2020 |
11 AM-12:10 PM |
Working and applications:GC |
Dr. Shyam Reddy, SRISTI |
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12:20- 1:30 PM |
Working and applications:FTIR and Lyophilizer |
Mr. Manan Shah, Research Scholar, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
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2:30-3:40 PM |
Medical Devices: Basics and Applications |
Dr. Shahila Parween, SRISTI |
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6/23/2020 |
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM |
Biostatistics: Mean, Mode, Median, SE,SD, t-Test, ANOVA, biostatistics and experimental design |
Dr. S R Dave, Xavier’s Research Foundation (XRF) |
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1-2 PM |
quiz (Based on lectures attended one day before) |
MCQ |
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Assignment-1 |
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6/24/2020 |
Live experiments |
SRISTI Lab Team |
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6/25/2020 |
Live experiments |
SRISTI Lab Team |
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6/26/2020 |
Live experiment + Assignment-2 |
SRISTI Lab Team |
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6/27/2020 |
Valedictory session , Feedback and Discussion |
Prof. Anil Gupta and Lab Team |
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