MACFAST organizes national and international level seminars, conferences and workshops on latest advancements in Science, Technology and Management.
Department of Management Studies conducted during 2018-2020:
- • National Conference on Business Ecosystem – Issues and Challenges on 14th September 2018. The key note address was from Dr. Jayashankar Prasad C, Director ICFOSS. There were 150 participants and 20 paper presentations.
- • International Conference on “Green Economy and Sustainable Development” on 16th October 2019. The key note address delivered by Prof. Dr. Udith K Jayasinghe (Senior Professor and the Chair-Department of Agribusiness Management Wayamba University Sri Lanka and inaugurated by Prof. Dr. K. S Chandrasekar (Professor and Head, IMK, University of Kerala). There were around 170 participants and 42 registrations for paper presentation.
- • Virtual National Conference on Atmanirbhar Bharat: A road map to self-reliant India (NCABSRI 2020) on 25th November 2020,there were around 200 participants and 72 registrations for paper presentation.The Inaugural address and chief guest was Mr. Sijo Kuruvilla George, Founding CEO of Start-up Village, Kochi. The technical session was handled by Prof. S. Viswanatha Rao, Vice Principal & Dean (Academic), Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum. The conference was successfully conducted through Zoom platform.
Department of Biosciences conducted the following events:
January 2018 – December 2018
| Sl. No. | Date | Topic | Resource Persons | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 16, 2018 | Workshop on ‘Intellectual Property Rights, Patent Search and Filing’ | Dr. Bismi Gopalakrishnan, Adv. Febin James, Shri. Vishnu V. A | Dean & Professor, School of Indian Legal Thought, MG University Trademark Attorney & Partner, Legalites IP Services, Thrissur PIC-Kerala, KSCSTE |
| 2 | September 27, 2018 | Curiosity in science - cockroach milk and blue fish | Prof. Ramaswamy S | Senior Professor, Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore |
| 3 | August 8, 2018 | Nutritional Importance of Anti-oxidants with respect to Pomegranate | Dr. R. P Singh | Senior Principal Scientist, Department of Biochemistry and Co-ordinator of HRD, CFTRI, Mysoru |
| 4 | May 31, 2018 | Emerging foods and their safety concerns | Dr. Asha Martin | Head, Dept. of Food Safety & Analytical Quality Control Laboratory (FSAQCL), CFTRI |
| 5 | May 18, 2018 | Sacred Groves as a Repository of Medicinal Plants | Dr. Kannan C Warrier | Senior Principal Scientist Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding Coimbatore |
| 6 | May 17, 2018 | Medicinal plants and their endophytic fungi: prolific sources of known and novel pharmaceuticals | Prof. C. Jayabaskaran | Chairman , Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| 7 | April 7, 2018 | A Day with an Entrepreneur | Dr. Majeed | Founder & Managing Director, SAMI’s lab, Bangalore |
| 8 | February 26, 2018 | Scientific Innovations for Sustainable Development | Dr. Irfan Ahmad Ghazi | School of Life Sciences, Central University Hyderabad |
| 9 | February 1, 2018 | The Spindle Assembly Checkpoint: With Great Power Comes Great Responsiveness | Prof. Jonathan Pines FRS | Head Division of Cancer Biology Institute of Cancer Research, London |
| 10 | January 8, 2018 | Workshop on Research Methodology | Dr. Michael Sauer | Department of Biotechnology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna |
January 2019 – December 2019
| Sl. No. | Date | Topic | Resource Persons | Organizations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 24-26, 2019 | International Conference on advances in Food and Industrial Biotechnology | 48 international speakers | The Biotech Research Society, India(BRSI) CSIR-NISCAIR Centre for Energy and Environment Sustainability |
| 2 | October 10 & 11, 2019 | EMBO Key note Address International lecture Workshop on Cell Cycle and Cell Death | Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, Murty Srinivasula | 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 3 | July 8, 2019 | Recent Trends in Molecular Diagnostics | Dr. Anoopkumar T | SreeChitra Thirunal Insititute of Medical Sciences and Technology |
| 4 | July 5, 2019 | Life Sciences and Career | Dr. Smitha Jain | Executive Director, India Bioscience, NCBS |
| 5 | July 2, 2019 | Fundamentals in Technical writing | Dr. K. P. Vijayakumar | University of Kerala |
| 6 | June 28, 2019 | Applications of Physics | Dr. V. P. N. Nampoori | CUSAT |
| 7 | June 3, 2019 | Seminar on Eat Right | Food Safety Department ,Govt. of Kerala | Food Safety Department, Govt. of Kerala |
| 8 | May 9, 2019 | Entrepreneusrship in Lifescienes | Dr. Ramchand C. N. | CEO, Sakshin Life sciences Pvt. Ltd. |
| 10 | March 11, 2019 | Evolution of bacterial transcription regulatory networks | Dr. Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee | National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) |
| 11 | February 27, 2019 | Sensing across scales: Fluorescent biosensors for live cell imaging and discoveries in natural light sensing and eye-brain regeneration | Dr. Akash Gulyani | Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore |
| 12 | February 26, 2019 | KSCSTE SPONSORED National Science day lecture | Padma Shri M. Chandra Dathan | Former Director, VSSC & Scientific Advisor to Chief Minister, Govt. of Kerala |
| 13 | January 10 & 11, 2019 | Two Days Workshop on Restructuring the curriculum of the Post Graduate Degree Courses in Biosciences | Dr. Priyasensan, Dr. Padmesh P, Dr. Mohan Kumar C | MG University, Central university of Kerala SCMS, Kochi |
January 2020 – December 2020
| Sl. No. | Date | Topic | Resource Persons | Organizations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 22, 2020 | GNR Science club presentation on "Engineered Nano Structured Materials for Biomedical Applications" | Dr. Nandakumar Kalarikkal | Associate Professor at School of Pure and Applied Physics and Joint Director of International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala |
| 2 | November 23, 2020 | Webinar on "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) & Patent process" | Pooja Vishal Maulikar, Examiner Of Patents & Designs | Biosciences &IQAC MACFAST in association with Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Intellectual Property Management, Nagpur |
| 3 | November 20, 2020 | "Understanding an Asian Elephant Society" | Vidya T. N. C, Ph.D. | Associate Professor and Chair, Evolutionary and Integrative Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Jakkur, Bengaluru 560064 |
| 4 | November 18, 2020 | START (Search for Truth and Return to Science), New Delhi is organizing a webinar “Science Film Screening for Skilling” | Matiur Rahman | National award winning Science Film Maker |
| 5 | November 17, 2020 | "The functions of noncoding RNAs in the cell, and their involvement in cancer. There is "nothing junk" about them" | Prof. Kannanganattu V. Prasanth, Ph. D. | Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology Member, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 6 | November 16, 2020 | Webinar on "Green chemical synthesis using bi-functional linkers" | B. S. Balaji, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University ,New Delhi |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 | Webinar on "COVID 19 Vaccines" | Dr. Raghavan Varadarajan | Molecular Biophysics Unit Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| 8 | November 5, 2020 | Webinar on "Prospects and opportunities in Science Communication" | Dr. Manoj Kumar Patairiya | Adviser & Scientist G, Science & Engineering Research Council, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India |
| 9 | November 3, 2020 | Webinar on “AI in Healthcare: National and Global Imperatives” | Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Ph.D. | Director, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), Delhi |
| 10 | October 30, 2020 | Webinar on “Application of GC-MS in analysis of essential oils” | Dr. V.K. Varshney | Scientist-G ,Chemistry and Bioprospecting Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun |
| 11 | October 28, 2020 | Webinar on "At the intersection of Chemistry and Biology: Developing Biocatalysed Reactions" | Prof. Anju Chadha, Ph.D. | Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Department of Biotechnology & National Center for Catalysis Research, IIT Madras, Chennai |
| 12 | October 26, 2020 | Webinar on “Ethics in Research and Publications” | Prof. S. C. Lakhotia | FNA, FASc, FNASc, BHU Distinguished Professor (Lifelong) & SERB Distinguished Fellow, Cytogenetics Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi |
| 13 | October 20, 2020 | Webinar on “Research and its dissemination during the pandemic” | Dr. Magdalena Skipper | Editor-in-chief, Nature |
| 14 | October 19, 2020 | Webinar on "The Food Fly: Nutrition specific memories and diet mediated neuronal plasticity in Drosophila" | Dr. Gaurav Das | Das, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune |
| 15 | October 16, 2020 | Webinar on "Modelling the function of type 2 diabetes genes/loci using iPSCs-derived pancreatic-islet like cells and CRISPR/CAS9" | Anup Kumar Nair, Ph. D. | Staff Scientist ,National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| 16 | October 14, 2020 | Webinar on "Biotechnological tools in biodiversity conservation" | G. Umapathy, Ph. D. | Senior Principal Scientist and Group Leader, Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad |
| 17 | October 13, 2020 | Webinar on "Wildlife Forensics” | Dr. S. K. Gupta | Scientist-E & Nodal Officer ,Wildlife Forensic and Conservation Genetics Cell & Dept. of Animal Ecology & Conservation Biology, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehra Dun |
| 18 | October 12, 2020 | Webinar "On Odor Reproduction, and How to Test For It" | Prof. David Harel | Vice President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities ,Jerusalem, Israel 91040 & Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| 19 | October 9, 2020 | Webinar on "Millets: Nutritional potential and challenges" | Dr. Paras Sharma | Scientist C, Food Chemistry Division, ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
| 20 | October 8, 2020 | Webinar on "Nutrition research in India - How does one go about it?" | Raja Sriswan Mamidi, Ph. D. | Scientist C, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad |
| 21 | October 7, 2020 | Webinar on "INFORMED WALK ACROSS RAMACHANDRAN MAP IN SEARCH OF NOVEL BIOMATERIALS" | Dr. Vibin Ramakrishnan | Professor, Biosciences & Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati |
| 22 | October 1, 2020 | Webinar on “Nonmuscle Myosin II Activity Controls Membrane Protrusive Activities” | Prof. Siddhartha S. Jana, Ph. D. | School of Biological Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata |
| 23 | September 29, 2020 | Webinar on "Linking DNA replication to chromatin organization, cell cycle progression and genome stability" | Prof. Supriya G. Prasanth, Ph. D. | Professor and Head, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, Urbana, IL |
| 24 | September 26, 2020 | Webinar on “3D Bioprinting: An Innovative Medical Technology for Repair and Replacement of human tissues and organs” | Prafulla Chandra, Ph. D. | Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine |
| 25 | September 25, 2020 | Webinar on “Structural Biology - where are we now and where are we going” | Prof. Ramaswamy Subramanian, Ph. D. | Director, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University |
| 26 | September 24, 2020 | Webinar on “Towards a system level understanding of proliferation control in Mammalian cells using MS-based proteomics” | Tony L Y | Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Biology, University of Edinburg |
| 27 | September 23, 2020 | Webinar on “Organic farming for climate change adaptations and food security” | Prof. Dillip Kumar | Professor, Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
| 28 | September 18, 2020 | Webinar on “A plant's-eye view on diversity, and why plants matter” | Dr. Vinita Gowda | Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal |
| 29 | September 16, 2020 | Webinar on “Structure-based protein engineering to alter functional properties of enzymes for industrial and pharmaceutical applications” | Sampa Biswas, Ph. D. | Crystallography & Molecular Biology Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata |
| 30 | September 14, 2020 | Webinar on “Nano-size steps and meter-long journeys – Reaching destinations through obstacles and random walk” | Prof. Krishanu Ray, Ph. D. | FNA, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| 31 | September 11, 2020 | Webinar on "Eat Right India-A Food System Approach for transformation" | Neethu Ravikumar | Food Safety Officer, Konni Circle, Department of Food Safety, Pathanamthitta, Govt. of Kerala |
| 32 | September 10, 2020 | Webinar on "Cosmic Fireworks: Violent death of exotic stars" | Dr. Poonam Chandra | Associate Professor, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Pune |
| 33 | September 8, 2020 | Webinar on "A theoretical perspective on the coding capacity of olfactory networks" | Assisi Collins, Ph. D. | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) |
| 34 | September 5, 2020 | Webinar “Neuroendocrine regulation of metabolic physiology” | Bhavani Shankar Sahu, Ph. D. | National Brain Research Centre, Manesar |
| 35 | September 4, 2020 | Webinar on “Simultaneous Detection of Neurochemicals by a Microfluidic Device" | Prof. Suddhasatwa Basu | FNASc, FRSC, FICS, Outstanding Professor, AcSIR; Director, CSIR-Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (IMMT); Bhubaneswar |
| 36 | September 3, 2020 | Webinar on " Innate immune surveillance by Surfactant protein SP-D in cancer " | Dr. Uday Kishore | Brunel University & University of Oxford, London |
| 37 | September 1, 2020 | Webinar on “New Horizons for the Chromosome Segregation Machinery” | Dhanya Cheerambathur, Ph. D. | Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| 38 | August 29, 2020 | Webinar on "Studying Asian Honey Bees" | Dr. Axel Brockmann | National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bellary Road, Bangalore |
| 39 | August 26, 2020 | Webinar on “Epigenetic regulation, heterochromatin and fungal resistance" | Robin Allshire, Ph. D. | FRSE, FRS, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| 40 | August 25, 2020 | Webinar on "Drosophila and Zebrafish as human disease models" | Prof. Upendra Nongthomba Ph. D. | Professor, Developmental and Biomedical genetics Laboratory (DBGL), Dept. of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics (MRDG),Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore |
| 41 | August 22, 2020 | Webinar on “Chemistry, Biology and the Unity of Nature” | Prof. P. Balaram | Ph. D., (Padma Bhushan Awardee) ,Former Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| 42 | August 19, 2020 | Webinar on “Antibiotic Resistance: The next pandemic” | Dr. Anil Kumar Singh | (Senior Scientist),Biological Sciences & Technology Division, CSIR-North East Institute of Science &Technology, Jorhat ,Assam |
| 43 | August 18, 2020 | Webinar on “Speed Control in Animals: Making and Breaking Rules” | Dr. Vatsala Thirumalai | Associate Professor, Senior Fellow, Wellcome Trust – DBT India Alliance, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
| 44 | August 17, 2020 | Webinar on “Multiple Facets of Gene Regulation: through the Eyes of Pseudoexfoliation” | Debasmita P. Alone, Ph. D. | Associate Professor, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) |
| 45 | August 14, 2020 | Webinar on "Collective animal motion” | Vishwesha Guttal, Ph. D. | Associate Professor, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |
| 46 | August 13, 2020 | Webinar on "Life at Science" | Valda J. Vinson, Ph. D. | Editor, Science |
| 47 | August 12, 2020 | Webinar on "Personal Genomes to Precision Medicine-Implications for Rare Genetic Diseases” | Sridhar Sivasubbu, Ph. D. | Sr. Scientist & Associate Professor (AcSIR), CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi, India |
| 48 | August 11, 2020 | Webinar on "Functional Foods: Food Matrix Composition, interactions and bioavailability" | Dr. Veda Krishnan, Ph. D. | Fulbright Fellow Scientist (Senior Scale), Division of Biochemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi |
| 49 | August 10, 2020 | Webinar on "Flower evolution in a nutshell", Germany | Dr. Annette Becker | Justus-Liebig-University, Gieße |
| 50 | August 9, 2020 | Webinar on "Indigenous development of strategic materials for societal benefits: One step ahead towards self-reliant India" | Dr. Bipin Kumar Gupta | Principal Scientist & Associate Professor (AcSIR), Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM) Fellow, CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi |
| 51 | August 8, 2020 | Webinar on "Introduction to Tissue Engineering: The State of the art technology to Repair and Regenerate the human body” | Dr. Gauri Kulkarni | Research Scientist, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM), North Carolina, USA |
| 52 | August 6, 2020 | Webinar on “Science Communication through Scientoons” | Prof. Pradeep K. Srivastava, Ph. D. | Director (Sr. Principal Scientist) Ex., Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE (CDRI), Lucknow |
| 53 | August 3, 2020 | Webinar on "Regulation of rapid adaptive responses in microorganisms" | Sander Granneman, Ph. D. | MRC Senior Non-Clinical Research Fellow in RNA Biochemistry and Group Leader, University of Edinburgh |
| 54 | August 1, 2020 | Webinar | Prof. Partha P Majumder, Ph. D. | National Science Chair, National Institute Of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West-Bengal |
| 55 | July 29, 2020 | Webinar on “Traffic jams in healthy neurons regulate cargo flow Traffic jams in healthy neurons regulate cargo flow” | Dr. Sandhya P Koushika | TIFR |
| 56 | July 27, 2020 | Webinar on “Lessons Learned in Lockdown” | Christopher P. Baines, Ph. D. | Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri |
| 57 | July 23, 2020 | Webinar on “Science: the joy of figuring things out” | Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado | Scientific Director, Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Missouri |
| 58 | July 17, 2020 | Webinar on “Cancer Nanotechnology” | Dr. P. Gopinath, Ph. D. | Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Joint faculty in Centre for Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee -247 667, Uttarakhand, India. |
| 59 | July 16, 2020 | Webinar on “Progress and pitfalls on COVID Vaccine Development” | Gagandeep Kang | Executive Director Translational Health Science and Technology Institute NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad |
| 60 | July 15, 2020 | Webinar on “Modern Analytical Instrumentation and their application in Food Science” | Vatcharavelu K. | Central Instrumentation Facility CSIR- CFTRI, Mysoru |
| 61 | July 13, 2020 | Webinar on “Cryopreservation strategies for long term conservation of germplasm” | Dr. Era Vaidya Malhotra | Scientist SS ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources |
| 62 | July 10, 2020 | Webinar on "Science, biology, and the world’s future" | Prof. Bruce Alberts, Ph. D. | Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, University of California, San Francisco |
| 63 | July 7, 2020 | The Chemical Language of Nature | Dr. Shannon Olsson | National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore |
| 64 | June 29, 2020 | Webinar on "Nutraceuticals, pomegranate and punicic acid" | Dr. R. P Singh | CSIR - Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru |
| 65 | June 22, 2020 | Webinar on “Recent Advances in Food Packaging Technology” | Dr. Arunkumar | Panneerselvam, Sr. Scientist, Department of Food Packaging Technology CSIR - Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru |
| 66 | June 10, 2020 | Webinar on “Emerging trends and opportunities in Life Science Research” | Dr. Gitanjali Yadav | Scientist, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi |
| 67 | June 5, 2020 | Webinar " Journey from student to researcher" | Dr. AjithAshokan | IISER, Bhopal |
| 68 | February 11, 2020 | G N Ramachandran Science Club invited lecture | Bony De Kumar | Ph. D., Director, COBRE Genomics Core, Rm W127, University of North Dakota, School of Medicine and Health Sciences |
| 69 | February 6, 2020 | National Science Day Celebrations-Invited lecture | Dr. Aiswarya G Recipient of Marie Curie Fellowship | MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, KiryatShmona, Israel |
| 70 | February 3, 2020 | G N Ramachandran Science Club invited lecture | Dr. Shijulal N S | DST-Inspire Faculty Fellow, RGCB (former Student M. Sc. Bioinformatics (2004-2006)) |
| 71 | January 9, 2020 | International seminar on Natural products chemistry | Prof. Khozirah Shaari, Prof. Maribel Nonato, Prof. Dr. Varughese George, Prof. Dr. Palpu Pushpangadan | Professor, Laboratory of Natural Products, Institute of Bioscience, University Putra, Malaysia Professor of Chemistry, Vice Rector for Research & Innovation, Office for Research & Innovation, Thomas Aquinas Research Complex, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines Director, Amity Institute of Phytochemistry and Phytomedicine, Thiruvananthapuram Padma Shri Awardee, UN Equator Initiative Laureate and Borlaug Awardee (Former Director, CSIR-NBRI & CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow & KSCSTE-JNTBGRI & DBT-RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram) DIRECTOR GENERAL, Amity Institute for Herbal and Biotech Products Development Thiruvananthapuram & Sr. Vice President, RBEF, New Delhi |
January 2021 till the day
| Sl. No. | Date | Topic | Resource Persons | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 16, 2021 | Webinar on “Role of microbes in our world" | Dr. Michael Sauer | Associate Professor Department of Biotechnology Institute of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Muthgasse 18 1190 Vienna, Austria |
| 2 | March 12, 2021 | GN Ramachandran Science Club Talk” Session1: Biocide options to control the transmission of pathogens & Session 2: Masters or Ph. D. in New Zealand“ | Dr. Shilpa Saseendran Nair | Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| 3 | March 8, 2021 | GN Ramachandran Science Club Talk On Microbial and Biochemical Spoilage Mechanisms in Fishery Products | Dr. Dhanya P. R | Assistant professor, Department of Aquaculture, M. E. S Asmabi College, P. Vemballur, Thrissur |
| 4 | February 25, 2021 | Webinar on “Valorization of natural by products to eco-friendly bioproducts- an interdisciplinary approach" | Dr. Subha K | Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Biotechnology, Cochin University of Science and Technology |
| 5 | February 6, 2021 | GN Ramachandran Science Club Talk ”Role of FSSI in Ensuring Food Safety and Good Health” | Dr. Sanu Jacob, Director | Food Safety and Standard of India (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare), Government of India |
| 6 | January 22, 2021 | GN Ramachandran Science Club webinar on "Green and Sustainable Routes for Shellfish Waste Valorization" | Dr. Gincy Marina | CSIR-NIIST, Thiruvanathapuram |
| 7 | January 7, 2021 | GN Ramachandran Science Club lecture on “Critical questions of research during a Pandemic” | Dr. Anoop T. | Scientist G, SCTIMST-TVPM |
| 8 | January 6, 2021 | GN Ramachandran Science Club webinar on “Advanced glycation end products” | Dr. Cibin T Raghavan | Department of Biochemistry, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology |
| 9 | January 1, 2021 | G N Ramachandran Science Club lecture on "Careers in Post-COVID world: How do you prepare yourself?" | Prof. Murty | Professor, School of Biology, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram |