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TRAINING
Ms. K. Renugadevi, Senior Research Fellow received training on the expression of novel mutations using DNA samples from Aravind Eye Hospital under the guidance of Dr. Markus Preising, Department of Ophthalmology, Laboratory for Molecular Ophthalmology, JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITY, Giessen, GERMANY from 2nd - 22nd July 2010. She is working in DST-DAAD Indo-German collaborative project to understand the "Molecular Genetics of Albinism in the Indian population"
Mr.Lalan kumar Arya, Junior Research Felow visited Department of Zoology (Parasitology section), North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, Shillong under the supervision of Prof. Veena Tandon to learn the basic parasitological techniques such as mounting assay, separation of parasites from their intermediate host like snails, fish and phyllogenetic tree analysis. PCR and molecular sequencing, targeting internal transcribed space (ITS) ribosomal gene of trematode using various set of primers such as ITS1, ITS2 and Mito Co1 for identification and speciation of trematode.
Dr. S. Senthil kumari, Scientist, Department of Ocular Pharmacology spent 3 months (Nov 1, 2010 to Jan 31,2011) at Dr. Paul Kaufman’s Laboratory, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison to receive hands on- training on "Anterior segment organ culture techniques".
The training was supported by Division of International Ophthalmology, University Wisconsin, Madison.
R. Siva Ganesa Karthikeyan, Junior Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology undergone training in immunological techniques in the laboratory of Dr. Eric Pearlman, Ph.D, Professor and Director of Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Institute of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA from 22nd, January to 26th, February 2011.
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