10 Sep 2022

Two SRHU research scholars bag top awards at International Conference

Two SRHU research scholars bag top awards at International Conference

Two research scholars from the Himalayan School of Biosciences, the top biotechnology college in Uttarakhand, bagged top honors at the International Conference GangaAyurCon-2022.
Anjali Uniyal and Sweta Upadhyay won the first and second positions respectively.
The Conference on "Medicinal Plants of Ganga River Basin and Their Therapeutic Importance in Indian System of Medicines," was held at Gurukul Campus Uttarakhand Ayurvedic University, Haridwar from 5th to 6th September, 2022

Anjali Uniyal presented her perspective on, ‘Genetic Diversity Assessment Using Molecular Markers for the Conservation of Rheum Species.’ This has been her research topic as well which she is conducting along with Akhilesh Kumar, Sweta Upadhyay, Sanjay Gupta and Vijay Kumar.

Sweta Upadhyay, a PhD Scholar at Himalayan School of Biosciences, SRHU was awarded 2nd position in Scientific Poster Category. The title of her presentation was ‘Molecular analysis of micropropagated Rheum emodi plants using RAPD and ISSR markers for ascertaining Clonal fidelity.’ Her co-researchers in the above research are Anjali Uniyal, Vijay Kumar, Sanjay Gupta and Akhilesh Kumar.

Overwhelmed with the achievement of SRHU’s students, Vice Chancellor Dr Vijay Dhasmana stated that it is a matter of pride for him that SRHU bioscience students are working on issues that will be hugely beneficial to mankind in the future. “Their research topic has huge relevance to the welfare of humanity. Their main projection is that Cultivation of plants can be planned to meet the needs of the industry in required quantities and at required time. If efforts were made for systematic cultivation of medicinal plants instead of collecting them from the wild, many of the problems like unplanned harvesting and threats to the plant species would be minimized. Properly identified, certified and biochemically characterized planting material can be supplied to the growers. Unintentional adulteration can be avoided and it will be easier to check deliberate adulteration.”

Himalayan School of Biosciences offers a variety of life science courses in microbiology, biotechnology, food science, and environmental science.

3 Jul 2022

Workshop on ‘Entrepreneurship Development and Startups Facilitation In Uttarakhand’ held at SRHU

Workshop on ‘Entrepreneurship Development and Startups Facilitation In Uttarakhand’ held at SRHU

A one day workshop on ‘Entrepreneurship Development and Startups Facilitation in Uttarakhand’ was organized at HSMS, a biotechnology college in Dehradun located inside Swami Rama Himalayan University in technical and financial collaboration with Uttarakhand Council of Biotechnology, Haldi, Udham Singh Nagar Uttarakhand on 28th June 2022
Participants at the workshop included students from SRHU and other institutions of Dehradun district, who were acquainted about entrepreneurship and startups.

Chief Guest Dr. Susheela Sharma, Registrar, SRHU said that the purpose of the workshop would gain in import only when the participants would make use of the knowledge learnt at the workshop. The Guest of Honor, Dr. CS Nautiyal, Principal, Himalayan School of Biosciences, informed the participants about the importance of entrepreneurship and how the startups are changing the economic scenario of the country. He further emphasised that instead of becoming job seekers, aspirants should endeavour to be job givers. There is slow progress in this area but steady movement in that direction would bring a new dawn in the country by carving a niche for entrepreneurs.

Coordinator Workshop, Dr. Prashant Singh gave an elaborate account of the workshop, stating that the motive behind holding such workshops by the government is only to ignite the young minds of the region and help them look into the key areas of relevance where the start ups can be developed or can be initiated for the economic welfare of the region.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Prof. and Head, HSBS informed that more than 100 participants from different institutes and universities, from the district of Dehradun participated in the workshop. The participants were informed about the various aspects of entrepreneurship, types of entrepreneurship and conceptualization of startups, their mechanism of registration, the different approaches to make them successful and the lacuna which sometimes lead to failure.

Different resource persons on the day were Shivam Dhaundiyal, Youth Development Officer SRHU; Dr. Geeta Rana, and Dr. Ravindra Sharma, HSMS, SRHU; Dr. Manish Prateek and Dr. Prashant Raturi, HSST, SRHU; Dr. Sanjay Agarwal, Head, Capacity Building and Skill Centre, Dolphin Institute, Dehradun; Dr. Kumar Sachin, HSBS, SRHU.

The special focus at the workshop was on biotechnology based startups, the different
funding agencies and the opportunities in the state of the Uttarkhand.
Dr. Vivek Kumar delivered the vote of thanks and the program was conducted by Dr.
Geeta Bhandari.

18 Jun 2022

Training Workshop at SRHU

Ganga Water effective in Eradication of Human Viruses through Bioinformatics Tools

A training workshop on efficacy of Ganga Water in Eradication of Human Viruses through Bioinformatics Tools, was organized at Swami Rama Himalayan University on Monday June 13th. .In this workshop participants were trained through molecular biology for viral genome isolation and usage of bioinformatics techniques to study detailed analysis of the genome of viruses.

The four-day workshop was held under the joint aegis of Swami Rama Himalayan University and DAV PG College Dehradun in collaboration with Uttarakhand Council of Biotechnology. Chief Guest Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. Vijendra Chauhan said that the purpose of the workshop would be meaningful only when the participants make use of the knowledge learnt at the workshop.

Special guest Dr. CS Nautiyal, Principal, Himalayan School of Biosciences, informed the participants about the Corona virus. He said the slow progress in research shows that there is an urgent need for a larger number of studies. He said that Ganga water is known for its medicinal properties. But it can be used properly only when the viruses present in it will be isolated from the Ganges water.

Dr. RK Jain, Principal of DAV PG College urged the participants to take maximum benefit of the workshop. Coordinator Workshop, Dr. Prashant Singh provided detailed information about the purpose and theme of the workshop to the participants. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Head, Himalayan School of Biosciences informed that more than 100 participants from all over the state participated in the workshop. In the four-day long workshop, the participants were given hands-on training in various computer labs, after two days of theory sessions. Registrar Dr. Sushila Sharma, Dr. Sunil Saini, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dr. Vivek Kumar were present in the inauguration program conducted by Dr. Geeta Bhandari.

Dr. Manish Prateek, Prof. Department of Computer Sciences, HSST talked about his original work and role of STRT (Set Theoretic Rajan Transform) in the field of bioinformatics. STRT has capabilities to perform Image processing, Signal Processing, Data analysis, Data Compression and Data Encryption. STRT uses the basic operations such as ‘union of sets’ (U), which is analogous to numeric addition (+) operation and ‘symmetric difference of sets’ which is analogous to numeric difference (-).

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Prof. & Head, HSBS, delivered a detailed lecture on Immunological aspects of Virus growth management. He discussed about role of phages, phage proteins and their metabolites in controlling Coronavirus. He also enlightened the participants about phage therapy and its future aspects.

Dr. Vivek Kumar, HSBS presented a lecture on “Major Human Viruses in Ganga Water”, and talked about virus families present in Ganga water stream starting from Gaumukh and their role in Ganga water purification.

Dr. Vijay Kumar, HSBS delivered a lecture on various nucleic acid isolation strategies from Ganga water: a metagenomic approach. He discussed about the structure of viruses, their precipitation and filtration techniques and DNA/RNA isolation methods. He discussed about the metagenomic approaches to explore the diversity of viruses from environmental samples including water samples.

Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Assistant Prof. HSBS presented an overview of PCR and PCR based molecular markers. He discussed various versions of PCR and molecular markers used in molecular biology to study plants and animals and microbes.

Dr Kumar Sachin, Asst Prof, HSBS, delivered an informative lecture on Bioinformatics tools applicable in Virology. Bioinformatics serves to facilitate the study of viral genome, analyses in a metagenomics approach as well.
On the third day “Ganga Water in Eradication of Human Viruses through Bioinformatics Tools” was the highlight. Dr. Vijay Kumar, Assistant prof. HSBS, delivered a lecture and conducted hands on training on “Viral Nucleic acid isolation from water and soil samples”. He also discussed and demonstrated the functioning of PCR.

Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Assistant prof. HSBS, delivered a lecture and conducted hands on training on “Nucleic acid Quantification through spectrophotometer and preparation of PCR reaction mixture and PCR amplification of samples using RAPD markers.

Dr. Geeta Bhandari, Asst Prof, HSBS, delivered a lecture and demonstrated the process of “Agarose gel electrophoresis”.

Dr Vijay Kumar and Dr Akhilesh Kumar discussed and demonstrated the basic tools used in sequence search, and phylogenetic analysis, as well trained the participants on these tools.

Dr Kumar Sachin, Faculty HSBS, took a practical session on the final day on “Introductory database mining and analysis tools”. The participants were acquainted with various Bioinformatics based resources and a host of analytical tools and their interpretations. Each participant was provided with a system terminal with high-speed internet to carry out the practical session.

Dr. Vivek Dhar Diwedi, Principal Scientist and Group Leader, Centre for Bioinformatics Noida delivered a lecture on Bioinformatics-based solutions for managing Viral Infections and Sequence analysis of viral genomes.

The valedictory function was presided over by Dr. K.R. Jain, Principal, DAV (PG) College, Dr. C.S. Nautiyal, Principal, HSBS, SRHU, and Dr. H.P. Uniyal, Director WATSAN Group, Swami Rama Himalayan University.

The participants completing Phase I and Phase II of the workshop were given certificates by the dignitaries. It was further assured that the participants from different institutes, colleges, and universities of Uttarakhand will work on the translational aspects of the learning rendered to them by the experts at the workshop.

The event was attended by Dr. Prashant Singh as Coordinator Workshop, Dr. Sanjay Gupta as Convener and Resource Person, Dr. Vivek Kumar, Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar, Dr. Geeta Bhandari (Organizing Secretaries and Technical Persons), Dr. Kumar Sachin, Dr. Vishal Rajput (Technical persons).

Dr. Prashant Singh Coordinator Workshop

Dr. Sushila Sharma Registrar SRHU

Dr. RK Jain Principal of DAV PG College

Dr. Vijendra Chauhan Pro Vice Chancellor SRHU

Dr. CS Nautiyal, Principal Himalayan School of Biosciences

Dr. Sanjay Gupta Head Himalayan School of Biosciences

Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. Vijendra Chauhan addressing the students

Dr. C.S. Nautiyal, Principal, HSBS

Students attending the workshop