Announcement
Biotechnology Innovation Augmentation School
for grassroots -2020
BIAS for grassroots: Opportunity for technology
students to work on grassroots innovations
SRISTI (Society for Research and
Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions) is
organizing a three-week BIAS (Biotechnology Innovation Augmentation
School-2020) for validating, value adding and product development around grassroots
innovations. The BIAS will develop solutions for grassroots
applications forhuman, animals, and agricultural applications including herbal
technologies, medical devices and microbial application. The BIAS will be
held at SRISTI, Grambharti, Gandhinagar from January 4thto 24th,
2020.
The selected students will be assigned
individual projects in primarily five action-research areas drawing upon the
Honey Bee Network Database:-
1. Pharmacognosy/Phytochemistry - SRISTI’s Grassroots database contains many traditional knowledge practices as well contemporary innovations from across the country.These projects would involve validation/ value addition to these practices. A few of these practices are presented here-
2. SoilMicrobiology-SRISTI has
a Microbial diversity bank containing 8000+ organisms
(bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes) isolated from the soil
samples collected during Shodhyatras 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
application would be conducted.
3. Veterinary Medicine- Validation of
traditional practices for the improvementof livestock health and care.
4. Agriculture- Validation of grassroots practices by
conducting field trials for the purpose of product development/improvement by
lab screening
5. Medical devices- Value addition/product development
of any of the open source projects listed on our summer school website (http://summerschool.sristi.org/ ) regarding medical devices for human and
animal health care or other medical devices for meeting unmet social need
One of the current challenges is to find out alternative for
burning of the waste. We are one of the major pollution producers in the past
caused by the burning of the residues.
The abstracts along with the objective of the projects will be
shared with the selected students three days before the start of the BIAS
or students can be asked to write a short proposal on the given topic.
These students will also receive hands-on training in various techniques of
microbiology, phytochemical extraction procedures, and using various lab
equipment(AAS, HPTLC, HPLC, ELISA, PCR, BSL-I & II etc.) as per the need of
the project in the first week of the event.
It is hoped that each participant becomes a volunteer of the Honey
Bee Network which has helped in scouting and disseminating rural creativityand
innovation over the last three decades.
All the output will be credited to the knowledge providers and can
be published thereafter with prior written concurrence of the BIAS 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.
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.
Participants are invited to apply by filling the Google Form: https://forms.gle/ 4sj4h3xFKMi8doof6
Participants
with a background in biotechnology, agriculture, microbiology,
bioengineering, phytochemistry, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, veterinary etc.,
are specially invited to apply.
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.
Registration fees for students (Ongoing/ pass out in the year 2019)-Rs.7500/-. In deserving cases concession can be given.
Kindly email at biis@sristi.org or call at 9426140041(Dr. MeghaBarot) for further queries.
Last date for submission of application is December
31st, 2019 on or before 12:00 p.m.
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