CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER LIFE SCIENCES (CERIBLS-2019) CHANDIGARH GROUP OF COLLEGES Vision “To emerge as the most preferred educational group with global recognition, developing competent and socially sensitive leaders committed to excellence.” Mission To make incessant endeavour to translate our vision into a reality & achieve the following objectives: To create world class facilities & ambience for advance level of teaching and practical training. To develop students as global citizens with conscience, commitment & education. To continuously grow & become fountain head among institutes of Technical Higher Education in India. To strengthen industry-institute interface & promote Entrepreneurial development activities. To continuously strive for research, development & innovation in all relevant fields, thereby providing the faculty & students the requisite platform to showcase their talents & win laurels. To have collaboration with leading Universities of the world with a view to provide opportunities to the students for higher studies & seek placement avenues abroad. To maintain the first position in placements in the North region, thereby ensuring that every CGC'ian gets the best possible placement opportunities. Quality Policy To provide world class infrastructure, equipment & well qualified faculty for all round growth of the students including their competence and overall personality meeting ever-growing expectations of society. 1 | P a g e CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER LIFE SCIENCES (CERIBLS-2019) ABOUT CHANDIGARH GROUP OF COLLEGES The heritage campus, Chandigarh Group of Colleges Landran, stretching back to a decade and half is superlative in giving professional education to the students from all corners of the country. It has gradually developed into present day's healthy challenging environment with state of the art facilities. Established with the vision to be the most preferred educational institution with global recognition, Chandigarh Group of Colleges has come out to be one of the leading technical campuses of the country. The group commenced its journey in the year 2001 with strength of only 100 students and with two programmes. Today, the campus has more than 15000 students across 15 programmes. CGC offers 30 different professional courses in the diverse fields of Engineering, Computer Applications, Business Management, Pharmacy, Bio-Technology, Hotel Management, Education (B.Ed.) Airlines-Tourism, Animation, Pharma-Chemistry and Journalism & Mass Communication. CGC is recognized as Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for promoting and advancing the research. CGC has emerged to be the leader in unique learning methods, path breaking researches and grooming personality of the students. The enviable growth of CGC has been made possible by the contribution of the faculty in fostering an academically exhilarating, creative and harmonious environment. Due to the unfliinching endeavors of the faculty, students here are taught to succeed even as they take their first step towards their career. This is reflected in the almost 100% placement record for all eligible students of CGC. To continue the legacy of record-breaking placements year after year at CGC, a 360 degree Training and Placement program (TPP) has been designed which works on honing the aptitude, technical, professional and interpersonal skills of the students. The team at CGC has involved large number of senior academicians and industry experts to brainstorm and discuss the required skill sets a student requires to get placed in top-notch companies. The main objective of this 2 | P a g e CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER LIFE SCIENCES (CERIBLS-2019) program is to make students industry-ready and ensures that each member of this program gets quality placement. We at CGC strongly believe in building a strong foundation for corporate interface through excellent innovative practices. Our students are made to undertake industry projects, presentations, case studies, research work and working as trainees to get practical experience of industrial working environment. We are putting consistent efforts to collaborate universities and colleges of international repute to provide world class exposure to our students. CGC has entered into a joint venture with number of foreign universities, such as Hogeschool, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Niels Brock Copenhagen Business Academy, Denmark; International University of Business, Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Thomas More Kempen (formerly K.H. Kempen University College), Geel, Belgium; New College, Durham, UK etc. These eminent collaborations facilitate the students and faculty for teaching, research and training. Being a far reaching programme, it aims at free exchange of faculty and students to pursue higher studies and allow them experience the international study culture. 3 | P a g e CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER LIFE SCIENCES (CERIBLS-2019) ABOUT DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY CHANDIGARH COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHANDIGARH GROUP OF COLLEGES, LANDRAN, MOHALI (PB.) Ground breaking discoveries during 20th century in the field of physics and engineering has changed the way we live now. Similar pattern of change and advancement is being followed in 21st century driven by innovations and discoveries in biology and medicine. Biotechnology is the integral part of advanced biological research which has applications in areas ranging from agriculture, medicine, diagnostics, environmental sciences and food technology to basic sciences of physics, chemistry and mathematics. We are not far away when every product that we consume whether it is medicine or food will be of biological or natural origin and not of chemical or synthetic origin. Biotechnology involves detailed study of basic and applied biosciences including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, biophysics, chemistry, basic mathematics, computer sciences, fermentation technology and many other specialized subjects depending upon person's particular interest. Considering the rapid pace of innovation in the area of biotechnology, elevated degree of specialized knowledge and skill is required to build a winning career. Department of Biotechnology established in year 2006, provides courses in B.Sc. Biotechnology and M.Sc. Biotechnology which enables students to gain insight in the field and develop them as employable candidates or as job creators. We have facilities of well equipped Molecular Biology Laboratory, Plant Tissue Culture Lab, Fermentation Technology Lab, Biochemistry and Microbiology Lab. We have recently developed a state-of-art Animal Cell and Tissue Culture Lab focused in the area of Cancer research. These facilities are unique and equip students with thorough knowledge and skills with which they can compete hard. We have dedicated highly qualified and experienced faculty specialised in different areas of biotechnology that doesn't only teach students to their best but also take up unique research projects which have proven societal and scientific impact. In past we have a great track record of students getting placed with Biotech giants such as Panacea Biotec Ltd., Hash Biotech Labs, Wockhardt Ltd., GSK, Cipla, Bharat Biotech and other leading companies along with some pursuing higher education in premier institutes and CSIR 4 | P a g e CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER LIFE SCIENCES (CERIBLS-2019) labs. Our students also undergo trainings at leading institutes and companies for greater exposure in the field and we have developed MoU culture with all our partners for all round development of our students. Our geographic location near the Tricity gives us added advantage to be near the specialised zone of development where institutes of national importance have come up such as IISER, Mohali; NABI, Mohali; Punjab Biotechnology Incubator, Chandigarh; NIPER, Chandigarh and Institute of Nano-science and Technology, Chandigarh which create numerous job and research opportunities for our students. We have strong alumni relations that guide us for our constant improvement and value us as their parent institute for future placements as well. 5 | P a g e CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND OTHER LIFE SCIENCES (CERIBLS-2019) 3rd NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES (4th-5th April 2019) Organized by Department of Biotechnology, CCT, CGC Landran Programme DAY-1 (4th April 2019) 8:30 am -9:00 am Registration Session I (Inauguration and Key note address) 9:00 am-9:10 am Welcome, Inauguration and Lamp Lighting 09:10 am – 09:20 am Address by Campus Director Dr P. N. Hrishikeesha , CGC Landran Address by Hon’ble Chief Guest: Dr. S.R. Rao, Senior Advisor, Department of 09:20 am – 09:40am Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology. Government of India Address by Guest of Honor Mr. Thirunavukkarasu Angappan, Deputy General 09:40 am – 09:55 am Manager, Panacea Biotec Ltd 09:55 am -10:00am Release of conference proceedings 10:00 am - 10:10 am Felicitation of Dignitaries by Hon’ble Management 10:10 am - 10:20 am Vote of thanks Director –Principal CCT 10:20 am – 11:00 am Hi- Tea 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Key note address : Dr. Javed N. Agrewala, Dean, IIT, Ropar Lunch ( 12:30-1:30pm) Session II