No. 62 September 2015
Newsletter of the Indian Academy of Sciences
TWENTY-SIXTH MID-YEAR MEETING 3–4 JULY 2015
The 26th Mid-Year Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences was held from 3rd to 4th July 2015 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. The meeting began with a special lecture on ‘Strategies to counter resurgent Inside... tuberculosis’ by V. Nagaraja (IISc, Bengaluru). Tuberculosis (TB) is an epidemic disease that ravaged 1. Twenty-Sixth Mid-Year Meeting ...... 1 Europe and North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Historical evidence of this disease can be found 2. Eighty-First Annual Meeting...... 7 in Egyptian mummies and fossils. Nagaraja spoke of the 3. Associates ...... 8 menace of tuberculosis, which is a major global health problem – more than one-third of the world’s population 4. Special Issues of Journals ...... 9 is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and new 5. Discussion Meeting...... 11
6. Summer Research Fellowship Programme ...... 13
7. Refresher Courses ...... 15
8. Lecture Workshops ...... 16
9. Repository of Scientific Publications of Academy Fellows ...... 18
10. Workshop on “Emerging Trends in Journal Publishing” ...... 18
11. Hindi Workshops...... 19
12. Obituaries ...... 19 infections occur in about 1% of the population ever year. There are about 20 million chronic cases of active TB 13. Science Minister's Visit to the Academy ...... 27 globally and 2 million associated deaths. It is the most 14. Superannuated Academy Staff ...... 28 formidable pathogen mankind has faced. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) can stay dormant inside a healthy
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