EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course - Neural circuits in Health and disease

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Held from 17th to 19th March 2025, this conference was a way to celebrate the mathematical and academic legacy of Professor Kapil Hari Paranjape turning 65 this year. The conference topic was selected carefully to align with the general research areas in which Professor Paranjape has been actively involved.

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On behalf of the Department of Chemical Sciences (DCS), IISER Mohali and the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Chandigarh/Amritsar local chapter, a one-day workshop was organized for the B.Sc/MSc students majoring in chemistry from the local institutes/university/colleges to share the knowledge and inspire them towards research in the cutting edge topics and to showcase the state-of-the-art research facilities and areas to pursue research career and also to provide career advice in chemical sciences and related areas. About 75 students and a few faculty from nine different colleges and universities in Punjab/Chandigarh region participated in this program. Initially, the Dean, Outreach IISER Mohali gave a welcome speech. Following this, the Head of DCS introduced the department and elaborated the opportunities like internships, integrated PhD, PhD and postdoc openings to the students. The program included five general and research talks as follows: Dr. Sabyasachi Rakshit on Replicating active transport of microorganisms in synthetic systems, Dr. Raj Kumar Roy on Innovation, discovery and impact of polymers in our daily life, Dr. Sugumar Venkataramani on Direct observations of reactive intermediates, Prof. T. V. Venkateswaran on Nature of Science, and Prof. Satoshi Takahashi (Tohoku University, Japan) on Single-molecule FRET and FCS investigation of the interaction between SARS-CoV2 N protein and RNA. All these talks were organized in morning and evening sessions. A poster session was conducted before the lunch and was presented by the research groups of the Department of Chemical Sciences to showcase the research activities at IISER Mohali. A lab tour was also organized for the students to impress upon various labs and research facilities and motivate them towards research. The whole activities were funded by the SSR part of the SERB projects of the PIs, Prof R Vijaya Anand, Dr Sanchita Sengupta, Dr Jino Geroge and Dr Sugumar Venkataramani and also the Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali. The support and participation from the faculty of DCS, IISER Mohali, cooperation and support of the institute administration, and, more importantly, the active contribution and voluntary services of several research scholars of the department for running the event successfully are highly appreciated.

Global Initiative on Academic Network (GIAN)
Course Title: Lipid Membranes – from Cells to Synthetic Biology
3-8 March 2025 at IISER Mohali

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), IISER Mohali organised a 2-day international collaborative workshop on "Digital Mediation of Urban Labour Markets: Insights from the New Gig Economies in India” held on 13-14 December 2024 supported by the Ministry of Education, Government of India under The Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC). The workshop was part of the mobility project in collaboration with Brandeis University, USA and the University of Louisville, USA. Bringing academicians, policymakers, and representatives from different collectives, the workshop deliberated on the co-existence processes of global and local platforms, market networks, value share mechanisms, formation of labour markets, spatial networking, city infrastructure, and urban governance in the platform economy.

International workshop on Water infrastructure in Chandigarh and Shimla. The project is sponsored by SPARC and is being done in collaboration with the Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, and HSS department IISER Mohali. Two faculty members from the University of Colorado and many speakers from all over India attended this successful workshop. IISER Mohali BSMS, as well as PhD students, also participated in this two-day workshop.

This training, sponsored by  ISRO aims to provide both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in advanced techniques for predicting extreme rainfall events and landslides

The Library, IISER Mohali, in association with INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar, conducted a One-day Outreach program on “INFLIBNET Services and ORCID for Scholarly Communities.” on 7/11/2023 at LH-7, Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Mohali. An ORCID Outreach sponsored the Programme.

The programme was mainly focused on ORCID  and IRINS. The ORCID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to identify scientific and other academic authors uniquely, and IRINS is the portal that facilitates the academic, R&D organizations and, faculty members, scientists to collect, curate, and showcase scholarly communication activities.

The purpose of this program is to empower Faculty, Researchers, Scientists, and Scholars with valuable insights and knowledge about the activities and services of the Centre towards scholarly communications to the Higher Education sector in India offered by INFLIBNET Centre.