DST- INSPIRE Internship Science Program-2018 Interactive Session

1. Opportunities in life science
and agriculture
Nazir A Ganai
SKUAST-Kashmir
Date 7-9-2018
Venue Nund Reshi Conference Center
Organiser Dr M A Shah NIT Srinagar
Participants 250 high school students

2. Life
Science
•Fisheries
•Zoology
•Forestry
•MBBS
•Agriculture
•Veterinary
•Horticulture
•Botany

3. • Anatomy:
• Biochemistry:
• Bioengineering:
• Bioinformatics:
• Biophysics:
• Biotechnology:
• Botany:
• Cell biology:
• Developmental biology:
• Ecology:
• Entomology:
• Epidemiology:
• Ethology:
• Evolutionary biology:
• Genetics:
• Microbiology:
• Molecular biology:
• Neuroscience:
• Physiology:
• Population biology:
• Structural biology:
• Toxicology:

4. Size of DNA in Human Body
• 6.4 billion base pairs in one nucleus
• 500 books each of 500 pages
• Length of DNA present in one adult
human is calculated as:
– 2.0 × 1014
meters = 2 x 1011
Km
– Distance earth –sun: 1.5 x 108
Km
• That is the equivalent of nearly
1000 trips from the earth to the
sun and back.

5. Growing Meat on Tress

6. Spare Parts
in different parts
of body

7. Edible vaccines
VaccinesVaccines

8. Glowing Plants on road sides
in dark
Glowing cats shed
light in dark

9. Farming vs Pharming

10. Hunger & Nutritional DeficiencyHunger & Nutritional Deficiency

11. High Density Apple
10 ton vs 70 ton / ha

14. Real Environmental
Challenge
Biofuels from waste
Real Environmental
Challenge
Biofuels from waste

15. Dying Dal Lake
Voracious Grass
eating fish???
Voracious Grass
eating fish???
Solution
Genetically
Engineered Fish
Solution
Genetically
Engineered Fish

16. Oil Spills
Super Bug
Bioremediation – cleaning oil spills
(hydrocarbon-chewing microbes)

17. Cold tolerant tomato

18. Drought tolerant crops

19. BT Cotton

20. Hydroponics
in Agri-Horticulture
Growing
Plants in soil
less medium
or
Aquatic
based
environment

21. Nanotechnology- Nano robots
delivers drug to Cancer Cells

22. ADVANCED RESEARCH IN FARM ANIMALSADVANCED RESEARCH IN FARM ANIMALS
MULTIPLICATION OF ELITE (HIGH PRODUCING) ANIMALSMULTIPLICATION OF ELITE (HIGH PRODUCING) ANIMALS
Multiple Ovulation and Embryo Transfer:
10 calves from 1 cow in an year
SAMRUPA’ –world’s first cloned Buffalo calf
First Pashmina goat
cloned at
SKUAST-Kashmir in 2012
The Story of “NOORI”

23. SAFE AND BETTER VACCINES FOR POULTRY AND LIVESTOCKSAFE AND BETTER VACCINES FOR POULTRY AND LIVESTOCK
Viral vaccines can turn into dreadful viruses and cause
disease and mortality
Improving genetic-stability can improve safety of these
vaccines