Faculty development initiatives

Workshops Organized

 

  • National level confernece on "Emerging Trends in Environmental Biotechnology" on on 28th February 2012..
  • National Workshop on "Current Trends in the Biotechnology of Vaccines" on October 19 and 20, 2011.
  • National workshop on "Current Trends in Drug Design by Bioinformatics Tool" on Febraury 23 & 24 ,2011 .
  • National Workshop on "Recent Trends in Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Bioprocess Industries" conducted on September 27 & 28th ,2010.
  • National workshop on real-time PCR for the diagnosis of diseases and molecular evaluation" conducted on February 16th and 17th, 2010.
  • National workshop on “Recent Trends in Industrial Bioprocesses” was organized from10-12th September, 2009
  • National Workshop on Developing Entrepreneurship Skills in Biotechnology For Students and Their Parents, Sponsored by TNSCST, Chennai and NCST, Delhi on 10th March 2008.
  • National Seminar on ‘Current Trends in Bioinformatics’ conducted on 15th and 16th February 2007

Quality Improvement Programs Attended By Faculty:

 

  1. Ms.Sumitha.V participated in " Brain Storming Session on Need for Industry-Academic Cooperation to Boost R&D Efforts" on 7th April, 2012 at the Office of Chemical Industries Association, Room No.4,First Floor, ISTE Professional Centre, 25 Gandhi Mandapam Road, Chennai 600 025
  2. Prof. Sulochana Somasundaram & Ms. S. Sivagami participated as a Delegate in the Seminar on "Applications of Confocal Microscopy" held at Central Research Facility, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai from 27th to 29th of February 2012.
  3. S. Naga Vignesh attended AICTE sponsored STTP on “Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering” held on February 6 – 10, 2012 at Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
  4. Prof. M. Sivanandham and Dr. S. Prabhu attended National Symposium on Recent trends in basic sciences: Translation from Bench to bedside conducted in Frontier life line institute (Frontier Mediville), Elavur Village, Gummidipoondi Taluk, Thiruvallur District, Chennai on 21st January, 2012.
  5. Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram and  Dr. S. Prabhu attended an International conference on medical genetics and Genomics (ICMG- 2011) in Thiruchirappali, Bharadhidasan University, from 12th to 14th December, 2011
  6. J. Hariharan and N. Anitha attended a CSIR Sponsored National Seminar On “Application of Modeling and Simulation Techniques in Food and Bioprocess Engineering’  conducted by Kongu Engineering college, Erode during 08.12.2011 & 09.12.2011
  7. Dr. S. Prabhu attended a conference on “Frontiers in MS Technology and Emerging Applications” conducted in Indian Institute of Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry at Guindy, Chennai on 28th November, 2011.
  8. R. Karthiga Rani attended a AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Programme on "Green Engineering Concepts for Process Design and Industrial Operations" conducted by Coimbatore Institute of technology, Coimbatore during 7th – 13th  November, 2011.
  9. Mr. P.K. Praveen Kumar attended National Workshop on “Application of Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics” during 29/11/11 to 01/12/11 in Karunya University, Coimbatore.
  10. Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram attended National Seminar on Recent Trends in Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry conducted by SPINCO Biotech Pvt. Ltd. on November 3, 2010 at Chennai
  11. Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram, Prof/BT, SVCE and Dr. M. Sivanandham Dean, Research SVCE attended symposium on Genesis XI entitled “Innovative PPP models to foster excellence in R & D in Indian Institutions” on 4th January, 2011 in 98th Indian Science Congress at SRM University, Chennai.
  12. Dr. S. Prabhu attended Workshop on Biological Nuclear Transmutation – Historical Perspective and Applications on 15th February, 2011. Organized by Department of Biotechnology, school of Bioengineering, SRM University, Kattankulathur, Chennai.
  13. All Department faculty members attended workshop in Recent trends in National Workshop on Current Trends in Drug Design by Bioinformatics Tool on 24 and 25th February, 2011. Organized by Department of Biotechnology, at SVCE, Sriperumbudur- 602105
  14. All the faculty members of Biotechnology Department attended National workshop on “Recent Trends in Instrumentation in Quality Control & Quality Assurance in Bioprocess Industries” on 27th and 28th September, 2010. Organized by Department of Biotechnology, at SVCE, Sriperumbudur- 602105.
  15. All the faculty members of Biotechnology Department attended National workshop on real-time PCR for the diagnosis of diseases and molecular evaluation, on February 16th to 17th, 2010. Organized by Department of Biotechnology, at SVCE, Sriperumbudur- 602105.
  16. Prof.Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram Dr. S. Prabhu, Ms. Karthika Rani, Mr. Sathish , Mr. Naga Vignesh Ms.Jaibiba and Ms.Karpagam,Asistant Professors of Biotecnonology Departmenthave attended Workshop on “Recent Trends in the Diagnosis of Malignant Diseases” on 27th November, 2010. Organized by Clinical Biochemistry Department, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adayar, Chennai- 20
  17. Dr. S. Prabhu AP/BT and Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram Professor/BT have attended 3 days National Science Seminar on Regulation of Biochemical and Cellular Processes in Diverse Systems on December 13th, 14th and 15th December, 2010 in Indian institute of Science, at Bangalore.
  18. Biotechnology Department conducted National workshop on real-time PCR for the diagnosis of diseases and molecular evaluation, on February 16th to 17th, 2010. Organized by Department of Biotechnology, at SVCE, Sriperumbudur- 602105.
  19. Biotechnology Department conducted National workshop on “Recent Trends in Instrumentation in Quality Control & Quality Assurance in Bioprocess Industries” on 27th and 28th September, 2010. Organized by Department of Biotechnology, at SVCE, Sriperumbudur- 602105.
  20. .Ms. V. Sumitha and Mr. Kirubanandan, Lecturers  attended a Faculty development programme on “Specialization on bioreactor techniques in biotechnology” at Jeppiar Engineering College from 19th  to 29th April 2010.
  21. Mr. P.K. Praveen Kumar attended “Practical Summer Training on Molecular Biology, Chromatography & Bioinformatics” in VIT, Vellore from 27/05/10 to 04/06/10.
  22. Mr. J. Hariharan, Lecturer attended Internal Auditor Training Programme in QMS, Indian Register of Shipping, Quality Inn Sabari, with the college sponsorship of Rs.5,000/-
  23. Dr. S. Prabhu, Mr. S. Kirubanandan, Ms. N. Karpagam and Mr. P.K. Praveen Kumar attended a Training Programme on “INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN AND DELIVERY SYSTEM”, organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers, Training and Research, held on 11.05.09 to 16.05.09 at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur.
  24. Ms. N. Karpagam, Lecturer and Dr. Manikandan, Instructor underwent a training programme on Animal Tissue Culture at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras 21 to 24th July, 2009
  25. Ms.U. Sathya, Lecturer attended a National Seminar on “Technical Teachers Quality Improvement conducted by Consortium of Self Financing Professional Arts and Science Colleges in Tamilnadu at Sathyabama University on 30th and 31st May, 2009.  

Workshops/Seminars/Guest Lecturers/Conferences attended by faculty 

  1. Mr. P. K. Praveen kumar Presented a paper entitled “Biological and Insilico Analysis of binding of Oxindole derivative compounds with ACE, a surface protein of Enterococcus faecalis” in National Conference on Computational Biology and Chemistry (NSCBC’2012) conducted by VIT, Vellore on 02/04/12 to 03/04/12.
  2. Dr. M. Sivanandham has been invited as a special invitee for an International Conference on Emerging trends in Bioengineering organized by Bharath University, Selaiyur, Chennai on 28th and 29th March, 2011.
  3. Biological properties of Latex from Asclepias curassavica. L Karpagam.N, Navnit kumar.R, Dr.S.Prabhu, Prof.Dr.Sivanandham.M* Presented a paper at Kumaraguru College of technology on 25th and 26th of March,2011.
  4. Dr. Sulochana Somasundaram was invited as a resource person for a State level seminar on Current Scenario in Microbial Diseases organized by the Department of Microbiology K.M.G College of Arts and Science, Gudiyatham on 22/02/2011.
  5. Dr. M. Sivanandham has been invited as a special invitee for an International Conference on Emerging trends in Bioengineering organized by Bharath University, Selaiyur, Chennai on 28th and 29th March, 2011
  6. Biological properties of Latex from Asclepias curassavica. L Karpagam.N,Sulochana Somasundaram, Sivanandham.M* Presented a paper at GCT, Coimbatore on 13th and 14th of March,2011.
  7. Biological properties of Latex from Asclepias curassavica. L Navnit kumar.R, Kavya.G, Lekha.G, Ranjit Kumar.C, Karpagam.N, Sulochana Somasundaram, Sivanandham.M* Presented a paper at Arunai Engineering college, Thiruvanamalai on 18th March,2011
  8. Prof. M. Sivanandham, HOD, of Biotechnology has attended two days national workshop on SYBYL-X 1.O Tripos’ New SYBYL on windows, Product Launch & user group meet, Brain Wave Solutions limited, in IIT, Chennai, on December 2nd & 3rd, 2009
  9. Mr. P. K. Praveen kumar attended two days national workshop on SYBYL-X 1.O Tripos’ New SYBYL on windows, Product Launch & user group meet, Brain Wave Solutions limited, in IIT, Chennai, on December 2nd & 3rd, 2009
  10. Faculty members attended National workshop on “Recent Trends in Industrial Bioprocesses” was organized from10-12th September, 2009
  11. Faculty members attended National workshop on real-time PCR for the diagnosis of diseases and molecular evaluation" conducted on February 16th and 17th, 2010.
  12. Dr.S.Prabhu, Senior Lecturer, of Biotechnology attended one day national conference on Animal Ethical Issue Conference, in SSN College Chennai, on December 17th, 2009
  13. Mr.S.Srinivasan, Lab Assistant, attended one day national conference on Animal Ethical Issue Conference, in SSN College Chennai, on December 17th, 2009

Papers published 

    1. Alagar Manickam and Prof. Sivanandham Muthukumaran published a paper on “Mycobacterium bovis BCG and purified protein derivative- induced reduction in the CD80 Expression and the Antigen up-take Function of Dendritic Cells from Patients with Cervical Cancer”. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 01-05, July 2011.
    • Anand RS, Sulochana Somasundaram, Mukesh Doble, Paramasivan C.N. submitted a project entitled "Docking studies on Novel Analogues of 8 Methoxy Fluoroquinolones against GyrA Mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis" to BMC Structural Biology 2011.
    • Vemula Vani and Dr. Sivanandham Muthukumaran published paper on Synthesis and Characterization of N- Benzhydryl benzamide. Asian Journal of Chemistry. Vol 23(5), 2165- 2168, 2011
    • Dr.Sivanandham Muthukumaran published paper on Biomimetic materials in regenerative medicine International Journal of contemporary science, Engineering and Technology Vol. 1 (1- 2),  1-3, 2010
    • R.S. Srinivasan, M. Arivalagan, S. Vijayakanth, P. K. Praveen Kumar, P. Krishna Moorthy & M. Deecaraman. Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5(4): 566- 571, 2009. Effect of Cypermethrin, a Pyrethroid Compound on the Neuro-secretory Cells in a freshwater Field Crab, Spiralothelphusa hydrodrana (Herbst)
    • N.Karpagam, Dr. M.Sivanandham and Mr. R. S. Anand A Review on plant extracts used in cancer treatment, Herbal Tech Industry, April 2009.
    • .Renganathan Sahadevan, Dharmendira Kumar Mahendradas, Venkataramana Shanmugasundaram, Kirubanandan Shanmugam and Manikam Velan, Sorption Kinetics and Equilibrium Analysis for the Removal of Reactive Red 2 and Reactive Blue 81 Dyes from Synthetic Effluents Using Dried Soya Bean Meal, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, Bepress, Vol7, 2009.
    • M.Senthil Kumar, S. Kirubanandan, R.Sripriya and P.K.Sehgal Tripala Incorporated Collagen Scaffold- A Smart Biomaterial for Infected Dermal Wound, Journal of Surgical Research, Volume 158, Issue 1, Page no. 162-170, 2010.
    • S. Balaji Ramadar Kumar, S.Kirubanandan, P.K.Sehgal, Porous Keratin Scaffold- An Effective Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering and Drug Discovery, Journal of Biomedical Material Research- Part B –Applied Biomaterial Volume 92B, Page No. 5-12, 2009.
    • R.S.Sreenivasan, M.Arivalagan, S.Vijayananth, P.K.Praveen Kumar, P.Krishna Moorthy and M.Deccaraman. Effect of Cypermethrin, a Pyrethroid Compound on the Neurosecretory Cells in a Freshwater Field Crab, Spiralothelphusa hydrodroma (Herbst). Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. 5(4):566-571, 2009.
    • R.S.Sreenivasan, M.Arivalagan, S.Vijayananth, P.K.Praveen Kumar, P.Krishna Moorthy and M.Deccaraman. Effect of Cypermethrin, a Pyrethroid Compound on the Nutritive Value in a Freshwater Field Crab, Spiralothelphusa hydrodroma (Herbst). Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. 5(4):572-577, 2009.
    • P. K. Praveen Kumar, V. Mathivanan, M. Karunakaran, S. Renganathan and R. S. Sreenivasan. Studies on the effects of pH and incubation period on protease production by Bacillus spp. using groundnut cake and wheat bran. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol.1 No.4 (Sep. 2008)