Mangaluru: Winning an award will be the proudest moment in the research career. St Aloysius College staff and students have won Best Research Presentation Awards at the two-day International Virtual Conference on “Natural Products and Synthetic Biology (ICNSB2020)” organized by the School of Bio-Sciences and Technology, VIT, Vellore & Society of Chemical and Synthetic Biology (SCSB).
Dhanusha C Nair and Krishnendu V, students of second year M.Sc. Biotechnology have secured the First Prize in Oral Presentation entitled “In vitro Evaluation of Antioxidant and Anticancer Activities of Exopolysaccharide isolated from Bacteria of Mangaluru Coastal Region”. As part of the curriculum, they are doing their project work under the guidance of Mr. Sreejesh P C.
Mr. Sreejesh P C, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology has won Second Prize in the e-Poster Presentation Competition on his work entitled “Antitumor Exopolysaccharides Derived from Ovarian Microbiome: Isolation, Characterization and Biological Activity”. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies in the Mangalore University approved Research Centre in Biotechnology at St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru under the guidance of Dr Asha Abraham, Associate Professor, Department of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Biotechnology, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangaluru.
