A lecture workshop on “Frontiers in Cell and Molecular Biology”, organized by VidyaBhawan Society, Udaipur in collaboration with Indian National Science Academy (INSA), will be held on 14th and 15th February, 2013 at Vidhya Bhawan Auditorium.

Distinguished Scientist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for the year 2008, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, New York will deliver lecture on ‘Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP), Lighting up Life’. He is presently working with mechanosensory transducers and cloning of genes needed for touch sensitivity.

Other distinguished Scientists from leading research institutions abroad as well as in India, like Richard Loscik of Harvard University, Boston; Tulle Hazelrigg of Columbia University, New York; Graham Hatfull of University of Pittsburgh; Ron Vale (Lasker Prize awardee) University of California, San Francisco; L.S. Shashidhara from IISER, Pune; Vivek Malhotra of Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain; Athulaprabha Murthi of India Bioscience Society; Akash Gulyani of InStem Bangalore; shall deliver lectures on recent research areas like maintaining stem cells, role of nature’s genes as well as highlight scope of careers in science in today’s corporate, management and computer oriented world .

The seminar will provide an excellent opportunity of interaction with the eminent scientists especially for student participants at the graduate and post graduate level, as well as for those into research. Science lovers, be they doctors, engineers, educators etc shall be benefited by such an opportunity of sharing and interacting with such eminent scholars.