The initiative will highlight the unique bacterial species found in the country and emphasize their critical roles in environment, agriculture and the human health.
Dr. Shweta Tyagi, Staff Scientist and Head of the Laboratory of Cell Cycle Regulation at CDFD, chaired the event and introduced the guest speaker, Dr. Chandana Basu, an Early Career Fellow with DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance and co-founder of GENETIKS4U.
Managed by the Department of Genetics at NIMS and the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), the facility will offer essential therapeutic services to children from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh suffering from rare genetic disorders.