SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPATION SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED AT IOP ™ Dr. N.K Ganguly, DG, ICMR delivered the 3rd Pushpa Sriramachari Oration Award on “Challenges in Control of Rheumatic fever and Rheumatic heart Disease’’ on the occasion of Founder’s Day of the Institute.

™ Under the WHO–In Country Fellowship Programme, three courses were conducted: Basic Level Training of Lab. technician Advance Level Training of Lab. technician Training course for Pathologists

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™ Celebrated “Hindi Diwas” on 16th Sept. 2003 with active participation of all staff members. ™ Organized a seminar on ‘Real time PCR’ by Dr. Najeem Siddiqui (BioRad Laboratories) on 01st October 2003. ™ Indo-German Seminar on Leishmaniasis was organized on 8th–9th Dec. 2003. The focus of the seminar was: ™

Functional genomics and population genetics of pathogenic parasites

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Genetics complementation as a means to identify drug resistance traits in Leishmania spp.

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Proteome analysis of pathogenic parasites: Promises and pitfalls

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Molecular epidemiological and population genetic studies in Leishmania

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Novel Strategies for vaccine development

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New approaches to therapeutic vaccination for the treatment of cancer

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Determination of potential vaccine antigens by SEREX expression cloning and sera of Kala-azar patients from Bihar.

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Two waves of antigen –presenting cells in vivo in experimental infection with Leishmania major.

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™ Organized a demonstration on ‘Real time PCR’ by M/S Stratgene on 23rd February 2004. ™ Seminar on “System for Micro-genomics- cell specific Molecular Analysis” by Ann Bannett, Application Scientist of Acturius, USA on 19th March 2004. ™ Slide Seminar were conducted by Dr. Sheila Kashkari, Ohio, USA on Fluid cytology, Pleural and Peritoneal effusion. ™ Visit of Dr. Csilla Szabo, Scientist, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon during 15th Nov. to 2nd Dec. for the project “Genetics of Breast Cancer in Indian women”. ™ National Technology Day was organized on May 2003, Prof K Kannan, Dean, School of Biotechnology, Indraprastha University gave oration on “Stem Cell Research-Where are we moving?”

™ Kishor Vaighyanik Protsahan Yojna Scholars of DST-ICMR visited various labs of Institute and interacted with Scientists. ™ Journal Clubs and Seminars by DNB and Ph.D. students have been held regularly.

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PARTICIPATION OF SCIENTISTS IN SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Dr. Sunita Saxena 1. Attended IAPM Annual Meeting of Delhi Chapter at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi on 6th April 2003. 2. Attended Quarterly Delhi Chapter, IAPM meet at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, New Delhi on 22nd November 2003. 3. Attended the Project Review Committee Meeting of the Division of NCD, ICMR in September 2003, Feb. 2004. 4. Invited at Ranbaxy Laboratories, Gurgoan, October 2003 to make presentation regarding the research activities at Institute of Pathology. 5. Appointed as Member of Ethical Committeeof Central Council for Research in Ayruvedha and Siddha, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi. 6. Member of Technical Committee Meeting of the Council held in September 2003. 7. Attended the Scientific Advisory Committee meeting of the Central JALMA Insititute of Leprosy, Agra as a member of SAC on 15th and 17th November 2003. 8. Attended meeting of Nepal Health Research Council held at Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi on 15th and 16th December 2003 and made presentation regarding the research areas for collaboration. 9. Visited the International Agency on Cancer Research, Lyon, France on 5th and 6th February 2004 to discuss about the Project ‘Genetics of Breast Cancer on Indian Population’ and discussed about the ongoing project as well as future collaborative work with the Division of Genetic Epidemiology, IARC. 10. Attended the 7th International Symposium on ’Molecular Basis of Predictive Oncology and Intervention Strategies’ and presented a paper BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Indian Breast Cancer Patients’ held at Nice, France from 7th to 10th Feb. 2004. 11. Member of Technical Committee for Purchase of Equipment-- Participated in various meetings held in the Council. 12. Visited Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla to discuss about a collaborative project on Breast.

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Dr. Aruna Mittal 1. Nominated to attend steering committee meeting for funding of projects submitted to Ministry of Food Processing Industries on 24th April 2003 2. Invited to attend Founder memorial lecture of Shri Ram Institute of Industrial Research on ‘Biotech Industries :Opportunities and challenges’ by Dr. Manju Sharma at FICCI auditorium, New Delhi on 25th April 2003. 3. Attended National Technology day oration on Nutritional Genomics: Changing The Dream at ICMR, New Delhi on12th May 2003. 4. Nominated to attend 13th meeting of the screening committee for registration of Public funded Research Institutions of Department of Scientific Industrial Research (DSIR) at DST, New Delhi on 27th May 2003. 5. Invited to attend meeting on Global campaign for microbicides organized by ICMR and PATH at India Habitat Centre on 30th Sept. 2003. 6. Invited to attend and present progress report of DBT funded project titled ‘Collection of well characterized Chlamydia trachomatis isolates and development of diagnostic assays’ in Medical Biotechnology meeting at DBT, New Delhi on 24th Sept. 2003. 7. Invited to attend Keynote address on summary measures of health assessment by Dr. Prashatha Mahapatra in ICMR-WHO workshop on ‘Burden of non communicable diseases’ at Institute of Pathology on 6th Oct.2003. 8. Invited to attend and present report of the DST funded project titled ‘Cytokine regulation in immunopathogenesis of salpingitis/infertility in women’ in PAC meeting in Health sciences at Kolkata on 19th –20th Jan. 2004. 9. Invited to attend Research board meeting at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi on 23rd Jan. 2004. 10. Nominated to attend Director’s meeting at JALMA, Agra on 6th–7th Feb. 2004 11. Nominated to attend ‘Technical Committee of NACO on HIV kits for formulating specificities’ at Nirman Bhavan, New Delhi on 23rd March 2004.

Dr. S. Jayaraman 1. Faculty Member for the Eco-Toxicology Course for M.Sc. (VI Semester), Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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2. Participated in the ICMR – Zeiss Workshop on Confocal Microscopy and its Applications at Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, 7th-8th April 2003. 3. External Examiner for the VI Semester Course on Immunology of Indraprasth Guru Gobind University, New Delhi on 27th May 2003. 4. Participated in the ‘Hands on Computer Training in SPSS and other packages, IRMS, New Delhi, 21–25th July 2003. 5. Participated in the AIIMS – ICMR – WHO Trainees Workshop on Ethical Issues in Medical research at AIIMS, New Delhi, 15th–17th September 2003. 6. Participated in the Institutional Animal Ethics Committee Meeting of National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi on 4th Nov. 2003 as a CPCSEA nominee. 7. Participated in the Workshop on Good Laboratory practices, training of Trainees, Jointly organized by UNDP, World Bank WHO – TDR, national GLP Compliance Monitoring Authority of India and CDRI – Lucknow, 1st-6th December 2003 in New Delhi. 8. Participated in the “Ethics in Animal Experimentation”, 13th Round Table Conference, Ranbaxy Foundation, 10th Jan. 2004, New Delhi. 9. External Expert for the Committee for the evaluating the Research activities of JRF, NIHFW, 20th Jan. 2004, New Delhi. 10. Coordinator of WHO-Health Ministry sponsored training programme 11. Chairman Editorial Board – 4 issues of IOP Newsletter in 2003.

Dr. Sujala Kapur 1.

Paper presented at the 18th Annual Conference of Pathologists and Microbiologists, Delhi Chapter 2003 on “Occurrence of mixed lineage immunophenotype in patients with acute leukemia”.

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Paper presented at the 18th Annual Conference of Pathologists and Microbiologists, Delhi Chapter 2003 on “Correlation of histological grade with clinical groupings in non Hodgkin’s lymphoma”.

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Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Conference of Pathologists and Microbiologists, Cuttack, 2003 on “Correlation of cell survival with clinical remission in adult and childhood acute leukaemia”.

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Attended the 5th Sass International Conference on “Emerging concepts in leukemia and lymphoma” New Delhi, 2003 and presented paper on “Cytochemical, immunocytochemical and flow cytometric analysis for the diagnosis of acute leukemia”.

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Attended the meetings of the Delhi Tumor Study Group, 2003.

Dr. Arun Kr. Jain 1.

Attended a lecture on “Recent advances in morphometry” delivered by Jacob Glaser, M/s Microbright Field, USA and demonstration of stereology and morphometry on 15th January 2003 at AIIMS, New Delhi

2.

Attended the Seventh Meeting of Medical Instruments and Disposables – Sectional Committee MHD 12 held at Bureau of Indian Standards, Manak Bhavan, New Delhi on 25th March 2003.

3.

External Examiner for M.Sc. Dairy Microbiology Exam of National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal.

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Participated and Chaired a scientific session in XXVI Annual Conference of EMSI on Electron Microscopy and Allied Fields held at Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla from April 16 – 18, 2003

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Attended XXXIX Founder Day Memorial Lecture on Biotech Industries: Opportunities and Challenges delivered by Dr.(Mrs.) Manju Sharma, Secretary DBT, New Delhi at FICCI Auditorium, Tansen Marg, New Delhi on 25th April 2003

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Participated in the 22nd Meeting of the Centre Management Committee Meeting of AIIMS - SIF, New Delhi on May 13, 2003 at All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi.

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As a Member participated in the deliberations of Technical Committee for procurement of TPI Scanner held on 25th July 2003.

8.

Expert Member of the Committee to assess the functioning of the SEM 501B at AIIMS, meeting held on 18th July 2003.

9.

Participated in a Symposium on Risk Assessment of Pesticide Residues in Water and Food conducted by International Life Science Institute, India held at Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi on October 28 – 29, 2003.

10. As Expert Member, participated in several meetings of Technical Advisory

Committee of DRDE, Gwalior

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11. Participated in the Workshop on IPR and WTO issues organized by ICMR and

WHO at Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy, Agra from November 22-23, 2003. 12. Attended the meeting of Advisory Committee to modernise the facilities and

infrastructure of Council’s Library and information network held in the Conference Room of ICMR HQ on 4th December 2003. 13. Participated in Fourteenth Meeting of the Screening Committee for registration of

Public Funded Research Institutions and others held at Dept. of Science and Industrial Research, Technology Bhavan, New Delhi on 10th Dec. 2003. 14. Attended National Science Day Program and lecture on “From Cassette Tape to

CD ROM: Is Digital a Revolution?” delivered by Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Madras, Chennai at Indian National Science Academy on 27.02.2004. th

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Annual Symposium on NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases held at Auditorium, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi on March 1 – 2, 2004.

16. Member, Technical Advisory Committee of Institute for Research in Medical

Statistics, New Delhi. Attended the meeting on March 05, 2004. 17. Member Price Negotiation Committee for Procurement of Automatic DNA

Sequencer and Real Time PCR for use at IOP. Meeting held on 25th March 2004. Invited Talks 1.

Delivered invited talk on “Micro-analytical Techniques for Life Sciences” during CEP Course on Recent Trends in Microscopy held at Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior from 17th Feb. 2003 to 21st Feb. 2003

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Delivered invited talk on “Advances in EDX for biological Application” during CEP Course on Recent Trends in Microscopy held at Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior from 17th Feb. 2003 to 21st Feb. 2003

3.

Delivered an invited Talk on Analytical Electron Microscopy during Seminar cum Training Program held at Kurukshetra University from Jan. 29 to 31, 2004.

4.

Delivered an invited Talk on Advanced Techniques in EM during Seminar cum Training Program held at Kurukshetra University from Jan. 29 to 31, 2004.

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Papers Presented: 1.

Morphometric Evaluation of differences between placental fine structure of non smokers, passive smokers and active tobacco consumers by Arun Kumar Jain, Banajit Bastia and Gayatri Rath at XXVI Annual Conference of EMSI held at CPRI, Shimla from April 16 – 18, 2003.

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Immuno-localization of Endothelin - 1 in placenta of tobacco users by G. Rath, A. K. Jain and B. Bastia at XXVI Annual Conference of EMSI held at CPRI, Shimla from April 16 – 18, 2003.

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Effect of fluoride toxicity on hard and soft tissues: Ultra-structural Studies by Madhu Bhatnagar, A. K. Susheela and Arun Kumar Jain at XXVI Annual Conference of EMSI held at CPRI, Shimla from April 16 – 18, 2003.

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Microwave-assisted staining for ultra-thin plastic section of tissues by Asha Rani Srivastava, Madhu Bhatnagar and Arun Kumar Jain at XXVI Annual Conference of EMSI held at CPRI, Shimla from April 16 – 18, 2003.

Dr. Sangita Rastogi 1.

Invited to attend 39th Founder Memorial lecture of Shriram Institute For Industrial Research on ‘Biotech industries: Opportunities and challenges’ by Dr. Manju Sharma at FICCI Auditorium, New Delhi on 25th April 2003.

2.

Attended Keynote address on ‘The importance of summary measures of health in assessment on non-communicable diseases burden’ by Dr. Prasanta Mahapatra in ICMR-WHO Workshop on Burden of Non-communicable Diseases at Institute of Pathology (ICMR), New Delhi on 06th October 2003.

Paper presented 1.

Participated & presented paper in ‘30th Annual Conference of Indian Immunology Society (IIS)’ at SGPGI, Lucknow on 23rd-25th November 2003. The work presented by me was ‘Screening for IgM antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis in pregnant women’.

Dr. Poonam Salotra 1.

Appointed as member of Scientific Advisory Committee of NICD (National Institute for Communicable Diseases), Delhi. Attended meetings at NICD in Sep 2003 and Feb 2004.

2.

Appointed Reviewer for several project proposals submitted for funding to DBT and ICMR.

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3.

Presented paper on centrin gene knockout mutants in the annual meeting of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists, Mumbai, Nov 2003.

4.

Presented work on Functional genomic approaches for the analysis of Leishmania virulence. in an Indo-German Seminar at IICB, Kolkata, in Dec 2003.

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Presented work on Gene disrupted mutants of Leishmania as vaccine candidates in Fifth Sir Dorabji Tata Symposium at Bangalore in March 2004.

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Appointed Examiner for PhD thesis Integrative Biology), Delhi.

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Worked for 1 month in Dec 2003 in Dr Nakhasi’s lab at CBER, FDA, Bethesda, MD, USA , for Indo-US VAP project.

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Appointed Examiner for Biotechnology, AIIMS.

9.

Invited participant for talks on “Bioinformatics Research in France” and “Remote sensing and public health-telemedicine application to epidemics” organized by Indo-French Centre at French Embassy on 17.09.03 and 23.09.03 respectively.

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10. Guided dissertation work of one M.Sc. student from Jiwaji University, Gwalior

from Jan 2004. 11. Organized and participated in a mini Symposium on Leishmaniasis with talks by a

group of German Scientists at Institute of Pathology in Dec 2003. 12. Invited participant in Research board meeting in Deptt of Biotechnology,

Indraprastha University, Delhi on Jan 23, 2004. 13. Appointed Reviewer for several

papers submitted for publication in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, J Parasitic Diseases, J Biosciences.

Dr. Ranvir Singh 1.

Attended 39th Founder Memorial lecture by Dr. Manju Sharma on Biotech Industries : Opportunities and Challenges at FICCI Auditorium, Tansen Marg, New Delhi on 25th April 2003.

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Attended a Guest lecture on “Bio behavioural approaches to HIV prevention – opportunities for collaboration” by Dr. Keneth Meyer, Professor of Medicine and Community Health at Brown University, Rhode Island on 12.03.2003 at ICMR.

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Dr. A K Bagga 1.

Attended 39th Founder Memorial lecture by Dr. Manju Sharma on Biotech Industries : Opportunities and Challenges at FICCI Auditorium, Tansen Marg, New Delhi.

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On 13th and 14th Sept. 2003, invited as complimentary member-delegate to participate in the National Cancer Congress-2003 organized by Dharmshila Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Delhi.

Dr. Usha Burra 1.

Examinee in the Institute for DCP at Rural Medical College, Loni, Univ. of Pune

2.

Attended “ Workshop on Biomedical Research and Internet” from 8-10th July, 2003.

3.

Attended a hands-on computer training in “Data Analysis using SPSS and other statistical packages for Research” from 21st-25th July, 2003 at Institute for Research in Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi.

4.

Attended 3rd Indo-US workshop on “Application of Flow-cytometry in Drug Mechanistic” at Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu from 15-19th September, 2003.

Dr. Saurabh Verma 1.

Workshop on Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy from 7-8 April, 2003 at Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai.

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Attended Computer training in “Data analysis on SPSS and other statistical packages from 21st-25th July, 2003 at Institute for Research in Medical Statistics (ICMR), New Delhi.

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Participated in 3rd Indo-US workshop on “Application of flow Cytometry in Drug Mechanics from 15-19 September, 2003 at Regional Research Laboratory, Jammu.

4.

Participated in 23rd Annual Convention of the Indian Association for Cancer Research and presented paper titled, “ Flow Cytometric DNA analysis of Cytological diagnosis of Pleural Effusions.” on 29th -31st January, 2004 at Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research & Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai.

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5.

Attended Sri Ram Institute for Industrial Research Foundation Day Memorial Lecture by Dr (Mrs) Manju Sharma, Secretary DBT who delivered talk on “Biotech Industries-Opportunities and Challenges” on 1st May, 2003.

Papers presented 1.

Attended 23rd Annual Conference of Indian Association for Cancer Research and presented paper titled “Flow Cytometric DNA analysis and cytological diagnosis in pleural effusion” at ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Khargar, Navi Mumbai.

Dr. Avninder Pal Singh 1.

Short term training in Neuropathology, Dept. of Pathology, AIIMS from 15th July to 14th October 2003

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Attended hands on training course on “Biomedical Research and Internet” at National Informatics Centre, New Delhi from 8th –10th July 2003.

3.

Attended Quarterly Delhi Chapter, IAPM meeting at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi on 22nd November 2003.

4.

Attended quarterly meeting of Delhi Neurological association at Safdarjang Hospital an VIMHANS Hospital, New Delhi on 6th Dec. 2003.

5.

Attended 52nd Annual conference of Neurological society of India at PGIMER, Chandigarh from 12-15 December 2003.

6.

Attended demonstration of Automated immunohistochemistry analyser at Dept. of Surgical Pathology, Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai on 22 December 2003 organized by Biogenex.

7.

Attended 4th Neurosciences Update and 6th Delhi Neurological Association annual conference at Research and Referral Army Hospital on 22nd February 2004.

8.

Attended quarterly Delhi Chapter IAPM meeting and slide seminar organized by Dept. of Pathology, Lady Harding Medical College on 10th April 2004.

9.

Attended 19th Annual Conference of Delhi Chapter – IAPM organized by University College of Medical Sciences on 17th April 2004.

Paper Presented 1.

Presented paper titled “Gemistocytic astrocytomas – clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study” at 52nd NSI conference at PGI Chandigarh on 1215 Dec., 2003.

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Presented paper titled “Gemistocytocytic astrocytomas a repraisal” at DNA Conference at R & R Hospital New Delhi on 22nd Feb. 2003.

Dr. Zahida Qamri 1.

Attended a two-day 8th ADNAT Symposium on “Comparative and functional Genomics” (Feb. 23 & 24, 2004) at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India

2.

Attended Hands-on Training Course on “DNA Markers: Development and Applications” (Feb. 25-March 12, 2004) at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India

Dr. Bharat Rekhi 1.

Presented a case of “Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of breast” in Delhi breast study group at I.O.P.

2.

Presented two posters at Delhi chapter I.A.P.M. on 6th April 2003 at G.B. Pant hospital, New Delhi. Topics were: 1) Cholestrol Granulomas of Lungs with intestinal lung diseases – role of Industrial pollutants. 2) Fine needle aspiration cytology of dermato fibrosarcoma protuberances - a case report.

3.

Underwent Hands-on Computer training in SPSS and other statistical packages at Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi during 21st-25th July 2003.

4.

Special training in Autopsy techniques at national Autopsy Workshop at Dept Of Pathology, Sir J&J Hospital at Mumbai from 4th - 8th August 2003.

5.

Represented I.O.P., as a pathologist at a Women’s welfare camp at Bharatpur, Rajasthan on 7th - 8th September 2003.

6.

Participated in a 4-day workshop on learning advanced Internet options for Online searching of biomedical database, Organized by National Institute of Informatics, Ministry of Information and ICMR, Govt. of India, New Delhi

7.

Regularly attending meetings of Delhi breast study group.

. Dr. Sharmila Mishra 1.

Presented poster presentation titled “Eccrine Hidrocystoma – a case report” at Delhi Chapter I.A.P.M. on 6th April 2003 at G.B Pant Hospital, New Delhi.

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