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Drosophila Stocks Available
for Classroom Studies

Drosophila is one of the best model system for conducting genetics and developmental biology experiments in undergraduate and postgraduate classrooms.

We maintain

i. Various mutants and wild type stocks of Drosophila for monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, for studying linkage/crossing over and sex linkage, for gene mapping.

ii. Various promoter-lacZ fusion stocks and UAS-GAL4 stocks for demonstrating specific gene activities and the effect of misexpression of a gene at different stages of development.

We welcome teachers of school/colleges/universities who wish to get these experiments done in their classrooms to contact us for fly stocks and for the detailed procedures to be followed.

S L Lakhotia J K Roy

lakhotia@banaras.ernet.in,
lakhotia@bhu.ac.in
jkroy@banaras.ernet.in,
jkroy@bhu.ac.in

Cytogenetics Laboratory

Department of Zoology

Banaras Hindu University

Varanasi 221 005

Tel: 0542-368145, Fax: 0542-368457

Refresher Course in Molecular Genetics

sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

at Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021

A Refresher Course in `Molecular genetics' will be held for college/university teachers at the Department of Molecular Biology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai from January 27 to February 10, 2003. The course will primarily deal with the contributions in the field of bacterial molecular genetics.

The main objective of the course is to teach basic principles of bacterial genetics and make the participants realize the impact it had and still has in the understanding of life processes. Besides informative lectures, there will be intensive practical sessions and discussions.

The course co-ordinator will be M Hussain Munavar of the School of Biological Sciences in Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and the resource persons will include

J Gowrishanker, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad; R Jayaraman, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai; D Chatterji, S Mahadevan, V Nagaraja, D N Rao and U Varshney from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Teachers who wish to participate in this course may send in their brief curriculum vitae that includes name, date of birth, postal address, residential address and email address, telephone numbers, qualifications, teaching experience, courses taught, positions held, etc. They are also requested to indicate their level of familiarity with topics to be covered in the course.

Teachers applying for participation are also requested to indicate that necessary permission and leave would be readily available for participation in the course from their parent institution.

The applications should be sent to:
Prof. V Nagaraja, C/o Indian Academy of Sciences, CV Raman Avenue, Post Box No. 8005, Sadashivanagar Post, Bangalore 560 080

Fax: (080) 361 6094; Email: madhavan@ias.ernet.in

Selected participants will be provided local hospitality and travel fare to Madurai and back (first class or three-tier A/C) by the shortest route.

Last date for receipt of applications: 5th November, 2002

Refresher Course on Physics of Earthquakes

sponsored by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore 560 080

at Tezpur University, Tezpur

A Refresher Course on `Physics of Earthquakes', for the benefit of teachers from colleges and university departments, will be held at Tezpur University from December 2_21, 2002.

The objective of this course is to help teachers gain an understanding of the earhquake phenomenon and the physical processes involved in its genesis as well as of the earthquake waves which propagate the energy released by the earthquake rupture outward from the source. The Course will begin with mathematical preliminaries including vector calculus, theory of elasticity, wave equations in three dimensions and solutions, and fourier series and integral, and will be followed by more quantitative description of earthquake sources, energy flow in the form of waves, their paths through a layered spherical Earth, ground motion recording instruments, nature of records and their analysis to yield information about the mechanics of eathquake sources, the structure of the Earth traversed by the reconnoitring waves, and estimation of ground motion intensity at strategic sites that may be caused by a future earthquake. The faculty for the course will include:

V K Gaur, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation and Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore; Ramesh Chander, Panchkula, (formerly at Department of Earth Sciences in University of Roorkee, Haryana); Imtiyaz Ahmad, Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Bangalore; Ashok Kumar, Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Tezpur; B P Sarmah, N Deka Baruah and S K Laskar, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tezpur University, Tezpur.

Teachers interested in attending this course may send their application, containing their name, date of birth, complete addresses (along with telephone and e-mail addresses), qualifications, courses taught, and a statement expressing self-assessment of the ability to follow the proposed course and the possibility of making further use of it in their later work. Applications must be duly forwarded by the appropriate authority indicating that necessary permission to attend this course and leave will be given by the concerned institution.

Applications should be sent to: Professor V. K. Gaur, Indian Academy of Sciences, C V Raman Avenue, Post Box No. 8005, Sadashivanagar Post, Bangalore 560 080

Fax: (080) 361 6094; Email: madhavan@ias.ernet.in

Selected teachers will be provided local hospitality and actual travel fare by bus or rail (I class or three-tier a/c) by the shortest route.

Last date for receiving applications: 31 October 2002.

Indian Academy of Sciences
C.V.Raman Avenue, Post Box No. 8005,
Sadashivanagar Post, Bangalore 560 080