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SUMMARY:Monsoon 23 History events poster
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/monsoon-23-history-events-poster/
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SUMMARY:Monsoon 23 IR Colloquium
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/monsoon-23-ir-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Monsoon 23 IR Colloquium
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/monsoon-23-ir-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:Monsoon 23 IR Event Poster
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/monsoon-23-ir-event-poster/
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SUMMARY:Dyslexia Awareness Month
DESCRIPTION:Dyslexia Awareness Month \n  \nOctober is celebrated as “Dyslexia Awareness Month''. To mark this month\, every year\, the Office of Learning Support (OLS) organized events to raise awareness and spark conversations about dyslexia\, learning\, and neurodiversity within the Ashoka campus. This year\, OLS joined forces with various student clubs and societies to amplify their endeavors\, engaging students\, staff\, and faculty through creative and enjoyable activities. Throughout the month\, OLS carefully planned a series of events designed to involve the entire Ashoka community in various ways\, with the goal of sharing essential facts about dyslexia and nurturing a culture of acceptance for neurodiversity. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/dyslexia-awareness-month/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20231027T134500
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Biology? Epigenetics and the longue durée history of the permeable body as a third spac
DESCRIPTION:Title:  Decolonizing Biology? Epigenetics and the longue durée history of the permeable body as a third space beyond the Western-Indigenous binary. \nAbstract: \nAmid growing international calls to decolonize scientific curricula and practices\, I discuss in this paper the emergence of epigenetics as the culmination of a longer history of biological permeability of the body and a third space beyond Western-Indigenous binaries. I first ask how compromised the history of biology with imperial infrastructures of knowledge is\, from early botanical investigations to Darwin’s theory of natural selection\, and the twentieth century development of eugenics. Secondly\, I trace a possible historical path toward a less Eurocentric and more inclusive view of bodies/environment practices before the rise of Western hegemony in the 16th c. Theorized in different cultural contexts from China and India to the Arabic peninsula and the Mediterranean\, the transregional circulation of what has been called the permeable or porous body in the period between is used in this talk as a strategic venue to reconnect histories beyond taken for granted opposition of Western and non-Western ontologies of the body. I argue that this prehistory explains the current fascination with epigenetics (as a molecular version of body permeability) in non-Western context. Finally\, I look at recent work carried out with my team (Natasha Rooney) in the context of my Australian Research Council grant on Epigenetic Models of Plasticity in the Global South (2019-2023). I suggest understanding the peculiar history of epigenetics as an attempt to challenge hierarchical and mechanistic views of biology (DNA as master code) and as such having the potential to contribute to a decolonized science of life. \nAbout the Speaker: \nMaurizio Meloni is a social theorist and a science and technology studies scholar. He is the author of Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics (Palgrave\, 2016: Winner of the Human Biology Association Book Award\, 2020)\, Impressionable Biologies: From the Archaeology of Plasticity to the Sociology of Epigenetics (Routledge\, 2019)\, co-editor of Biosocial Matters (Wiley 2016)\, and chief editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society (2018). He is currently Associate Professor in Sociology in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation\, Deakin University\, Australia\, where he was previously an ARC Future Fellow (2019-2023). \n 
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/decolonizing-biology-epigenetics-and-the-longue-dure-history-of-the-permeable-body-as-a-third-spac/
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20231027T150000
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SUMMARY:Acute microbial diseases and their chronic impacts\, and tools for pandemic preparedness & prevention
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nEmerging viruses like SARS\, SARS-CoV-2\, MERS-CoV\, Hendra\, Nipah\, West Nile\, sin nombre\, LuJo\, MERS\, Powassan\, dengue\, chikungunya\, zika\, Ebola\, and Marburg pose a growing threat to public health. Rapid and earlier discovery of these viruses before/upon their entry into the human population could have facilitated rapid identification\, blood supply protection\, prevention of human-to-human transmission\, containment\, and targeted drug/vaccine design to curtail disease spread. The weight of emerging infectious disease burden is exacerbated by endemic viral and bacterial infections\, as well as the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Unveiling and characterizing new viruses in humans and wildlife\, including bats\, rodents\, live-stock and non-human primates\, especially viruses with zoonotic potential are essential for future pandemic prevention. Our understanding of viral diversity\, distribution\, and circulation is still limited\, thus finding any novel and an unknown virus is difficult and require sensitive highthroughput discovery tools. \nWe pioneered state-of-the-art; 1] molecular detection tools: VirCapSeq-VERT (for viruses) and BacCapSeq (for bacteria and AMR)\, both exhibit ~3-4 logs increased sensitivity than standard unbiased highthroughput sequencing\, and 2] highthroughput serology: NGSeroDx\, that enables indirect detection by identifying intricate immune responses against microbial infections. These technologies have the potential to revolutionize clinical microbiology\, infectious disease research\, and public health efforts by contributing to enhanced preparedness for health emergencies and identification of novel infectious agents. Operational simplicity and rapid turnaround make them valuable tools by advancing pathogen discovery\, rapid detection\, and characterization of all known and novel viral and bacterial infections in less than 24 hours. We can also apply these tools for rapid and efficient clinical diagnosis for timely clinical interventions. Recently VirCapSeq-VERT obtained NYSDOH-CLEP approval for clinical testing\, and other methods are also in process of obtaining regulatory approvals for clinical uses.  We also foster wider use of our tools by comprehensive global collaboration through the Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics (GAPP) program. \nLearning Objects: \n1. Implement and optimize cutting-edge molecular and serological diagnostic technologies\, VirCapSeq-VERT\, BacCapSeq\, and NGSeroDx for the simultaneous detection of viral and bacterial infections with high sensitivity and specificity. \n2. Establish sustainable global infrastructure for microbial discovery\, surveillance\, diagnostics\, and response through capacity building and the pursuit of research questions that focus on the emerging infections\, zoonoses\, potential pathogenesis of unexplained illnesses and cross-species transmission of infectious diseases. \n3. Create a secure cloud-based system for data processing and analysis\, enabling seamless communication and sharing of sequencing data and expertise within the network and with stakeholders and public health agencies worldwide. This system will promote situational awareness\, track pathogen evolution\, and aid in identifying sites for sample collection and clinical trials. \nAbout the Speaker: \nNischay Mishra is a virologist\, immunologist\, and molecular biologist and with eighteen years of experience in the field of microbial infectious diseases\, viral zoonoses\, clinical diagnostic assay development\, outbreak and epidemic investigations\, wastewater surveillance\, and pandemic preparedness. His research focuses on developing advanced microbial and serological platforms for pathogen discovery\, emergence\, evolution and surveillance of known and novel viruses and bacteria\, and clinical diagnostic assays. He conducts research on pathogenicity\, virulence and transmissibility of microbial agents and their association to acute diseases\, and role in chronic disorders. His current research is focused on studying zoonoses and reverse zoonoses of henipaviruses\, nairoviruses\, poxviruses and filoviruses in humans\, livestocks and wild animals using high throughput sequencing\, and serological methods. Mishra is also studying role and pathobiology of acute and latent viral infections and association in chronic diseases such as ME/CFS\, MISC-SARS-CoV-2\, Long COVID\, and chronic neurological disorders. His contributions include capture-based enrichment Illumina sequencing methods for vertebrate viruses (VirCapSeq-VERT)\, disease causing bacteria and antimicrobial resistant genes (BacCapSeq)\, and the multiplex serological assays (peptide arrays and phage display) for respiratory viruses\, arboviruses\, enteroviruses\, hemorrhagic fever viruses and multiplex serology for Tick borne diseases. Each of these methods has been highlighted by the NIH director and multiple media outlets and also in development as a certified laboratory tests for clinical use. Mishra has also developed multiple multiplex PCR assays for rapid diagnosis and obtained FDA Emergency Use Authorizations for viruses like Zika (arboviruses) and SARS-CoV-2. These assays have been adopted by public health laboratories\, research centers\, and commercial partners globally. Mishra’s other contributions include the identification and implication of a novel New jersey polyomavirus as the cause of retinal artery occlusion and myositis\, pathogenicity of human polyomavirus 9\, confirmation of enterovirus D68 association in acute flaccid myelitis\, discovery of tilapia lake virus\, a novel virus that has undermined global food security\, and pursued bat and camel virome sequencing in an effort to understand the origin of the MERS-CoV. He has published >50 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals with total of >6000 citations and have 10 patents under his name.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/acute-microbial-diseases-and-their-chronic-impacts-and-tools-for-pandemic-preparedness-prevention/
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SUMMARY:Startup Ashoka 2023
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URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/startup-ashoka-2023/
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