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Please check your particulars about your presentation. If you do not want to make oral presentation please inform us immediately. If you want to make oral presentation and it has not been indicated below, then inform us immediately so that we may include you. If there is any error or any correction you wish to make, please inform us within 24 hours. If there is no email from you, we will print this program on Wednesday 17^th Dec. 2008.

When you get down at Bagdogra Airport or New Jalpaiguri Railway Station, you will find some more new friends who will be coming to our conference. Please look for them and come together in taxi.

Program Time Table

28^th Dec. 2008 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Break Fast

28^th Dec. 2008 10 a.m. Inauguration and key note lecture of:

Prof. I.S. Dua on topic “Biotechnology : A Boon or A Bane for the Society"

28^th Dec. 2008 11.15 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Sessions

28^th Dec. 2008 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. Lunch

28^th Dec. 2008 2.15 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Sessions.

28^th Dec. 2008 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Evening Tea.

28^th Dec. 2008 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. Sikkim Cultural Folk Dances and Music.

29^th Dec. 2008 8.00 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. Break Fast.

29^th Dec. 2008 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 Sessions.

29^th Dec. 2008 12.30 p.m. to 1.15 p.m. Lecture of

Prof. Gopal Kundu on topic "Mechanism of Tumor growth and Angiogenesis in Breast and other Cancers: Role of Environmental Factors".

Prof. Prakash Nagarkatti on topic "Use of Cannabis plant-derived compounds in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune disease".

29^th Dec. 2008 1.15 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. Lunch

29^th Dec. 2008 2.15 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. Sessions.

29^th Dec. 2008 4.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Lectures:

A) Prof. K.V. Pugalendi on topic
“Screening of medicinal plants for antidiabetic activity: Isolation, identification, characterization and testing the efficacy of active compound.”

B) Prof. Vidhya Ramaswamy on topic
"An overview, Challenges and risks in treating cancers and neurodegenerative diseases".

29^th Dec. 2008 5.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Evening Tea.

29^th Dec. 2008 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. Flute Recital by Pandit Ronu Mojumdar.

30^th Dec. 2008 8.00 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. Break Fast.

30^th Dec. 2008 9.00 a.m. to 9.30 a.m. Lectures of:

Dr. A.R. Phani on topic “General biomaterials synthesised by simple cost effective process which are applicable to Bio- pharma industry”

30^th Dec. 2008 9.30 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Valedictory Function.

30^th Dec. 2008 10.30 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. Lunch

Poster will be presented in inauguration hall and adjoining corridor for two days 28th and 29th Dec. 2008. Poster should be in standard format and participants should bring the poster sheet with them, paste at the place and should be present there.

There are 13 first prizes in every session including poster session for best presentation. Prizes will be announced and distributed at valedictory function.