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AIRF organises a Workshop on “Advanced Confocal Microscopy & its applications”

AIRF organises a Workshop on “Advanced Confocal Microscopy & its applications”

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AIRF organises a Workshop on “Advanced Confocal Microscopy & its applications”
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Advanced Instrumentation Research Facility
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
New Mehrauli Road, NEW DELHI-110067, India

 

Workshop on “Advanced Confocal Microscopy & its applications” to be held on 25th – 26th July, 2022 and Hands on training from 27th – 30th July, 2022.

 

Organized jointly by AIRF & DSS Imagetech Pvt. Ltd.

 

In order to provide the highest level of services to scientific community a series of workshop/webinar/training programs on different sophisticated instruments in biological/chemical/physical sciences are organized by AIRF throughout the year.

 

In this series, the next workshop will be on “Advanced Confocal Microscopy & its applications” to be held on 25th – 26th July, 2022 and hands on training will be from 27th – 30th July, 2022. The workshop shall be physical and will have lectures and practical sessions by application specialists.

 

Applications are invited from registered research scholar / students from an Academic Institutions. The workshop is open to all research students and scholars. Depending upon availability not more than one research student / scholar from each lab will be allowed. Decisions of the screening committee shall be final and only selected candidates will be allowed to participate in the workshop. Application form is available here.

 

Total numbers of participants will be limited to 20 nos. only.

 

PRE – REGISTRATION
The workshop training is free and open to all registered research students and scholars. Application has to be sent to the directorairf@mail.jnu.ac.in on or before 21st July, 2022.

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.