Amritsar, March 2 : Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences organized an invited lecture on “Public Health Genomics and DNA Damage Prevention” by renowned cytotoxicity expert Dr. Michael Fenech (CSIRO – Common Wealth Industrial and Research Organization, Adelaide, Australia) in the department.
Prof. Dr A.K. Thukral, Director Research presided over. Prof. A.J.S. Bhanwan, Human Genetics department, Dr. Gurcharan Kaur, Dean of Life Sciences introduced the speaker to the audience and Dr. A.P. Vig Head welcomed the chief guest and others. Dr. Varinder Pal Dhillon from CSIRO, Australia was also present.
Dr. Fenech through his talk stressed on various psyco-sciological changes, nutritional habits and stress exposures that are leading to chromosomal aberrations and cancers in the present human population, especially the reproductive cohort. He discussed how nutritional control and
regulation of vitamins, minerals and other essential food components could reduce or add on to carcinomas in humans. Special focus of his talk shifted to telomeric sequencing in abberant cells.
Dr. A.K Thukral, in his presidential address warned the young generation to adopt good lifestyle and nutritional habits in order to keep themselves healthy. Dr. Avinash Nagpal who encouraged the audience to inculerate these good habits and strike a healthy balance in their routine lifestyle.
Dr. Saroj Arora, Dr. Renu Bhardwaj, Dr. Satwinderjeet Kaur, Dr. Jatinder Kaur, Dr. Harpreet Walia, Er. Manpreet Bhatti, Er. Bhupinder Singh and all research scholars were also present and participated in discussion.