Tamil Nadu Agricultural University’s Centre for Plant Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, organized a one-day workshop on “Nanopore Sequencing” on 26.07.2024 at TNAU. Dr. E. Kokiladevi, Professor & Head, the Department of Plant Biotechnology welcomed the resource persons and workshop participants. Dr.D.Suresh Kumar, Director, CARDS and Dean, SPGS, TNAU presented the Professor of Practice certificate to Dr.Raman Babu. Dr. N. Senthil, Director, CPMB&B highlighted the significance of sequencing technologies in his introductory speech. Dr. Jaganmay Anand, Business Development Manager at Twist Bioscience India, and Dr. Hemadev Boopalan, Regional Manager at Zelle Biotechnology Pvt Ltd in Mumbai, gave a prelude about the workshop to the gathering. Dr.Divya Shetty, Senior Field Application Scientist, Zelle Biotechnology Pvt Ltd gave an elaborate lecture on Introduction to Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing and its applications. Dr.Ramesh Vaidyanathan, Business Development Manager, Synthetic Biology, Twist Bioscience explained about the importance of synthetic biology and its applications.
