Two Days Workshop on Foldscope with The North-East Region (Assam)

Sep 06, 2019 • 9:35 PM UTC

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Indo-US DBT Foldscope project was sanctioned to Barkatullah University, Bhopal where research work on Narmada River was carried out along with several workshops were conducted for school, college, university students of Madhya Pradesh and Northeast India. Also, various online sessions were conducted for Indian colleges and universities. The Principal Investigator of the project is Prof. Anil Prakash along with Co-Principal Investigator Prof. Vipin Vyas and Research Fellow Dr. Parul Gurjar

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Barkatullah University, Bhopal has also received the Foldscope project entitled “Assessment of Ecosystem Health of rivers using microscopic organisms as Bio-indicators” and in that course the team of this project visited the North East Region for conducting the workshop.
Principal Investigator Prof. Anil Prakash, Head, Department of Microbiology, Co-Principal Investigator Dr Vipin Vyas and Junior Research Fellow Ms Parul Gurjar visited Pandit Deeendayal Upadhyay Adarsh Mahavidyalaya, Behali, Biswanath, Assam. The North-East region collaborator Dr Dilip Saikia, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, PDUAM is working on the “Analysis of Dust Particles created at different phases of construction of Four-lane Highway with the help of Foldscope involving College Students “.The Field work has been conducted on the Brahmaputra River where water samples have been collected. The collected samples were analyzed on the next day.
Prof. Debojit Baruah, Principal, PDUAM appreciated the Major
twinning part of the Foldscope Project and admired DBT for giving North East
the privilege to organize such workshop. Prof. Anil Prakash introduced the children
with the Foldscope and its uses and functions. Later Dr. Vipin Vyas apprised
the students about the assessment of aquatic ecosystem by using the
microorganism and the role of Foldscope in the magnification of them.

In the technical session
Ms. Parul Gurjar delivered lecture through PowerPoint presentation by covering
all the technical aspects of the project. Students got enthusiased with the
working of Foldscope and were eager to handle the Foldscope instrument.
During the demonstration session, the assembling and the handling of the Foldscope instrument were demonstrated to the students. The students then themselves viewed the instrument.
In this hands-on workshop students get informed about the microscopic world and how Foldscope, a handy instrument can ease the study of micro-world with so low cost.