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In order to motivate its students regarding Industry, Entrepreneurship and Utilities in the field, the Department of Bio-Technology of Lovely Professional University organized an in-house Seminar 'Bio-Technology: The Go Ahead'. Lectures were delivered by many eminent scholars with great research work. Prominent among them with keynote lectures were Professor PK Khanna & Professor Aruna Bhatia. The programme attracted a large number of students to better understand the role of bio-technology in our day to day life.

Professor PK Khanna delivered his lecture on the topic 'Crop Residual Management for Commercial Microbial Protein Production'. He stressed the overall efficiency of utilization of total energy from a crop by saying "When the grain is only used for human consumption or for livestock feed, less percentage of the energy and minimum of the protein are utilized." Whereas, during the second session for her topic 'Bio-Technology for Health and Entrepreneurship', Professor Aruna Bhatia threw light on the role of micro-organisms in environment and health. She said "Natural microbial species and genetically modified organisms are the most desired organisms on earth for environment cleaning and maintaining good health of human beings directly or indirectly."

During the presentation session, there was a short-listing of  64 students' abstracts for oral and poster presentations. The Director General HR Singla, Vice-Chancellor Vijay Gupta and Senior Dean Dr. Lovi Raj Gupta of LPU gave away the prizes to the winning students. Two of the winners Nikhil Khurana and Priyadarshani said "The present seminar means much to us. Moreover, it looks very great while expressing and exhibiting ourselves successfully in regard to our talents."

While appreciating the endeavours accorded towards the organization of the seminar, the Executive Dean of LPU, Mrs. Rasmi Mittal said "The role of biotechnology is very significant for all of us. We must become, directly or indirectly, ardent students of this great branch of science to study and understand the characterisation and conservation of crop, forestry, animal resources."

Source: http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/education/2010051350548.htm