QIP Programme IIT Bombay

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ELIGIBILITY
Faculty members of degree level engineering colleges recognized by AICTE are eligible to attend the course. Faculty member should have exposure to Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Mathematics at 10+2 level.

REGISTRATION
All short-listed candidates are required to confirm their participation by sending a Demand Draft of Rs. 1,000/- in the name of “Registrar IIT Bombay”.

Course Outline
The course intends to cover the following topics.

Basic aspects of interaction of light with biological systems. Common tools and techniques of photobiology

Photosensitization, mechanism and applications.

Photoreceptors and light-sensing mechanisms, vision, non-visual photoreception, ion-transport mechanism, structural dynamics and functional mechanisms.

Photomedicine, UV radiation effects on molecules, DNA damage, photocarcinogenesis, photodynamic therapy, photo and fluorescence diagnosis, photoimmunolgy, photo-vaccines, UV and vitamin D synthesis, UVA signalling, photosensitizing drugs, photodermatology, risks and new developments, and applications of light in dermatology, light-controlled targeted drug delivery, photodegradation of drugs.

Photoecology and environmental photobiology, effects of solar radiation on terrestrial and aquatic organisms and ecosystems, UV radiation and environmental impacts. Biofuels production, algal and cyanobacterial photobiological systems.

Photomovement, molecular mechanisms of photomorphogenesis,phototaxis, photoperiodism, chronobiology.

Photosynthesis, mechanism, recent advances and applications.

Bioluminescence - mechanism of manufacture and processing of biological light emission by organisms;

Technical applications of photobiological receptors, design of nature-inspired new lightsensing molecules/ photoswitches and phototriggers


QIP Photobiology –Concepts And Applications program






Address:-
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400076

Phone:-
022 2572 2545