Daily Times

Lahore: The Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Saturday organised 5th one-day international symposium on ‘Recent Trends in Life Sciences’ for the benefit of students’ community.

Eminent scientists from the University of Edinburgh, UK, participated in the annual event.

UCP Faculty of Life Sciences Dean Prof Dr Mushtaq A Saleem gave introduction of the faculty and briefed the house about the theme of the symposium. He threw light on the future prospects of research in various disciplines, including biochemistry, biotechnology and microbiology.

Dr Umar Chaudhary from Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK, spoke about ‘Next Generation Sequencing and its Applications’.

He explained about the anthelmintic resistance in parasites and genetic basis. He also explained domestic and government-controlled farms with regard to the difference of resistance in Pakistani and Indian sheep population.

Topic of Dr Neil Sargison’s talk was ‘Genetic Crossing Experiments on the Model Parasitic Nematode, Haemonchus Contortus’. He focused on haemonchus contortus species with some important aspects such as geographical variations of activity of parasite. After his talk there was an interactive questions and answers session in which he very effectively replied to the questions put up by students and faculty members and satisfied their quest of knowledge.

At the end, Prof Dr Muhammad Zafarullah, pro-rector, University of the Central Punjab, conveyed his warm regards to worthy guests, thanked them for sparing their precious time to share their knowledge with UCP faculty and students.

In the concluding session, the pro-rector presented souvenirs to guests.

Published in Daily Times, October 29^th 2017.