Chief Patron

1. Rev. Fr Dionysius Vaz, SJ: Chancellor

Patrons

1. Rev. Fr Swebert D’Silva, SJ: Pro-Chancellor
2. Rev. Dr Victor Lobo, SJ: Vice-Chancellor
3. Prof. Ronald J. Mascarenhas: Pro-Vice-Chancellor
4. Dr. Regina Mathias: Pro-Vice-Chancellor
5. Prof. Melwin Colaco : Registrar
6. Dr. Beatrice Maria Sequeira : Dean, Life Sciences

Convenors

1. Dr. Jacob Paul V J: Head, Department of Botany
2. Prof. Jayarama Reddy: Department of Botany

Organising Secretary

1. Dr. Vaishnavi M - PG Coordinator (Botany)

National Advisory Committee

1. Dr. Ronald Mascarenhas, Professor & Pro-Vice-Chancellor, St Joseph’s University.
2. Dr. Shyam Kumar Masakapalli, Professor, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
3. Dr. Amandeep Mittal, Fruit Molecular Geneticist, School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University.
4. Dr. Debabrata Sircar, Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Roorkee.
5. Dr. Veena Anil Professor, Department of Biotechnology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore.
6. Dr. R. R. Rao INSA Honorary Scientist, Bengaluru.
7. Dr. D. Narasimhan Member, Tamil Nadu State Biodiversity Board, Chennai.
8. Dr. K. Ravikumar Emeritus Professor, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bengaluru.
9. Dr. V. Sundaresan, Senior Scientist, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Bengaluru.
10. Dr. S. Kumaresan, Head of Dept. of Botany, RKM Vivekananda College, Chennai.
11. Dr. P. Balaji, Head of Dept. of Botany, Dr. Ambedkar Govt. Arts College, Chennai.
12. Dr. Madhusudhan R V Manager technical Indo- American Hybrid seeds (India) Pvt Ltd.

Organising Committee

1. Members of the faculty of the Department of Botany & Department of Biology

Details Of Speakers

1. PROFESSOR UTPAL NATH, Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
2. DR MAYUR D. NANDIKAR, Head, Botany & Pharmacognosy, Pharmanza Herbal, Anand, Gujarat.
3. DR RITESH KUMAR CHOUDHARY, Scientist-E, Biodiversity & Palaeobiology group Agharkar Research Institute, Pune.
4. DR P.D.V.N. SUDHEER, Associate Professor, Gujarat State Biotechnology University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
5. DR VENKATESH RAMPILLA, Government College of Rajamahendravaram, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.
6. DR SHANTHARAM, Associate professor, Department of Biotechnology, Reva University, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
7. DR DINESH A NAGEGOWDA, Senior principal scientist CSIR-CIMAP Research Centre, Allalasandra, GKVK Post, Bengaluru.
8. DR T. MUTHUKUMAR PROFESSOR, Department of Botany, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.