New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore and IISER Thiruvananthapuram have organised the 5th International Chromosome Stability Meeting 2022. The meeting was attended by around 170 scientists, graduate students, and postdoctoral associates.

As per IISER Thiruvananthapuram, students and postdoctoral associates from Asia, Europe, the USA, and the UK attended the four-day conference to discuss research incorporating numerous model systems and molecular techniques used to explore chromosome stability.

Director of IISER Thiruvananthapuram Prof. J.N. Moorthy commented on the occasion, saying, “Institutes of higher learning such as IISERs are committed to providing high-quality education and world-class facilities to students and research scholars to pursue cutting-edge research in frontier areas of science".

"Conferences such as Chromosome Stability 2022 held in the IISER Thiruvananthapuram campus provide opportunities for students and scholars to interact with eminent scientists and listen to their research work”, he added. 

In India, there has been a significant increase in the number of principal investigators whose labs are working to solve chromosomal stability-related issues in recent years. There aren't any significant conferences on chromosomal stability currently taking place in India. To remedy this gap, a series of meetings on chromosomal stability was started in 2012.

The meeting's topics were extremely relevant to understanding many malignancies, chromosome instability, and DNA damage-related ageing illnesses, as well as many genomic disorders. The main areas discussed at the meeting are replicating, repairing, and recombining DNA Genome assembly and topology Centromeres and kinetochores

The programme also included lively conversations about career options in this subject, a panel discussion with journal editors on publishing research work, and intense contact between the student participants and conference presenters in poster sessions.

At this event, three individuals; Dr Michael Lichten, National Institutes of Health, USA; Prof. Joseph Heitman, Duke University, USA; and Dr Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA—were also honoured as newly elected members of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Dr Nishant K.T. of the School of Biology at IISER Thiruvananthapuram and Prof. Kaustuv Sanyal of JNCASR Bangalore, expressed their satisfaction with the event's success, saying, “It is gratifying to note the impact of this conference series on the development of chromosome stability research in India".

"Many of the participants from the earlier meetings have gone on to have productive careers in this field abroad and also returned to India as independent scientists” he added.

This meeting series has promoted collaborative research, the exchange of equipment and scientific staff between Indian and foreign laboratories, and the development of this significant field of biomedical research in the nation. It has sparked an expansion of the Indian scientific community studying chromosomal stability.

The International Chromosome Stability Meeting is well-known among researchers and students working on chromosome stability throughout the world, and it is anticipated that it will create new scientific leaders in India in the field of chromosome stability.

The DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance, Chromosoma, Company of Biologists, Clevergene, SLV Scientific, and IISER Thiruvananthapuram all provided financial assistance for the 5th International Chromosome Stability Meeting 2022.

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