KEYNOTE LECTURES

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY

5 JUNE 2021

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

SESSION I : 9.45 AM-10.45 AM IST, 5th June 2021

Chairman, Session I


Prof. Krishnamoorthy Kannan

Founder KKBiotech and

Chair Professor Biotechnology at Manav Rachna International University

Ex-VC, Nagaland University

Email: drkrishnamoorthy@gmail.com

Lecture 1: 9.50 AM-10.15 AM IST

"Green Corridor based Ecologic Restoration in Braided Brahmaputra River: Issues and Challenges"

Speaker:

Prof. Subashisa Dutta

Department of Civil Engineering

Centre for the Environment

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati - 781 039, Assam, India

Email: subashisa@iitg.ac.in

Lecture 2: 10.15 AM-10.40 AM IST

"Impact of Environment and Fungi in Evolution"


Speaker:

Prof. Ranjan Tamuli

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Centre for the Environment

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati - 781 039, Assam, India

Email: ranjantamuli@iitg.ac.in

SESSION II : 1.45 PM- 2.45 PM IST, 5th June 2021

Chairman Session II


Prof. Partha Pratim Baruah

Professor and Former Head

Department of Botany

Gauhati University,

Guwahati, Assam

Lecture 3: 1.50 PM-2.20 PM IST

"Burden of Disease Linked to Environment"


Dr. Jayanta B. Sarma

Lead Consultant, The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Wakefield, England, UK

Visiting Honaorary Faculty, Centre for the Environment

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati - 781 039, Assam, India

Email: jayanta.sarma@nhs.net

Lecture 4: 2.20 PM-2.40 PM IST

"A Primer on UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration"

Speaker:

Prof. Utpal Bora

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering

Centre for the Environment

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Guwahati - 781 039, Assam, India

Email: ubora@iitg.ac.in

Subcommittee

Dr. Deepmoni Deka

Coordinator

Centre for the Environment

Mr. Partha Protim Bakal

Member

Centre for the Environment

Mr. Kaustubh Rakshit

Member

Centre for the Environment

Mr. Rajiv Kumar Gogoi

Member

Centre for the Environment