Seminars, Lectures and Conferences

"GREEN VOICE" an intercollegiate event was held at St. Xavier's College, Autonomous Mumbai on 21 June 2016, organized jointly by the Department of Microbiology and PG Department of Biotechnology. Novozymes South Asia Pvt Ltd, Bangalore sponsored it. The event started with a panel discussion highlighting the topic, "Role of Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Policy".

Interactive Student Workshop was conducted and sponsored by Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore on 1 August 2016, the topics being Sustainability and Global development (Pranjal Goswami) and Biotechnology and Innovation (Dr Aditya Basu).

OneCert Workshop: Ms Namrata Dayal trained 136 postgraduate and undergraduate students of biological sciences in Food Safety and Management Systems (FSMS) on behalf of OneCert International private limited. The training covered the roles of food safety auditors and systems like HACCP, ISO standard, FSSAI food safety regulations and schedules. The training was held in two batches from 9 December to 12 December 2019.

Guest Lectures

Mr Sachin Rajan, our alumnus, spoke on "Management as a career for Microbiologists" on MICRO day, 24 August 2016.

Department of Microbiology organized a lecture by an eminent scientist Dr Swaine Chen M.D, PhD from the National University of Singapore who gave a lecture on 'Definitive elucidation of virulence mechanisms: Lessons from Campylobacter for understanding why bacteria cause disease', held on 2 December 2016 to SYBSc, TYBSc, MSc Microbiology and Life Science students. He is the PhD guide of our alumna Dr Varnica Khetrapal who received her doctorate in December.

Dr S.T. Dheen and Dr P. Hande of Yang Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, spoke on "PhD opportunities at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS", Singapore on 23 February 2017 to our MSc students from Biotechnology, Life-sciences and Microbiology.

The Department under the leadership of Faculty member Sangeetha Chavan initiated the task of Solid waste management in our college with a talk on "Solid Waste Management in Mumbai" by Ms Sindhu Iyer of Stree Mukti Sanghatana on 8 March 2017 in the SCAVI. Our MSc students attended the talk.

Career Guidance Seminars

A seminar was held on 28 April 2017 for BSc and MSc students. Three speakers were invited. Gillian D'Souza for Science writing in India, Mrs Asha Sridhar – Careers in the Food Industry, and Mrs Yogita Narwekar – Entrepreneurship. It was attended by 41 students who obtained information about careers in each of these fields. The talks were very inspiring and informative.

A Career Guidance Seminar 2018 was held on 21 April 2018. Guest speakers invited were alumna, Ms Harsha Kavale, Associate Director, Cipla, Dr Shilpa Verekar, Head – Technical Projects (PAN India), Microchem Silliker Pvt Ltd, and alumnus Mr Mahesh Jagtap, Mumbai. Sales Head-India at PQE Group, Pharma Quality Europe, Italy.