Indian Association of Medical Microbiology
The XXIV Annual Conference of India Association of Medical Microbiology was conducted at the Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai between 21 - 23 October 2005.
During the inaugural session, Mrs. B. Mahalakshmi - Senior Research Fellow from the L&T Microbiology Department of Sankara Nethralaya received the Junior IAMM best paper award for the year 2004.
The scientific sessions of the conference included oration lectures, symposium, Oral and poster presentations. The participants from Sankara Nethralaya included Dr.H.N.Madhavan, Dr.K.Lily Therese, Dr.J.Malathi, Mrs.P.Deepa, Miss.R.Bagyalakshmi and Miss.P.Sowmya presenting research papers in Immunology and Virology and oral presentations in Mycobacteriology and Mycology.
The theme lecture - 'Clinical Microbiology in the Millenium : The dilemma for Clinical Microbiologist: Phenotypic or Genotypic characterization of bacteria' was delivered by Dr. David Stroman of Alcon Laboratory, U.S.A., while Dr. H.N.Madhavan-Professor & Head of Microbiology at Sankara Nethralaya chaired the session and spoke in detail about collaborative research work between Vision Research Foundation and Alcon Laboratory.
There were 137 oral presentations in all among which two were from Sankara Nethralaya's L & T Microbiology Research Centre, one each in Mycology and Mycobacteriology by Miss. R. Bagyalakshmi and Mrs.P.Deepa respectively.
Dr. K.Lily Therese delivered a lecture on 'Molecular methods in diagnosis of ocular infections'.
Dr.H.N.Madhavan was elected as the Executive Council Member for the next three years by the organising committee of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiology.
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Posted by:radhakrishna | November 23, 2005 at 10:50 AM