Biotech Updates

Students Visit Biotech Institutes in Bangladesh

February 6, 2013

Bangladesh Biotechnology Information Center (BdBIC) of ISAAA in collaboration with Biotechnology Department of Bangladesh Agricultural University organized a study tour for 30 biotech students last December 17-18, 2012. The visit was conducted in Jute and Macrophomina genome sequencing laboratories of Bangladesh Jute Research Institute, National Institute of Biotechnology, and Bangladesh Sugarcane Research Institute. Biotech facilities and on-going activities of the laboratories were shown and explained, including the Genome Sequencing Lab where Jute and Macrophomina have been sequenced and published recently.

For details, contact Prof. K. Nasirrudin of BdBIC at nasirbiotech@yahoo.com