biotech

I had written a blog about Google's "gene-catalogue" project some time ago.
In the blog I had mentioned about the Google Compute Project with its defunct website (as of the time of writing).
I found today that the Google Compute Project has taken inspiration from the Folding@Home project undertaken at Stanford University.

Hello Friends,

Do you want to connect and collaborate with the leading biotech professionals in the world?

Do you want to update your biotech knowledge?

If yes, read on….

The Global Bio Business Forum from February 15-17th 2007 at HICC, Hyderabad is just a month away, if you have not yet registered for the conference, do so immediately. Make use of this excellent opportunity and meet the leading biotech professionals such as Prof. K Muniyappa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science and has worked at Yale University School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; and MRC, London. He received a number of national and international awards and prizes, including the Bhatnagar prize, JC Bose national fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation career development award, Sreenivasaya memorial award from the Society of Biological Chemists, Yamagiwa international cancer fellowship and IISc Alumni award for excellence in research. He is a fellow of all the major Science Academies in India and a founding member of Karnataka State Academy for Science and Technology. He is the founder and coordinator of the national postdoctoral program in biotechnology funded by the DBT. He serves on a number of government and university committees and as Editorial board member or referee of many international journals. He has published widely in some of the prestigious international journals in the area of chromosome pairing and genetic recombination, DNA enzymes and telomere biology.