Congratulations Vithusha!

Ms.A.Vithusha; an alumnus of our department, has been selected into a PhD programme focused on the identification of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic viruses, as part of the Global Health Protection…

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Visit of WHO mission

Drs. Seth Irish and Tessa Knox, Medical Entomology Consultants to the World Health Organization, visited the Department on 16 November 2023. They had an extensive discussion with researchers on ongoing…

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Patent for a product developed by Prof.S.N. Surendran

A national patent was obtained by a team lead by Prof.S.N.Surendran along with M.Vijaendran from the Faculty of Engineering for the novel self-contained system to rear black soldier flies. The…

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CRE: Guest lectures

A guest lecture by Sriram Chellappan (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida, USA) on Experimental Results on Smart Trapping and AI Algorithms for Mosquito Surveillance is…

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Best poster presentation award: Ms.Nishara Jayasooriya

Miss. Nishara Jayasooriya, a former Zoology Honours degree student, has won the best poster presentation award at the annual session of the IBMBB, University of Colombo held on 31 May…

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Research collaborators’ visit: University of Bern

Research collaborators Prof. Isabel Roditi, Prof. Andrew Hemphill and Dr. A. Naguleswaran from the University of Bern, Switzerland visited the University and interacted with their research collaborators Prof. S.N. Surendran,…

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