NIBMG celebrated 9th 'Institute Day' on February 23, 2018. The main programme was organized at the Unified Campus of Bose Institute, Kolkata. Professor G Padmanaban, Padma Bhusan, Honorary and Emeritus Professor, IISc, Bangalore delivered The Institute Day Lecture entitled “Biotech options for healthcare in India: Opportunities and Challenges”. Keynote address was given by Professor Mark Allen Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany, entitled "Archaic genomes and human evolution". This was followed by a fantastic musical performance by the students and staffs of NIBMG.
Earlier, on February 22, 2018, another programme was arranged at the Institute campus in Kalyani where Professor Mark Allen Stoneking delivered a technical lecture to the students and faculty members of the Institute entitled “Genomic insights into the colonization of Pacific”. Professor G Padmanaban delivered a lecture entitled “Newer drug targets to treat cerebral malaria”. Both the guests planted saplings and also interacted with the PhD students. There was huge enthusiasm among all the members of NIBMG.
