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Dr. G. SARAVANAN
HEAD
Department of Biochemistry

Dr. G. Saravanan, Head of the Department, Biochemistry has been Awarded as "Best Researcher-2018-2019" and Received Rs. 10,000/- Cash Prize from Periyar University, Salem, Tamilnadu

Hearty Congratulations to our beloved HOD on behalf of Department of Biochemistry

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Faculty, Research Scholars and Students

Department of Biochemistry

The Biopearl Association , Department of Biochrmistry conducted a TALENTIA-2K19 (session-II) and SCIENTIA FESTUM- 2K19 for our students on 21st  and 22nd February 2019. In this 13 different events has been conducted which includes Face Painting, Bio-Rangolli, Paper Art, Quiz, Extempore Speech, Etc. And special Guest Lecture given by Dr.M.S.Shivakumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Periyar  University, Salem entitled "Bio Prospecting of Novel Plant Secondary Metabolites in Mosquito Control".Here of the photos taken during the session

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Dr. G. SARAVANAN

Head

Department of Biochemistry

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Dr. G. SARAVANAN
Head
Department of Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry conducted alumni meet on 16.02.2019

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Dr. G. SARAVANAN

HOD 

Department of Biochemistry

The Departments of Biological Sciences of K.S.Rangasamy College of Arts and Science (Autonomous), Tiruchengode organized two day CSIR Sponsored - National Conference on “Translating the Science of Nutrition into Art of Healthy Living” (TSNAHL), January 30th & 31st 2019. The conference brought together some 575 participants from various colleges and universities. It also provided a valuable networking opportunity and set the stage for further enlightening the young minds with the knowledge of nutrition. We have received nearly 100 abstracts for oral and poster presentations with 31 full papers and released during the conference in Souvenir with ISBN number from MHRD. Dr.G.Venkateshwaran, CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore and Dr.Balaji Meriga, Sri Venkateswara Unviersity, Tirupati acted as  chief guests.Dr.G.Sudha, Periyar University, Salem, Dr.S.Anita, K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode and Dr.Rajesh Pandian, Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeungnam University, South Korea acted as plenary speakers.Here are some of the photos taken during the Conference.

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Dr. G. SARAVANAN
HOD
Dept of Biochemistry

Marianne Grunberg-Manago (January 6, 1921 – January 3, 2013) was a Soviet-born French biochemist. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code.

EARLY LIFE

Grunberg-Manago was born into a family of artists who adhered to the teachings of the Swiss educational reformer Johann Pestalozzi. When she was 9 months old, Grunberg-Manago's parents emigrated from the Soviet Union to France.

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Grunberg-Manago studied biochemistry and, in 1955, while working in the lab of Spanish-America biochemist Severo Ochoa, she discovered the first nucleic-acid-synthesizing enzyme. Initially, everyone thought the new enzyme was an RNA polymerase used by cells to make long chains of RNA from separate nucleotides. But although the new enzyme could link a few nucleotides together, the reaction was highly reversible and it later became clear that the enzyme, polynucleotide phosphorylase, usually catalyzes the of RNA, not its synthesis.

Nonetheless, the enzyme was extraordinarily useful and important. Almost immediately, Marshall Nirenberg and J. Heinrich Matthaei put it to use to form the first three-nucleotide RNA codons, which coded for the amino acid phenylalanine. This first step in cracking the genetic code entirely depended on the availability of Grunberg-Manago’s enzyme.

In 1959, Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the synthesis of the nucleic acids RNA and DNA." She was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978 and a Foreign Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.

Grunberg-Manago was the first woman to direct the International Union of Biochemistry, and she was also the first woman to preside the French Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 1996.

LATER LIFE AND DEATH

Late in her career, Grunberg-Manago was named emeritus director of research at CNRS, France’s National Center for Scientific Research.

Grunberg-Manago died in January, 2013, three days before her 92nd birthday.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Member of the EMBO (1964)

Charles-Léopold-Mayer Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (1966)

Foreign member of the American Society of Biological Chemists (1972)

Member of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology)

Member of the French Society for biochemistry and molecular biology

Foreign member of the Franklin Society (1995)

Member of the Spanish Society for molecular biology

Member of the Greek Society for molecular biology

Member of the Executive Board of the ICSU

Foreign member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1977)

Foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978)

Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States (1982)

Honorary foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1988)

Member of Academia Europea (1988)

Honorary foreign member of the Russian Academy of sciences (1991)

Foreign member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1991)

Grand Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor(2008)

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Dr. G. SARAVANAN

Head

Dept of Biochemistry