Genomics at Kerala literature Festival 2019

January 12, 2019

Touted as "The grandest celebration of words, stories, and ideas", Kerala Lit Fest #KLF2019 is the second largest cultural gathering in the country. Set along the shore of the Arabian sea by the beaches of Calicut, the KLF offers something for just about every age and interest, bringing readers and writers together for inspiration, entertainment, and discussion. Every Year, The festival presents an array of the best artists, actors, celebrities, writers, thinkers, and activists closer to people by engaging in meaningful discussions on literature, art, cinema, culture, dance, music, environment, science, and technology.

This years' Kerala Literature Festival featured a session on genomics, entitled Genomics from Reading (sequencing) to Editing to Writing(Synthesis) where a variety of contemporary issues in genomics were discussed. Prof KP Aravindan, former Professor of Pathology, Government Medical College Kozhikode was in conversation with Dr. Vinod Scaria, scientist at the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

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