Dr Rao emphasised on the need to develop technologies, which are viable and accessible to a majority of the population in India. He also stressed on the need to develop personalised medicine keeping in mind the genetic polymorphism in different ethnic groups.

Prof D Kaul, Professor and Head, Department of Experimental Medicine and Biotechnology, PGI, Chandigarh deliberated on ‘Rnomics in Health and Diseases’.

Prof Attila Tarnok from Germany delivered a talk on ‘Polychromatic Cytometry’. This was followed by a lecture on the use of Flow Cytometric techniques in Plants by Prof David W Galbraith from the University of Arizona, USA. Dr Susann Mueller from Germany talked about Microbial Cytometry.