Project Activities

FIFTH TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR INSTITUTIONAL BIOSAFETY OFFICERS
22 September, 2016
Agenda: Agenda for Institutional Biosafety Officers
Description: The fifth training workshop for the Institutional Biosafety Officers (IBOs) focused on apprising the IBOs about the importance for developing crop specific standard operating procedures (SOPs) for various GE crops that are expected to be in the regulatory pipeline in the coming years from their respective institutions. The training workshop was held at Hyderabad after the 4th Annual South Asia Biosafety Conference (SABP), from September 19-21, 2016 at Hyderabad which was attended by the IBOs for sharing of experience about ongoing research in the area of biotechnology and biosafety compliance issues, being faced by researchers across South Asian countries.
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FOURTH TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR INSTITUTIONAL BIOSAFETY OFFICERS ON CONFINED FIELD TRIALS OF REGULATED GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS
5 July, 2016
Agenda: Agenda for Institutional Biosafety Officers
Description: The fourth training workshop for Institutional Biosafety Officers focused on creating awareness about the confined field trials (CFTs) of regulated GE plants as per the Indian regulatory requirements. The importance of adopting an effective stewardship program for managing the biotechnology derived plant products from their discovery and development phase to their use and eventual release in environment was also reiterated at the fourth workshop.
Two posters for providing guidance on actions required for biosafety compliance at various stages of laboratory research and CFTs was prepared and circulated to all IBOs.
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LAUNCH OF ICAR BIOSAFETY PORTAL AND THIRD TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR INSTITUTIONAL BIOSAFETY OFFICERS
13 April, 2016
Agenda: Agenda for the Launch of ICAR Biosafety Portal and workshop for Institutional Biosafety Officers
Description: The Third Training Workshop was organized concurrent to the launch of the “ICAR Biosafety Portal” by Dr T Mohapatra, Director General, ICAR on April 13, 2016. The technical session in the third workshop focused on sensitizing the IBOs about management of plant product integrity and practical considerations towards implementing an effective stewardship program.
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Second Training Workshop for Institutional Biosafety Officers
23 September, 2015
Agenda: Agenda for Institutional Biosafety Officer Training
Description: Second Training Workshop for IBOs was a working session to develop standard operating procedures for research activities involving GE plants in laboratories and greenhouse.
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First Training Workshop for Institutional Biosafety Officers
27-28 May, 2015
Agenda: Agenda for Institutional Biosafety Officer Training
Description: The first training workshop for IBOs focussed on introducing key features of Indian Biosafety Regulatory Framework, concept of risk assessment and risk management, quality assurance in the development of new GE crops with an objective to understand compliance requirement by a Permitted Party.
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ICAR Facilities Visits and Biosafety Project Progress Report
Description: Invited lecture in participating ICAR institutions.

National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), New Delhi – September 9, 2016
Indian Institute Of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur – April 12, 2016
Central Potato Research Institute (CPRI), Shimla – April 11, 2016
Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Hyderabad – April 7, 2016
National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), New Delhi – April 6, 2016
Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR), Hyderabad – February 23-24, 2016
Indian Institute of Oilseed Research (IIOR), Hyderabad – February 23-24, 2016
Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR), Hyderabad – February 23-24, 2016

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