5th Microsummit 2024 - Microbial Ecosystems and Biomedicines for Human Health, on the 2nd and 3rd of August, 2024

Workshop on “5th Microsummit pre-conference workshop on Viral cell culture and Phycotechnology on the 1st of August 2024

“World Hepatitis Day” - Department of Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Diseases organized Awareness Campaign on 28th July 2024 to create Awareness among the general public and clinicians about the Management of Hepatitis

Workshop on “Innovative solutions for combating oral diseases” conducted by the Department of Microbiology and Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology on the 12th of July 2024

Expert Lecture Series on Basic Medical Sciences - Guest lecture titled “Men’s Health and Andrology - An update, delivered by Dr.Vilvapathy S Karthikeyan

Pongal celebration at Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Thandalam campus

Christmas celebrations at Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals

International Day of Epidemic Preparedness - Guest Lecture by Dr Luke Elizabeth Hannah, Scientist F, ICMR-NIRT, on the topic “Innovative Strategies to Strengthen the healthcare system in India”

13th International Symposium on Basic Medical Sciences for undergraduates

Awareness Campaign to “Remember and Commit” - A step towards the eradication of HIV/AIDS on the World AIDS Day - December 1st 2023

Awareness Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) among Stakeholders, a programme supported by Tamill Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. Govt. of Tamil Nadu, and NCSTC, Govt. of Tamil Nadu

Dr.Pachamuthu Balakrishnan as resource person at the “Bio-risk Management Consortium Workshop” organized by the Gryphon Scientific LLC, USA in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research - National Institute of Research In Tuberculosis (ICMR-NIRT), Chetpet, Chennai, on Sep 4th - 6th, 2023.

Teacher’s Day Celebrations..

BMS Lecture series: “Biotech Start-up Journey as a Successful Women Enterpreneur” by Dr.Maroudam Veerasami, Director, CisGen Biotech Discoveries Pvt Ltd.,

Commemorating the World Mosquito day 2023: Special lecture on“Tackling vector-borne diseases under the one health approach”

4th Microsummit - International Conference on Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance (ICIDAR 2023)

World Hepatitis Day 28th July 2023 - Awareness program

Saveetha’s Transdisciplinary Annual Research (STAR) Summit - 10th Research Summit - 12th June - 16th June 2023

Handful of trophies and heartful of joy!!

Overall Best Poster Award, Department of Microbiology - Ms.Jabeen, II year BDS

Good Clinical Laboratory Practices Workshop 23rd - 25th of March 2023

CDE program on Tuberculosis and Awareness Campaign.

Guest lecture delivered by Dr.Kogie Naidoo, Deputy Director, Centre for AIDS program of Research in south Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Discussion with NABH co-ordinators on TB control and Management in hospital settings.

Prof.Dr. P. Balakrishnan, was invited as a guest speaker to deliver a lecture on “Novel approaches - therapeutic options for treating HIV/AIDS” at the International Research Conference on Pharmaceutical and Allied Sciences 2.0, UCSI University Kuala Lumpur Campus, Malaysia on the 11th of March 2023.

Workshop on “Innovation and Critical thinking in Dental Research”

Lecture on “ Sanger sequencing and Genotyping” by Dr.S.Saravanan, Professor and Virologist

Morphology identification

Demonstration of culture media and methods

Hands on procedures on Real time PCR and PCR

Demonstration of PCR and RT-PCR procedures

74th Republic Day Celebration at SIMATS, Thandalam Campus

Workshop on “Research Methodology” at Saveetha Medical College, SIMATS

Dr.J.Vijayashree served as a resource person at the “Research methodology” workshop conducted for the post-graduate students at Saveetha Medical College, Thandalam campus on the 30th of December 2022.

HIV/AIDS Awareness Rally - World AIDS Day

The HIV/AIDS awareness rally was flagged-off by Director A.R Murugadoss from the Saveetha Dental College campus and passed through Thiruverkadu, and culminated back at the college campus.

Prof. Dr.Smiline Girija A.S, served as a resource person for the refresher course on Hospital acquired infections series-II and delivered a lecture on “Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme” at SRM Dental College

Prof. Dr.Smiline Girija A.S, was invited as the chief guest to commemorate the Technosaviour club at DG Vaishnav College. She delivered a lecture on “Innovations in research to spread your wings for a soaring biotechnological flight”.

Dr.J.Vijayashree Priyadharsini delivered the guest lecture and served as a resource person for the workshop on “Basic Genetics” at Meenakshi Ammal Dental College and Hopsitals, Chennai

Prof. Dr.Sathish Sankar, delivered a lecture on “COVID or Flu diagnostic dilemma”, at Saveetha Medical College, Thandalam

Prof. Dr.P.Balakrishnan, delivered a lecture on “Nanobiosensors in infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS diagnostics at University of Madras, Taramani

Department of Microbiology organized the BMS lecture series on the Integrated genomics approach for environmental bioremediation. Guest speaker: Dr.T.Rajesh, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute [NEERI], Taramani, Chennai-113.

Institutional visit by our international collaborator: Professor Dr.Assa Doron, Australian National University, Canberra, and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, visited SIMATS to initiate research collaboration

Ayudha pooja celebrations at Orange and blue labs

Inauguration of Pasteur Club 2022: Dr.J.Vijayashree Priyadharsini delivered lecture on the title “All is Well: The nature is healing” at Justice Basheer Ahmed College for women

Certification training course on HIV testing and counselling for healthcare professionals

Course launched by: Dr.Jason T. Blackard, Ph.D., Professor, Division of Infectious diseases, University of Cincinati college of Medicine, OH, USA

International Conference on Infectious Diseases and Advances in Microbial Technology; 3rd MICROSUMMIT-2022, 05 - 06 Aug 2022

Department of Microbiology presented BMS lecture series in commemoration of World Hepatitis Day. Prof. Dr.Shankar, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Tamil Nadu delivered a lecture on “Hepatitis can’t wait”

Department of Microbiology observed World Hand hygiene day. Dr.Mahalakshmi from Shri Balaji Dental College, delivered a lecture on “Clean hands: current perspectives and innovative ideas”

International Virtual Conference on Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in healthcare settings – 2nd MICROSUMMIT 2021 - 13th and 14th of August 2021 

MICROSUMMIT 2021