IIT Delhi to organise 7th SciTech Spins Lecture for school students on March 26

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi’s Kusuma School of Biological Sciences professor Manidipa Banerjee will deliver the seventh SciTech Spins lecture titled “Virus versus host: Warfare at nanoscale” for school kids on March 26. The lecture will also be live streamed on the IIT Delhi’s official YouTube channel.

The lecture will address questions such as what do viruses look like, how do they infect human cells in spite of our immune systems, how do vaccines protect against viral infections, how are new strains of viruses generated, why can’t drugs against viruses be developed quickly?

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Banerjee said, “As we live through the 3rd year of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to reflect on the structure and functions of viruses, which make them such lethal nanomachines capable of halting all human activities and causing major damage. During the SciTech Spins lecture for the school students, I will discuss the salient points in virus-host interaction at the molecular or nano-level.”

SciTech Spins lecture series

The fifth SciTech Spins lecture titled “The building blocks of matter: From particles to strings” and fourth lecture titled “Unraveling Nature: From the Galaxies to the Quantum Realm” were delivered on January 29, 2022 and December 15, 2021, respectively.

The 3rd SciTech Spins lecture titled “Materials that Matter” accompanied by laboratory demonstrations was delivered on November 20, 2021. Whereas, the first SciTech Spins lecture titled ‘Design Thinking- A Powerful Tool for Problem Solving’ and second lecture titled “Learning to Learn Through Modeling” were held on September 11 and October 23, 2021, respectively.

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The SciTech Spins lecture series is an academic outreach initiative by IIT Delhi for the school students especially from classes 9 to 12. The Institute gives e-certificates to all registered students nominated by their respective schools who attend the lecture.

These students will also be invited to 'Open House', an annual intellectual fest organised by IIT Delhi, which provides an ideal platform to school students to connect with some of the leading researchers in the field of science and technology.