Pathogenic Viruses and Armamentarium Design

Dr. Awanish Kumar is an Associate Professor of the Department of Biotechnology at the National Institute of Technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. He has more than 13 years of research experience. He received his PhD in molecular parasitology from the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India, and completed his postdoctoral studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. His research interests are infection biology, drug targeting, and drug discovery. Dr. Kumud Pant is an Associate Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University) where she teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She received her master’s degree in Biotechnology from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India and her PhD in Bioinformatics from NIT, Bhopal, India. Dr. Pant has more than 10 years of experience and her major research interests are drug design, metagenomic data analysis, and data mining. Dr. Pant currently serves on many national committees, scientific societies, and advisory panels and is a member of many international professional research societies. She has also been a contributor to many book chapters and is a reviewer and editorial board member for reputed and refereed journals.

• 1. Human Pathogenic Viruses and tissue virology2. Past, present and future of pathogenic viruses3. Viral entry and pathogenicity4. Host immune response against virus5. Antiviral drugs: Types and mechanism of actio6. Equipment and techniques for detection of viruses for detecting immune response upon a virus7. Identifying anti-viral targets: Dry lab experimentation8. Currently available techniques helping virology and viral immune diagnostics9. Clinic viral diagnostics, Viral Vaccines and advanced immunology10. Choice amongst various stages in the life cycle of viruses for design of antiviral vaccine11. Reverse vaccinology and applications as prophylactics against12. SARS-CoV2 and SARS-CoV2 vaccinologyChallenges in development of antiviral drugs and vaccines