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The 3rd International Conference on Frontiers in Biological Sciences (InCoFIBS-2023) will be held in Department of Life Science, NIT Rourkela, India, from 5th to 7th October 2023.
InCoFIBS, an international conference organized by the department of Life Science, NIT Rourkela every five years, addresses the advances made in the various fields of Biological Sciences. The conference aims to provide a global platform for exchanging ideas and works by multiple scientists, researchers, and international experts. It also offers a rostrum for young researchers to showcase and share their ideas with peers working in their field. These advances and efforts have unleashed many global players on the platform, bringing to the fore exciting and equally enthralling technologies that have led to the emergence of specializations and interdisciplinary fields.
Research is in a unique position to confront uncertainty. The dire grievances brought on by Covid-19 and the climate crisis demand more than utopic gestures or hopeful technologies. Challenged by the tensions of our times, Researchers are tasked with applying diverse forms of embodied knowledge to craft new tools for post-crisis conviviality and radical kindness. We are seeking future-oriented responses to current social, cultural, ecological and economic challenges through the manifold means of high-level practice and reflection. The conference proposes three attractors to advance understanding of new directions of research and stimulate new collaborative capacities and interdisciplinary scholarship.
The 3rd International Conference on Frontiers in Biological Sciences (InCoFIBS-2023) will savor the respective potentialities of digital and physical modes of co-presence, manifesting in two different modes: A 40minute lecture hour “long conversation” online offering a variety of successive presentations throughout different time zones, and a three-day gathering, providing the opportunity for focused sessions, exchange and brainstorming sessions in physical presence. For the “long conversation”, presenters are asked to moderate the discussion of the speaker immediately following their own, interweaving call and response elements of presenting. For the physical presence part of the conference, researchers of all disciplines are invited to meet and collaborate in sessions and posters during lunch time and other scheduled time within a spatially decentralized, socially-distanced and Covid-hygiene-approved program
About Life Science
The National Institute of Technology, Rourkela is one of the leading brands in technical education In India and an Institute of National Importance. The institute is situated at the North Western tip of Odisha (a state of eastern India), in a scenic environment surrounded by majestic hills and lash of greens. The Department of Life Science was established in 2009 in pursuance of the development of Intellectual resources for sustainable growth and betterment of the society. The department is involved in generating quality human resources through its various academic and research programs. The department currently offers 5 years Integrated M.Sc. in Life Science, 2 years M.Sc. in Life Science, and Ph.D. in Life Science. The department has received financial assistance from DBT, DST, CSIR, ICMR, ICAR for R&D projects
About NIT Rourkela
NIT Rourkela is one of the premier national level institutions for technical education in the country and is funded by the Government of India. Government of India has elevated the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela to a deemed university under the name of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.
The main objective of the Institute is to produce quality Engineers and Scientists in Graduate and Post-Graduate levels in various branches of Engineering and Science. The Institute is managed by the Board of Governors of National Institute of Technology (Rourkela) Society and vested with significant degree of administrative and financial autonomy. Government of India have recognized the Institute as a premier institution of repute and have developed it as a center of excellence under plan funding.
About Rourkela
Rourkela is a bustling steel city in the northern district of Sundargarh of Odisha, India, at an elevation of about 219 m above mean sea level. Rourkela is Odisha's third largest Urban Agglomeration after the twin cities, Bhubaneshwar, and Cuttack. The city is surrounded by lush green hills and encircled by the rivers Koel, Brahmani and Sankha. The geography of the city provides it with a tropical climate, with temperatures ranging from 5 °C to 49 °C with a mean minimum and maximum temperature range of 12.0 °C to 31.5 °C during the coldest and hottest months. The city is well connected by roadways, railways, as well as airways. It is the Industrial capital of Odisha owing to the presence of India’s first public sector steel plant facility which is well served by the Mumbai-Howrah rail line. The city is well-known for its diverse ethnicity, Rourkela Steel Plant, and a premier national-level institute NIT Rourkela. Rourkela is also popular for hockey, with great infrastructures upbringing next generation players with some of the best amenities. It boasts the world's largest fully seated hockey arena, the Birsa Munda International Hockey Stadium.