Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan,Kolkata,57A Park Street,Kolkata on 28 March 2023 at 6.30 p.m.
Science Lecture by Prof. Annette Becker on ‘From green to colorful – Flowers, their genetic code and their evolutionary origin’
India and Germany have a long history of collaborative research, technology partnership, and higher education cooperation. The Indo-German science and technology partnership has grown substainally in the last couple of years. High-level diplomatic visits continue to boost the bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
To further strengthen this cooperation, German Consulate General in Kolkata has been organising Science Lectures. These lectures aim to promote Indo-German Scientific Cooperation platform that has been created for German scientists and Indian scientists having research projects with German institutes to share their research findings with other scientists, academicians, students and interested counterparts.
Our next Science Lecture will take place on 28 March 2023 at 6.30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata (Park Mansions, Gate 4, 57A Park Street, Kolkata – 700016). Prof. Annette Becker, a Geneticist in the Institute of Botany at Justus-Liebig-University, Germany will talk on ‘From green to colorful – Flowers, their genetic code and their evolutionary origin’.
. Prof. Becker is visiting Kolkata under an ‘Alexander von Humboldt Research Group Linkage Programme’ with a former Humboldt fellow of the Presidency University. Background There are a number of Scholarship and funding resources that the Indian researchers make use of, and thereby enhance the collaborative research between Germany and India.
While the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation (www.humboldt-foundation.de) normally funds highly qualified postdoctoral academics and researchers, the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD (www.daad.de), world’s largest funding organisation for the international exchange of students and researchers, offers a number of scholarships for doctoral degrees. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (www.mpg.de) research scholarships are for doctoral, post-doctoral as well as for senior researcher, whereas the German Research Foundation, DFG (www.dfg.de) focuses on research fellowships to help early career researchers to conduct a defined project at a location of their choice in a country other than Germany. According to the data from 2021, from India 34134 students are pursuing studies in Germany, of which around 74% are doing Masters and 12% PhDs (10% bachelors, 4% rest). Around 66% of Indian students are pursuing engineering; 12% Mathematics and Natural sciences; 16% Law, Economics and Social Science.
About Prof. Annette Becker
Dr. Annette Becker is a Geneticist, who works as a Professor for Developmental Biology of Plants in the Institute of Botany at Justus-Liebig-University, Germany. She studied Biology in Tübingen, Göttingen, Oulu (Finland), and in Tallahassee (USA) and had her PhD in Genetics from Max-Planck-Institute for Breeding Research, Cologne and University of Cologne. Dr. Becker has Post Docs from Universities of Münster, Jena, and Monash University (Australia).The origin and evolution of novel traits in plants is her main research interest. She and her team aim to identify the genes and the molecular mechanisms that facilitate the development of the flowers and evolve them into such a stunning diversity. The Becker group uses a range of novel model organisms representing different steps in plant evolution to improve crop yield and quality.
Dr. Becker is also the Coordinator of the DFG funded Research Unit FOR 5098 “ICIPS” (Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction) and the Vice president of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology.
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