This is part of its efforts to popularize science to the general public and students who are pursuing science as their career. TNSF attempt to focus on students on higher science as everyone knows that learning of science at college within the curriculum is not enough to acquire holistic knowledge of science at the appropriate time. Hence, to fill the gap between what students are acquiring through the curriculum and what it is required, TNSF is planning its activities on higher science to students who are pursuing higher education.

About the Lecture
In the year 1865, Gregor Johann Mendel, the father of Genetics, established “Mendelian laws of inheritance” which are the gold standard laws of Genetics to understand inheritance. Even at that point, Mendel himself was unaware of genes and their molecular functions and used the term “elemente” to refer the unit of heredity. The actual terminology “gene” was coined later in 1909. From Mendelian period to today, the field of Genetics has flourished with remarkable multidimensional growth. Over the course of two centuries, with incredible growth in the last two decades, we have progressed from finding individual genes and deciphering their functions to being able to sequence, decode, and comprehend the entire genetic information of an organism called the “genome” in a matter of days. Thanks to this huge dataset of genomic data from organisms including humans, we explore evolution, disease susceptibility, ancestral lineage prediction, and animal and plant breeding much more effectively than before. Even rare genetic diseases which were difficult to diagnose and treat before are now being cured by correcting the disease-causing genes through genome editing. Given the wide range of applications of genomics in many domains that are vital to human society, it is compelling to comprehend what genomics is and how it may impact an individual as well as a society. In this talk, let us converse elaborately about genomics and its implications in our society to create understanding and awareness about this field.