Lucknow: A three-day workshop entitled “Computational Biology Approaches in Research” successfully concluded in the Bioinformatics centre, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lucknow on 6th August, 2025.
The event was inaugurated on 04th August 2025 by Prof. Manuka Khanna, Vice Chancellor, University of Lucknow. During the valedictory session of the workshop, the Chief Guest Prof. U. N. Dwivedi, former Vice Chancellor and former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Lucknow University addressed the participants of the workshop.
He congratulated the department on organisation of this informative workshop. He also apprised the participants abouts recent trends and applications of Computational Biology that are important from researchers point of view.

During the workshop, the keynote lecture was delivered by Dr. Mohd. Imran Siddiqui, Chief Scientist, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute who presented his views on various bioinformatics aspects of drug designing.
Overall, there were 15 lectures and practical sessions that were delivered by various experts specially Dr. Veda Prakash Pandey, Dr. Prashant Kumar Singh, Dr. Om Prakash and Dr. Raj Kamal Srivastava. The sessions covered wide range of topics from molecular biology to basic and modern approaches of drug designing using Bioinformatics.

A total of 25 participants from various universities of the state like Allahabad Central University, Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Dr. RMLU, Ayodhya, SGPGI etc. and various departments of science faculty of Lucknow University took part in this workshop.
During the valedictory session Prof. Sudhir Mehrotra welcomed the Guest and gave concluding remarks on the successful organization of the workshop. The report on the workshop was read by Dr. Raj Kamal Shrivastava. The ceremony concluded with certificate distribution to all the participants. The participants also appreciated the content and the lectures delivered by the resource persons during the workshop.
During the valedictory ceremony Dr. Sameer Sharma, Dr. Siddartha K Mishra, Dr. Prashant Kumar Singh (organizing Secretary), Dr. Rudra Prakash Ojha (Treasurer), Dr. Minal Garg, Dr. Kusum Yadav, Dr. Nisha Singh, Dr. Madhu Kamle, Dr. Ashutosh Singh and others were present.
