February 2012 Our Campus Canopied Path

Newsletter of Sri Ramachandra University

….Connecting SRU

February 2012

Our Campus Canopied Path

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From the Editor’s Desk

For a noble cause ...

Bridges - Connecting SRU

Bridges Committee

Patron:

Shri. V. R. VenkataachalamChancellor

Advisory Board:

Prof. S. Rangaswami

Prof. K.V. Somasundaram

Prof. Jayanthi Mohan

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr. Sheela Ravinder S.

Editor:

Ms. Hemalatha C. R.

Co-Editor:

Mr. Antony Leo Aseer P.

Editorial Board:

Mr. Abhinand P. A.

Dr. Archana P. Kumar

Mr. Babu Y.

Dr. Ganesh V.

Prof. Kalpana Suresh

Dr. Nithya Jagdish

Prof. Prakash Boominathan

Prof. Sandhya Sundaram

Ms. Sreelekha B.

Secretarial Assistance:

Ms. Stella Augustus

Ms. Geetha R.

Photography:

Mr. Anand Kumar A.

Art & Design:

Mr. Arunagiri S.

Printing:

Mr. Velayudam S.

Cover Photo Courtesy:

Mr. Babu Y.Lecturer, Dept. of Biotechnology

Beloved Readers,

Let us stay connected…

Sheela Ravinder. S. Editor-in-Chief

Felicitation of our employees in the University Day Celebration communicates the

appreciation for their years of dedicated service. It is with great admiration that we witness

the efforts of our best outgoing students on this day. We also take pride in the outstanding

accomplishments by our faculty in the field of research which inspires us all.

Your corner in this issue stresses the need to bookmark and cherish those little things

that make us smile. For one day, we may look back and realize they were the big things. So let

us live in the present and make it beautiful, worth remembering. We also come to know

amazing facts about the tiniest vertebrate and the dinosaurs which were the largest ever to

walk on the earth. Believe it or not reveals astounding facts on the kind of behavioral analysis

we can derive from a creature's teeth.

We are happy to share with you the re-accreditation of our medical centre by Joint

Commission International. Thanks to the untiring efforts of our faculty and staff whose

unsurpassed commitment to excellence provides quality services responsive to individual

needs.

Our Chancellor, Shri. V. R. Venkataachalam donated Rs. 51.1 lakhstowards the Chief Minister's Public Relief Fund for the rehabilitation

thof those affected by cyclone ‘Thane’ on 19 Jan.

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thThe was held on 12 Jan. Employees were felicitated for their dedicated service. Founder-Chancellor cash awards, gold medals & prizes for students and awards & merit certificates for research publications were also presented.

University Day Celebration

February ’12

thOn 26 Jan., Dr. Sudhir Babhulkar, Fo r m e r P r o f . & H e a d , D e p t . o f Orthopedics, Indira G a n d h i M e d i c a l College and Mayo General Hospital,

Nagpur, delivered the second Prof. S. S. K. Marthandam Endowment Oration – ‘Head Preserving Surgeries in Osteonecrosis of Femoral Head’.

A five member c o n d u c t e d

an accreditation survey rd that SRMC from 23 to 27

Jan.

JCI t e a m

Dept. of Orthopedics

conducted the

th thfrom 25 to 28 Jan. 152

PG s tuden t s f rom various parts of the country participated.

t h13 Annual Rapid Review Program, SCORE 2012

A workshop on

thwas organized from 18 stto 21 Jan. by the Medical

Education Unit, a MCI-recognized Nodal Center for Faculty Development Workshops. Around 56 members participated.

Medical Education Technologies

Republic Day Celebrations at SRU

Pongal Celebrations at SRU

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February ’12

Dept. of ENT and Head & N e c k S u r g e r y

conducted the

on th7 Jan. Prof. Joachim

Mueller, University of Munich, Germany was the chief guest. Cochlear Implantation Surgery on cadaveric temporal bone was demonstrated. A demonstration of surgeries relayed live in the Harvard Auditorium followed. About 50 delegates benefited.

st1 Sri Ramachandra Cochlear Implant Workshop

Sri Ramachandra School and College of Nursing

o r g a n i z e d t h e

with the theme ‘Tr ans l a t i ng Knowledge through Interactive Teaching -

nd thLearning Enhances Quality’ from 2 to 4 Jan. Dr. Jaya Jambunathan, Director - Research & Evaluation, Asst. Dean - University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA was the chief guest. The conference deliberations included four scientific sessions and 96 paper presentations. Around 224 delegates participated.

t h8 International Nurses Conference

D e p t . o f S L H S organized a training p r o g r a m o n

for S p e e c h L a n g u a g e Pathologists through the Sri Ramachandra University SmileTrain Speech Training Initiative

nd th (SRUSTI) from 22 to 28 Dec.

M a n a g e m e n t o f C o m m u n i c a t i o n Disorders Related to Cleft Lip & Palate

Government College of Integrated Medicine Alumni Endowment Oration on

by Dr. Rama Jayasundar, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of NMR, AIIMS, New

thDelhi was held on 6 Jan. Around 300 delegates attended.

Nonlinear Perspective of Health and Disease in Ayurveda

As part of

, four faculty members & 19 students from University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, Oshkosh, USA v i s i t ed Facu l t y o f

thNursing from 28 Dec. thto 4 Jan. to gain Community Health Nursing experience.

faculty-s t u d e n t e x c h a n g e program

A successful was done on a six year old boy suffering from cholestatic liver disease by the Sri Ramasamy Udayar Center for Digestive Surgery & Transplantation in Oct. 2011. The father donated a part of his liver to the son. Both the donor & the recipient had an uneventful post operative recovery.

Live Liver Transplant

Dept. of Orthopedics and the Division of Spine Surgery organized ththe first on 12 Jan.

The guest faculties were Dr. Pradeep Madhavan & Dr. Paul Thorpe, Consultant Spine Surgeons, Somerset Spine Surgery Service, UK. 79 delegates attended.

International Spinal Deformities Symposium

Dept. of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery and Dept. of SLHS celebrated the thon 20 Jan. Children with cochlear

implants performed a variety of cultural programs. Mrs. Latha Rajendran, Principal and Correspondent of Dr. MGR Home and Higher Secondary School for the Speech and Hearing Impaired presided over as the Chief Guest and distributed the prizes.

th6 Anniversary

of the Cochlear Implant Program in SRU (CLIPS)

On behalf of the Staff Sports and Recreation Club, the Dept. of Physical Education conducted sports and games for both the teaching and thnon-teaching staff & students on 13 Jan.

Sports



Date Event

28.01.’12 PED DERM SRU – 2012 Pediatric & Adolescent Dermatology - An update for Pediatric and Dermatology

Postgraduates, Practicing Pediatricians & Dermatologists.

21.01.’12 CME on ‘Population stratification and its implications in health and disease: Indian perspectives’ by

Dr. K. Thangaraj, Principal Scientist, Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.th20.01.’12 to Ms. Anitha R., Asst. Prof., received the ‘Muktesh Award’ for the best paper presentation at the 44 National

22.01.’12 Conference of the Indian Speech and Hearing Association held at Hyderabad.

18.01.’12 & Mr. Prem Kumar M. S. (Intern), Mr. Eswar K., Mr. Kaushik Dev K. & Mr. Yakasiri Satish (III yr. BDS)

19.01.’12 won the Best Table Clinic Award at ‘Breaking Barriers 2012 – A Convention for Newer Generation’ at

Tamil Nadu Government Dental College & Hospital, Chennai.

11.01.’12 Mr. Antony Leo Aseer P., Reader received the ‘Scroll of Honour’ in appreciation and recognition of his

contribution towards promotion of Physiotherapy services & education during the All India Physiotherapy

Conference held at Mangalore.

06.01.’12 to Dr. Ram Sabarish, IIyr. MDS won the best paper award in the ‘International Conference on Biomaterials

08.01.’12 Implant Device & Tissue Engineering’ held at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.

10.12.’11 Awardees in the VII BDS National Seminar on Basic Medical Sciences held at Saveetha Dental College,

Chennai.

Best paper:

Ms. Deepika R. (CRI) - Oral Pathology

Mr. Rajkumar R. R. (CRI) - Microbiology

Best poster:

Ms. Pragya Kumari D. & Ms. Shobana S. (I yr.) - Anatomy

Ms. Indumathi M. & Ms. Madhuri E. V. (III yr.) - Pharmacology

Ms. Fathima Hafila M. I. & Ms. Priyadharshini P. (III yr.) - Pharmacology

Ms. Lekha J. & Ms. Meera M. R. (III yr.) - Physiology

02.12.’11 to Awardees in the Indian Dental Association – National UG Students Convention held at Chettinad Dental

04.12.’11 College, Chennai.

Paper Presentation: I Prize

Ms. Uttara S. (III yr.) - Periodontics

Ms. Lekha A. (IV yr.) - Oral Medicine

Ms. Namrata R. (IV yr.) - Oral Surgery

Ms. Ritvi Bagadia (III yr.) - Oral Surgery II Prize

Ms. Nihmath Nasiha (II yr.) - Conservative Dentistry

Ms. Dharmala Devy (CRI)- Oral Medicine

Ms. Kaushik Dev K. (III yr.) - Orthodontics

Ms. Swetha R. (II yr.) - Pharmacology

02.12.’11 to Table Top Presentation:04.12.’11 to I Prize

Mr. Kaushik Dev K. (III yr.) - Conservative Dentistry

II Prize

Mr. Prem Kumar M. S. (CRI) - Conservative Dentistry

Mr. Eswar K. (III yr.) - Conservative Dentistry

Poster Presentation:

I Prize

Ms. Ritika Bahri, Ms. Krithi Venkatraman, Mr. Riju A. John (CRI) - Conservative Dentistry

Ms. Radhey Latha (IV yr.) - Oral Surgery

Ms. Abilashini M., Ms. Rayalla Keerthana, Ms. Megha M. (III yr.) - Periodontics

Ms. Satya Soumya, Ms. Sravya T., Ms. Kiranmayie K., Ms. Priyanka K. L. (CRI) - Oral Medicine

Ms. Prathiba R., Ms. Harini Rao R. (III yr.) - Conservative Dentistry

Department

Pediatrics & Dermatology

Biomedical Sciences

SLHS

Faculty of Dental Sciences

Faculty of Physiotherapy

Periodontics

Faculty of Dental Sciences

Faculty of Dental Science



Ms. Aarthi M.U., Ms. Abbyramy A/P Nadarajan, Ms. Abinaya R., Ms. Abitha V. (II yr.) - Oral Pathology

II Prize

Ms. Shruthi V. & Mr. Pradeep Kumar (CRI) - Oral Surgery

Ms. Jyothi Daga, Ms. Avula Mounica, Ms. Anchal Agarwal (IV yr.) - Conservative Dentistry

Mr. Ashwanth (CRI) - Community Dentistry

Ms. Swetha A/P Baskaran, Ms. Priyadharshini Palasuperamaniam, Ms. Thuvarakah Kanagarathnam,

Ms. Gayathri R. (II yr.) - Oral Pathology

Ms. Wijewikramage Athulya Indrachapa Gunasek, Ms. Arathy L. R., Ms. Anirutha G., Ms. Swetha Suresh

(I yr.) - Oral Pathology

Mr. Krupaa Sharan Balaji M., Mr. Kapil R., Mr. Mohammed Zayd N., Mr. Santhosh Isaac S. (I yr.) - Anatomy

Faculty of Dental Sciencess

The audio & video department has been functioning since 1997.

Some of the services offered include: providing overhead projectors,

slide projectors, audio system amplifier, microphones and speakers

for various programs like CMEs, seminars, workshops etc. The team

offers technical assistance for live telecast of surgeries from operation

theatres and national & international programs from the auditorium to

the SRU telemedicine center.

The department provides installation and maintenance for cable TVs,

CC-TV cameras, car-calling announcements, temple audio system,

musical instruments, TVs in the in-patient and out-patient wards and

cable network fault analysis.

Apart from the aforementioned indoor services, the team is also

equipped to host other audio-visual academic and professional

programs outside the university.

Contact details: Harvard Auditorium, Extn: 652 & 8111.

Did You Know?Audio & Video Department

Happiness is...….. in respecting others

Human beings can live without position, power and comforts, but cannot live without respect. The need to be respected is far greater than

their other needs. Every age and every phase of life has some sense of respect associated with it and we need to respect that. Disrespect not

necessarily over oneself, but anything that a person identifies himself with - country, religion or a symbol can cause intense rage in a person.

Without the basic foundation of respect, none of the other values would last. It is a need that seems to be deeply embedded in our minds and

which increases as we move up the social ladder. We need to remind ourselves that status, talent, age, education and looks are not qualifying

factors to respect a fellow being and every single being from the richest to the poorest needs it constantly. The more we respect our teachers,

the easier we can assimilate their teachings and implement them for our personal growth. We also need to respect ourselves and avoid self

denial & self criticism. A strong, healthy self respect is one of the foundations of happiness and emotional well-being.

Mahatma Gandhi said ‘Be the change you wish to see’. So let us not demand respect, but command respect and also mutually respect each

other. Disrespect in the form of ignoring or brushing aside others views, impoliteness, rudeness and interrupting others in a conversation

could dent the self image of a person. Let us show respect in every single word, gesture, body language and action of ours and be

demonstrative enough in such a manner that the other person perceives it. Let it emanate effortlessly from within and with ease and poise.

Fame and fortune, without respect is worthless.

“Treat others as you want them to treat you because what goes around comes around”

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February ’12

Global NewsTiniest vertebrate

Paedocypris progenetica is a species of cyprinid fish endemic to Indonesia, found in peat swamps and blackwater streams. It is the smallest known fish in the world with females reaching a maximum size of 10.3 mm, males 9.8 mm and the smallest known mature specimen, a female, measured only 7.9 mm. It held the record for the smallest known vertebrate until recently.

Two new species of frogs were discovered in New Guinea, one of which (Paedophryne amauensis) is now the world's tiniest known vertebrate (7.7 mm). It ousts Paedocypris progenetica from the record. Christopher Austin & team of scientists from the United States made the discovery during a three-month long expedition to the island of New Guinea, the world's largest and tallest tropical island.

The species Paedophryne amauensis is named because of its diminutive size and the males' high pitched insect-like mating call. The breadth and limits on vertebrate size have been of great interest to biologists due to the functional and physiological constraints associated with extreme body size. The largest extant vertebrate is the blue whale (average adult size 25.8 m) while the smallest is the cyprinid fish mentioned above (adult size 7.9 – 10.3 mm). Both species are aquatic and biologists have speculated that the buoyancy of water may play a role in facilitating the evolution of both large and small size. However, the new species of frogs are terrestrial, suggesting that living in water is not necessary for small body size.

Extreme miniaturization has evolved independently at least eleven times in terrestrial frogs. This discovery highlights intriguing ecological similarities among the numerous independent origins of minute frogs. They also suggest that they are not mere oddities, but represent a previously unrecognized ecological guild in moist leaf litter of tropical wet-forests.

Source: Rittmeyer EN, Allison A, Gründler MC, Thompson DK, Austin CC (2012) Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest Vertebrate. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29797.

A collection of teeth from dinosaurs in the western U.S. has produced the first solid evidence that these ancient animals undertook seasonal migrations. It is often hard to determine what dinosaurs looked like from fossils and trying to infer behavior adds a whole different level of difficulty. Nevertheless, it has often been assumed that dinosaurs did migrate.

Henry Fricke, a geochemist at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, and his colleagues now seem to have hard evidence that sauropod dinosaurs moved hundreds of kilometers every year. “In a theoretical sense, it's not hugely surprising. They are huge; they would probably have eaten themselves out of house and home if they stayed in one place. Now we have evidence which demonstrates that and a method to move forward and study other dinosaurs.” says Fricke.

The evidence collected by Fricke and his colleagues takes the form of fossil enamel chipped from 32 teeth that belonged to sauropods of the genus Camarasaurus. The teeth, which date from the late Jurassic period (160 million to 145 million years ago) were collected in the Morrison basin in Wyoming and Utah. The researchers measured the ratios of two isotopes; oxygen-16 and oxygen-18, in this enamel, then compared them with the ratios in the sedimentary rocks found in the area. In vertebrates, the oxygen ratio relates to the ratio in the water they were drinking when their teeth were growing; sedimentary rocks record local ratios. Thus, if the oxygen ratios in a tooth do not match those in the rocks near where the tooth was found, the animal must have been somewhere else when growing that tooth.

The researchers took samples from a set of teeth from one animal, starting at the bottom of the tooth and working up. The youngest enamel, from the base of the teeth, indicated a highlands location. The older enamel nearer the tip was formed in the basin environment. This indicated that the dinosaur was moving out of the basin into the highlands when the teeth were forming. But because the animal was found in the basin, it must have moved back there at some point, probably in a seasonal migration.

For now, the results are only preliminary. But Fricke is ‘pretty confident’ that with further research he will be able to tell whether other dinosaurs stayed at home or joined the sauropods on their migration.

Source: By Daniel Cressey of Nature AOP, October 26, 2011

Believe it or NotTooth Chemistry Reveals Sauropod Sojourns

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Swift Sail

Divine Reflection

Solitary Reaper

Colors Your Corner

Dr. S. Bhadrinath, Senior Lecturer, Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences

Dr. V. Samya, II yr., MD Community Medicine.

Ms. M. M. Aruna Priyadharshini,st1 yr., B.A.S.L.P.

rdThe Twelfth Bridges Monthly Book Review was held on 3 Feb.

Book : The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure

of DNA

Author : James D. Watson

Reviewed by : Mr. P. A. Abhinand, Research Scholar, Dept. of Bioinformatics

Forthcoming Bridges Monthly Book Review

Mar.‘12 - The Gift of Pain by Paul Brand & Philip Yancey

To be reviewed by Ms. Riddhima Banerji, CRRI

One more year comes to an end And another one shall begin As millions have passed before us And many more will flow in ….

In this infinite universe, what are we?A fraction of a second, a speck of dust?And yet we revolve and dance around our axes Trying to make a mark, doing what we must.

The pages of our years that keep flipping Will one day end, the book shall close But till then, keep doggy-earing your pages That mark the joys of life, and the woes …

Those little things that made ‘sense’Those tiny events that made you smile Those misty-eyed nights when you felt lost Those hands which kept you steady all the while.

Decades, centuries and ages shall pass Pages will crumble to dust and perish In the end, none of our lives might matter But it's those ‘doggy ears’ we must cherish … Those doggy ears we must cherish.

Mr. Akshay Singh, final year MBBS.

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