Department of Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Engineering, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) organized Quality Improvement Program on Research Enablers and its Thrust Areas during 23 to 26 MAY 2016 at  AZYME BIOSCIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED, Bangalore.

Azyme biosciences houses industry standard and high caliber research grade equipments and instruments. Six faculty members, Dr. A. V Vijaysankar, Dr. Nityashree N, Prof. Nobi K. Daniel, Dr. Mothi Krishna Mohan, Dr. Benson K Money and Dr. Shilpashree. S. P, have attended three days extensive training on Handling of HPLC, GC, and GC-MS instruments.

    Dr. Mahesh, CEO of Azyme Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore commenced the session with the theory of various Chromatographic techniques such as column, Ion exchange, and affinity and size exclusion. The faculty had an opportunity to handle HPLC instrument. The second day started with the theory and applications of Gas Chromatography by Mr. S.N.Krishnakumar, founder of Spark Technologies and director of Azyme Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore. The third day started with an impressive talk on Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry  (GC-MS) by Dr. Krishna Kumar and Mr. Venkataramana. Exhaustive amount of information, about the instrumentation, theory and analysis patterns of these instruments was shared by all the speakers very effectively.
A visit to Pesticide residue analysis Laboratory, Kanakapura Road, Banashankari, Bangalore, a unit of Krishi Sankeerna was also arranged where the GC-MS facility and analysis was demonstrated.