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To keep pace with the newest developments across the globe, any scientist will tell you, is the key to their work. Unfortunately, many scientific institutions have limited information to ongoing research in leading laboratories and little access to the work of top scientists. Now, lectures by some of the world’s leading scientists will be at your fingertips.

iBioSeminars, a free online “library of seminars (akin to iTunes) from the world leaders in biological research” was launched in June, and Bangalore’s National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) will act as a host site. iBioSeminars is the brainchild of Ron Vale, Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is sponsored by the American Society for Cell Biology, with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSF Global Health Sciences, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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“NCBS will act as a test site and local gateway for India to disseminate the material and to monitor the success of these virtual seminars. Our own students will provide us with feedback which will help us develop the model further.

The seminars, held by eminent scientists from around the world, will cover a range of areas in modern biology, from behavioural neuroscience to systems biology and stem-cell biology. The scientists have agreed to be available to students and to answer questions by email.

The sessions can be downloaded onto a computer in lower and higher resolution formats, or onto a video iPOD, and lecturers can then project the sessions in their classrooms.

Its a great opportunity for students to learn from great scientists work, listening to them by sitting in front of their computers.Its very useful for many science enthusiasts as well to listen to their favourite speaker ,which may not be possible sometimes to attend for various reasons.

These lectures can be viewed on the site: http://www.ascb.org/ibioseminars/

Source : NCBS