On October 31^st, 2018, Dr. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) was invited to give a talk on "Online Engineering and Virtual Laboratories in India: Learners and Teachers Beyond Traditional Classrooms" to professors and their international office team at the Munich Center for Neurosciences– Brain & Mind (MCN) at Munich, Germany.

In another stellar display of its academic excellence, 42 students and young researchers from the Amrita School of Biotechnology (ASBT) have presented 11 peer-reviewed papers at the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI) held between 11^th and 15^th of September, 2018 at PES University, Bengaluru, India.

The collaboration between Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s School of Biotechnology and Tata Institute of Genetics and Society (TIGS) will focus on developing new tools to reverse antibiotic resistance in pathogens like Pseudomonas aeruginosa which have been declared as ‘critical priority’ by the World Health Organization.

The celebrations of language and lights were conducted by CREATOME, the students' club at School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, on November 5, 2018 at the campus. The event was at its pinnacle, elevating the spirit of our mother tongue Malayalam.

Amrita School of Biotechnology's M. Sc. students, Sreedev R. and Abhijith Balachandran participated in Computational Approaches to Memory and Plasticity (CAMP) 2018, a 16-day summer school on the theory and simulation of learning, memory and plasticity in the brain, at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, from July 1-16, 2018.