ICAR-CIRB Journal Club Lecture # 1 Invitation

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ICAR-CIRB

JOURNAL
CLUB

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ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes
Sirsa Road, Hisar-125001, Haryana (India)
www.cirb.res.in

What for is the Journal Club?

A journal club is an educational meeting in which a group of individuals discusses ideas,
published articles, providing a forum for a collective effort to keep up with the current
literature. A Journal club provides an opportunity to keep ourselves abreast of new
knowledge, promoting in us the awareness of current research findings, teaching us to
critique and appraise research and encourage us to utilize research in the evidence-
based practice of the specialty. The first organized journal club is credited to Sir William
Osler in Montreal, Canada, in 1875, although Sir James Paget described a kind of club
among some pupils at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London to read journals together in
the period 1835 to 1854. Approximately a decade later, Osler started the first journal
club in the United States at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (in 1889). Sir William originally
started with the idea of facilitating the distribution of unaffordable periodicals and later
evolved it into a book and journal club that met over dinner to review the latest in
research. He wanted that the journal club should afford opportunities, which after
graduating you never obtain, of learning how to prepare papers and express your ideas
correctly'. He also hoped the meetings would secure 'training in the difficult science of
debate'. These objectives of promoting the discussion and critique of research remain
largely the essence of every journal club even today.

ICAR-CIRB Journal Club:

ICAR-CIRB Journal Club is here to make deliberations on scientific and other
advances in science and humanity while keeping the momentum of our knowledge
going and creating enthusiasm for research.

Functions of ICAR-CIRB Journal Club:

Teaching critical appraisal of research design, biostatistics, and evidence quality.
To promote evidence-based practice.
To encourage lifelong learning.
To develop leadership and presentation skills.
To promote mentorship and collaborative learning.
Disseminating new veterinary-medical and scientific developments.
Preparing us for future challenges.
To broaden professional local and international networks.
Inspiring new research studies.
To serve better to our all stakeholders – farmers, entrepreneurs, academia,
research, personnel of veterinary and animal husbandry, industry, etc.

ABOUT

the Speaker

Dr. T. K. Datta

Dr. T.K. Datta is presently the Director of ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes, Hisar. With
basic training in the Animal Genetics and Biotechnology, Dr. T.K. Datta joined the Agricultural Research
Service of ICAR in 1993. Over the last more than 25 years, he has remained deeply involved in research,
basically oriented towards reproduction biology of farm animals and looking for new avenues and novel
targets of intervention aiming augmentation of fertility and treating infertility. He has pioneered work on
oocytes and embryo genomics in India; asking questions like why all the oocytes do not end up in
physiologically normal embryos? His works include studying the differential oocyte competence vis-a-vis
expression of developmentally important genes, the chronology of embryonic development in buffalo, the
unique nature of embryonic genome activation in buffalo embryos, the epigenetic control mechanism
of gene expression in buffalo oocyte, etc. He is instrumental in bringing the prestigious Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation project. His research interests also include working on epigenetics of sperm DNA /
Histones about differential bull fertility.
Dr. Datta has been recognized with several awards. He is also the fellow of several academies. He has
mentored more than 25 Masters and Ph.D. Students. Dr. Datta has published several very high quality
research papers in high-impact refereed journals and delivered several invited lectures both in India and
abroad. He remained a widely traveled person and has visited countries like the USA, Canada, Germany,
Denmark, Kenya, Thailand, UAE, Nepal to name a few.

ICAR-CIRB Journal Club invites you all for a talk on

Making of an embryo : All that
glitters is not gold

Speaker: Dr. T.K. Datta
Director (ICAR-CIRB, Hisar)

Date & Time: February 27, 2021 • 04:00 - 05:00 pm IST
Please join the Zoom online link accessible at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86026018511?pwd=VDJ5clZQNDFrVUIvNFJFY3ZNeEIwUT09

Meeting ID: 860 2601 8511 ; Password: 314072

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Contact:
ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Buffaloes,

Sirsa Road, Hisar-125001, Haryana (INDIA)

Phone: 01662-281602; Email: [email protected]; www.cirb.res.in