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years of consistent support and commitment, the
institute is not going to be the same without him.
His contributions to the MSc teaching program
have been outstanding. No wonder that he
received a 96% rating in the best category.

Dr. Santhosh Kumar was not just an employee
Student Name: Sebastian John in RGCB but a very valuable asset. Under his
leadership and guidance, many young minds
Competitive selection of Sebastian John for presentation in “EMBO Symposium on Calcium have bloomed and he has shown them the way
Signaling: Molecular Mechanisms to role in health and diseases” held during January 26-29, to success. Projects and tasks have been simpler
2020 at the NCBS, Bangalore when he took the lead. Because of his amicable
nature Dr. Santhosh Kumar developed many
friendships in these years. He has always been
an inspiring mentor to younger scientists always
Student: Jamiema Sara Philip acting a bridge between them and the Director. We
wish him all the very best for the future and thank
Poster presentation on Metagenomic Profiling of flood-affected areas in Kuttanad, 32nd Kerala him for the zeal shown towards our organization.
Science Congress at Yuvakshetra Institute of Management Studies, Mundoor, Palakkad, 25-27
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January 2020 Dr. Santhosh Kumar had grand plans to take his
family on a Mediterranean vacation including
K Santhosh Kumar joined RGCB in 1996 Italy and Spain. This however will now take a

Student: Soumya J D after finishing PhD in Polymer Chemistry under long time to realize. His wife Manjula is a teacher
the mentorship of Professor Rajasekharan Pillai. in the state higher secondary school system;
Oral presentation on Bacterial diversity and resistome structure in Kuttanad following the severe He had several important contributions to R&D his elder son Adithya Narayan has just finished
2018 flood, 32nd Kerala Science Congress at Yuvakshetra Institute of Management Studies, at RGCB and more importantly played a key role B.Tech In Electrical & Electronic Engineering while
Mundoor, Palakkad, 25-27 , January 2020 in RGCB’s journey from the state government to Abihijit Narayan is a second year B.Tech student
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becoming a national institute. On his retirement, in Applied Electronics. Needless to say that they
we all at RGCB take the honor of thanking him would definitely be happy to have the man of the
for his peerless performance during these past house now at home for longer times.
24 years. Dr. Santhosh was always been a very
Dr. Debasree Dutta delivered talk at 1 EMBO Workshop on: “Histone chaperones: Structure, dedicated and diligent member of our institute,
st
function and role in development and disease”, held in Crete, Greece, October 2019. whose efficiency is unsurpassed. After 24 odd

Dr. Shijulal Nelson Sathi attended 32nd Kerala Science Congress, Kerala State Council
for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE), Jan 25-27 2020, Mundoor, Palakkad, India
and Genome Analysis Tool Kit Workshop for Genome India, 2-5 March 2020, INFIBNET Centre,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India