Travel bursaries were sanctioned to 43 Applicants (during January-June period) out of which 39 Applicants, who attended the Conferences/ Meetings/Workshops, were awarded the bursaries. The list of awardees is as follows:

1. Mubashshir Rasheed, PhD student, Laboratory of Fungal Pathogenesis, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, for Poster presentation on "Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored aspartyl protease of Candida glabrata as innate immune response modulators", at the Gordon Research Conference "Immunology of Fungal Pathogenesis", Galveston, Texas, USA, January 13-18, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

2. Abhishek R Shivappagowdar, PhD student, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, for Poster Presentation on "Mechanistic insights into a pore forming Epsilon toxin and structurally exploiting its therapeutic potential" at the international conference "Toxins 2019", Copenhagen, Denmark, January 16-19, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

3. Dr. Bindu Singh, Research Associate, Product Development Cell, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Autophagy induction by MIP promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis clearance from RAW 264.7 macrophages", at the keystone Symposia "Tuberculosis: Mechanisms, Pathogenesis and Treatment", Alberta, Canada, January 17-21, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

4. Akansha Singh, PhD student, Product Development Cell-II, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Optimizing synthetic polymer based scaffold for developing tissue mimics" at the 2019 Keystone Symposia Conference "Cellular Plasticity: Reprogramming, Regeneration and Metaplasia", Keystone, Colarado, USA, January 27-31, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

5. Dr. Komal Dolasia, Research Fellow, CDFD, Hyderabad, for Poster presentation on "Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESAT-6 protein inhibits dendritic cell differentiation", at the Keystone Symposia "B Cell-T Cell Interactions", Keystone, Colorado, USA, February 10-14, 2019. [Rs.10,000]

6. Dr. Nidhi Bhardwaj, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Laboratory Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Decreased monocytic TNF-α, IL-6 and IL-β after 72 hours of injury lead to positive outcome in severely injured trauma patients", at the "Annual Meeting 2019 of American Academy of Allegy, Asthma and Immunology", San Francisco, California, USA, February 22-25. [Rs. 10000]
7. Dr. Anusha Aditya, Research Associate, Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Insights into the mechanism of AMP and AFP from venom toxins", at the Gordon Research Conference "Antimicrobial Peptides", Lucca, Italy, February 24-March 1, 2019. [Rs. 10000]

8. Vandita Dwivedi, PhD student, Chemical Glycobiology Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Enumerating the site-occupancy, complexity and diversity of mucin type O-glycosylation on CD43 using electron transfer dissociation (ETD) mass spectrometry" at the EMBL-Welcome Genome Campus Conference "Proteomics in Cell Biology and Disease Mechanism", Heidelberg, Germany, March 7-9, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

9. Sonal Mahajan, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on "Forays into Engineering and understanding the functional role of F-type lectin domains", at the "Glycobiology Gordon Research Conference", Lucca, Italy, March 10-14, 2019. [Rs. 10000]

10. Dr. Subash Mehto, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, for Poster Presentation on "IGRM limits NLRP3 inflammasome activation by impeding its assembly and by mediating its selective autophagy" at the Keystone Symposia "Innate Immune Receptors: Roles in Immunology and Beyond", Taipei, Taiwan, March 10-14, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

11. Anu Jain, PhD student, Department of Biochemistry, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for attending the International Workshop and Training on Targeted Proteomic Course" at the "Buck Institute for Research on Ageing", Novato, California, USA, March 18-22, 2019. [Rs.10,000]

12. Preeti Moar, PhD student, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, for Poster Presentation on "Increased expression of Galectin-9 Long (L) Isoform in HIV- infected children has potential to reverse HIV latency and favour monocyte maturation in-vitro", at the Keystone Symposium on Molecular and cellular Biology (Functional cures and eradication of HIV), Fairmont Chateau Whistler, BC, Canada, March 24 - 28, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

13. Madhubala Sharma, PhD student, Advanced Pediatric Centre, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on "FASL gene mutation in a child with autoimmune lymphoproliferate syndrome" at the "10th International Conference 2019 on FMF and Systemic Auto Inflammatory Diseases", Genoa, Italy, March 31-April 3, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

14. Dr. Santosh Kumar Sandur, Scientific Officer & Head, Free Radical Biology Section, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for Invited Oral presentation on "Reciprocal role of thiol antioxidants and Nrf-2 in immune-suppressive action of mitochondrial targeted curcumin" at the "9th Biennial Meeting of Society for Free Radical Research-Asia", Kyoto, Japan, April 4-7, 2019. [Rs. 15,000]

15. Dr. Dharmagat Bhattarai, Senior Resident, Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on " Molecular study in children with chronic granulomatous disease(CGD) at a tertiary care center in North India" at the "Clinical Immunology Society (CIS) 2019 Annual Meeting", Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 4-7, 2019 [Rs. 10,000]

16. Salman Sadullah Usmani, PhD student, IMTECH, Chandigarh, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on "ImmunoSPdb: An archive of immunosuppressive peptides" at the "12th International Biocuration Conference", Cambridge, UK, April 7-10, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

17. Ritu Shekhar, PhD student, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Integrated analysis of dysregulated microRNAs and genes in osteosarcoma revealed cyclin A2 regulation by miR-449a and miR-424" at the "Gordon Research Conference-Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics 2019", Lucca (Burga), Italy, April 7-12, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

18. Prabhjot Kaur, PhD student, Department of Genetics, University of Delhi (South Campus), New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Targeting actin signaling network in leukemic cells in hypoxic niche" at the "Gordon Research Conference-Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics 2019", Lucca (Burga), Italy, April 7-12, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

19. Dr. Ankit Saneja, Research Associate, Product Development Cell, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "A novel hyaluronic acid-dihydroartemisinin conjugate: Synthesis, characterization and anti-proliferative effect on lung cancer cells" at the "19th Annual Oxford ICSB", Oxford, Mississippi, USA, April 8-11, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

20. Dr. Dushyant K. Garg, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Biotechnology, JNU, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "A complex interplay of charged molecules and osmolytes govern the liquid-liquid phase separation of a low complexity domain of TDP-43" at the "Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology", Utah, USA, April 10-13, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

21. Akriti Srivastava, PhD student, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, for Poster Presentation on "A bacterial homologue of Zeta toxin in Leishmania" at the EMBO Workshop "Toxin-antitoxin systems in bacteria", Windsor, UK, April 15-17, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

22. Dr. Sandesh Guleria, Senior Resident, Pediatric Allergy Immunology Unit, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Observership at Meyer Children Hospital, Florence, Italy. [Rs. 10,000]

23. Dr. Ojas Gupta, Senior Resident, Department of Pathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on "Molecular testing for BRAF and RAS mutations from fine needle aspirates is a good rule in test for intermediate category of TBSRTC" at the "20th International Congress of Cytology", Sydney, Australia, May 5-9, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

24. Dr. Upasana Gautam, Technical Assistant, Department of Cytology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on "Utility of Flow Cytometricimmunophenotyping of lymphoid cells in effusions and cerebrospinal fluid cytology" at the "International Congress of Cytology", Sydney, Australia, May 5-9, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

25. Simran Kaur Arora, PhD student, National Institute of Pathology, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Role of Mycobacterium tuberculosis expressing unique protein Rv000B, in immune modulation of host cell machinery" at the International Conference "Immunology 2019", San Diego, USA, May 9-13, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

26. Niharika Srivastava, PhD student, Department of Dermatology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Oral presentation on "Role of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory dendritic cells with their related cytokines in vitiligo onset" at the "International Aesthetic and Clinical Dermatology Conference", Bangkok, Thailand, May 10-12, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

27. Pumanshi Talwar, PhD student, Department of Neurology, AIIMS, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Determination of IL-6 and lymphotoxin alpha as biomarkers for the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke: a hospital based case control study", at the "Eurpean Stroke Organization Conference", Geneva, Switzerland, May 22-24, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

28. Zaffar Equbal, PhD student, Epigenetics Research Lab, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on, "Stage specific differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells into neurons", at the EMBO Workshop on "Neural guidance molecules in development and disease", Baveno, Italy, May 25-28, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

29. Dr. Jayanti Mania-Pramanik, Scientist G, Department of Infectious Diseases Biology, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Parel, Mumbai, Maharastra, for Oral Presentation on "Contribution of host immunogentic factors towards risk of HIV transmission: A study in Indian cohorts" at the "2nd Human and Translational Immunology Conference", Kos Island, Greece, May 29-June 3, 2019. [Rs. 15,000]

30. Sayantan Bose, PhD student, Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, for Poster Presentation on "Identification of a novel micro-RNA involved in regulation of T-regulatory cell development and function in tumor milieu" at the "2nd Human and Translational Immunology Conference", Kos Island, Greece, May 29-June 3, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

31. Roshan Shaikh, PhD student, ICMR-National Institute of Immunohaematology, Mumbai, Maharastra, for participating in "14th Annual EuPathDB Workshop" at the "Centre for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia", Georgia, USA, June 2-6, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

32. Vishwanath Jha, PhD student, CDFD, Hyderabad, for Poster presentation on "ESAT-6 protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis increases holotransferrin mediated iron uptake in macrophages by downregulating surface hemochromatosis protein HFE", at the "Phagocyte: Gordon Research Conference", Waterville Valley, NH, USA, June 2-7, 2019. [Rs. 10,000

33. Dr Kaustuv Nayak, Research Scientist, ICGEB-Emory Vaccine Centre, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on "Human immunity to chikungunya infection" at the "Keystone Symposia-Positive Strand Viruses", Killarney, Ireland, June 9-13, 2019. [Rs. 15,000]

34. Akhilesh Kumar Sonakar, PhD student, Department of Neurology, AIIMS, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Correlation of CAG repeat with autonomic function in Spinocerebellar Ataxia type-2 (SCA-2)", at the "24th World Congress on Parkinson Disease and Related Disroders", Montreal, Canada, June 16-19, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

35. Mohd Anees Ahmed, PhD Student, Hybridoma laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi , for Poster presentation on, "Signalling via the TLR adaptor MyD88 produces transient immune unresponsiveness during infection of mice with pathogenic Salmonella", at the "FOCIS 2019, Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies", Boston Mariott Copley, Boston , USA, June 18-21, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

36. Dr. H. Shakila, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamilnadu, for Oral presentation on "Comparison of two different recombinant mycobacterial vaccine strains for HIV-TB coinfection" at "FOCIS 2019", Boston, Massachusetts, USA, June 18-21, 2019. [Rs. 15,000]

37. Sonal Yadav, PhD student, Dr. BR Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Invivo expression of Toll like Receptor 5 against T. vaginalis infection" at the "ASM 2019-Molecular Biology and Immunology", San Francisco, California, USA, June 20-24, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

38. Dr. D. Chinna Babu, Senior Resident, Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster presentation on "Prospective assessment of quality of life in ovarian cancer survivors" at the "MASCC/ISOO 2019- Annual Meeting on Supportive Care in Cancer", San Francisco, California, USA, June 21-23, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]

39. Aditi Varshney, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster presentation on "Self assembled peptide nanoparticles for gene delivery: an effective therapeutic approach in liver cancer therapy", at the "10th International Conference on Nanomedicine", Sydney, Australia, June 24-26, 2019. [Rs. 10,000]