The TEDxHitechcity event just sparked off with an intro about the event, and the entire program at around 9:30 a.m. when the hall was nearly full. Check what TEDx is all about, and the schedule of TEDxHitechcity

> 9:35: Smitha madhav’s classical dance to start off the event.
> 9:40: Smitha’s bharatnatyam dance, still going on with good energy.
> 9:50:
Kanna Ramasubramanian enters, to speak on “Honey, I Shrunk Everything” – Works at Microsoft.

Kanna: 1TB huge hard disk, home office setup, home design plan from the mind of a geek.
> 9:53 Kanna: Living room, TV and the various gadgets present at my home. Its a huge TV screen with DTH, webcam etc. Private space with all that a geek needs.
> 9:56: Kanna: Network operation center, wireless hub, media center PC connected wirelessly, and connected to TV tuner which takes signals from DTH system. Webcam, microphone connected to computer, Infrared device enabling remote usage for TV from farther distances.
> 9:58 Kanna: Blaster with tiny cable, to connects to TV set top box.
> 10:00 Kanna: Everything can be played around at the home with Media center. The tiny Microsoft Zune HD has shrunk down everything for songs, videos and pictures.
> 10:02 Kanna: Conversation, expenses, geography, stress, engaging stuff all gets shrunk with the setup I have made at my home.

10:05:
Prof. D Balasubramanian from L.V. Prasad eye institute, on the stage to talk about “The Promise of Stem Cells”

> 10:06: Prof. D Balasubramanian: Cell is a fundamental unit of life, and they make tissues which make organs.
Bacterium or genes, everything is just 1 cell initially. Occasionally two: Haploid and Diploid.
> 10:09 C. Elegans has 959 to 1031 cells, and sexual reproduction is needed to fertilize an egg, making an embryo, growing into over 100 cell types, developing into fetus and then a full term baby. Number of genes: 25000-30000
>10:11 We all are born from single fertilized egg. Embryonic cell is totipotent which can convert into any type of cell and makes all the 210 cells of the body. Muscle cell, nerve cell cannot do the same. They all carry different informations. Tadpole becomes a frog later.. John Gurdon took a cell from a tadpole and it made another. That’s the concept of a stem cell.
>10:14 The same was done from skin cells and intestinal cells, and the same transinfection caused development later into tadpoles and frogs.
>10:15 Martin Evans isolated mouse embryonic stem cells and did the same as John did, and it developed into a mouse with the same stages of development.
10:16 We can infect nuclear material from one cell to emptied egg of another and somatic cell transfer can occur. Campbell did the same into sheep, and Prof. Balasubramanian explains how the egg from sheep was taken and introduced into egg of another, i.e. 3rd mother.
10:19 Bone marrow is a tube, which has lot of stem cells, and one of them makes blood, other makes muscles. Dr. Mammen Chandy routinely takes the bone marrow cells and inject back into the patient, who are suffering from Anemia. Dr. Venugopal did the same on a patient of Myocardial Infarction, by isolating mesenchymal cells and transplanted cells, it was successful.
10:24 Geeta K Vemuganti, Virender Sangwan worked on the outer corner of the eye, where ocular surface stores the stem cells. The cells are isolated from there and cultured.
10:26: 60 months later the eye was fully recovered with the usage of stem cell therapy. The same is done with limbal transplant.
10:27: Yamanaka in 2006, did the same from mouse tail. Indumathi Mariappan from L.V. Prasad eye instt. is trying the same for Visually handicapped patients.

10:29:
Mr. Mujeeb Khan – Learning leadership while uplifting communities

10:32: Those who desire to do something, whereever they are from, can achieve it.
10:33: Computer center, english teaching center, and all in a place where 3 people had started out 2 years back. Now 13 guys handle it. Its BHUMI where we started out.

10:38:
Sarath Guttikunda – About Air Pollution – The answer is blowin’ the world

China olympics, where all the industries and polluting factors shut down for a better environment.
10:41: Commonwealth games coming to Delhi, where govt. has to take care on awareness about air pollution.
10:43: How to use automobiles efficiently, stuff at home efficiently, to reduce the gases outflow, and get the pollution to minimum.

10:45 – Tea breaks! 30 mins!
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