Prof N Irabanta to deliver Sir EJ Butler Memorial Lecture, 2012
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 25 2012:
Prof N Irabanta Singh, Dean, School of Life Sciences, Manipur University has been invited by the Indian Mycological Society, Kolkata to deliver Sir EJ Butler Memorial Lecture, 2012 .
Sir Edwin John Butler (1874-1943) was the pioneer mycologist in India and is regarded as The Father of Indian Plant Pathology.
He became the Imperial Mycologist in India in 1906 and later the first Director, Imperial Bureau of Mycology, England in 1920 and was knighted in 1939 .
Prof N Irabanta would deliver his memorial lecture on the topic Certain Aspects of Wild Edible Fleshy Fungi of Manipur on October 9 at the Department of Botany, University of Calcutta.
Meanwhile, the research scholars of aerobiology, microbiology, biotechnology and plant pathology laboratory, Centre for Advanced Study, MU have feted Prof Irabanta on being recognised at the National level, said a statement issued by the research scholars.