{"id":163442,"date":"2021-06-15T01:40:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=163442"},"modified":"2021-06-15T01:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:10:15","slug":"rgu-organizes-webinar-on-black-fungus-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/rgu-organizes-webinar-on-black-fungus-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU organizes webinar on black fungus disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 14 Jun:<\/strong> The botany department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) on Monday organized a national webinar on mucormycosis, also known as black fungus disease, amid the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TRIHMS Assistant Professor Dr Jego Ori spoke at length on mucormycosis, its signs and symptoms, and preventive measures. He also discussed the treatment strategies of the disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Rupam Kapoor from Delhi University explained why mucormycosis spreads during Covid-19 treatment. She described the factors that lead to the incidence of mucormycosis, and the mechanism by which the fungus could invade the body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU VC Prof Saket Kushwaha urged all to explore new possibilities to tide over the difficult times, while Pro-VC Prof Amitava Mitra underlined the role played by webinars in dissemination of knowledge during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Registrar Dr NT Rikam, Faculty of Life Sciences Dean Prof Sumpam Tangjang Singh, and Botany Department Head Prof RK Singh also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 100 participants from various fields, including scientists, academicians, ecologists, research scholars and students attended the webinar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 14 Jun: The botany department of Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) on Monday organized a national webinar on mucormycosis, also known as black fungus disease, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. TRIHMS Assistant Professor Dr Jego Ori spoke at length on mucormycosis, its signs and symptoms, and preventive measures. He also discussed the treatment strategies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}