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Prof.M. SHAMIM JAIRAJPURI
(Formerly Director, Zoological Survey of India, Founder Wee-Chancellor,
Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad and
Presently INSA Senior Scientist, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002)
talks on
BIO-DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL STABILITY
at
03.00 p.m. on 28th July 2008
in the
Seminar Complex, University of Calicut
All are cordially invited
Programme Details
WELCOME
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PROF.C. RAJENDRAN
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
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PROF.C. GOPINATHAN PILLAI
FRONTIER LECTURE
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PROF.MOHAMMAD SHAMIM jAIRAjPURI
VOTE OF THANKS
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PROF.M. GOKULDAS
University of Calicllt
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Synopsis
BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL STABILITY
The living organisms are a gift of Nature to be exploited gainfully for the benefit, progress and
prosperity of humanity. Our survival on this planet depends on their existence. The Earth, as
far as we know of today, is the only planet where life is into existence. This planet has evolved
through many stages through initially it was lifeless. Today, the Conservation of Biodiversity
has become one of the greatest challenges for humanity.
The term Biodiversity in actual fact
refers to the Species diversity, genetic diversity as also the Ecosystem diversity, and unless we
preserve all the three, we cannot succeed in conserving Biodiversity. The various components
of 111yriadsof life forms can be referred to as separate species, but all of these are inter-related
and integrated into a close-knit "Web of life" and the loss of any component will affect the
entire chain of life. The various animals have been recognized and classified into groups
depl~nd ing upon their structural
similarities
and differences
which represent
the actual
relationships among them. Each animal group may be small or large one. For instance, the
insects comprise nearly 80(1<,
of animal groups put together, but all species and all groups are
equally important, some less more. During the last few decades the human population explosion has become an important factor in relation to the loss of Biodiversity. This has resulted
into destruction of many habitats and led to the extinction of precious species diversity. The
evolution and extinction of species are concurrent phenomena, which proceed hand in hand.
Some species are losing out their race for survival while the others keep going as also evolving
side by side. This has jeopardized the various ongoing life processes. The levels of pollution
has been rising at an alarming rate threatening the existence of human beings themselves.
In order to save our own existence we have to save ot1)er forms of life, i.e. Biodiversity as also
the Ecosystems which thE~yinhabit.
We certainly cannot and should not fail in our efforts;
otherwise it would be a great disaster.
prisline glory.
This beauitfulliving
planet must continue with its
The choice is ours and we cerainly cannot afford a failure in our efforts,
otherwise we shall meet our doomsday, much sooner than later.
U,liverSityof Calicui
Frontier Lecture Series: 35
Dr. M. Shamim Jairajpuri
Professor Mohammad
Shamim ]airajpuri was born in 1942 in district Azamgarh, U.P.
He obtained his B.Sc.(1959), M.Sc.(1961) and Ph.D.(1964) degrees from the Aligarh Muslim
University.
The degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Zoology on his thesis entitled
"Plant-parasitic
and Soil-inhabiting Nematodes" was awarded to him by the Aligarh Muslim
University in 1970. He was first appointed a Lecturer (1964) then a Reader (1972), and finally a
Professor (1983). He became the Chairman (1988-89 & 1997-98) of the Zoology Department and
Dean (1993-95 & 1997-98) of the Faculty of Life Sciences,AMu.
Prof. Jairajpuri has done pioneering research on plant and soil nematodes for which the
Zoological Survey of India awarded him gold medals in 1997 and 1998. He is considered a
renowned world authority in Nematology. He has published over 20 Books and Monographs,
and some 400 research papers in journals of international repute. He is the only one in the
world so far having the distinction of publishing over 80 research papers in Nematologica (the
Netherlands)
and some 40 papers in the Revue de Nematologie
(France), the two top-most
international journals in the subject of Nematology.
Prof. Jairajpuri is the Fellow of several learned Academies/Societies of the world such
as FNA, FASc, FNASc, FNAAS, TWAS, FIBIOL, FISP,FHS, FLS,FIAS, etc.. He was the President
of the Nematological
Society of India (1979-81), and Chief Editor of the Indian Journal of
Nematology (1977-79), and the Vice President of the Indian National Science Academy as also
of the Zoological Society (1989-91). He was Chairman, Programme Advisory Committee of ZSI
& BSI, Ministry of Environment
& Forests, Govt. of India during 2001-2004. He is the first
recipient of the Janaki Ammal National Award for Taxonomy of the Ministry of Environment
& Forests, Govt. of India. He was the President of the Indian Society for Parasitology (20002005).
He has held the coveted position of the Director of Zoological Survey of India from
1989-1991.In 1991,he was appointed Coordinator of the Agriculture Center at AMU and became
the Founder Director of the Institute of Agriculture in 1993 and worked in that capacity until
July 1996. From 1998 until 2003 he worked as the Founder, Vice Chancellor of the Maulana
Azad National Urdu University and simultaneously as the Honorary Professor in the School
of Life Sciences at the University of Hyderabad. The Indian National Science Academy has
awarded him the Har Swarup Memorial Award in the year 2000 and the highly prestigious
Jawaharlal
Nehru Fellowship
in 2004. In December 2005 he was presented
the D'Souza
Memorial Award in Nematology. In 20Q6Honorary Fellowship of the Nematological Society
of India was awarded to him for his Life-time Achievements in carrying outstanding research
on nematodes. He was awarded Shiksha Rattan Puraskarand
Certificate of Excellence by the
India International Friendship Society in 2.007.Very recently, the Indian Society for Parasitology
has awarded him the Life-time Achievement Award in Parasitology
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