{"id":9023,"date":"2025-03-21T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/?p=9023"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T10:24:15","slug":"inauguration-of-the-msc-2025-intake-bioinformatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/?p=9023","title":{"rendered":"Inauguration of the MSC 2025 Intake (Bioinformatics)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9023\" class=\"elementor elementor-9023\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2c0cb7d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2c0cb7d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3e42cbf\" data-id=\"3e42cbf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76820ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"76820ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\">Inauguration of the MSC 2025 Intake (Bioinformatics)    <\/h5>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e6ac9f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"e6ac9f1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a5fcb4\" data-id=\"4a5fcb4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-261389b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"261389b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;\">Inauguration of the 5<\/span><sup style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: start;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;\">&nbsp;batch of the Masters Program in Bioinformatics jointly offered by the IBMBB and the UCSC was held on 7<\/span><sup style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: start;\">th<\/sup><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;\">&nbsp;March 2025. The inauguration speech was delivered by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof H D Karunarathne. The two Directors and some of the staff members from IBMBB and UCSC attended the ceremony along with the 37 enrolled students of the 2025 intake. The inauguration lecture was delivered by Prof Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Professor in Bioinformatics, SLU, Sweden.<\/span><\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-92ca3cc elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"92ca3cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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The inauguration speech was delivered by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Colombo, Prof H D Karunarathne. The two Directors and some of the staff members from IBMBB and UCSC attended the ceremony along with the 37 enrolled students of the 2025 intake. The inauguration lecture was delivered by Prof Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Professor in Bioinformatics, SLU, Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":9028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-news-home"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-18 17:11:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9069,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions\/9069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}