f the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) are back. They landed in Mumbai on Saturday morning and subsequently in Thiruvananthapuram in the afternoon.``Well, the last few days gave us some anxious moments, as the weather suddenly turned bad and the Dornier aircraft that was supposed to fly us out of the North Pole failed to come till the day of our return journey. But the trip was beyond all our expectations. It is a totally different, white, world out there with the white sky and the fully snow-covered white mountains,’’ recalled Sabu Thomas, who joined for work at RGCB after a short visit to his home at Kottarakkara.
Sabu and Wilson were two of the three Malayalees selected for the expedition, the third being Mohammad Hatha of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, who headed the eight-member team. ``It was a great feeling to see our station Himadri at Ny-Alesund, an island in the Svalbard Archipelago of Norway. Just 14 countries have established their stations in the North Pole and you feel a deep sense of pride within. Actually, India is one of the very few countries which have a station at both the poles,’’ said the scientist. The Indian Arctic Expedition 2009-10 was organised by the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) under the Ministry of Earth Science, Government of India. Sabu Thomas and his student Wilson had gone looking for the cold cousins of the cholera bacteria and also some novel proteins, enzymes and other biomolecules in the polar bacteria that may possibly be of industrial importance.
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Sabu and Wilson were two of the three Malayalees selected for the expedition, the third being Mohammad Hatha of the Cochin University of Science and Technology, who headed the eight-member team. ``It was a great feeling to see our station Himadri at Ny-Alesund, an island in the Svalbard Archipelago of Norway. Just 14 countries have established their stations in the North Pole and you feel a deep sense of pride within. Actually, India is one of the very few countries which have a station at both the poles,’’ said the scientist. The Indian Arctic Expedition 2009-10 was organised by the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR) under the Ministry of Earth Science, Government of India. Sabu Thomas and his student Wilson had gone looking for the cold cousins of the cholera bacteria and also some novel proteins, enzymes and other biomolecules in the polar bacteria that may possibly be of industrial importance.
for further details visit as : www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Account+of+an+Arctic+adventure&artid=GybRgJpkgoc=&SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&MainSectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&SEO=&SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts
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