Other Track AgendasIBS Poster Session | IBS Symposium Talks |
Thursday, 23 March 201708:00 | Symposium Registration | 08:30 | Opening Remarks: Convener and President of the IBS | 08:45 | G.N. Ramachandran Memorial Lecture Chairperson: Raghavan Varadarajan | 08:45 | High-resolution 3D Electron Microscopy: Progress and New Opportunities Sriram Subramaniam, Senior Investigator, National Institute Of Health, United States of America
| 09:45 | Group Photo and Tea | 10:30 | Session 1 Chairperson: G. Krishnamoorthy | 10:30 | Dipole Potential: A Novel Approach to Explore Membrane Organization and Function Amitabha Chattopadhyay, Outstanding Scientist (Director Level), Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, India
| 11:00 | Atomic Force Spectroscopy Approach to MDR-TB Detection Rupa Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India
| 11:30 | Computational Studies to Understand Mechanism of Action of Prolyloligopeptidases Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
| 12:00 | Structures-Toxicity Link of Protein Aggregates in Parkinson’s Disease Ashutosh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
| 12:30 | Protein Structure and Dynamics Specific to cis-Proline Gautam Basu, Professor, Bose Institute, India
| 13:00 | Lunch and Executive Committee Meeting | 14:00 | Poster Evaluation and Tea | 15:30 | Session 2 Chairperson: Sriram Subramaniam | 15:30 | Eye Lens Transperancy and the Role of the Greek Key Super-secondary Structural Motif in the Human ß-? Crystalins Dorairajan Balasubramanian, Professor, LV Prasad Eye Institute, India
| 16:00 | Roles of Interfacial Residues in Conferring Specificity and Stability of Transient Protein-Protein Complexes Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Professor, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
| 16:30 | Mechanism of Survival of Ethanol Producing Organisms: Role of Cellular Compatible Osmolytes In Counteracting the Deleterious Effects of Ethanol on Structure, Stability and Function of Proteins Faizan Ahmad, Professor & Director, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
| 17:00 | Lipid Transfer Mechanism of Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein between HDL and LDL Sanjib Senapati, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
| 17:30 | Arginase of Helicobacter Gastric Pathogens Utilizes a Unique Non-Catalytic Triad for Catalysis; a Possible Strategy to Develop Specific Inhibitors Apurba Sau, Scientist, National Institute of Immunology, India
| 18:00 | FREE | 18:30 | Hindustani Classical Vocal: Prof Subendhu Ghosh,University of Delhi, New Delhi | 19:15 | Punjabi Cultural Program | 20:00 | Conference Dinner | 21:30 | Session 3 Chairperson: D. Balasubramanian | 21:30 | How Does the Prion Protein Misfold? Jayant Udgaonkar, Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
| 22:00 | Chiral Proofreading: Mechanistic and Functional Implications Rajan Sankaranarayanan, Staff Research Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
| 22:30 | END OF DAY 1 |
Friday, 24 March 201708:20 | Session 4 Chairperson: Amitabha Chattopadhyay | 08:30 | The Impact of Crystallization Conditions on Structure Based Drug Design: A Case Study of the Brd2 Bromodomain Complex B Padmanabhan, Professor, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India
| 09:00 | Structural and Functional Studies of Myosin Ib: Understanding the Role in Phagocytic Cup Formation of Entamoeba Histolytica Samudrala Gourinath, Associate Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
| 09:30 | Protein Collapse and Folding Govardhan Reddy, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India
| 10:00 | Viscoelasticity of Single Proteins and Its Significance in Protein Dynamics Shivprasad Patil, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
| 10:30 | Local Modulations in Conformations of Proteins in Presence of Macromolecular Crowding Pramit Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
| 11:00 | Tea Break | 11:30 | Session 5 (Young Researcher Talks) Chairperson: R. Sowdhamini | 11:30 | Ratna Phadke Award Talk: Enigmatic World of ß?-Crystallins Beyond the Eye Lens Shanti Swaroop Srivastava, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
| 11:50 | Inhibition of Curli Assembly and Biofilm Formation in E.coli by the Human Systemic Amyloid Precursor Transthyretin Neha Jain, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, United States of America
| 12:02 | Ion Transfer into the Active Site of DHBPS: Mechanistic Insights from MD Simulations Ranajit Nivrutti Shinde, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Microbial Technology, India
| 12:14 | Computational Approach to Engineer Rationally Designed Nanostructured Molecular Transporters for siRNA Delivery Sanchita Mukherjee, Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
| 12:26 | Designed Dominant Negative: A Potent Technology to Study Gene Regulation Prateek Jain, Doctorate Fellow, National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, India
| 12:38 | A Tale of Two Paralogs: Human Transformer2 Proteins with Differential RNA-Binding Affinities Pritha Ghosh, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
| 12:50 | Discussion with Oral Presenters | 13:00 | Lunch Break | 14:00 | Poster Evaluation and Tea | 15:30 | Session 6 Chairperson: M. K. Mathew | 15:30 | Structure and Dynamics of Ternary Bilayers Containing Ganglioside Gm1 Chaitali Mukhopadhyay, Professor, University of Calcutta, India
| 16:30 | Studies on p. Falciparum Plasmepsins to Decipher their Functional Mechanism, and Acquire Knowledge for Developing Antimalarial Drugs Prasenjit Bhaumik, Assistant Professor , Indian Institute of Technology, India
| 16:30 | Role of Macromolecular Crowding on Structural, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Properties of Metalloproteins Rajesh Kumar, Associate Professor, Central University of Punjab, India
| 17:00 | Substrate-Induced Dissociation of Competitive Inhibitor: Evidence for Competitive-Allostery S Kumaran, Principal Scientist, Institute of Microbial Technology, India
| 17:30 | Tea Break | 17:45 | Session 7 Chairperson: N. Srinivasan | 17:45 | Insights of Amyloid Interaction Network and Designing Structure based Anti-Amyloidogenic Biomolecules Bishwajit Kundu, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, India
| 18:15 | Cold Thermal Denaturation in a Globular Protein: Signatures of Early Unfolding Investigated with Computer Simulations Neelanjana Sengupta, Assistant Professor , IISER , India
| 18:45 | Anion Size and Charge modulate Mechanical Stability of Protein: A Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Study Deepak Sharma, Senior Scientist, Institute of Microbial Technology, India
| 19:15 | 3D Structure and Mechanism of Intermediate Filament Assembly Madhusudhan Mallur Srivatsan, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner | 21:30 | Session 8 Chairperson: Jayant Udgaonkar | 21:30 | Inter-Residue Contacts as Critical Targets for Modulating Amyloid Properties Sudipta Maiti, Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
| 22:00 | Notes from the Underground: Role of a Transmembrane Helix in Transmitting Information across a Bilayer M K Mathew, Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
| 22:30 | END OF DAY 2 |
Saturday, 25 March 201700:00 | Session 9 Chairperson: Sudipta Maiti | 08:30 | Exploring Substrate Promiscuity in Sugar Nucleotidylyltransferases and Identifying Two Commercially Employable Enzymes for Glycorandomisation Balaji Prakash, Senior Principal Scientist, Central Food Technological Research Institute, India
| 09:00 | Evolutionary Classification of Zinc Finger Proteins Srikrishna Subramanian, Principal Scientist, Institute of Microbial Technology, India
| 09:30 | Mechanism and Pharmacology of Neurotransmitter Transport Aravind Penmatsa, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India
| 10:00 | Towards Quantitative Descriptions of Biomolecular Dynamics: Molecular Descriptors for Sorting Ubiquitin Family Proteins Ravindra Venkatramani, Reader, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
| 10:30 | RNA Recognition Motifs (RRMs): A Story of one Fold with Different Partners Neel Sarovar Bhavesh, Staff Research Scientist, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India
| 11:00 | Tea Break | 11:30 | Session 10 Chairperson: K V R Chary | 11:30 | I Can’t Wait for High Resolution Structures to Discover Lead Compounds”: Story of Isodesmosine Ashish , Principal Investigator, Institute of Microbial Technology, India
| 12:00 | Structural Basis of Ascorbate Recycling Arockiasamy Arulandu, Staff Research Scientist, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, India
| 12:30 | Chaperone Repertoires and Networks in Archaeal Genomes Manisha Goel, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi, India
| 13:00 | Lunch Break | 14:00 | General Body Meeting | 14:30 | Concluding Session & Awards Proclamation | 15:00 | Tea and Depart |
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