08:00 | 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 | |
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 | |
11:00 | Atomic Force Spectroscopy Approach to MDR-TB Detection | |
11:30 | Computational Studies to Understand Mechanism of Action of Prolyloligopeptidases | |
12:00 | Structures-Toxicity Link of Protein Aggregates in Parkinson’s Disease | |
12:30 | Protein Structure and Dynamics Specific to cis-Proline | |
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 | |
16:00 | Roles of Interfacial Residues in Conferring Specificity and Stability of Transient Protein-Protein Complexes | |
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 | |
17:00 | Lipid Transfer Mechanism of Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein between HDL and LDL | |
17:30 | Arginase of Helicobacter Gastric Pathogens Utilizes a Unique Non-Catalytic Triad for Catalysis; a Possible Strategy to Develop Specific Inhibitors | |
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? | |
22:00 | Chiral Proofreading: Mechanistic and Functional Implications | |
22:30 | END OF DAY 1 |
08:20 | 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 | |
09:00 | Structural and Functional Studies of Myosin Ib: Understanding the Role in Phagocytic Cup Formation of Entamoeba Histolytica | |
09:30 | Protein Collapse and Folding | |
10:00 | Viscoelasticity of Single Proteins and Its Significance in Protein Dynamics | |
10:30 | Local Modulations in Conformations of Proteins in Presence of Macromolecular Crowding | |
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 | |
11:50 | Inhibition of Curli Assembly and Biofilm Formation in E.coli by the Human Systemic Amyloid Precursor Transthyretin | |
12:02 | Ion Transfer into the Active Site of DHBPS: Mechanistic Insights from MD Simulations | |
12:14 | Computational Approach to Engineer Rationally Designed Nanostructured Molecular Transporters for siRNA Delivery | |
12:26 | Designed Dominant Negative: A Potent Technology to Study Gene Regulation | |
12:38 | A Tale of Two Paralogs: Human Transformer2 Proteins with Differential RNA-Binding Affinities | |
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 | |
16:30 | Studies on p. Falciparum Plasmepsins to Decipher their Functional Mechanism, and Acquire Knowledge for Developing Antimalarial Drugs | |
16:30 | Role of Macromolecular Crowding on Structural, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Properties of Metalloproteins | |
17:00 | Substrate-Induced Dissociation of Competitive Inhibitor: Evidence for Competitive-Allostery | |
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 | |
18:15 | Cold Thermal Denaturation in a Globular Protein: Signatures of Early Unfolding Investigated with Computer Simulations | |
18:45 | Anion Size and Charge modulate Mechanical Stability of Protein: A Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy Study | |
19:15 | 3D Structure and Mechanism of Intermediate Filament Assembly | |
20:00 | Conference Dinner | |
21:30 | Session 8 Chairperson: Jayant Udgaonkar | |
21:30 | Inter-Residue Contacts as Critical Targets for Modulating Amyloid Properties | |
22:00 | Notes from the Underground: Role of a Transmembrane Helix in Transmitting Information across a Bilayer | |
22:30 | END OF DAY 2 |
00:00 | Session 9 Chairperson: Sudipta Maiti | |
08:30 | Exploring Substrate Promiscuity in Sugar Nucleotidylyltransferases and Identifying Two Commercially Employable Enzymes for Glycorandomisation | |
09:00 | Evolutionary Classification of Zinc Finger Proteins | |
09:30 | Mechanism and Pharmacology of Neurotransmitter Transport | |
10:00 | Towards Quantitative Descriptions of Biomolecular Dynamics: Molecular Descriptors for Sorting Ubiquitin Family Proteins | |
10:30 | RNA Recognition Motifs (RRMs): A Story of one Fold with Different Partners | |
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 | |
12:00 | Structural Basis of Ascorbate Recycling | |
12:30 | Chaperone Repertoires and Networks in Archaeal Genomes | |
13:00 | Lunch Break | |
14:00 | General Body Meeting | |
14:30 | Concluding Session & Awards Proclamation | |
15:00 | Tea and Depart |