Past Seminars

  • “Mass spectrometry in the Biopharma Industry: Perspectives from studies on Biosimilars!”; Dr. Amarnath Chatterjee, Molecular Characterization Laboratory, Biocon Research Center, Biocon Research Ltd., Bangalore; Wednesday, 9th; December, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Targeted mutagenesis using TILLING to improve agronomic traits in tomato”; Dr. Sherinmol Thomas, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad; Friday, 9th; October, 2015; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “A Disease-Agnostic Biobank to Enable Deeper Understanding of Diseases, Development of Novel Diagnostics and Targets: Case studies from Patient-derived Breast and Glial Cancers”; Jugnu Jain, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Sapien Bioscience Private Limited, AIMSR Bldg. Apollo Health City, Hyderabad; Wednesday, 7th; October, 2015; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Wearable Non-Intrusive Monitoring using Sensors”; Dr. Rahul Soangra [Post Doc Applicant]; Monday, 28th; September, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Studies on biotechnological approaches for developing resistance to Fusarium wilt in banana”; Siddhesh B. Ghag, Visiting Fellow at Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR Mumbai; Thursday, 24th; September, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “How to develop critical thinking and writing skills? Argument Mapping with Rationale”; Timo ter Berg, Lecturer Critical Thinking, University of Amsterdam; Wednesday, 23rd; September, 2015; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room A, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Molecular studies on Metabolic syndrome”; Dr Serena D’Souza, Project SRF, c/o Prof. Santosh Noronha, 125B, Protein Engineering Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering; Wednesday, 2nd; September, 2015; 11:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Inhibition of Gli1 mobilizes endogenous neural stem cells for remyelination”; Dr. Jayshree Samanta, Research Fellow, Neuroscience Institute, New York University, USA; Tuesday, 11th; August, 2015; 11:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Developing opto-acoustic based diagnostic devices: theory, design, optimization and patient measurement”; Samir Kumar Biswas, PhD, Research Fellow, SiNAPSE, NUS, Singapore; Thursday, 6th; August, 2015; 4:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Myths Associated with Snakes and the First Steps after a Snake Bite”; Leon Blaise Pereira, Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences – (Kalina Campus), (University of Mumbai & Department of Atomic Energy), Biodiversity – Lectures and Field Sessions, Department of Extra Mural Studies – (Zoological Aspect), University of Mumbai (Kalina Campus), Rachana Sansad’s Institute of Environmental Architecture, Mumbai, External Expert – Bio-safety Committee – Bharat Serums & Vaccines Ltd.; Wednesday, 5th; August, 2015; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Diffusion MRI and the connectome of the human brain”; Madhura Ingalhalikar, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department Of Electrical And Computer Engineering, Villanova University; Wednesday, 29th; July, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Studies on blood lymphocyte expression profiles of mixed function oxidases as biomarker of exposure to diesel exhaust particles”; Dr. Ankita Srivastava, Postdoctoral Applicant; Friday, 24th; July, 2015; 4:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Changing facets of Infection biology: How important is the Collective behavior”; Prof. Dipshikha Chakravortty, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Friday, 24th; July, 2015; 11:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Studying the role of Wolbachia surface protein present in endosymbiont of Brugia malayi in filarial infection”; Dr. Manisha Pathak, Postdoctoral Applicant, SRF, Parasitology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow; Thursday, 23rd; July, 2015; 4:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Targeting tumour antigens: vaccination strategy and delivery system as a key to the success of the vaccine”; Shraddha Rane, Postdoctoral Applicant, Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK; Friday, 10th; July, 2015; 3:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Structural enzymological studies of collagen prolyl 4-hydroxylases, C-P4H”; Prof. Rik K. Wierenga, Professor, Project Leader, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland; Tuesday, 7th; July, 2015; 11:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Anticarcinogenic effects of an analog of curcumin: Delineating the molecular targets in comparison with curcumin – An in vitro and in silico study”; Kumaravel Mohankumar, Postdoctoral Applicant, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pondicherry University; Wednesday, 1st; July, 2015; 3:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Paf1 Complex Shapes the Landscape of Double-strand Breaks along Meiotic Chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.”; Santosh Kumar Gothwal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Genome and Chromosome Functions, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan; Thursday, 18th; June, 2015; 10:30 am; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Laser speckle based tomographic imaging of deep tissue blood flow”; Hari M Varma, Research Fellow, Medical Optics Group, The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain; Thursday, 14th; April, 2015; 3:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE
  • “Merging Research and Education in Rehabilitation Sciences:Perspectives from Electro-diagnostics, Neuroscience, and Technology”; Neeta Kanekar, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Tuesday, 21st; April, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Functional Genomic Screening of host genes required for Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposon integration in Schizosaccharomyces pombe”; Dr. Sudhir Kumar Rai, Postdoc Fellow, Dr.Henry Levin Lab, Section on Eukaryotic Transposable Element Lab (SETEL), National Institute of Child and Human, Development(NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Wednesday, 15th; April, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Rapid production & screening of HIV-specific monoclonal antibodies”; Kartik Shah, Ph.D., Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA USA; Monday, 30th; March, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Inside out of Tumor Microenvironment: Understanding the Role in Metastasis and Radio-resistance from Clinical Perspective”; Dr. (Mrs.) Sejal Desai, Post Doctorate Applicant Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai; Monday, 23rd; March, 2015; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Emerging Concepts in Drug Discovery”; Dr. Manjunath Ramarao, Group Director and Head, Disease Sciences and Technology, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bangalore; Wednesday, 25th; February, 2015; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Neuronal Nucleus Formation in the Developing Central Nervous System”; Stephen R. Price, PhD, Reader in Developmental Neurobiology, FLS Tutor of Postgraduate (Taught) Degrees Stream Tutor for Stem Cell and Developmental Biology for MRes and BSc Biosciences Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL, LONDON; Friday, 13th; February, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “The Management of Breast Cancer in the Era of Personalized Oncology – A Clinician’s Evolution from Serving Alphabet Soup to Hitting a Real Target”; Dr Sandra Hazra , M.D , Clinical Research professor of Medicine , Case Western Reserve University; Friday, 13th; February, 2015; 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Jack of all trades: the molecular motor Dynein–how regulation can tune this amazing nanomachine”; Prof. Steven P. Gross, University of California, Irvine; Thursday, 5th; February, 2015; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “optics / electronic based inexpensive diagnostic systems”; Prof. Stewart Aitchison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Associate Scientific Director, Network Centre of Excellence IC-IMPACTS; Tuesday, 29th; January, 2015; 11:45 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Using Public Domain and Streaming Data for Improved Predictive Models, More Efficient Drug Trials, and Targeted Drug Delivery”; Prof. Vishwesh Kulkarni, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.; Tuesday, 20th; January, 2015; 05:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Determinants of centromere identity and kinetochore integrity”; Kaustuv Sanyal, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore; Thursday, 8th; January, 2015; 11:15 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “VDAC1-based peptides as a potential therapeutics for glioblastoma”; Dr. Shambhu Sharan Tripathi, Post Doctorate Applicant, Post Doctorate Fellow in The National Institute for Biotechnology Negev, Israel; Tuesday, 30th; December, 2014; 03:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Elucidating the molecular basis of Plasmodium falciparum red cell invasion”; Deepak Gaur, Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Friday, 26th; December, 2014; 10:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Dengue- the Gaps in Scientific Research”; Prof. (Dr) Arunansu Talukdar, MD, PhD, Professor, Medicine Department, Medical College Hospital, Kolkata; Friday, 19th; December, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Design Principles of cell growth and division”; Maitreyi Das, PhD, Assistant Professor, BCMB, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Monday, 15th; December, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Neuroengineering and Neurorehabilitation”; Suresh Devasahayam, Professor of Bioengineering, CMC-Vellore; Friday, 28th; November, 2014; 3:00 pm; Room No. 149, Ground floor, Chemical Engg. Dept.
  • “Opposing role of NKT cell subsets in inflammation – from bench to bedside”; Dr. Vipin Kumar Chaturvedi, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA; Thursday, 27th; November, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Development Of Polymeric Nanofibrous Scaffolds For Esophageal Tissue Engineering”; K.Purushothaman, CSIR-SRF, Research Scholar, Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials(CeNTAB), School of Chemical and Biotechnology (SCBT), Anu Sandhan Kendra (ASK), SASTRA University, Thanjavur; Thursday, 27th; November, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Immunocapture and fluorescent detection of rare cells in large sample volume”; Dr. Ravikrishnan Elangovan, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi; Friday, 14th; November, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “The idiosyncratic features of Indian malaria parasites”; Dr. Aparup Das, Scientist E and Head, Division of Genomics and Bioinformatics Lab, National Institute of Malaria Research, ICMR; Thursday, 13th; November, 2014; 4:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “A Protein-DNA interactions: Fine balance between high affinity and fast kinetics”; Yaakov (Koby) Levy, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Tuesday, 11th; November, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “AFM in Biology and Developing Acoustic Tweezers”; Dr. Varun Vyas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Materials Science & Chemical, Materials, and BioMolecular Engineering Department University of Connecticut, CT; Wednesday, 29th; October, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Antibodies : More questions than answers?”; Prof. Srini V Kaveri, Director, INSERM, Paris, France; Thursday, 16th; October, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Building a microfluidic platform for point-of-care medical diagnostics”; Dr. Dhananjaya Dendukuri, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Achira Labs, Bangalore; Wednesday, 24th; September, 2014; 10:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Loughborough University: an outline on its strengths and opportunities for postgraduate study, research and collaboration”; Sourav Ghosh, PhD, Lecturer in Healthcare Engineering, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK; Monday, 15th; September, 2014; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Glycosaminoglycans: Beauty in Diversity”; Dr. Umesh Desai, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Interim Director, Institute for Structural Biology and Drug Discovery Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Wednesday, 10th; September, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Cervical cancer screening in India – technical and traditional choices”; Rajan Dewar, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Hematopathologist and Molecular Genetic Pathologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical, School, Boston; Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Divinity School; Wednesday, 27th; August, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Uremic Toxins and Emerging Role of ‘Thromobolome’”; Dr. Vipul Chitalia, MD, PhD Boston, University, School of Medicine, & Department of Biomedical Engineering, Harvard-MIT Division of Science and Technology MIT, Cambridge, USA; Monday, 25th; August, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Xenogene silencing, stress response and chromosome architecture in E. coli”; Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee, Young Investigator, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK, Bellary Road, Bengaluru 560065, India; Monday, 25th; August, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Micro Computed Tomography as a design tool for Regenerative Medicine”; Teja Guda, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio; Wednesday, 20th; August, 2014; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Biophysical Proteome: limits, evolution and universality”; Kingshuk Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Wednesday, 13th; August, 2014; 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Natural Products as Immunomodulators: Mechanisms of actions and Scope for Application”; K. B. Sainis, Distinguished Scientist and Director,Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay; Wednesday, 6th; August, 2014; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Image informatics: Enhancing biomedical research”; Dr. Nirmalya Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA; Tuesday, 5th; August, 2014; 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Population dynamics in flows”; Dr. Prasad Perleker, Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Reader,TIFR Hyderabad; Wednesday, 30th; July, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Design, Implementation, and Imaging of Position-Encoded Microfluidic Microsphere-Trap Arrays”; Pinaki Sarder, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Optical Radiology Lab, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; Tuesday, 22nd; July, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “HPC as High-Productive Computing for Scientific Research: overview on the ICTP experience “; Ivan Girotto, The International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; Friday, 18th; July, 2014; 5:15 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Multimodal Pathobiological Attributes In Augmenting Cervical Cancer Diagnosis”; Dr. Lopamudra Das, Postdoctoral Applicant; Thursday, 17th; July, 2014; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Silk fibroin matrices as targeted bioactive molecule delivery system”; Dr. Subia Bano, Postdoctoral Applicant; Wednesday, 16th; July, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Structural and Functional Characterization of BRCTs Domain”; Dr. Dilip Badgujar, Postdoctoral Applicant; Tuesday, 15th; July, 2014; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Development and characterization of non viral vector for siRNA delivery”; Dr. Vinay Saini (M.Pharm & Ph.D.), Postdoc applicant; Friday, 11th; July, 2014; 4:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: An emerging public health crisis”; Dr. Anirvan Chatterji, Postdoc applicant, The Foundation for Medical Research, Worli, Mumbai; Friday, 11th; July, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Role of Heat Shock Protein in immunity against B.anthracisinfection”; Dr. Kanchan Sinha, Postdoc applicant; Monday, 30th; June, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Characterization Of Transcription Factors Dreb4-2 And Snac1 In Rice Under Soil Moisture Stress Condition”; Dr. Sunita Yadav, Postdoc applicant, Advanced Technology Development Center, Advanced Laboratory of Plant Genetic Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal; Tuesday, 24th; June, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Ahpco Nano Technology In Reducing Allergy, Asthma And Food Contamination”; Prof. (Dr.) Nabarun Ghosh Ph.D., MAAAAI, Professor of Biology, Department of Life Earth and Environmental Sciences, West Texas A&M University, USA; Friday, 20th; June, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Structural significance of post-transcriptional modifications in mature transfer RNA.”; Dr. Bajarang Vasant Kumbhar, Postdoc applicant, Structural Bioinformatics Unit,Department of Biochemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur; Wednesday, 18th; June, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Tools and strategies for optimization of industrial enzymes”; Steffen Danielsen, Novozymes; Wednesday, 18th; June, 2014; 10:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Common infection strategies of human and plant pathogens”; Dr. Souvik Bhattacharjee, Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Indiana,USA.; Monday, 16th; June, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Searching for laws of biology: especially in the realm of protein structural biology”; Anirban Banerji, Postdoc applicant, Department of Statistics, Florida State University; Wednesday, 28th; May, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Phototriggerable nanoparticles: current research and future prospectives”; Dr Anu Puri, National Cancer Institute; Friday, 16th; May, 2014; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Nano-Cure for Neuro-AIDS and drug addiction”; Dr Madhavan Nair, Professor and Founding Chair, Dept. of Immunology, Director, Institute of Neuro-ImmunePharmacology, FIU College of Medicine AssociateDean, Bio. Med. Res, Florida International University; Wednesday, 30th; April, 2014; 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “ACE2 for Pulmonary Therapeutics- Bench to Bedside”; Vinayak Shenoy; Asst Research Scientist, Department of Pharmacodynamics College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville; Wednesday, 30th; April, 2014; 2:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “The road we must follow: Translational research”; Manoj Jadhav, PhD, FCP, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine, University ofFlorida, Gainesville, Florida, USA, 32610; Wednesday, 30th; April, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Part 1: Detecting purines, catecholamines and glutamate with a mutant α-haemolysin pore one molecule at a time.”
  • “Part 2: Lanthanide conjugates of transporter substrates as a method for fluorescence imaging of dopaminergic neurons: implications for Parkinson’s disease prognostic MRI”;
  • Dr Keith Brain, Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Lecturer in Pharmacology at Christ Church College, Oxford; International Secretary of the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience; Tuesday, 25th; March, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Bringing Polycombs to DNA”; Arindam Basu, Ph.D., Research Associate, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Monday, 4th; March, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Targeted therapies in Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)”; Satyananda Patel, University Paris-Dederot, UMRS-940, Siant-Lois Hospital, Paris, France; Tuesday, 4th; March, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “New Developments towards Parkinson’s Disease Therapy”; Dr Shubhada Joshi, Schenectady, NY 12303; Friday, 28th; February, 2014; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “New collaborations of formins in actin assembly and organization”; Richa Jaiswal, PhD (Alumnus), Department of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.; Thursday, 27th; February, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Revealing neural mechanisms of information processing using a simple brain”; Nitin Gupta, Post-doc at NIH; Tuesday, 25th; February, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “LAMIN A AND A BROKEN HEART”; Dr. Kaushik Sengupta, M.Tech (IITB), Ph.D (Germany); Associate Professor, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, INDIA; Friday, 21st; February, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “The role of long non-coding RNA (MALAT1) in Tumor initiation and Metastasis”; Dr. Pushkar Malakar, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, IMRIC, Hebrew University Medical School; Friday, 14th; February, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Three to tango: the environment, the host and the pathogen”; Sanjita Banerjee, PhD (Aluminus), Leptin Lab, Directors’ Research, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany; Wednesday, 12th; February, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “APC/C ubiquitin ligase controls the tumor suppressor activity of FBXO31″; Manas Kumar Santra, Ph.D., Scientist D, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune; Wednesday, 29th; January, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “TINY MACHINES, BIG TASKS.”; Prof. Roop Mallik, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai; Tuesday, 21st; January, 2014; 10:15 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Studies on the Gene Metastasis Associated 1 (Mta1) in Human Breast Cancer”; Dr. Shimul Salot, Genomics Solutions Group at Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California; Monday, 13th; January, 2014; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Adopting Molecular Biology Tools in Clinical Genomics”; Dr. Arjun Vadapalli, Genomics Solutions Group at Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, California; Thursday, 9th; January, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Medical Imaging (Brain MR Imaging and Spectroscopy)”; Rajakumar Nagarajan, MSc., PhD, Assistant Researcher Department of Radiological Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Thursday, 2nd; January, 2014; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “EElectrostatics in the mechanics of DNA and lipid membranes”; Prashant Purohit, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Friday, 13th; December, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Evolutionary genetic studies of the 7th chromosomal genes in Plasmodium Falciparum”; Dr Gauri Awasthi, National Institute of Malaria Research, Evolutionary genomics and Bioinformatics, New Delhi; Wednesday, 11th; December, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “”; Ash M. Parameswaran, Professor, School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University; Friday, 10th; December, 2013; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “MALARIA EVOLUTION IN SOUTH ASIA:Basic Science Amongst Hospital Patients”; Dr. Pradipsinh K. Rathod, PhD, Program Director, US NIH South Asia International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research, Professor of Chemistry and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Friday, 8th; November, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Common functional genetic polymorphisms in chromogranin A cause profound alterations in the risk for metabolic diseases in Indian population”; Dr. Nitish R. Mahapatra, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Friday, 8th; November, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Chemical approaches and nanoparticle technologies in biology: from live cell imaging to programming biology”; Sarit S. Agasti, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Wednesday, 30th; October, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Host remodeling by malaria parasites as a target for antimalarial chemotherapy”; Kasturi Haldar, PLOS Pathogens Editor-in-Chief; Friday, 25th; October, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Microfluidic Technologies for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases and Cancer Drug Development”; Bhushan J. Toley, PhD, Senior Fellow, Bioengineering Department, University of Washington; Thursday, 12th; September, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Regulation of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase by methylation in yeast”; Dr. Shinjinee Sengupta; Tuesday, 10th; September, 2013; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Understanding the mechanisms of metastasis: role of PAK1 and MicroRNAs”; Divijendra Natha Reddy, Sirigiri, Ph. D, Post doctoral fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Mol biology, George Washington University; Wednesday, 28th; August, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Structural characterization of cyclophilin A-like protein from Piriformospora indica & its Functional validation in salt stress tolerance”; Dr Dipesh Kumar Trivedi, ICGEB, New Delhi; Wednesday, 21st; August, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Our “other” genome”; Prof Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark; Wednesday, 08th; August, 2013; 2:30 – 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Systems biology to augment genotype-phenotype associations for disease areas”; Assoc Prof Ramneek Gupta, Department of Systems Biology; Wednesday, 21st; August, 2013; 3:00 – 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Fungal biotechnology – from discovery to process engineering”; Assoc Prof Mikael Rørdam Andersen, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark; Wednesday, 21st; August, 2013; 3:30 – 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “A “Science of Hows”: Cultivating 21st Century Innovation & Crowd-Funded DELSA Micro-Grants for Citizen Science”; Dr. Vural Özdemir, Co-Founder and Member, Board of Directors, Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance International (DELSA Global), Seattle, WA 98101, USA; Vice Dean, Faculty of Communications, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey; Editor-in-Chief, OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, NY, USA; Thursday, 08th; August, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “A trangenic approach to make cells photoresponsive-Paradigm shifts in Molecular Biology-Optogenetics and Epigenetics”; Dr. Murli V., National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi; Wednesday, 31st; July, 2013; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Studies on Polyketide Synthase and Sortases from pathogenic bacteria”; Dr Uttara Marathe, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi; Tuesday, 30th; July, 2013; 4:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Plasmodium falciparum cysteine/serine proteases at asexual blood stages and their role(s) in Hemozoin formation”; Dr. Pawan Malhotra, Staff Research Scientist, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi; Friday, 14th; June, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Bacterial manipulation of host GTPases”; Shaeri Mukherjee Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Dr. Craig Roy, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; Tuesday, 11th; June, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Function of the human medial temporal lobe in sequence learning”; Dr. Radhika Madhavan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Thursday, 16th; May, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Neuroaesthetics: Preference and Perception of 3D Shapes”; Dr Neeraja Balachander, Alumnus, Medical Affairs Consultant for UMT, New York; Tuesday, 23rd; April, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Disordered actomyosin contracts in unexpected ways”; Prof. Martin Lenz, Universite Paris-Sud, Paris, France.(http://lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/mlenz/); Wednesday, 17th; April, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Walk that talks”; Nishigandha Naik, Sr. Group Leader, Head – Imaging and Cancer Biology, Pharmacology Department, Piramal Healthcare, Mumbai -63; Monday, 8th; April, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Linking vision and action in the brain of behaving flies”; Vivek Jayaraman, Group Leader, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA, USA; Monday, 1st; April, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Refinement and validation of ligands in X-ray crystal structures”; Alpeshkumar K. Malde, PhD., Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Group, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB), Molecular Biosciences Building, The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Australia; Friday, 22nd; March, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “In vivo CEST, T1ρ and Perfusion MRI”; Anup Singh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Thursday, 14th; March, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • cAMP dependent protein kinase A (PKA): New insights from an old kinase”; Malik M. Keshwani, Departments of Pharmacology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego; Thursday, 07th; March, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Metal-like transport in proteins: A new paradigm for biological electron transfer and bioelectronics”; Nikhil S. Malvankar, Post-doctoral research associate, Departments of Physics and Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,USA; Mond, 04th; March, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Microtubule Dynamics and its Modulation by Microtubule-Targeted Anticancer Drugs and Plus-Tip Tracking Complexes”; Leslie Wilson, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental, Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara; Wednesday, 21st; February, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • Hsp90@nullchromatin.nucleus: an emerging hub of a networker”; Ritwick Sawarkar, Epigenomic Group, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Wednesday, 20th; February, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Making Sense of Protein Sequences: Experimental Verification of Bioinformatic and Computational Predictions”; Dr. Venuka Durani Goyal, Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow, Structural Biochemistry Lab, Chemistry Department, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 13th; February, 2013; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Multiplex gene expression analysis with Nanostring nCounter technology; Applications in cancer biology, psychiatric disease and beyond”; Erroll Rueckert, PhD, Nanostring Technologies, Inc.; Tuesday, 15th; January, 2013; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (50 Seater), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Uncovering the design principles and regulatory architecture at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels using systems and network-based approaches”; Sarath Chandra Janga, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University & Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, Indiana AND Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 5021 Health Information and Translational Sciences, (HITS),Indianapolis, IN; Thursday, 13th; December, 2012; 11:00 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Genomics and Bioengineering of Bugs: From Strictly Anaerobes to Oxygenic Aerobes for Sustainable Energy and Cleaner Environment”; Akhilesh K. Chaurasia, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Monday, 10th; December, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Electrochemistry meets nanofluidics: A new single molecule technique”; Pradyumna S. Singh, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands; Monday, 03rd; December, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Use of novel electrophysiology, genotoxic, enzyme proteins,and metabolomic biomarkers to monitor environmental health”; Dr Ravi Gooneratne BVSc, Dip.Tox., PhD, FRCPath, FAAVCT, Associate Professor in Toxicology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Thursday, 29th; November, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Synaptogenesis in the fly’s brain – a case study in molecular cell biology”; Prof. Jonathan Bacon, Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, Tucson; Tuesday, 27th; November, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Defining the Mechanism of Peptide-Membrane Interactions Through Membrane Structure Change And Recovery” & “Peptidomimetic Strategies to Turn Bioactive Peptides into Drugs”; Prof. Mibel Aguilar, Monash University; Tuesday, 06th; November, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Regulation of plant growth and food security: opportunities ahead”; Sourav Datta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, UK; Monday, 05th; November, 2012; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Detecting malaria and imaging extra cellular matrix in tissues by multi-modal nonlinear laser scanning microscopy (NLSM)”; Dr. Umakanta Tripathy , Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Friday, 2nd; November, 2012; 11:00 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Dual-targeted tRNA synthetases as antimalarial drug targets”; Stuart A. Ralph, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, The University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; Tuesday, 30th/sup> October, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Polymeric Nanomedicines:Translation to the clinics?”; Dr. Ratnesh Jain, Ramanujan Fellow (DST, GoI), Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai; Tuesday, 23rd/sup> October, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Maintenance and Repair of neural circuit”; Anindya Ghosh Roy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biol sciences, UCSD; Tuesday, 16th October, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Role of protein kinase C alpha in T cell proliferation during Visceral Leishmaniasis”; Dr. Sukrat Sinha, Young Investigator, Centre for Biotechnology, University of Allahabad; Thursday, 11th October, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “50 active years after 50.”; Dr. Raman Maiti, Research Fellow at University of Leeds in natural knee joint; Thursday, 11th October, 2012; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “The minimal complexity of an adapting agent increases with fitness”; Nikhil J Joshi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biology / Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology; Tuesday, 11th September, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Biomaterials for Prevention of Post-Surgical Adhesions”; Devendra Verma, Post-doc, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ-08854, USA;Friday, 7th September, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Diffraction-based sensing: From measurement of biomolecular interactions to applications in medical diagnostics”; Prof. M. Cynthia Goh, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Institute of Medical Science and Munk School of Global Affairs, Director, Institute for Optical Sciences., University of Toronto;Wednesday, 5th September, 2012; 9:15 AM; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “An insight to Mathematical and computational Modeling in Biology”; Dr. Sandip Kar, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany;Thursday, 30th August, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Molecular Evolutionary Signature of Host-parasite Interaction: Understanding from Plasmodium vivax Malaria in India”; Dr. Aparup Das, Scientist D, EGB Laboratory, National Institute of Malaria Research, Delhi;Tuesday, 21st August, 2012; 9:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Towards Understanding Histone Phosphorylation as an Epigenetic Factor in P. falciparum”; Dr. Eeshita Ghosh Dastidar;Friday, 10th August, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Harnessing the potential of Pluripotent Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine: Promise and Challenges”; Dr. Geeta Ravindran, PhD, Neurobiology Group,Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;Thursday, 09th August, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Spinal cord injury: Mechanism and Treatment”; Dr.Anita Singh, Faculty, Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware (UDel);Wednesday, 01st August, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Objects, space, and memory: how the hippocampal cognitive map comes together”; Sachin Deshmukh, Assistant Research Scientist, Knierim Lab, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University;Wednesday, 25th July, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “How is peptidoglycan recognized by primary innate immune cells?”; Dr. Janaki Iyer, Alumnus (M.Sc. 2000-02);Tuesday, 17th July, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Characterization and Therapeutic Targeting of ETS Negative Prostate Cancer”; Bushra Ateeq, Ph.D.; Research Investigator, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, Department of Pathology, MI; Thursday, 12th July, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Cardivascular development and cardiac regeneration”; Dr. Chinmoy Patra; Postdoctoral fellow, Max-Planck-Institutefor Heart and Lung Research, Germany; Monday, 25th June, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Anharmonic acoustic technique for detection of surface-bound particles”; Sourav Ghosh; Post Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK; Tuesday, 19th June, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Mechanism of Human TDG in Maintaining Genetic and Epigenetic Integrity”; Dr. Atanu Maiti; Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore,MD, USA; Tuesday, 29th May, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Integrating adaptive and innate immune receptor signaling in B cells”; Akanksha Chaturvedi; Ph.D., Research Fellow, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIAID/NIH; Wednesday, 16th May, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Engineering robust immune system to cure cancer”; Rahul Purwar; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dermatology/Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Monday, 14th May, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Innate immune responses to bacterial pathogens: Control by stress response pathways and the nervous system”; Varsha Singh; Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina USA;Tuesday, 08th May, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Emergent dynamics of complex metabolic and protein structure networks”; Amit Ghosh; Post Doctoral Fellow, Fuel Synthesis Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; Friday, 27th April, 2012; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Protein -Ligand and Protein-Solvent Interactions in Biologically Important systems: A Biophysical approach”; Ruchika Dadhich; Alumnus, IIT Bombay; Thursday, 26th April, 2012; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Arabidopsis golden2-like (GLK) transcription factors are integral components of plant basal defense”; Dr. Jhadeswar Murmu; Postdoctoral scientist, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Monday, 23rd April, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Transfer RNA modifications and their role in translational fidelity”; Dr. Debabrata Mandal; Research Scientist, Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Friday, 20th April, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “The Spatial Structure of Hippocampal Oscillations Signifies Behavioral State”; Dr.Gautam Agarwal; Postdoctoral fellow, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley; Wednesday, 18th April, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Differential anti-viral effects of type I interferons”; Dr. Mayura Desai; Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,USA; Friday, 13th April, 2012; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Himalayan mayapple to anti-cancer therapeutics”; Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD; FRSC, Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry- SAIC, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA;Tuesday, 3rd April, 2012; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Enhancing cancer immunotherapy by stimulationg Notch 1 and death receptor signaling”; Anil Shanker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cancer, Biology Member, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Member, Meharry-Vanderbilt-Tennessee State University, Cancer Partnership, USA; Tuesday, 20th March, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Nanomaterials at the Biological Interface”; Sanjib Bhattacharyya, (Senior Research Fellow), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905;Thursday, 1st March, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Intellectual Property in Innovation and its Impact on industries”; Dr. Sudeep Basu, Alumnus, Consultant & Global Practice Leader, Innovation Services, Frost & Sullivan, US; Monday, 6th February, 2012; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Coordinated Control of Gene Expression in Salmonella Pathogenesis”; Supreet Saini, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar;Wednesday, 18th January, 2012; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Metabolomics: bridging the gap between fundamental and translational chemical biology”; Soumen Kanti Manna, Visiting Fellow, Laboratory of Metabolism, Center for Cancer Research, NCI/NIH, Bethesda, MD; Friday, 13th January, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “To translate, remain silent or get destroyed: How are mRNA fate decisions made?”; Purusharth Rajyaguru, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow, Parker lab, University of Arizona, Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Tucson AZ; Thursday, 12th January, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Neural Stem Cells: Present and Future in Brain Injury Repair”; Bhaskar Saha, Institut de Physiologie et Biologie Cellulaires, Poitiers, France; Tuesday, 10th January, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Chromatin, transcription and somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes” Dr. Prashant Kodgire, Alumnus, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology,University of Chicago, Chicago, United States;Thursday, 5th January, 2012; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Alcoholic liver disease and anti-inflammatory pathways” Dr. Palash Mandal; Tuesday, 20th December, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Surviving Starvation-Lessons from a Processive Exopolyphosphatase” David A. Sanders, Associate Professor–Markey Center for Structural Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INThursday, 15th December, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “The evolution of a transposase: why some genes jump?”; Sharmistha Majumdar, Ph.D, Postdoctoral scholar, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Monday, 05th December, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Adventures in Diagnostics and Antibody Engineering”; Prof. Ross Barnard, Director, Biotechnology Program, School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Tuesday, 29th November, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Assessment of the influence of key amino acids on Rotavirus VP8* sialic acid binding”; Dr. Jaigeeth Deveryshetty, Alumnus, Research Fellow in Asso. Prof. Helen Blanchard’s group, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; Tuesday, 22nd November, 2011; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “A Novel Nuclear & Mitochondrial DNA repair enzyme Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase (TDP1): Insights into Topoisomerase1-induced DNA Damage & Human diseases”; Benu Brata Das, Ph.D., Research Fellow (FTE), Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI/NIH, Bethesda, MD; Tuesday, 08th November, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Epigenetic regulation in skin cancer: A new crosstalk between kinase and polycomb”; Surajit Karmakar, Research Associate-Faculty, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201; Tuesday, 01st November, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Regulation of synaptic vesicle transport”; Sandhya Padmanabhan Koushika, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bellary Road,Bangalore; Monday, 24th October, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Braille for cells: Cells to phenotypes”; Hemant Vijaykumar Unadkat, MIRA Research Institute, Department of Tissue Regeneration, University of Twente,The Netherlands; Tuesday, 18th October, 2011; 11:00 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Application of quantum dot and magnetic iron oxide based nanotechnology in biodiagnostics”; Supratim Giri, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela; Monday, 17th October, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “The Landscape of Viral Hepatitis”; Priyanka Shukla, PhD, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Hepatitis Section, Bethesda, Maryland; Thursday, 13th October, 2011; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “The molecular mechanisms regulating T cell activation, proliferation and differentiation; and dynamics of a successful immune synapse formation”
  • Rupa Srivastaava, Post-Doctoral Associate, Centre of Immunology, University of Minnesota; Tuesday, 11th October, 2011; 4:15 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Tuning Nanostructures for Enhanced Bio-functionality”; Neetu Singh, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Associate, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; Monday, 03rd October, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Blood-brain barrier damage and neurovascular inflammation associated with substance of abuse”; Dr. Abdul Muneer P.M, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA; Thursday, 29th September, 2011; 11:00 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Regulation of Alternative RNA Splicing by Ubiquitin-Like Modification”; Dr. Shravan Kumar Mishra, Mol Cell Biol, MPI-Biochemistry, Martinsried (near Munich), Germany; Monday, 26th September, 2011; 11:00 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Surface Engineering of Biomedical Polymers for Biocompatibility and Tissue Regeneration”; Dr Anand Khandwekar, Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Tuesday, 27th September, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “On Identification of Differential Expressed Genes Using a New Variance Estimator”; Dr. Sudesh K Srivastav, Fulbright Scholar, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore; Tuesday, 22nd September, 2011; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Commercialisation of BioScience Research in India”; Dr. Tommy Sopwith, Managing Director, Bio Creation India Pvt Ltd (BCi), Science Technology Park, University of Pune; Tuesday, 20th September, 2011; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Exploring the physics/biology interface: Label-free biosensing aspects of bacterial infection”; Dr. Debjani Paul, Piramal Life Sciences, Mumbai; Thursday, 08th September, 2011; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rdfloor
  • “Engineering nanopore sensors: laying the foundations of personal genomics” Swati Bhattacharya, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., Monday, 29th August, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Computational Anatomy – Tools for mapping brain structure and applications to differential discrimination in dementia”; Prof. Mirza Faisal Beg, Biomedical Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Canada.; Tuesday, 23rd August, 2011; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Role of Polynucleotide kinase phosphatase (PNKP) in DNA Single-strand break Repair in Mammalian Mitochondria: Implications to Neurodegenerative Sca3 disease”; Arpita Chatterjee, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch; Monday, 8th August, 2011; 11:00 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Cross-talk and information transfer in some simple signaling circuits”; Professor Ashok Prasad, Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University; Friday, 29th July, 2011; 4:15 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Chronic Hyperinsulinemia induces endothelial Inflammation via a mechanism involving protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP2″; Madhulika Dixit, Laboratory of Vascular Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India; Tuesday, 21st June, 2011; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Reductionist and Organismal approach to Neuroscience: Perspectives from experiments with microelectrode arrays and transgenic animal models”; Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Dept of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York; Monday, 23rd May, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Kidney Exposure Biology: Biomarkers and Biosensors to the Rescue”; Vishal S. Vaidya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Thursday, 19th May, 2011; 11:30 am; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor
  • “Regulation of GTP hydrolysis in interferon-gamma induced GTP-binding proteins”; Apurba Kumar Sau, Staff Scientist, National Institute of Immunology, JNU Campus, New Delhi; Thursday, 12th May, 2011; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room No. 402, 3rd floor