Seminars

  • “Tuberculosis: New Tools for an Ancient Disease”; Dr. Jyothi Rengarajan, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine,, Affiliate Scientist, Emory Vaccine Center, Yerkes National Primate Center,Co-Director, Emory Tuberculosis Center,Emory University; Monday, 19th February 2024, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (A), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Deciphering the contribution of innate immune factors to behaviour”; Dr. Amrutha Swaminathan, Assistant Professor, IISER Thiruvananthapuram; Wednesday, 14th February 2024, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Exploring the mysteries of the liver in relation to regeneration and stress response”; Dr. Sumeet Pal Singh, Assistant Professor, Regenerative Biology Lab, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et moléculaire, Belgium; Friday, 09thFebruary 2024, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Epigenetic inhibitors induced ERV derived neoantigens – A new class of cancer immunotherapy targets”; Dr. Ashish Goyal, Postdoctoral Scientist,, Division of Cancer Epigenomics, DKFZ Heidelberg; Wednesday, 07th February 2024, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Translational aspects of connectomics in psychiatry”; Dr. VS Sreeraj, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore; Thursday, 01st February 2024, 5:15 PM, Seminar Room (A), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Integrative models of nuclear DNA organization”; Dr. Anupama Jha; UW Data Science Postdoctoral Scholar; Department of Genome Sciences; University of Washington, Seattle; Wednesday, 24th January 2024, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “How cells protect their DNA from damage: role of epigenetic mechanisms in maintenance of genomic integrity”; Dr. Devyani Haldar, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Thursday, 18th January 2024, 3:00 PM, CL 112, Environmental Science & Engineering Department (ESED).
  • “Detailed Investigation Of Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interface In Both Healthy And Paraplegic Subjects”; Dr Niraj Bagh, Senior R & D Engineer, Nanoprecise Data Service Pvt. Ltd., India; Friday 12th January 2024, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Assembly and regulation of ciliary dynein motors”; Girish Ram Mali, PhD, Group Leader, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, South Parks Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RE; Thursday, 11th January 2024, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Cell Division Orchestration: Septin, F-BAR and Actomyosin”; Dr. Saravanan Palani, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry,, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Wednesday, 10th January 2024, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Modulation of DNA Double-strand Break Repair: Implications in Oncogenesis and Cancer Therapy”; Prof. Sathees C. Raghavan, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Tuesday, 9th January 2024, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Bioengineering and Biotherapeutic Interventions for Sensorineural Hearing Loss”; Dr. Parveen Bazard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Medical Engineering, USF; Thursday, 4th January 2024, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.

  • “An Overview of Structural Biology Research at the Australian Synchrotron”; Dr. Ashish Sethi; Beamline Scientist- Scattering Team, Research Translation and Synchrotron, Australian Synchrotron (ANSTO, Clayton); Thursday, 4th January 2024, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Chemical Tools to Disrupt Bacterial Communication”; Rajesh Nagarajan, Ph.D, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA; Wednesday, 3rd January 2024, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dynamic Strategies for Host-Responsive Medical Devices: Functionalization, Integration, and Therapeutic Potential”; Prof. Abhay Pandit, CÚRAM- SFI Research Centre for Medical Devices, University of Galway, Ireland; Wednesday, 20th December 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Single-cell chromatin accessibility landscapes reveal nucleotide-resolved malignant regulatory programs in primary human cancers”; Dr. Laksshman Sundaram, Head AI for Genomics, Nvidia and Visiting research scholar at Stanford University; Thursday, 14th December 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Engineering kinetics of immunotherapies and vaccines”; Dr. Sachin Bhagchandani, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Immunobiolgy, Yale School of Medicine
    ; Wednesday, 13th December 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Condensates in Insulin secretion and signaling”; Dr. Anup Parchure Associate Research Scientist, Yale University, School of Medicine, USA; Wednesday, 13th December 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE. 
  • “Structural and biochemical basis of retrotransposition by human LINE-1”; Dr. Akanksha Thawani, Merck Fellow of Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA; Wednesday 06th December 2023, 2:30 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE. 
  • “Inhibitors of Nuclear Transport as Antimicrobial Agents”; Prof. David Jans, Monash University, Australia; Wednesday 06th December 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE. 
  • “Structural and functional consequences of hypermodified nucleosides and their role in tRNA folding”; Dr. Naveen Kumar [IPDF applicant]; Thursday, 30th November 2023, 1:30 PM, VC Mode.
  • “In vitro Reconstitution and Computational Modeling of Oscillatory wave-like Patterns in Microtubules driven by Collective Dynein Mechanics”; Prof. Chaitanya Athale, Prof., Div. of Biology, IISER Pune; Tuesday 28th November 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE. 
  • “Nanometric micelles for in vivo drug delivery and imaging”; Dr. Eric Doris (Research Director, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), University Paris-Saclay, France); Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE. [SCAN-BSBE Seminar]
  • “Restoration Hardware”; Prof. Anindya Ghosh Roy, Scientist VI, Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Senior fellow, NBRC, Gurgaon; Wednesday 22nd November 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Regulatory compliance in Biologics Manufacturing and Testing: Historical and technical perspective”; Dr. Pawan Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Jeevatva Biosciences; Tuesday 21st November 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nanometric micelles for in vivo drug delivery and imaging”; Dr. Eric Doris (Research Director, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), University Paris-Saclay, France); Tuesday, 14 November 2023, 4 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Introduction to Neurorehabilitation Engineering”; Dr. Sivakumar Balasubramanian, Professor & Head | Department of Bioengineering | Christian Medical College | Bagayam, Vellore 632002 | Tamil Nadu, India, Honorary Associate Professor | School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences | The University of Queensland | Brisbane 4072 | Australia.; Friday 10th November 2023, 3:30 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Role of Donor Derived Cell Free DNA in Kidney Transplant Recipients”; Dr. Naveen Kumar [IPDF applicant]; Friday, 10th November 2023, 12 Noon, VC Mode.
  • “Using songbirds to understand how the brain initiates complex movement sequences”; Prof. Raghav Rajan, Division of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune; Wednesday 08th November 2023, 5:00PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “: Acoustic sensing of light: Photoacoustic/optoacoustic imaging for deep tissue interrogation”;Dr. Sandeep Kumar Kalva , Posdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Thursday, 9th November 2023, 9:15 AM,VC Mode.
  • “ Interpreting dyssynchronous ventilator waveforms with the deformed lung ventilator model”;Dr. Deepak Kumar Agrawal, Assitant Professor, IIT Delhi; Thursday, 9th November 2023, 9:25 AM, Seminar Room A, Ground floor, BSBE.
    • “Theranostics using radiation-induced acoustic computerized tomographic imaging”;Dr. Prabodh Kumar Pandey , Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine; Thursday, 9th November 2023, 9:50 AM,VC Mode.
  • “Computational methods for brain source imaging and brain disorder analysis”;Dr. Sanjay Ghosh, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of california, San Francisco; Thursday, 9th November 2023, 10:15 AM, VC Mode.
  • “Fabrication of Advanced Biomaterials for Therapeutics and Vaccine development- A Chemistry, Biology, and Immunoengineering perspective”; Dr. Bhawana Pandey [IPDF applicant]; Monday, 06th October 2023, 3:30 PM, Seminar room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Altered forms: mapping noncanonical chromatin fiber structures at single-molecule resolution”; Prof. Vijay Ramani, University of California San Francisco; Wednesday 01st November 2023, 5:00PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Opioid receptors regulate immunomodulatory response in microglia”; Mr. Akash Shivling Mali [IPDF applicant]; Monday, 30th October 2023, 2 PM, VC Mode.
  • “Peptide toxins as a tool to explore ion channel structure and function”; Dr. Chandamita Saikia, BSBE M.Sc. alumnus, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Thursday 26th October 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Brief history of Crystallography, and acceleration of developments in recent years”; Prof. Shekhar C. Mande, FNA, FASc, FNASc, Distinguished Visiting Professor, BSBE department, IIT Bombay, Distinguished Professor, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007 & Honorary Distinguished Scientist, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Former Director General CSIR and Secretary, DSIR, Govt of India; Wednesday 25th October 2023, 5:00PM, Seminar Room (A), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The gap between education and professional career”; Dr. Anirudha Lakshminarasimhan, Director, Laurus Bio; Saturday, 21st October, 2023, 10:30 am, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • Lecture series titled “Concepts in Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Recording”; Prof. Risto Ilmoniemi, Professor (Emeritus) at the Department of Biomedical Engg and Neuroscience, Aalto University, Finland; 19-22 October, 2023, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Automated cobot-assisted high-throughput phenotyping of cognition in behaving Drosophila melanogaster reveals genetic control of cognition and cognitive individuality”; Riddha Manna, BSBE M. Tech. alumnus, Research Scholar at EPFL; Friday 20th October 2023, 11:00 AM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Chromatin Organization at Mesoscale: Phase Separation, Microphase Separation, and Intermingling”; Dr. Gaurav Bajpai, Post-doctoral fellow, Weizmann Institute, Israel; Thursday 19th October 2023, 2:30 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mechanosensing and memory of migratory cells in heterogeneous environments”; Dr. Amit Pathak, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Wednesday 18th October 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Development of Biosensors and Devices for Food and Environment Monitoring and Healthcare Disease Diagnostics”; Dr Sandeep Choudhary, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan; Tuesday, 17th August 2023, 3:30 PM, VC Mode.
  • “Development of non-invasive therapies for the retina”; Dr Binapani Mahaling, Postdoctoral Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD), India; Monday, 16th October, 2023, 5 pm, VC Mode.
  • “Next-generation bioanalytical instruments for precision drug discovery”; Dr. Edward A. FitzGerald and Dr. Gonda Buijs, Creoptix team, Wädenswil, Switzerland; Friday 13th October 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Understanding the expression stage of CRISPR-Cas defense system in Leptospira interrogans”; Dr. Aman Prakash, IIT Guwahati [IPDF applicant]; Friday, 13th October 2023, 3 PM, VC Mode.
  • “In silico identification of peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerases in Penicillium spp. and characterization of salt-modulated cyclophilins from a halotolerant strain of Penicillium oxalicum”; Mr. Mangaljeet Singh [IPDF applicant]; Friday, 13th October 2023, 11:00 AM, VC Mode.
  • “Applications of Neurotechnology in Clinical Practice – A Neurologist’s Perspective”; Dr. Roopa Rajan, MD, DM (Neurology), Fellowship in Movement Disorders, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, AIIMS, New Delhi; Thursday 12th October 2023, 3:30 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Maxillofacial Surgery:A ocean to explore for Research”; Professor, Head of the Dept. of Orthodontics, D.Y. Patil University, School of Dentistry, Visiting Faculty, BSBE, IIT Bombay; Wednesday 11th October 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “An integrated study of the spider fauna from the state of Odisha”; Dr. Priya Prasad, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata [IPDF applicant]; Tuesday, 10th October 2023, 11:45 AM, VC Mode.

  • “Studies on the Role of Chemo-immunotherapy in T Cell Response during Colon Cancer Prognosis”; Dr. Ankush Paladhi [IPDF applicant]; Monday, 09th October 2023, 4:00 PM, VC Mode
  • “Fuels and Additives for the Human Machines”; Dr. Mahaveer Swaroop Bhojani, Ph.D., Hut-K Inc, CEO, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Thursday 5th October 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular analysis of efflux pump-mediated antibiotic resistance, metal-antibiotic cross-resistance, and the role of efflux pumps in biofilm formation”; Dr. Anwesha Adhikary, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 05th October 2023, 10:30 AM; Computer Lab., first floor, BSBE.

  • “Deciphering the Disease Progression through MRI and MR Spectroscopy”; Dr. Naranamangalam Raghunathan JAGANNATHAN, PhD, FNASc, FASc, FAMS, FNA, FISMRM (USA), FISC, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH), IIT, Mumbai 400076; Wednesday 4th October 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor,BSBE.
  • “Mind Matters: Understanding Alzheimer’s and other Dementias”; Dr. Annu Aggarwal (Consultant Neurologist at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute (KDAH), Mumbai); Friday 29th September 2023, 11:00 AM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “New understanding of the 3D organization of the genome and quantitative representation of chromatin as a polymer”; Dr. Ranjith Padinhateeri, Professor, Physical Biology Lab, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay; Wednesday 20th September 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Brain-Scale Neuromorphic Engineering using Silicon-on Insulator Technology: Building Ultra-Low Power Neural Network Chips”; Prof. Udayan Ganguly (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay); Friday 15th September 2023, 2:30 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Past and possible futures of Malaria epidemiology in India”; Prof. Amit Sharma, ICGEB, New Delhi, Distinguished Visiting Professor, BSBE department;

    Thursday 14th September 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Targeting the protein synthesis machinery in malaria parasites for drug discovery”; Prof. Amit Sharma, ICGEB, New Delhi, Distinguished Visiting Professor, BSBE department; Wednesday 13th September 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor,BSBE.

  • “Tales of cells sensors: born, diversify and live”; Swadhin Chandra Jana, Ph.D., Reader, National Centre for Biological Sciences,, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India; Friday 08th September 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE. 
  • “How do humans acquire effector-independent motor memories?”; Dr. Pratik Mutha,, Associate Professor, Biological Engineering and Cognitive & Brain Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar; Thursday 07th September 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Micro-Systems for Biological and Clinical Applications”; Dr. Faruk A . Shaik, Researcher, Laboratory for Integrated Micro Mechatronics Systems (LIMMS), CNRS & University of Lille, France; Wednesday 06th September 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Enzyme engineering as a science with case study”; Dr. Aditya Basu, Visiting Professor (BSBE), Head Process Dev & Strain Improvement, Novozymes South Asia Pvt. Ltd. ; Saturday, 26th August 2023, 10:30 am, Seminar Room B, Ground floor, BSBE. 
  • “Blood Plasma Products: Indian Scenario in Global Perspective”; Dr. Ranjeet S. Ajmani, BSBE First PhD Alumnus, Chief Executive Officer – Aegros Asia; Wednesday 23rdAugust 2023, 2:30 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.

  • “A Deep Dive into Biomolecular Condensates”; Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. , Head, Department of Biological Sciences; IISER Mohali; Tuesday 22nd August 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Computational modeling of neuronal dynamics”; Dr Parul Verma, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California; Wednesday 16th August 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biotransformation and Reactivity: Key players towards the Safety-By-Design of Advanced Materials”; Dr. Swaroop Chakraborty, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The University of Birmingham, UK; Wednesday 16th August 2023, 2:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “C-World: Understanding genome in new dimensions”; Prof. Amartya Sanyal, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus; Wednesday 09th August 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Design Principles of Cell Polarization: Interplay between Signaling and Membrane Trafficking”; Dr. Maitreyi Das, Associate Professor, Boston College, Biology Department; Friday 04th August 2023, 3:00-4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Eigendomain Deep Representation Learning and Fourth-Order Tensor Domain Machine Learning for 12-lead ECG data Analysis”; Dr Rajesh Kumar Tripathi, Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad; Wednesday 02nd August 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Functional MRI, AI and more…”; Dr Ayan Sengupta, Research Fellow, Royal Holloway (RHUL), University of London; Monday, 31st July 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Applications of Mathematical Modelling in Medicine for Quantitative Diagnoses”; Dr Deepak K. Agrawal, Assistant Professor, Centre for Biomedical Engineering, IIT Delhi; Friday 28th July 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Deep Generative Learning of Single Cell Gene Expression to predict Dose-Dependent Chemical Perturbations”; Dr. Sudin Bhattacharya, PhD, Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering, Michigan State University; Wednesday 26th July 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mitochondria and what we don’t know about them: from rare diseases to cancer treatments”; Prof. Alex Lyakhovich, Sabanci University, Tuzla – Istanbul; Wednesday 26th July 2023, 11:30 AM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE
  • “Deciphering the Interaction of Human C5a with its Twin Receptors for Discovering Anti-C5a Therapeutics”; Ms. Aurosikha Das, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 26th July 2023, 10:30 AM; VC mode.

  • “Computational Methods for Brain Source Imaging and Brain Disorder Analysis”; Dr Sanjay Ghosh, Postdoc, University of California San Francisco, USA; Friday 21st July 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Electrically Modulated Droplet Spreading and its Application in Bioengineering”; Dr Sumit Kumar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel; Wednesday 19th July 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Theranostics Using Radiation-induced Acoustic Tomographic Imaging’; Dr Prabodh Kumar Pandey, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiological SciencesUniversity of California, Irvine; Wednesday 12th July 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “DNA supercoiling, Chromosome organization and Transcription regulation”; Jie Xiao, Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkin School of Medicine; Wednesday 05th July 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Amyloid Diseases: Looking for the smoking gun and the magic bullet”; Prof. Sudipta Maiti, Senior Professor Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Monday, 3rd July 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE [SCAN-BSBE Seminar].
  • “Small but Mighty: Harnessing Molecular Hybridization in Anti-TB Drug Discovery”; Professor Rajshekhar Karpoormath, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa; Wednesday 28th June 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “In search for clues: regulation of metabolic autophagy by protein-lipid interactions”; Debasish Kumar Ghosh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Enteric Disease Division, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India; Wednesday 31st May 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Targeting tumor microenvironment and signaling crosstalk against chemo-radio resistance in cancers”; Dr. Kshama Gupta, Cancer cell biologist, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville FL, USA; Wednesday 24th May 2023, 11:00 AM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Label-free biosensing and start-up journey”; Dr Arpita De, Senior Scientist, Scientific Project Manager, Research, And Innovation Consultant; Friday, 19th May 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Studies on the Role of Chemo-Immunotherapy on T-Cell Response During Colon Cancer Prognosis”; Dr. Ankush Paladhi, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 18th May 2023, 04:00 PM; VC Mode, IPDF Talk.

  • “Microfluidic Imaging Systems for Single-Cell Level Mechanobiology and Biophysics Studies of Blood Cells”; Dr. Umut A. Gurkan, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Thursday 18th May 2023, 3:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Experimental and in silico studies of Biomolecular interactions”; Dr. Janmejaya Rout, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 18th May 2023, 12:00 noon; VC Mode, IPDF Talk.
  • “Advanced fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy: focusing on biomedical applications and membrane biophysics”; Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Research Associate, Department of Biotechnology and Biophysics, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Germany; Tuesday 16th May 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Peiplakin SUMOylation regulates Keratin intermediate filament dynamics”; Dr. Ram Kumar Mishra, Associate Professor, Nups and SUMO Biology group (NSBG), IISER Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh; Thursday 04th May 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Uncovering mechanisms underlying the development of specialized vascular networks”; Dr. Rudra Nayan Das, PhD, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Karina Yaniv Lab, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel; Wednesday 03rd May 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Translating focused ultrasound and nanomedicines for chemo-immunotherapy of solid”; Prof. Ashish Ranjan, Oklahoma State University, USA; Monday 01st May 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), Ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Neuroimaging and machine learning for enhanced understanding of brain and mental health”; Dr. Kaustubh R. Patil, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour), Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany; Thursday 27thApril 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Understanding the mechanisms that govern distribution of phase separating germ granules and germline progenitor specification in Zebrafish”; Professor Karuna Sampath, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom; Thursday 27thApril 2023, 4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Phytochemicals-based designer nanoparticles with synergistic anticancer potential”; Dr. Manu Lopus, PhD, FRSC, FMASc, BSBE Ph.D. Alumnus, UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences,  Kalina, Santacruz East, Mumbai; Wednesday 26 April 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Acoustic sensing of light: Photoacoustic/optoacoustic imaging for deep tissue interrogation”; Dr. Sandeep Kumar Kalva Postdoctoral fellow, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich; Wednesday 26 April 2023, 03:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Role of Nonlinear Dynamics in Some Computational Model of Neurological Disorders and Dynamic of Immune Response”; Dr. Avinita Gautam, IPDF applicant, Bananas Hindu University; Monday, 24th April 2023, 02:30 PM; VC Mode, IPDF Talk.

  • “Comparative study of chemical & bio-fungicide on Tomato plant endophytes and its implications on plant defence”; Mr. Udit Yadav, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 20th April 2023, 3:00 PM; VC Mode, IPDF Talk.

  • “Optical biosensor based on Surface Plasmon Resonance technique applicable to cancer cell detection”; Dr. Akash Srivastava, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 19th April 2023, 07:00 PM; VC Mode, IPDF Talk.
  • “Central Circuits for Pain and Itch”; Dr. Arnab Barik, Assistant Professor, Center for Neuroscience, IISc, Bengaluru; Wednesday, 19th April 2023, 5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor
  • “Life beyond your genes: implications in disease and therapeutics”; Prof. Tapas Kundu, FNASc. FASc., FNA., FAMS. and Sir J. C. Bose National Fellow, Professor, Distinguished Visiting Professor, BSBE, Director, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow; Wednesday, 12th April 2023,  5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Modulation of self-association of intrinsically disordered proteins by intrinsic and extrinsic factors”; Ms. Rajlaxmi Panigrahi, Internal IPDF applicant; Tuesday, 11th April 2023, 10:00 AM; VC Mode, IPDF Talk.

  • “Genes and Society: A glimpse of social Epigenomics”; Prof. Tapas Kundu, FNASc. FASc., FNA., FAMS. and Sir J. C. Bose National Fellow, Professor, Distinguished Visiting Professor, BSBE, Director, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow; Monday, 10th April 2023,  5:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Atomistic insights into the Sar1 mediated membrane remodeling activity”; Dr. Sanjoy Paul, Postdoctoral Scholar, Prof. Qiang Cui’s group, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA, Thursday, 06th April 2023,  4:00 PM, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Affordable Healthcare Technologies and Entrepreneurships from Nanobios Lab”; Dr. Rohit Srivastava, FNASc, FRSC, FRSB, FNAE, FAMS, Himanshu Patel Chair Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 05th April 2023,  5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. 

  • “Computational analysis of drug-resistant mutations in Lanosterol 14α -Demethylase (Erg11p) and repurposing Vilanterol as a new possible Anti-Candida albicans drug”; Dr. S M Udaya Prakash, IPDF applicant; Monday, 03rd April 2023, 11:45 AM; VC Mode. IPDF Talk.

  • “Cancer mechanobiology ”; Dr. Tanmay Lele, Unocal Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University; Wednesday, 29th March 2023, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Design And Development Of Computational Algorithms For Protein-Protein Docking”; Ms. Sharon Sunny, Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Calicut; Friday, 24th March 2023, 3:30 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Eucalyptol inhibits skin cancer metastasis via inhibiting PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway”; Dr. Ashikur Rahaman, Department of Zoology,, West Bengal State University, Kolkata; Friday, 24th March 2023; 3:00 PM; VC Mode. IPDF Talk.

  •  “Lipid-dependent gating of g protein coupled inwardly rectifying potassium (Girk) channels” Dr. Yamuna Kalyani Mathiharan, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA; Thursday, 16th March 2023; 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. 

  • “Surveillance and monitoring of AMR in the Mumbai metro region”; Dr. Mayuri Rege, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology, Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College; Wednesday, 15th March 2023, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The roles of membrane-embedded murzymes and oxygen in drug metabolism and respiration”; Dr. Murali Manoj, Satyamjayatu: The science Foundation, Shornur, Palakkad; Tuesday, 14th March 2023, 11:00 AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. 

  • “Self-assembled short peptides and polyaniline based conductive biomaterials for tissue engineering applications”; Dr Priyadarshi Chakraborty (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Hyderabad); Monday, March 6th, 2023, 3:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Functional dynamic biomedical tomographic imaging with optical fluorescence”; Dr. Naren Naik, Department of Electrical Engineering, Center for Lasers and Photonics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Friday, 03rd March 2023, 3:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. 

  • “Regulation of microtubule structure, function, and dynamics by proteins and drugs”; Dr. Michel O. Steinmetz, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland; Wednesday, 01st March 2023, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. 

  • “Targeting viral and host factors to optimize anti-measles virus therapy”; Dr. Janice Chithelen, Julius-Maximilians University, Wuerzburg, Germany; Tuesday, 28th February 2023, 11:45 AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. IPDF TALK.

  • “The inhibitory action of the chaperone BRICHOS against α-Synuclein secondary nucleation pathway at near-atomic resolution and mechanistic approaches targeting Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis” Dr. Dhiman Ghosh, BSBE Ph.D. Alumnus, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Thursday, 23rd February 2023, 3:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE. 

  • “Predicting the functional effects of human mutations”; Dr. Laksshman Sundaram, Senior Manager/Principal Investigator, Deep learning and AI research at Illumina; Wednesday, 22nd February 2023, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Disarming antiviral immunity at the oral mucosal barrier”; Prof. Juhi Bagaitkar, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Friday, 17th February 2023, 11:30 AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Geometric models of cell fate specification”; Dr. Archishman Raju, NCBS-TIFR; Wednesday, 15th February 2023, 3:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Neural Processes and Human Grasp Dynamics”; Nishant Rao, PhD (University of Houston), B.Tech (IIT Gandhinagar); Wednesday, 01st February 2023, 12:00 Noon; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “All Carbon Microbeads for Biomolecule Separation: Design and Characterization”; Balaji Sitharaman, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, New York, USA; Friday, 27th January 2023, 03:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Motors and MAPs in mitosis”; Professor Phong Tran, Institute Curie, Paris; Wednesday, 25th January 2023, 05:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dynamic Synchronization between Cognitive Spatial Representations and the Stepping Rhythm”; Dr. Abhilasha Joshi, Research Foundation, Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry, University of California, San Fransisco, California, USA; Friday, 20th January 2023, 12:00 NOON; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Discovering the biology of neuropsychiatric illnesses in India”; Dr. Biju Viswanath, Additional Professor, DBT/Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore; Thursday, 19 January 2023, 3:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A computational study of interactions involved in phase-separation of macromolecules”; Mr. Rakesh K., Internal IPDF applicant; Thursday, 19th January 2023, 02:30 PM; BSBE. (VC Mode)

  • “CADD Based Naturomimetic Design and Synthesis of Antimicrobial and Anti-cancerous Coumarin Derivatives and Their Validation Through In-Vitro Study”; Dr. Akhilesh Maurya, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 19th January 2023, 12:00 Noon; HoD office, ground floor, BSBE (Hybrid Mode).

  • “An in vivo Approach to Investigate Sensorineural Morphogenesis”; Agnik Dasgupta, Ph.D., KAVLI Neural Systems Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, A. James Hudspeth Laboratory, The Rockefeller University; Wednesday, 18th January 2023, 05:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The important role of protists in One Health”; Prof. Fiona Henriquez, Professor of Parasitology, University of the West of Scotland; Wednesday, 18th January 2023, 3:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The physics of liquid-Solid transitions in phase-separated FUS droplets and how evolution guards against them”; Dr. Srivastav Ranganathan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University; Wednesday, 11th January 2023, 05:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Molecular Pathways Affected by Antimalarials that Disrupt Na+ and lipid homeostasis” Akhil B. Vaidya, Ph.D., Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, Drexel University; Friday, 06th January 2023, 3:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Regulation of nuclear envelope structure by androgen receptor signaling in cancerassociated fibroblasts”; Dr. Soumitra Ghosh, Research in-charge, Personalised Cancer Prevention Research Unit, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Wednesday, 04th January 2023, 05:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Neural mechanisms underlying sequential saccade planning”; Dr. Debaleena Basu, PDF applicant for India Alliance Early Career Fellowship; Tuesday, 03rd January, 2023, 10:00 AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Neural Interfacing for Sensory Feedback and Neuroprosthetic Control”; Dr. Shriya Srinivasan, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Junior Fellow, Incoming Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Tuesday, 03rd January 2023, 4:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Molecular mechanisms controlling efficient kinetochore-microtubule coupling during mitotic chromosome segregation”; Dr. Dileep Varma, Cell and Developmental Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Thursday, 22nd December 2022, 05:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “ImmunoEngineering Human Health – A Biomaterials and Biomanufacturing Perspective”; Dr. Krishnendu Roy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; Tuesday, 20th December 2022, 03:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Interferon gamma signaling in breast cancer-friend or foe?”; Prof. Rumela Chakrabarti, Associate professor, University of Miami Health System; Monday, 19th December 2022, 05:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • एक हाथ से ताली नहीं बजती: Malaria parasites require a pair of rhoptry organelles to invade erythrocytes”; Dr. Vasant Muralidharan, AssociateProfessor, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Wednesday, 14th December 2022, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “NanoCuvette™ – From cleanroom prototypes to roll-out in 22 countries with Avantor/VWR”; Dr. Emil Højlund-Nielsen, PhD. & CEO, CPHNANO; Thursday, 08th December 2022, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A nanoscopic journey from Spider Silk to Nanoplasmonic Structures”; Assoc. Prof. Jacek Fiutowski, Head of Nanophotonics Group NanoSYD, University of Southern Denmark Alsion 2, DK-6400 Sønderborg, Denmark; Thursday, 08th December 2022, 4:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Embedded systems applications in low-cost biosensing”; Dr. Siddharth Tallur, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 07th December 2022, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “3D position stabilization of embedded mobile robots: Applications in homing and moving target interception.”; Dr. Arunkumar G K, IPDF applicant, Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 07th December 2022, 2:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE (Hybrid Mode).

  • “Mechanism regulating Lipid Droplet – Endoplasmic Reticulum Interactions”; Dr. Jagjeet Singh, IPDF applicant, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai; Wednesday, 07th December 2022, 11:00 AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Tight squeeze: engineering confinement for mechanobiology research”; Dr. Andrew W. Holle, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Singapore; Wednesday, 30th November 2022, 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Mechanical impact of apoptosis in tissue homeostasis”; Prof. Yusuke TOYAMA, National University of Singapore; Wednesday, 30th November 2022, 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Abiotic stress dictates heritability of gene expression: lessons learnt from Humans to Chlamydomonas”; Dr. Subhojit Sen, UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, Kalina Campus, Mumbai; Wednesday, 16th November 2022, 5:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Structural polymorphism in the amyloid-beta fibrils: Investigating the early events in the elongation of amyloid fibrils of different shapes, and characterizing their binding sites.”; Dr. Pavan Krishna Kanchi, IPDF applicant; Friday, 11th November 2022, 10:00 AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Modeling the Body Electric: Emergent dynamics of synchronized activity in disordered excitable tissue.”; Dr. Sitabhra Sinha, ProfessorInstitute of Mathematical SciencesC. I. T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai; Thursday, 10th November 2022, 3:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A Quantum Sensor for Biological and Electronic Applications”; Dr. Kasturi Saha, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 9th November 2022, 5:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Exploring the impact of surface molecules of Streptococcus pneumoniae in its life-cycle.” Ms. Shruti Apte, Internal IPDF applicant, BSBE, IIT Bombay; Friday, 4th November, 2022, 12:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Analysis of role of microRNAs in pathogen-induced cell death signalling in tomato”; Dr. Sayani Dey, IPDF talk; Thursday, 27th October 2022, 03:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Defining breast cancer at molecular levels”; Dr. Sushil Kumar, Assistant Professor, BSBE, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 19th October 2022, 5:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Targeting functional brain networks in movement disorders”; Dr. Nivethida T., Assistant Professor, BSBE, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 12th October 2022, 5:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Safe Guarding the Antenna of cells: Quality control of the cilia Proteome”; Dr. Swapnil Rohidas Shinde, Assistant Professor, BSBE, IIT Bombay; Wednesday, 28th September 2022, 5:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.

  • “Design and Study of Hybrid DNA Nanostructures”; Dr. Raghu Pradeep Narayanan, Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF; Wednesday, 21st September 2022, 5:30 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Advances in Direct Electron Detection: Energy Filtration and Automation”; Dr. Sahil Gulati, Application Scientist – Life Sciences, Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, USA; Thursday, 15th September 2022, 12 Noon; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Spinal muscular atrophy: The genetics and pathology of a prototypical motor neuron disease”; Prof. Umrao Monani, Columbia University; Monday, 07th September 2022, 3:00PM; VMCC – Lecture Hall – 33 [joint SCAN-BSBE lecture].
  • “Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein in Health and Disease”; Prof. M. Mahmood Hussain, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair, NYU Winthrop Hospital; Monday, 05th September 2022, 4:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “New Results in Machine Learning Aided Synthetic Biology”; Dr. Vishwesh Kulkarni, Associate Professor, School of Engineering of King’s College London; Monday, 08th August 2022; , 3:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Role of Conformational Heterogeneity in Structure-Function Paradigm of Proteins”; Prof. Krishna Mohan Poluri, Associate Professor, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand; Friday, 5th August 2022, 4:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Single-molecule studies of homologous DNA recombination”; Dr. Upasana Roy, Ph.D., Columbia University; Thursday, 4th August 2022, 4:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “How resource availability shapes plants”; Peter Doerner, University of Edinburgh, UK; Wednesday, 19th July 2022, 11:00AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nanomaterials for Photothermal Tissue Sealing and Repair”; Kaushal Rege, PhD, Arizona State University; 21st June 2022, 2:30 pm, Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Developments in Biopharmaceutical Technology”; Dr. Sridevi Khambhampaty, Vice President, Syngene International Limited; Thursday, 19th May 2022, 11:00AM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “New class of molecular tools to study synapse diversity and function”; Prof. Shiva Tyagarajan, Assistant Professor, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich; Thursday, 21st April 2022, 5:15PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE [Hybrid Mode]
  • “Stress deceleration theory – chronic adolescent stress exposure results in decelerated neurobehavioral maturation”; Dr. Kshitij Jadhav, MD, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK; Wednesday, 13th April 2022, 5:00PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE [Hybrid Mode]
  • “Competing for DNA”; Dr. Satyanarayan Rao, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Wednesday Seminar, Wednesday, 30th March 2022, 5:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Accurate host cell protein (HCP) risk management for biologics”; Dr. Vipin Kumar, Ph.D., BSBE department, Application Specialist, Research Business (India), Cytiva; Friday, 25th March 2022, 11:15 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Serotonergic Psychedelics – A Revival”; Prof. Vidita Vaidya, Visiting Professor, BSBE, IIT Bombay, Professor TIFR Mumbai; Wednesday Seminar; Wednesday, 23rd March 2022, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Butterfly Holi: The Evolution and Genetics of Butterfly Wing Colour Patterns” Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte, Associate Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR); Thursday, 17th March 2022, 4:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A study on the structural and functional role of some conserved water molecules in human Monoamine oxidase B (hMAO B) by molecular dynamics simulation and Quantum chemical methods”; Dr. Subrata Dasgupta, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 27th January 2022, 3:00 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Integrated computational approaches to understand the disease pathology and identification of new therapeutic biomarkers in microbial pathogens”; Mr. MIRYALA SRAVAN KUMAR, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 20th January 2022, 2:30 PM; VC Mode.

  • “CENP-A mislocalization contributes to chromosomal instability (CIN) in budding yeast, human cells and xenograft mouse model” Dr. Munira A Basrai, Genetics Branch, CCR/NCI/NIH, Bethesda MD, Wednesday Seminar; Wednesday, 12th January 2022, 5:30 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Diurnal transcriptome landscape of a multi-tissue response to Time Restricted Feeding (TRF) in mice”; Dr. Shaunak Deota, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego; Thursday, 16th December 2021, 11:00 AM; VC Mode.
  • “Design and development of a control framework for grasp manipulation in upper limb neuroprosthetic”; Dr. Rinku Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Bio-Signal Processing Engineer, Wednesday Seminar; Wednesday, 27th October 2021, 5:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “INVESTIGATING THE FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF G-QUADRUPLEXES IN THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF LARGE dsDNA VIRUSES”; Nandhini Saranathan, Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; Wednesday 6 October, 2021, 2:15 PM; VC Mode.
  • “A Study on Multi-exposure Laser Speckle Contrast Imaging using a Video-rate Multi-tap Charge Modulation CMOS Image Sensor”; Dr. Sivakumar Panneer Selvam, IPDF applicant; Tuesday, 5th October, 2021, 3:30 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Generation of Hydroxyapatite Nanomaterial through Biomineralization for Potential Biomedical Applications”; PRIYA MULLICK, IPDF talk; Thursday, 30th September 2021, 11:00 am; VC Mode.
  • “Replication stress management in cancer cells”; Dr. Rahul Bhowmick, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 5:00 pm; VC mode.
  • “Unraveling riboswitch mechanisms by a combined investigation of RNA structure, dynamics and interactions” Dr. Krishna Chaitanya Suddala, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA, Wednesday Seminar; Wednesday, 22nd September 2021, 5:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Enhancing optical imaging with computation”; Dr. Hari Shroff; Senior Investigator, Laboratory of High Resolution Optical Imaging (HROI), Advanced Imaging and Microscopy (AIM) Resource; NIH, USA; Wednesday, 20th September 2021, 5 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Oncogenes as a guide to targeted therapies”; Dr. Sushil Kumar, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Wednesday Seminar; Wednesday, 15th September 2021, 5:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “A damaged-informed lung ventilator model for ventilator waveforms”; Dr. Deepak Agrawal, University of Colorado Denver, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, USA; Tuesday, 14th September 2021, 5:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Dermatomal Innervations: A Doorway to the Nervous System for Drug Delivery”; Dr. Sahadev Shankarappa, Assistant Professor, Center for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita University, Kochi, India, Wednesday Seminar; Wednesday, 8th September 2021, 5:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Leveraging matrix mechanics and biomimetic materials to regenerate vascularized tissues”; Dr. Teja Guda, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Wednesday, 1st September 2021, 5:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Elucidation of the candidate proteins for development of detection methodologies for phylogenetic clusters of biological agents using tandem mass spectrometry”; Dr. Sakshi Rajoria, IPDF talk; Thursday, 16th April, 2021, 12:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Mass Spectrometry-Based Structural Characterization of Potential Antioxidant Molecules from Marine Sources and their Effect on Protein Carbonylation”; Dr. Divya Nair, IPDF talk; Thursday, 16th April, 2021, 11:00 am; VC Mode.
  • “Studies on Pepsin-like Aspartic Proteases from Apicomplexan Pathogens P. falciparum and T. gondii”; Dr. Pooja Kesari, IIT Bombay, IPDF talk; Monday, 5th April 2021, 11:00 am; VC Mode.
  • “Development of novel approaches for therapeutic mitigation of ionizing radiation mediated injury in rodents”; Ms. Mayuri Bandekar, BARC Mumbai, IPDF talk; Tuesday, 30th March, 2021, 11:00am; VC Mode.
  • “Studies on Microbial Lectins”; Mr. N Jagadeesh, Karnatak University, Dharwad, IPDF talk; Thursday, 25th March 2021, 3:30 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Computing the spatial organization and dynamics of chromatin domains”; Kiran Kumari, IPDF talk; Thursday, 22nd March, 2021, 11 AM; VC Mode.
  • “Design and synthesis of biomaterial-based hemostatic to treat the internal hemorrhage condition”; Dr. Nutan Bhingaradiya, IPDF applicant; Friday, 12th March, 2021, 12 Noon; VC Mode.
  • “Understanding the role of host regulatory molecule against avian viruses”; Dr. Manisha Shah, IPDF applicant; Tuesday, 9th March, 2021, 3:00 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Identification and characterization of proteins involved in vesicular fusion events of Giardia lamblia“; Dr. Shankari Prasad Datta, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 3rd March, 2021, 3:00 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Development of Biopolymers based Interpenetrating Polymeric Network Encapsulating Capecitabine for better treatment of Colon Cancer”; Dr. Mansi Upadhyay, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 18th February, 2021, 3:00 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Implementation of Different Methodologies over Mueller matrix Imaging Polarimetry towards Disease detection and future Implications”; Dr. Mohammad Zaffar, IPDF applicant; Monday, 01st February, 2021, 4:00 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Copper-plumbagin complex displays potent antibacterial and anticancer activity”; Dr. Sandipan Mukherjee, IPDF applicant; Friday, 29th January 2021, 11:00 AM; VC Mode.
  • “Molecular mechanisms of intracellular Streptococcus pneumoniae clearance by host ubiquitin machinery”; Ms. Smita Bhutda, IPDF applicant; Friday, 29th January 2021, 3:30 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Nano-particles and Bio-polymeric Gels for Intranasal and Regional Drug Delivery in Glioblastoma Multiforme”; Puja Sandbhor, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 27th January 2021, 11:00 AM; VC Mode.
  • “To Let Go or Hold On To: Bladder Biophysics”; Nilapratim Sengupta, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 27th January 2021, 4 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Calcium Signalling within Detrusor Smooth Muscle Cells”; Suranjana Gupta, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 27th January 2021, 5 PM; VC Mode.
  • “Development of Nanocarrier Systems for Novel Compound Screened with Anti-Cancer Activity”; Nishant Kumar Jain, IPDF applicant; Monday, 25th January 2021, 11:30 AM; VC Mode.
  • “Dissecting the molecular mechanism of activation of Plasmepsin zymogen and the catalytic mechanism of pepsin-like aspartic proteases”; Ishan Rathore, IPDF applicant; Saturday, 16th January, 2021, 12 Noon; VC Mode.
  • “Link between p53 amyloids and cancer pathogenesis”; Ambuja Navalkar, IPDF applicant; Tuesday, 12th January, 2021, 3:30 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Understanding the Roles of Th9 Cells in T cell Lymphomas and Autoimmune Inflammatory Disease”; Sushant Kumar, IPDF applicant; Saturday, 09th January, 2021, 12:30 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Fabrication of Polyaniline-Based Nano Materials for the Application in Energy Harvesting and Sensing Devices”; Dr. S. Palsaniya, IPDF applicant; Friday, 08th January, 2021, 3:30 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Fluorescent nanomaterials for biosensors and biomedical applications”; Kalaiyarasan. G, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 16th December, 2020, 5:15 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Biocompatible Ionic Liquid Based Stimuli-Responsive and Injectable Vesicle-Hydrogel for Targeted Cancer Therapy”; Dr. Mohammad Muzammil Kuddushi, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 16th December, 2020, 4:30 pm; VC Mode.
  • “Studies of alpha amylase inhibitor and its biological applications”; Dr. Kasar Sainath, IPDF applicant; Tuesday, 01st December, 2020, 3:00 pm; VC Mode.
  • “The Emerging Trends, its Impact and The Way Forward – Focus on Pharma Business in India”; Dr. Ashok Kumar FRSC, President – Centre for Research & Development, IPCA Laboratories Ltd., Mumbai, India; Friday, 20th March, 2020, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “rRNA binding: A role beyond chromatin remodeling”; Dr. Saravanan Matheshwaran, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Friday, 13th March, 2020, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Cell-free chromatin : The missing link between biology and physiology”; Professor Indraneel (Neel) Mittra, MBBS, PhD.(London), FRCS (England), FASc, FNA, Dr. Ernest Borges Chair in Translational Research and Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre (ACTREC) Kharghar, Navi Mumbai; Wednesday, 11th March, 2020, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Designing a new therapeutic strategy for group 3 medulloblastoma patients based on neo-antigens using proteogenomics approaches”; Dr. Arup Acharjee [NPDF applicant]; Friday, 06th March, 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The ecology and evolution of host-microbial associations”; Dr. Deepa Aghashe, NCBS, Bangaluru; Friday, 06th March, 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Inflammatory immune responses of the testis and its impact on male fertility”; Dr. Sushama T. Rokade [IPDF applicant]; Thursday, 05th March, 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “From amino acid sensing, to understanding their roles in a cellular economy”; Dr. Sunil Laxman, inStem, Bangalore; Tuesday, 03rd March, 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nonequilibrium Assembly of Cellular Organisation”; Dr. Madan Rao, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Distinguished visiting professor, IIT Bombay; Tuesday, 25th February, 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The Stag Hunt Game in Cancer: How Cells Cooperate Within Cancer Populations and Stroma to Divide and Conquer””; Dr. Kshitiz Gupta, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biomedical Engineering Center for Cellular Analysis and Modeling, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut; Thursday, 20th February, 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Processing of Clients by Molecular Chaperones: Folding and Regulation of Activity”; Dr. Vinay Dahiya, Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany; Wednesday, 19th February, 2020, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE
  • “Novel Tocopherol Based Cationic Lipids For Non-viral Gene Delivery: Design, Synthesis and Evaluation”;  Dr. Venkanna Muripiti, IPDF applicant; Monday, 17th February, 2020, 11:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Surmounting the Insurmountable: NMR stories?”; Dr. Ramakrishna V Hosur, Raja Ramanna Fellow, J.C. Bose National Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay, India; Friday, 14th February, 2020, 04:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Self-assembled Graphene oxide Nanoparticles for Damaging DNA in Cancer Cells”; Dr. Aditi Nandi, IPDF applicant; Friday, 14th February, 2020, 02:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Can asparagine-linked protein glycosylation be targeted for developing therapeutic(s) against human diseases?”; Prof. Dipak K. Banerjee, Dept. of Biochemistry, San Juan, PR 00936, USA; Thursday, 13th February, 2020, 2:45 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Importance of lectins for plant growth and development, and their biomedical applications”; Prof. Dr. Els Van Damme, Dept Biotechnology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Thursday, 13th February, 2020, 2:15 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Microtubule organisation and dynamics: from cells to single molecules”; Dr. Anna Akhmanova, Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Thursday, 13th February, 2020, 04:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Evolution & optimization in metabolism”; Dr. Chris Marx, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow; Wednesday, 12th February, 2020, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Time travel with billion year old Elongation Factor – Tus: hint for the origin of thermostability and substrate specificity”; Dr. Suparna Sanyal, Professor, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala RNA Research Centre – URRC, Sweden; Monday, 10th February, 2020, 02:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “CAR T cell therapy- A new road to cancer immunotherapy in India”; Dr. Sarbari Ghosh, Institute Post Doctoral Fellow, Immunoengineeing Lab; Monday, 03rd February, 2020, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Identifying the Culprit in Neurodegeneration: One at a time”; Suman De, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, CB2 1EW, Cambridge, UK; Thursday 6th February 2020, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Multi-dimensional models for analysis of energy landscape of proteins with complex structures”; Prof. Joanna Sulkowska, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw; Monday, 27th January, 2020, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Bacterial Adaptation: From a Small Molecule to a Macromolecule”; Indra Mani Sharma, Postdoctoral fellow, T.C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 21218, USA; Wednesday, 22nd January 2020, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • [BSBE Colloquium] “Single-particle cryo-EM: Visualization of biological molecules in their native states”; Professor Joachim Frank. Nobel laureate in chemistry (2017). Columbia University, New York; Friday, January 17, 2020, 5.15 pm; Prof. B. Nag Auditorium, VMCC, IIT Bombay.
  • “CRISPR technologies in drug discovery”; Dr. Rajarshi Choudhury PhD, PGDIPR, MRSC, GSK Associate Fellow, Scientific Project Lead GSK, USA, (BSBE Alumnus 2003-2008); Tuesday, 14th January, 2020, 03.30 to 04.30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “(1) “PEG-based biodegradable polymeric biomaterials for controlled intratumoral chemotherapy and vaginal microbicide delivery”; Dr. Peeyush Kumar Sharma [IPDF applicant]; Monday, 13th January 2020, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “(1) “Analytical Ultracentrifugation” [Short talk] (2) “HIV restriction via a scorched earth strategy – a case study of SAMHD1” [Scientific talk]”; Dr. Akash Bhattacharya, Senior Application Engineer, Analytical Ultracentrifugation, Lindbergh, CO; Monday, 13th January 2020, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Bio EM : The new age of SEMs for Life Sciences”; Dr. Philipp Bastians, Electron and X-Ray Microscopy Specialist, Life Science, ZEISS Microscopy; Monday, 13th January 2020, 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Empowering Normal Cells Against Cancer”; Prof. Vivek M. Rangnekar, Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Co-Leader, Cancer Cell Biology and Signaling Research Program, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536; Monday, 13th January 2020, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • [BSBE Colloquium] “Reimagining vaccines: Making choices on what to work on and how”; Dr. Gagandeep Kang, Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology, Institute (An autonomous institute of the Dept of Biotechnology,Govt Of India), Haryana-120001; Tuesday, 07th January, 2020, 04:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “C 4 Rice How far and how near”; Prof. B. C. Tripathy, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Friday, 20th December, 2019, 03:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan during embryogenesis”; Dr. Sundar Naganathan, HFSP postdoctoral fellow, Lab – Prof. Andrew Oates, Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Wednesday, 18th December, 2019, 03:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dissecting the link between neuronal cell cycle and cell death in neurodegeneration”; Dr. Pushkar Sharma, Staff Scientist VII, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi 110067; Monday, 16th December, 2019, 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Validation challenges in handling endogenous analytces using LC-MS/MS based approach case studies of some of the endogenous Biomarkers such as Levothyroxine/ Progesterone”; Dr. Ashutosh Pudage, President, Accutest Research Laboratories (I) Pvt. Ltd., Kopar Khairane, Navi Mumbai; Thursday, 12th December, 2019, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Study the Deferoxamine mediated neuroprotection by inhibiting Apoptosis and Autophagy dysfunction: A future therapeutic approach of Autophagy mediated neuroprotection”; Mr. Jyotirmoy Rakshit [IPDF applicant]; Thursday, 12th December, 2019, 11:30 am; Computer Lab, first floor, BSBE.
  • “RAD51 paralogs: unraveling the new roles in genome stability and tumor suppression”; Dr. Ganesh Nagaraju, Dept of Biochemistry, IISc, Bangalaru; Wednesday, 04th December, 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Artificial intelligence in Phage Discovery”; Prof. Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Computational Biodiscovery, the GLOBE institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Monday, 02nd December, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Lung-Targeted Drug Delivery Using Nanocarriers System”; Dr. Sujit Kumar Debnath, IPDF applicant; Monday, 02nd December, 2019, 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “High-resolution HOS characterisation of biologics [BIOCON Industry Interactive Session]”; Navaratna Vajpai, Principal Scientific Manager – Rnd, Biocon Research Limited, Bangalore; Friday, 29th November, 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Introduction to Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance”; Ranjana Sarma, PhD, PGDPL, Senior grants advisor and Secretary for the Clinical and Public Health Competitions with the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance (IA) in Hyderabad, India; Monday, 25 Nov 2019, 10:30 am to 11:05 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Cellular And Computational Studies For Nucleic Acid-Polymer Complexes”; Dr. Anomitra Dey, IPDF applicant; Friday, 22nd November, 2019, 12:30 pm; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular Secret of Interspecies Interaction during Mixed-species Invasive Candidiasis”; Rajesh Patkar, Ramalingaswami & Wellcome-DBT Intermediate Fellow, Bharat Chattoo Genome Research Centre, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat; Wednesday, 20th November 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Lamins modulate morphology and function of the nucleolus – a liquid droplet compartment”; Dr. Kundan Sengupta, Chromosome Biology Lab (CBL), IISER-Pune; Tuesday, 19th November, 2019, 11:30 am; Computer room, first floor, BSBE.
  • “Studying Red Blood Disorders In The Era (And Space) Of Technology & Design”; Rajesh Chandramohanadas (Principal Investigator: Red Cell Diseases Lab) Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore; Friday, 15th November 2019, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Design and synthesis of multivalent glycoconjugates for lectin binding”; Dr. Pallavi Kiran, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 14th November, 2019, 02:15 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Neuro-synoviocyte communication and chemogenetic control ofarthritic pain”; Dr. Sampurna Chakrabarti, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College); Wednesday, 06th November, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Epigenetic regulation host-bacterial pathogen interactions: understanding role of protein lysine acetylation in reprogramming host response”; Rahul Modak, Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha; Monday, 04th November, 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Identification of small-molecule inhibitors for stromal fibroblasts activated by cancer cells”; Dr. Kruthi Suvarna (IPDF applicant); Monday, 04th November, 2019, 10:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Conflicts within the immune system: specificity or promiscuity”; Dr. Dinakar M. Salunke, Director, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi; Thursday, 24th October, 2019, 4:00 pm; VMCC, Hall No. 21, second floor.
  • “A Not-for-Profit, Academic, Innovation-based, Pre-Incubation & Incubation Centre for Translating Research of Students and Faculty at BS&BE into Commercially Viable Innovative Products”; Dr. Sudhakar Bangera; Tuesday, 15 October 2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mechanism of temperature sensing by an autoinflammation causing mutant of a cytoplasmic immune receptor”; Dr. Ghanshyam Swarup, J.C. Bose Fellow, CCMB, Hyderabad; Tuesday, 01st October, 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mechano-Immunology- Exploring Physical Drivers of Macrophage Activation”; Dr. Nikhil Jain, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich; Friday 27th September 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “IoT and WSN for Health and Home Management”; Prof.Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, FIEEE (USA), FIEE (UK), FIETE (India), Distinguished Lecturer – IEEE Sensors Council, Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW; Friday, 20th September, 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Bio-inspired MEMS flow sensors and their application in health care”; Dr. Mohsen Asadnia, Senior Lecturer & ARC DECRA fellow, School of Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW; Friday, 20th September, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Digitizing Healthcare”; Prof. Raghu Santanam, McCord Endowed Chair of Business, Professor and Department Chair, Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business; Friday, 20th September, 2019, 10:45 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Insights into the Insulin Signalling Pathway through Computational Studies”; Dr. Shantanu Kadam, Postdoctoral Fellow; Wednesday, 18th September, 2019, 10:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Identification of the Potential Inhibitors of the Druggable Enzymes of Plasmodium falciparum: A Computational insight”; Anu Manhas [IPDF Talk] Research Scholar, Computational Chemistry, School of Chemical Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar; Thursday, 12th September, 2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Polymerase traffic on DNA tracks: stochasticity, interference and conflict resolution”; Soumendu Ghosh [IPDF Talk] Research Scholar, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur; Thursday, 12th September, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Journey on understanding chromatin remodelers: Identification of new anticancer drugs”; Samit Chattopadhyay, Director, CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata; Wednesday 11th September 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Super Resolution Microscopy: Principle and applications”; GE healthcare, Delta Vision; Wednesday, 11th September, 2019, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Tailoring of surface wettability by physical, chemical and synergistic methods”; Dr. Jijo Easo George [SKYPE presentation], Postdoctoral Fellow, IISER Tirupati; Friday, 06th September, 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mass Spectrometry and Transcriptome Analysis in the Deconvolution of the Peptide Libraries of Cone Snail Venom”; Prof. P. Balaram, Former Director, Emeritus Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Friday, 30th August, 2019, 5:15pm; VMCC, Hall No. 21, second floor.
  • “The Conformational Equilibrium of G Protein-Coupled Receptors and their Peptide Ligands in Membranes”; Daniel Huster, Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany; Thursday, 29th August, 2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “DNA Double Strand Break Repair Mechanism: The Achilles Heel of Malaria Parasites”; Prof. Mrinal K. Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad; Thursday, 29th August, 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Linking Infectious Disease Research to Community Ecology: Understanding multispecies, multiscale host-parasite interactions”; Debapriyo Chakraborty, Senior Research Scientist (2016 – 2018), EcoHealth Alliance,New York; Tuesday, 27th August, 2019, 12 noon; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Intestinal infection regulates immunity, behavior and learning in C.elegans”; Dr. Jogender Singh, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; Monday, 26th August 2019, 11:35 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Transient Dynamics of Biomolecular Reactions Captured by Time-resolved cryo-EM”; Dr. Sandip Kaledhonkar, Frank Lab, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; Friday, 23rd August 2019, 11:35 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Shaping A Cell Mass Into An Embryo: The Emergence Of Collective Complexity During Development”; Sreelaja Nair, Reader-F (Assistant Professor), Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba; Tuesday, 13th August 2019, 11:35 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The maintenance of multipartite genome in radiation-resistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans”; Dr. Ganesh Kumar Maurya, IPDF applicant; Monday, 05th August, 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A Primer to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)”; Dr. Srikant Verma, Domain Team Lead LABS, Persistent Systems, Pune AND Dr. Santosh Dixit, Senior Scientist, Centre for Translational, Cancer Research(CTCR; a joint initiative of Prashanti Cancer Care Mission and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Pune); Friday, 02nd August, 2019, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular and Nano Probes for Bioimaging and Sensing”; Sivaramapanicker Sreejith, PhD, Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech) (Formerly BIGHEART), National University of Singapore, Singapore; Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Development of low-cost SERS substrates for various sensing applications”; Nabadweep Chamuah, IPDF applicant, Research Scholar, Tezpur University, Napaam, Sonitpur, Assam; Wednesday, 31st July 2019, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • BSBE Colloquium Talk: “Molecular Insights into Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis and Recombination in S. cerevisiae”; Prof. K Muniyappa, Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Friday, 26th July, 2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Evolutionary conservation of N- and O-linked glycosylation sites in plants”; Dr.Poonam Pant, IPDF applicant; Friday, 19th July, 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Multi-Omic Approaches to Cancer Detection: Single Cell Proteomics”; Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, Chief of the Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD; Monday, 15th July, 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Modulating Cardiac Dynamics: The Prediction, Prevention and Control of Cardiac Arrhythmias”; Kanchan Kulkarni, PhD Research Fellow: Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, Massachussetts General Hospital; Friday, 12th July 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Solid-state NMR methodology development and applications to biomacromolecules”; Dr Rudra N Purussotam, IPDF applicant, Ohio State University, USA; Tuesday, 09th July, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Purification and characterization of two collagenase enzymes produced by Pseudoalteromonas agarivorans NW4327, a pathogen of the marine sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile”; Dr. Sayak Bhattacharya, IPDF applicant, Senior Research Fellow, School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal; Tuesday, 09th July, 2019, 11:00 – 11:45 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Proteomic studies and functional characterization of snake venom proteins”; Dr. Manisha Choudhury, IPDF applicant, Research Associate, Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam; Tuesday, 09th July, 2019, 10:15 – 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Engaged in Community to Enable Change: Molecular Secret of Interspecies Interaction during Candidiasis”; Dr. Rajesh Patkar, Ramalingaswami Fellow, Bharat Chattoo Genome Research Centre, The M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat; Monday, 08th July, 2019, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Computational Studies on Cellulases”; Ragothaman M. Yennamalli, Assistant Professor, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh; Monday, 01st July, 2019, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Studying Red Blood Cell Maturation Through A Multi-Disciplinary Approach: Towards Understanding Components Driving Host TropismIn Plasmodium Spp.”; Rajesh Chandramohanadas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology & Design, Singapore; Friday, 28th June, 2019, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Design, simulation and performance study of MEMS technology based pressure sensor”; Vinod Belwanshi, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 27th June, 2019, 2:15 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Sculpting the ring to make a cut: contractile ring structure and mechanism of cell division”; Dr. Mithilesh Mishra, Reader, Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai; Tuesday, 18th June 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nitric Oxide Releasing Materials from Benchtop to Bedside”; Dr. Hitesh Handa, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, University of Georgia; Friday, 07 June, 2019, 12:15pm to 1:15pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dissecting the Physiology and Pathogenic Mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis”; Dr. Raghunand R. Tirumalai, Alumnus BSBE, IITB, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad; Friday, 24th May,2019, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Modulating antioxidant parameters using Abhrak bhasma, an ayurvedic nanoparticle.”; Dr. Rambhadur Subedi, IPDF applicant; Tuesday, 23rd April, 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The 2018 Nobel prize: T cell costimulation and anti-tumor responses”; Prof Dipankar Nandi, IISC, Bangalore; Thursday, 18th April, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Caenorhabditis elegans flight and fight response to pathogenic bacteria”; Varsha Singh, PhD, Intermediate Fellow, Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, Assistant Professor, Department of MRDG, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ; Monday, 8th April, 2019, 2:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “17p deletion: a therapeutic vulnerability for high-risk multiple myeloma patients”; Ram Kumar Singh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lymphoma and Myeloma Department, MD Anderson Cancer Centre Houston, Texas, USA; Wednesday, 20th March, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Structural And Functional Studies Of Seed Storage Proteins”; Dr. Pooja Kesari, IPDF applicant; Friday, 15th March, 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Single-cell and Long-read RNA sequencing uncovers novel mammalian biology”; Ishaan Gupta, Postdoctoral Associate, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA; Wednesday, 13th March 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Random adventures in Mathematical Biology”; Dr. Jon Pitchford, Department of Biology and Mathematics, University of York, United Kingdom; Tuesday, 05 March, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Studies on the role of interleukin 3 on regulation of RANKL and OPG in osteoblasts”; Dr. Kanupriya Singh, IPDF applicant (SKYPE); Friday, 01 March, 2019, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “APEER: A seamless microscopy workflow from Zeiss”; Dr. Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Director of Digital Solutions, Carl Zeiss Microscopy Inc, USA; Wednesday, 20th February, 2019, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A Journey from In-vitro to In-cell NMR:Molecular Basis of Structure-Dynamics-Function Relationship of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Tau at Atomic Resolution”; Dr. Harindranath Kadavath, Postdoctoral Researcher, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Tuesday, 19th February, 2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Essential signal transduction molecules for cell-cycle progression in human malaria parasites”; Prof. Manoj T. Duraisingh, John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health; Tuesday, 19th February, 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Confocal microscopy of skin cancers: technology development, clinical advances, early impact on patient care”; Prof. Milind Rajadhyaksha, Member of Faculty, Dermatology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Monday, 18th February, 2019, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Methodologies for the engineering of sialoglycoconjugates in the brain in vivo”; Prof. Srinivasa-Gopalan Sampathkumar, Laboratory of Chemical Glycobiology, National Institute of Immunology (NII); Thursday, 07th February, 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Make Nanoparticles Great Again: Understanding how the body puts up walls to nanoparticles on their journey towards tumours”; Shrey Sindhwani, University of Toronto; Tuesday, 29th January, 2019, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Parental Epigenetics And Zygotic Cell Biology: A Play On Early Vertebrate Development In Two Acts”; Dr. Sreelaja Nair, TIFR; Wednesday, 23rd January,2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Back your Science – Crowdfunding platform for research”; Mr. Shashank K., Founder, www.backyourscience.com; Monday, 21st January, 2019, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biomedical Sensors for Next Generation Point-of-Care Diagnosis”; Gorachand Dutta, PhD., Centre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices, Dept. of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK; Friday, 18th January, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Human Protein Atlas: An Update on Pathology Atlas and Tissue-based map of the human proteome”; Professor Fredrik Pontén, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Immunology, Genetics & Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden; Friday, 11th January, 2019, 2:15 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Methods for the Detection and Identification of Pathogenic Bacteria”; Prof. Paul Groundwater, Sydney University, Australia; Wednesday, 09th January, 2019, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Targeting myeloid derived suppressor cells and T cells crosstalk with neem leaf glycoprotein to prevent immunosuppression in cancer”; Madhurima Sarkar, IPDF applicant; Monday, 07th January, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular studies of glutamate dehydrogenases from the Zygomycete Benjaminiella poitrasii”; Dr. Ejaj Pathan, IPDF applicant; Monday, 07th January, 2019, 3:00 pm; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Breaking Bad: Rapid, Flexible and Portable Manufacturing Platforms for Biologic Medicines”; Kartik Shah, Ph.D., Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA USA; Thursday, 3rd January, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Silk fibroin based scaffolds for knee meniscus and nerve tissue engineering”; Dr. Mamatha M. Pillai, IPDF applicant; Thursday, 3rd January, 2019, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Advances In Nmr Methods For Biomolecular Structure Determination And Interactions”; Dr. Kavitha Rachineni, IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 26th December 2018, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “DNA Damage Response intertwines with tissue homeostasis in D. melanogaster”; Prof. B. J. Rao, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences (DBS), TIFR, Colaba; Monday, 24th December 2018, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Fine-tuning of an evolutionarily conserved chromatin remodeling factor, FACT, in orchestrating transcription elongation and coupled DNA repair”; Sukesh R. Bhaumik, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Carbondale, USA; Thursday, 13th December 2018, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Phenotypic and genotypic diversity of newer nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus and giant virus harboring Acanthamoeba”; Dr. Kirti Megha, IPDF applicant, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh; Monday, 3rd December 2018, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Immunopathology and immunotherapy of experimental pulmonary tuberculosis”; Dr. Rogelio Hernandez Pando MD., PhD, Chairman of the Experimental Pathology Section Department of Pathology. National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Mexico ; Friday, 30th November 2018, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Lab diagnosis of infectious Meningitis and Encephalitis”; Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat, PharmD. Ph.D. D (ABMM), Director, Immunology, Associate Director, Clinical Microbiology, Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology, Ohio; Friday, 30th November 2018, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “SWR1C: A nucleosome editing ATPase motor”; Raushan Singh, PhD, American Heart Association, Postdoctoral Fellow, Craig Peterson Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester (USA); Thursday, 29th November 2018, 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Bioengineering precision glucose therapy in type 2 diabetes”; Dr. Pranay Goel, IISER Pune; Monday, 26th November, 2018, 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Delivery of Both Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Anticancer Drugs using Graphene Oxide Grafted Polymer and Hydrogel of Vitamin B9”; Arun K. Nandi, Polymer Science Unit, School of Material Science, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata; Thursday, 22nd November, 2018, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Integrated Lab-on-Chip biomedical diagnostic chips: Printed Circuit Boards, Printing and beyond…”; Dr. Despina Moschou (MEng, PhD), Lecturer, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, UK; Wednesday, 07th November, 2018, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Western blotting trouble shooting with new techniques”; Merck – Sigma; Thursday, 25th October, 2018, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “From Wearables to Implantables: Enabling Next-Generation Monitoring”; Dr. Mike McShane, James J. Cain Professor II, Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University; Wednesday, 24th October, 2018, 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Meiotic recombination: mechanisms, distribution and role in chromosome segregation”; Nishant K.T, IISER Thiruvananthapuram; Monday, 22nd October, 2018, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Cortical Electrocorticogram (ECoG) is a local signal”; Dr. Agrita Dubey, IISc Bangalore; Monday, 22nd October, 2018, 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Patient-specific biomechanical simulations for cardiovascular system”; Samarth S. Raut, PhD, Sr. Chief Engineer, SAMSUNG R&D Institute, Bangalore; Friday, 28 September 2018, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Optical Imaging for Clinical Applications and Future”; Prof. Renu John, Department of Biomedical Imaging, IIT Hyderabad; Monday, 24th September 2018, 2:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Engineeering Functional Materials and Soft-organic Nanohybrids for Cancer Detection and Bioimaging”; Sivaramapanicker Sreejith, PhD, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Monday, 17th September, 2018, 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Interrogations on cell cycle in a dimorphic bacterium”; Sunish Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor, School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; Tuesday, 18th September, 2018, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “CRAC channels Ca2+ microdomains in NFAT activation and gene expression”; Pulak Kar, PhD, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.; Friday, 14th September 2018, 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular Mechanisms of Metastasis”; Prof. Georg F Weber, Associate Professor, Univ of Cincinnati, USA; Tuesday, 11th September, 2018, 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “How Mycobacterium tuberculosis evades host immune responses to facilitate its survival in lung macrophages and bone marrow stem cells?”; Prof. (Dr.) Avinash Sonawane, Dean, School of Biotechnology, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha;Wednesday, 29th August 2018, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Prying into Prions: Deadly Conformational Switch of the Prion Protein”; Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Centre for Protein Science, Design and Engg., Dept. of Biological Sciences and Dept. of Chemical Sciences,IISER, Mohali;Friday, 17th August, 2018, 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Transcription Regulation of metabolic genes through epigenetic reprogramming by chromatin reader Trans-Activating Factor 19”; Prof. Chandrima Das, Biophysics and Structural Genomics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata;Wednesday, 3rd August 2018, 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Uncovering the Role of Plasticity of Nucleosome Core During Chromatin Remodeling Reactions”; Kalyan K. Sinha, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158 USA; Wednesday, 13th July 2018; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mn-catalase “KatB”: The Guardian that defends the cyanobacterium Anabaena from salinity stress”; Dr. Anand Ballal, Molecular Biology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai; Monday, 11th June, 2018; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular studies on NAC transcription factors regulating secondary wall deposition and abiotic stress responses in banana”; Dr. Sanjana Negi, IPDF applicant, BARC, Mumbai; Friday, 08 June, 2018; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Characterization of ‘Sortases’ with orthogonal specificity for expanded applications”; Vijay Pawale, IPDF applicant, Cell biology lab-II, National institute of Immunology, New Delhi; Tuesday, 15th May, 2018; 10:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A novel nano-therapeutic approach for the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis”; Nadim A., Ph.D., IPDF applicant; Wednesday, 02nd May, 2018; 11:00 am; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Protein translation regulation and ribosomal antibiotic protection by MsrE”; Dr. Veerendra Kumarv (SKYPE presentation), Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Friday, 27th April 2018; 4:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Germ cell development and its regulation”; Dr. Mainpal Rana (SKYPE presentation), Postdoctoral Associate, Univ. of Pittsburgh; Friday, 27th April 2018; 3:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “noncoding RNAs in Cancer”; Dr. Divijendra Natha Reddy, Sirigiri, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru; Friday, 27th April 2018; 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Viruses and Host microRNAs: Role in Replication and Pathogenesis”; Anupam Mukherjee, Ph.D, RAMANUJAN Fellow Scientist, Div. of Virology, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata; Friday, 27th April 2018; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Understanding and Modulating Cell – Material Interactions in Tissue Engineering”; Dr. Naresh Kasoju, Scientist-C (Applied Biology), Division of Tissue Culture, Biomedical Technology Wing, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; Thursday, 26th April 2018; 10:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nonmuscle Myosin II Activity Controls Membrane Protrusive Activities”; Prof. Siddhartha S. Jana, Department of Biological Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata; Wednesday, 25th April 2018; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Functional screening of miRNA: discovery to therapy in prostate cancer”; Dr. Binod Kumar, Senior Post Doc scientist, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Monday, 23rd April 2018; 2:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Translational studies on acute leukemia focus on the receptor tyrosine kinase FLT3”; Dr. Chougule Rohit Annasaheb, Post Doctoral Fellow, Division of Translational Cancer Researc and Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University Medicon Village, Building 404:C32 A2 Lund Swede; Monday, 23rd April 2018; 11:00 am; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Microfluidic platforms for high-resolution imaging of C. elegans”; Dr. Sudip Mondal, Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas 78731, USA; Monday, 23rd April 2018; 10:00 am; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Impacting discovery and development of novel therapeutics with NMR Spectroscopy”; Subhabrata Majumder, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biotherapeutics Research and Development Pfizer Inc, Chesterfield, Missouri, USA; Thursday, 19th April, 2018; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Multifunctional engineered systems: a promising tool for minimally invasive therapeutics”; Dr. Shilpee Jain, INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Biological Sciences Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Wednesday, 11th April 2018; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Secondary Injury mechanisms contribute to pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury and linking to chronic neurodegeneration: clinical and therapeutic implications”; Dr. Alok Kumar, Ramalingaswami re-entry fellow, Neurology SGPGI, Lucknow; Wednesday, 11th April 2018; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “RNA Epitranscriptome in Translation Regulation”; Dr. Namit Ranjan, Independent Research Scientist, Dept. Physical Biochemistry Research Department, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany; Thursday, 05th April 2018; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “HFSP: Funding International Research Collaborations in the Life Sciences”; Dr. Barbara Pauly, Director of fellowships HFSP; Thursday, 08th March,2018; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Functional nanohybrids for localized cancer theranostics”; Rajendra Prasad, PhD, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant; Thursday, 01st March, 2018; 2:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Advanced Information Theory for the Analysis of Biological Data”; Dr. Nithya Ramakrishnan, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant; Friday, 23rd February, 2018; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Understanding DNA based nanostructures”; Prof. Prabal Maiti, Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Monday, 19th February, 2018; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Novel mechanisms of spatiotemporal control of number and diversity of centrosome-cilia”; Swadhin Chandra Jana, Post-doctoral fellow, Instituto Gulbekian de Ciência (Gulbenkian Institute), Portugal; Thursday, 8th February, 2018; 12:35 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Helicobacter pyroli Restriction-Modification Systems: Roles Beyond Genome Protection”; Prof. D. Narsimha Rao, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, IISc Bangalore; Monday, 29th January, 2018; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mitotic kinesin -5- nano motors: from single molecules to physiological functions”; Prof. Leah Gheber, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Marcus Campus, ISRAEL; Thursday, 25th January, 2018; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Elucidating Tumor Heterogeneity and Evolution from Single-cell DNA Sequencing Data”; Hamim Zafar, Department of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, USA; Thursday, 23rd January, 2018; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Studying the dynamics and solvent interactions of amino acids and proteins through biomolecular simulations”; Dr. Saurabh Belsare, Postdoctoral Scholar, Institute for Human Genetics, Universityof California, San Francisco; Friday, 12th January, 2018; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “New Targeted Therapies for Cancer, Autoimmune, and Infectious Diseases”; Dr. Phil Low, Presidential Scholar in Drug Discovery, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN USA; Thursday, 11th January, 2018; 5:00 pm; Lecture Hall 21, VMCC.
  • “Transformative research in biomaterials and bioengineering at Clemson University -Possible collaborative projects with IIT Bombay”; Naren Vyavahare, Ph.D., Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioengineering, Director, South Carolina Bioengineering Center of Regeneration and Formation of Tissues (SC BioCRAFT), Department of Bioengineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA; Thursday, 11th January, 2018; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Interfaces in space and time: self-assembly in biological membranes and glassy materials”; Dr. Shachi Katira, University of California, Berkeley; Friday, 05th January, 2018; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular Mechanics Based Simulation Methods for Biophysical Problems”; Harish Vashisth, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Program, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; Friday, 05th January, 2018; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Delineating MYC enhancers in gene regulation and tumor development”; Dr. Kashyap Dave, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Tuesday, 19th December, 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Mechanisms of iron acquisition and iron homeostasis in Candida glabrata”; Dr. Vivek Kumar Srivastava, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant; Tuesday, 28th November, 2017; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “When less is more favorable: Curious case of CD33”; Dr. Shoib Siddiqui, IITB – MSc (BT) alumnus, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of California, San Diego (UCSD); Tuesday, 21st November, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Structural Dynamics of Biomolecules Captured By Time-resolved Cryo-Electron Microscopy”; Sandip Kaledhonkar, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, The Frank Lab, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; Thursday, 16th November, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Quantitative Microscopy of Fixed and Live Cells”; Dr. Peter Banks, Scientific Director, BioTek Instruments Inc., USA; Thursday, 09th November, 2017; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “How to Understand the Formation of Signaling Profiles in Biological Development”; Prof. Anatoly Kolomeisky, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Bio- molecular Engineering and Centre for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas; Tuesday, 07th November, 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Rational Design, Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials(CQDs and ZnO), Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)”; Shouvik Mitra, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, Research Scientist, Reliance Industries Limited; Friday, 3rd November, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “How Lamins modulate nuclear mechanics and homeostasis?”; Kaushik Sengupta, Associate Professor, Biophysics & Structural Genomics, Division Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan nagar, Kolkata; Tuesday, 31st October, 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Generation and functions of tumor antigen specific memory phenotypes within CD8+ T cells under influence of Neem Leaf Glycoprotein”; Sarbari Ghosh, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, Senior Research Fellow-DST INSPIRE, Department of Immunoregulation and Immunodiagnostics, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal; Thursday, 26th October, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Chaperone Acts as a Mechanical Foldase: Investigation at Single Molecular Resolution”; Dr. Shubhasis Haldar, Post-doctoral Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University; Wednesday, 25th October 2017; 4:15 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Transcriptional Regulation in Development and Disease”; Dr. Madhura Kulkarni, Cancer Science Institute, Singapore & LKC School of Medicine, Singapore; Wednesday, 25th October 2017; 3:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A unified human genome is derived from the diversity among its constituent chromosomes”; Sarosh N. Fatakia, Department of Biological Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai; Tuesday, 24th October, 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Keratinocytes: Key players in epidermal immunity and regeneration”; Dr. Ankita Srivastava, Institute Post Doctoral Fellow, Immuno-engineering Lab; Thursday, 28th September, 2017; 4:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Genome diversity and dynamics in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans”; Prof. Christophe d’Enfert, Fungal Biology and Pathogenicity Unit, Department of Mycology, Institut Pasteur; Friday, 29th September, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dense Core Secretory Vesicle Biogenesis And Their Role In Physiological Functions”; Bhavani Shankar Sahu, Research Associate, Bartolomucci lab, University of Minnesota, Twin cities; Monday, 25th September, 2017; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Major Facilitator Transporter Mdr1 in Clinical Antifungal Resistance”; Archana Kumari Redhu, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Thursday, 21st September, 2017; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Digital Microscopes for 21st Century Discovery: MASSIVE”; Dr. Wojtek Goscinski, Monash University, Australia; Monday, 18th September, 2017; 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Assembling biomaterial regulators in tissue and immune development”; Dr. Nisarg Shah, Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University; Thursday, 14th September, 2017; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Evolutionary Analysis of the STAT Signaling Pathway”; Dr. Chinari Pawan Kumar Patro, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore; Wednesday, 13th September, 2017; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biophysical investigation on the interaction of jacalin beyond carbohydrates and its implication in developing anticancer and antibacterial strategy”; Khan Behlol Ayaz Ahmed, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu; Friday, 01st September, 2017; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Role of Actomyosin dynamics in Virus-Cell Fusion”; Dr. Provas Das, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, Department of Biological Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata; Monday, 31st July 2017; 5:00 pm; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biomolecules from living sources used as immunostimulants”; Dr. Namrata Singh, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata; Thursday, 27th July 2017; 10:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Possible and Impossible Cells”; Prof. Mukund Tattai, NCBS, Bangalore; Monday 24th July 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Developing Biomarkers for Precision Medicine in Kidney Diseases”; Dr. Chirag Parikh, Director, Program of Applied Translational Researchat, Yale University School of Medicine; Thursday, 20th July 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biochemical evaluation of virgin coconut oil in experimental animals”; Dr. ARUNIMA S., Department of Biochemistry, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; Thursday, 13th July 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Unraveling the interplay of DEAD-box RNA helicases in regulating translation initiation at genome-wide level”; Neelam Dabas Sen, PhD, Sr Research Fellow, Hinnebusch Lab – Section on Nutrient Control of Gene Expression; Thursday, 6th July, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Best Practices for Safe Centrifugation”; Dr. Daniel D. Hanle, Ph.D., Commercial Product Manager, Floor Model Centrifugation, Thermo Fisher Scientific; Monday, 3rd July, 2017; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Fiberoptic Absorbance Biosensor (FAB) Technology for clinical diagnosis and environmental monitoring”; V. V. Raghavendra Sai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics, IIT Madras, Chennai; Thursday, 29th June, 2017; 4:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The Basal Ganglia System As An Engine For Exploration”; V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, PhD, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Tuesday, 28th June, 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “A developmental biologist’s view of osteoarthritis”; Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Bioengineering (BSBE)IIT Kanpur, Kanpur; Tuesday, 20th June, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dissection of signaling pathways in diverse organisms”; Dr. Pushkar Sharma, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi; Thursday, 01st June, 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Hippo Signaling in Breast Cancer Progression”; Dr. Madhura Kulkarni, Senior research fellow, Cancer Science Institute, Singapore; Friday, 26th May, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Investigating the interplay between cell cycle and gene expression”; Kedar Natarajan, Postdoctoral fellow, Teichmann Lab and Single Cell Genomics Centre Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute,Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; Friday, 19th May, 2017; 2:15 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “High-resolution optofluidic platforms for three-dimensional imaging of C. elegans”; Sudip Mondal, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, USA; Monday, 15th May, 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Unraveling the radioresistance coupled invasiveness in breast cancer: the novel role of alpha actinin-4 signaling”; Dr Sejal Desai, Institute Post Doctoral Fellow, Cellular biophysics Lab; Wednesday, 26th April, 2017; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Metabolism in the microaerophile Plasmodium”; Prof. Hemalatha Balaram, Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore; Monday, 24th April, 2017; 2:30pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Composite Injectable Chitosan Gel- Dual role as visco-supplement and local drug delivery system for the treatment of Osteo-arthritis”; Dr. Arunkumar Palaniappan, Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Cincinnati , 3933 Cardiovascular Center 231 Albert Sabin Way , Cincinnati; Friday, 21st April 2017; 4:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Development of a Novel In-Vitro Compartmentalization Method For Bias-Free Directed Evolution using Electrostatic Inkjet”; Dr. Bineet Sharma, NPDF Applicant, Ph.D in Materials Science, School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST); Friday, 21st April 2017; 2:30 pm; Seminar room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “DNA Biosensing”; Dr. Arpita De, Biomedical Engineer Bloonica B. V, Netherlands; Friday, 21st April 2017; 3:00 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Multifunctional H factor coated EGFR-GO-Chl-A2aR nanoconjugate for improved cancer nano therapy”; Dr. Sandeep Mittal, NPDF Applicant, Research Fellow, Nanomaterials Toxicology Laboratory, Nanotherapeutics and Nanomaterial Toxicology Group, CSIR – Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR – IITR), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh; Friday, 21st April 2017; 12:30 pm; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Effect of Carbon Nanotubes and Aluminum Oxide Reinforcement on Multifunctional Properties of Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene Biocomposites for biomedical applications”; Dr. Anup Kumar Patel, NPDF Applicant, Project Associate, Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur; Friday, 21st April 2017; 12:00 noon; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Application of Aptamers for Therapeutics”; Dr. Partha Ray, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego; Friday, 21st April 2017; 11:00 am; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “To Explore Differentiation Potential of Bone Marrow derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Functional Cardiomyocytes”; Anupama Kakkar (SKYPE presentation), NPDF Applicant, CSIR-SRF, Stem Cell Facility, AIIMS, New Delhi; Friday, 21st April 2017; 10:00 am; Seminar room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “On-chip magnetic tools for manipulation of single microorganisms/cells”; Dr. Venu Reddy, DST- INSPIRE Faculty, School of Engineering Sciences and Technology, University of Hyderabad, Professor C.R. Rao Road, P.O: Central University, Gachibowli, Hyderbad; Thursday, 20th April 2017; 3:00 PM; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Smart biosensors for security, environmental and food quality monitoring and novel decontamination strategies”; Dr. Rupesh K Mishra (SKYPE presentation), Department of Nano-Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, United States; Thursday, 20th April 2017; 10:30am; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Interference between Replication and Transcription threatens Genomic Stability”; Dr. Sabari Sankar Thirupathy, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Monday, 17th April 2017; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Studies on Functionalization of Cellulose Nanocrystals for Development of Polymeric Bionanocomposites and Applications in Sustainable Chemical Processes”; Prodyut Dhar, Research Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Guwahati; Monday, 17th April 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Embodiment and Technology in Rehabilitation: Interdisciplinary Interventions for Children with Disabilities”; Dr. Sudha Madhav Srinivasan, Post Doc Fellow, IIT Bombay; Monday, 17th April 2017; 12:00 noon; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Guided-Wave Optical Biosensors: Design, Fabrication & Characterization.”; Dr. Nirmal Punjabi, Research Associate, IIT Bombay; Monday, 17th April 2017; 11:00am; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Structural insights to the proteinopathy and epigenetics associated with Motor neuron diseases: A computational approach.”; Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare (SKYPE presentation), Ph.D., NPDF Applicant, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry; Thursday, 13th April, 2017; 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Development of Computational Methods for the Stochastic Simulation of Chemical Systems”; Shantanu Kadam, Ph.D., NPDF Applicant, CSIR – National Chemical Laboratory, Pune; Thursday, 13th April, 2017; 5:00 pm; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Clinical and Mechanistic Interrogation of Long Non-coding RNAs in Cancer”; Dr. Sudhanshu Kumar Shukla (SKYPE presentation), Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Wednesday, 12th April 2017; 4:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “In-silico experiments: Protein function to nanostructures”; Dr. Alok Jain (SKYPE presentation), Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany; Wednesday, 12th April 2017; 3:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Isoprenyl Cystein Carboxymethyl Transferase – a new target against Pancreatic Cancer”; Dr. Manu Kanjoormana Aryan (SKYPE presentation), Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore; Wednesday, 12th April 2017; 2:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Isoprenyl Cystein Carboxymethyl Transferase – a new target against Pancreatic Cancer”; Dr. Manu Kanjoormana Aryan (SKYPE presentation), Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore; Wednesday, 12th April 2017; 2:30 pm; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biomolecules from living sources used as immunostimulants: their identification, mechanism of actions and molecular interactions”; Ms. Namrata Singh, DST NPDF Applicant, Ph.D. (Thesis Submitted) in Biochemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata; Wednesday, 12th April 2017; 10:00 am; Conference Room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “PKC mediated EVI1 phosphorylation: Biochemical and biological significance in promoting EVI1 mediated gene regulation.”; Dr. Kasturi Bala Nayak (SKYPE presentation), National PDF Applicant, Institute of Life Sciences, Nalco Square, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha; Tuesday, 11th April, 2017; 10:00 am; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Important role of Engineers in hospitals”; Dr. Niranjan D. Khambete, PhD, IITB Alumnus (M.Tech.-BME), Manager, Clinical Engineering, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Centre, Pune; Monday, 3rd April, 2017; 4:15 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Serum biomarkers as modulators of ORAL carcinogenesis”; Dr Sunali Khanna, MDS, DNB, Nair Hospital Dental College, President,Asian Academy of Oral & Maxillofacial, Radiology,Member, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India; Monday, 3rd April 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Challenging pseudo-bipolar divisions in cancer cells with extra centrosomes”; Amitabha Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Moffat Lab, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago; Friday, 31st March 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Point-of-care Diagnostics using Lasers”; Prof. Collin Sones, Associate Professor, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK; Thursday, 30th March 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Population genomics reveals intricate variation in a pathogen infecting staple crop”; Samriti Midha, PhD, Project Assistant-III, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh; Wednesday, 29th March 2017; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Super resolution microscopy reveals intracellular cargo transport regulations”; Dr. Nitin Ram, Research Fellow, ICFO Barcelona; Friday, 3rd March 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Design and development of patient specific medical devices and implants”; Dr Deepak Kalaskar, University College London; Wednesday, 22nd February 2017; 2:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nanopharmaceutics and Nanoanalysis”; Dr Dimitrios A. Lamprou, University of Kent (UK); Wednesday, 15th February 2017; 5:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Functional Restoration of Paralyzed Muscle”; Suresh Devasahayam, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Christian Medical College, Vellore; Tuesday, 31st January 2017; 4:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Introduction to Indian Association of Medical Informatics”; Dr John Oommen, President of iAMI; Friday, 27th January 2017; 10:45 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Overview of iAMI activities and sharing the larger vision of iAMI”; Dr Thanga Prabhu, Vice President of iAMI; Friday, 27th January 2017; 11:05 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Patient Health Records in India and Vidoc solution”; Mr Jay Mehta, CEO, ViDocs; Friday, 27th January 2017; 11:45 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The challenge of creating informatics awareness and role of NGOs”; Mrs Vsumathi Sriganesh, Founder, Q Med Knowledge Foundation; Friday, 27th January 2017; 12:10 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Medical technologies, Informatics and road ahead. Leveraging industry interaction for the department. Opportunities and Challenges.”; Aniruddha Nene; Friday, 27th January 2017; 12:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dissecting molecular mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in cancer”; Vibhuti Agrawal, Senior Research Scholar, Biological Engineering, White Lab, MIT; Saturday, 21st January 2017; 12:00 noon; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Introducing Research Tracks at the Weizmann Institutes of Science”; Prof. Ziv Reich, Chair, Life Sciences Board of Studies, Weizmann Institute of Science; Friday, 20th January 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Developing Novel Single-Cell Sequencing Technologies to Study Cellular Heterogeneity”; Siddharth S. Dey, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; Friday, 13th January 2017; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular Characterization of ACC Deaminase Producing Bacteria for Inducd Systemic Tolerance in Wheat”; Dr. Rajnish Singh, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant; Thursday, 12th January 2017; 3:00 pm; Conference room, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Development of in vitro three dimensional (3D) culture model of hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) using polymer scaffolds”; Swati Chitrangi, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant; Thursday, 12th January 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Biomass Derived Carbon Nanodots and Their Doped Derivatives For Bioimaging and Tissue Engineering Applications”; Bodhisatwa Das, Institute Postdoctoral Applicant; Tuesday, 10th January 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Frequency Doubling in Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock”; Arijit Kumar Das, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK; Monday, 9th January 2017; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Translating Molecular Therapy in Infectious and Genetic Disease”; Prof Kasturi Haldar, Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland, C.S.C. Professor, Parsons-Quinn Director, CRND, University of Notre Dame, IN; Monday, 9th January 2017; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “REVERSE ENGINEERING BRAIN CIRCUITS”; Satish S. Nair, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Professor of Biological Engineering, Director, Center of Computational Neurobiololgy, University of Missouri-Columbia; Thursday, 29th December 2016; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Chemical Genetic Dissection of Signaling Pathways in Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease”; Dr. Kavita Shah, Walther Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, USA; Monday, 26th December 2016; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “ATP-dependent and independent mechanisms of regulating chromatin state”; Geeta Narlikar, Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco; Friday, 23rd December 2016; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Stretch-relaxation of DNA molecules in semidilute solutions”; J. Ravi Prakash, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Tuesday, 13th December 2016; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Label-free detection and biophysical characterization of cells in microfluidic platform”; Debanjan Das (PhD), Postdoctoral Candidate, Research Assistant, BioMEMS Lab, School of Medical Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Tuesday, 6th December 2016; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Clinical application of Genetics: influence on management, lifestyle and reproductive choices”; Dr. Meenal Agarwal, Clinical Geneticist (GENEPATH DX); Friday, 25th November 2016; 3:15 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Clinical Utility of Molecular Diagnostics in Haematology and Oncology”; Dr. Ketki Kelkar, Hemato-pathologist (GENEPATH DX); Friday, 25th November 2016; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Introduction to GenePath Dx: A multidiciplinary approach to clinical molecular genetic diagnostics”; Dr. Nikhil Phadke, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, GENEPATH DX; Friday, 25th November 2016; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Enabling the Path To Precision Medicine With Industrialized Proteomics”; Dr. Jeane Baptiste, Manager Market Development Omics Europe, ABSCIEX; Friday, 25th November 2016; 2:00 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “IITB – DTU collaboration in the field of Biotechnology”; Ms. Vanita Singh, Admission Officer, International Affairs of Technical University of Denmark; Friday, 25th November 2016; 10:30 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Novel nanoparticle contrast agents for x-ray imaging (computed tomography and dual-energy mammography)”; Pratap C. Naha, Ph.D, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.; Thursday, 24th November 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Regime of gene silencing: siRNA delivery into cancer cells using hollow PLGA Nanoparticles”; Dr. Archana Raichur, Postdoctoral Candidate, Bio-Nano Electronics Research Center, University of Toyo, Tokyo, JAPAN; Thursday, 10th November 2016; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Fabrication of RF MEMS Phase Shifter and Polymer based Microfluidic Devices”; Dr. Shilpi Pandey, Postdoctoral Candidate, PhD Scholar, Department of Electronics Engineering, Banasthali Vidyapith; Friday, 4th November 2016; 10:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Dynamics of ribosome initiation and recycling studied by Time-resolved Cryo-Electron Microscopy in milliseconds time-scale”; Sandip Kaledhonkar, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, The Frank Lab, Columbia University Medical Center, New York; Thursday, 20th October 2016; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Functional DNA-origami: in the crossroad of top down & bottom up nanotechnology”; Banani Chakraborty, Ramalingaswami Fellow, Department of Chemical engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore; Tuesday, 18th October 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Nanopore sensing and applications with the Oxford Nanopore Platform”; James Allen Brayer, Oxford Nanopore, Oxford, UK; Monday, 26th September 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “PERK kinase: a novel therapeutic target in development of gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases”; Dr. Vijendra Sharma, Research Associate, McGill University, Department of Biochemistry, Goodman Cancer Research Center, Montreal, Canada; Thursday, 15th September 2016; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “The mRNA capping enzyme of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has dual specificity to interact with CTD of RNA Polymerase II”; Dr. Akhilendra Pratap Bharati, Post Doc Applicant; Friday, 2nd September 2016; 10:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Fortetropin®, A Natural Myostatin Reducing Agent to Address Musculoskeletal Disorders: From Basic Science to Human Clinical Studies”; Neerav D. Padliya, Ph.D., Vice President, Research Alliances, MYOS RENS Technology, Inc., Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, USA; Thursday, 4th August 2016; 11:00 am; Seminar Room (A), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Ca2+-waves regulate cell function in a frequency-dependent fashion”; Subhendu Mukherjee MSc, PhD, MPost-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada; Friday, 29th July 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Engineering Micro- and Nano-carriers for Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases and Antibiotic Resistant Infections”; Rachit Agarwal, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thursday, 28th July 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Introduction to nano/micromotors”; Dr. Sarvesh Srivastava, MIT-DBT India Visiting Scholar, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thursday, 21st July 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Conformational selection vs Induced fir in protein dynamics”; Sarath Chandra Dantu, PhD, ELS, Postdoctoral Applicant; Thursday, 14th July 2016; 10:00 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Metabolic switching in regulating cell survival and growth”; Dr. Sunil Laxman InStem, Bangalore; Wednesday, 15th June 2016; 11:30 am; Seminar Room (B), ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular Motors: Force and Fluctuations, Information and Infidelity”; Prof. Debashish Chowdhury, Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur; Tuesday, 07th; June, 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Application of different methodologies applied in chemical and biological sensor research”; Manoj Kumar Pal, Postdoctoral Applicant, Department of Life science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Wednesday, 18th; May, 2016; 10:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Engineering bacteria to disperse bacterial biofilms”; Dr. Vihang Ghalsasi, Alumnus M.Sc. Biotechnology (2009–2011), PhD Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany & LOEWE Center for Synthetic and Systems, Microbiology, Max Planck Institute of Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany; Tuesday, 19th; April, 2016; 11:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “(1) “Recent advances in drug discovery” (2) “Making a career in the biotech industry””; Dr. Ajith V. Kamath, Head, External R&D Innovation, India, Worldwide Research & Development, Pfizer Inc.; Wednesday, 13th; April, 2016; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Fungal dimorphism: Are we close to solve the puzzle?”; Prof. M. V. Deshpande, Biochemical Sciences Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune; Wednesday, 13th; April, 2016; 11:30 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Fluorescence optical tomography for early cancer detection”; Dr.Naren Naik, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur and Center for Lasers and Photonics (CELP), IIT Kanpur; Tuesday, 29th; March, 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Molecular mechanisms of microtubule tip tracking and centriole formation”; Michel O. Steinmetz, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland; Friday, 18th; March, 2016; 11:00 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “High- and Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy”; Prof. Joerg Enderlein, Georg August University, Department of Physics, III. Institute of Physics, Goettingen, Germany; Tuesday, 15th; March, 2016; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Designing Light-Switchable proteins”; Anil Kumar (Ph.D.), Alumnus of IITB, Biological and Organic Chemistry Office: LM 526, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Toronto, Canada; Friday, 04th; February, 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Evolution by Tumor Neofunctionalization: The Role of Heritable Tumors in Progressive Evolution”; Andrei Makashov, Lab of Molecular Virology and Oncology, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University; Friday, 26th; February, 2016; 10:00 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “An analysis of Candida glabrata-macrophage interaction”; Dr. Rupinder Kaur, Professor, Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad; Tuesday, 16th; February, 2016; 3:00 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Chlorophyll a fluorescence: A powerful probe to investigate systematic changes photosynthetic reactions”; Kumud Bandhu Mishra, Ph.D., Global Climate Change Research Institute, Academy of Sciences in Czech Republic; Thursday, 4th; February, 2016; 11:00 am; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Stimuli Responsive Polymer-Based Sensors, Muscles, and Drug Delivery Platforms”; Prof. Michael J. Serpe, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta; Wednesday, 3rd; February, 2016; 2:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Implementing Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems using Nucleic Acids”; Dr. Vishwesh Kulkarni, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, University of Warwick; Wednesday, 20th; January, 2016; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Microbiology and Health-benefits of Global Fermented Foods and Beverages”; Professor Dr. Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Dean, School of Life Sciences and Professor, Department of Microbiology Sikkim University (central university), Sikkim; Thursday, 14st; January, 2016; 3:30 pm; Seminar Room B, ground floor, BSBE.
  • “Phi29 Connector-DNA Interactions Govern DNA Crunching and Rotation, Supporting the Check-Valve Model”; Rajendra Kumar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Umea University, Sweden; Monday, 11st; January, 2016; 4:00 pm; Seminar Room A, ground floor, BSBE.