GN Ramachandran Lecture Series
DBT supported Bioinformatics Centre
at Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
organizes
GN Ramachandran Lecture Series on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Venue : Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology (5th floor), IIT Kharagpur
Date : 18th December 2024
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Registration deadline 12th December 2024
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Abstract book & Program Schedule
LIST OF SPEAKERS
Prof. Raghavan Varadarajan is an Indian biophysicist and a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is known for his research in the fields of protein structure and protein folding. He has significant contributions in developing vaccines and drugs for treating a type of fatal influenza and HIV-1.
Title of the talk:
Structure guided design to enhance stability and efficacy of viral vaccines
Prof. Indira Ghosh is a former professor and head of the School of Computational and Integrative Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prof. Indira Ghosh has vast experience of working in Industry and academia in the field of Biophysics, Computational Biology & Chemoinformatics leading to aid of drug designing in infectious diseases.
Title of the talk:
Protein Structure & Function: Novel Revelation
Prof. Ansuman Lahiri is a Professor at the Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta. His field of specialization lies in Theoretical and Computational Study of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics.
Title of the talk:
Modeling modified RNA
Prof. Jayati Sengupta is senior principal scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata. She is engaged in a research program that combines structural biology with functional studies of cellular macromolecular machines with a particular focus on the protein synthesis machinery of the cell.
Title of the talk:
Structural investigations to understand the molecular mechanism of HflX-mediated erythromycin resistance in mycobacteria
Prof. Soumen Roy is affiliated to the Department of Physics at Bose Institute. His research group studies different physical and biological systems by applying tools from statistical physics, network science, non-linear dynamics and game theory.
Title of the talk:
Comparing networks: Lessons for biology
Dr. Anirban Dutta is a computational biologist working as a principal scientist at TCS Research, Pune. He works on algorithm development for NGS data analysis, mathematical modeling and simulation of host-pathogen interaction and bio-marker discovery using genomics and metabolomics.