INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTERFACE BETWEEN CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY (held in IISc. and NCBS)

CHEMBIO Meeting 2009INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE CAMPUS(Faculty Hall) and in
National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR)
Bangalore INDIA

 

February 17- 19th 2009
 

This symposium brings together researchers from diverse areas like chemists, spectroscopists and molecular biologists who address fundamental problems in biology using chemical techniques. The symposium will cover areas like Peptide Conformation and Design, Membrane Biology, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Engineering, Protein Folding and Drug Discovery, Chemical Ecology amongst other topics.

 

Program Schedule

17th February, 2009

Venue: Indian Institute of Science, Faculty Hall

Plenary session

Chair: D.N. Rao

9:55 – 10:00 am Opening Remarks by D.N. Rao

10:00 – 10.45 am Plenary Lecture by Victor Hruby

Developing New Paradigms for Drug Design for Disease

10:45 – 11:15 am Tea break

Chair: Siddartha Sarma

11:15 to 11:45 am Satyajit Mayor

A hierarchy of scales: The tale of the morphogen, Hedgehog

11:45 am – 12:15 pm S. Sikdar

How does epileptiform activity affect Ca dynamics in neurons?

12:15 – 12:45 pm M.K. Mathew

Potassium Channel Opening: A Subtle Two-Step

12:45 pm to 2:00 pm LUNCH

Chair: Manju Bansal

2:00– 2:30 pm K.S. Krishnan

Synaptic Vesicle Recycling

2:30 – 3:00 pm K.N. Ganesh

Discovering unknown HIV Tat - NFkB interactions: Novel Applications of SELEX

3:00 – 3:30 pm Anna Spudich

Early European Records of Medicinal Plants of India: a valuable resource for drug discovery

3:30 to 4 pm Tea Break

Chair: C. Ramakrishnan

4:00 to 4:30 pm: J. Ramirez

Peptidergic and Aminergic Modulation of Respiratory Network Activity

4:30 to 5:00 pm: Raghavan Varadarajan

Influenza immunogen design

5:00 to 5:30 pm: Ramasarma

Vanadium Redox in Biological Oxidations


18th February 2009

Venue: Indian Institute of Science, Faculty Hall

Chair: B. Gopal

9:30 to 10 am: Jim Spudich

Single molecule and computational analyses reveal how the mysterious myosin VI molecular motor works

10 to 10:30 am: M.R.N. Murthy

New Insights into the structure and function of serinehydroxymethyl transferase

10.30 to 11 am: Tea break

Chair: R. Sowdhamini

11 to 11:30 am : N. Shamala

Crystallographic Studies of Designed Peptides

11:30 am to 12 noon: Suman Thakur

Negative Ion Mass Spectrometry of Intact Disulfides and Bioactive Peptides

Chair: Nagasuma Chandra

12 to 12:30 pm: Saraswathi Vishweshwara

Long distance communication in proteins: Network dynamics of tRNA Synthetases

12:30 to 1 pm: R. Sowdhamini

Analysis of disulphide bond conservation within protein families

1 to 2 pm: LUNCH

Chair: Dipankar Chatterji

2 to 2:30 pm: Rajesh Ghokale

Role of Multifunctional Polyketide Synthases in Dictyostelium Development

2:30 to 3 pm: Hemalatha Balaram

Purine nucleotide synthesis in Plasmodium falciparum

3 to 3:30 pm: R. Nagaraj

Self-association of peptides on surfaces

3:30 to 4 pm: Tea Break

Chair: N. Srinivasan

4 to 4:30 pm: Tapas Kumar Kundu

Small molecules targeting epigenetic modifications, implications in gene expression from differentiation to disease

4:30 to 5 pm: Ranganathan

Exploration of pathways in silica solubilizatiion and biosilicification

5 to 5:15 pm:   V.V Suresh Babu

About Jupiter BioScience Limited

19th February 2009

Venue: National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR)

Chair: P. Gautam

9:30 to 10 am: Jayant Udgaonkar

Hydrogen exchange-mass spectrometric characterization of the individual steps during the unfolding of a small protein

10 to 10:30 am: P. Babu

Lactase persistence mutations: An inspiration for DNA-DNA interaction?

10:30 to 11 am: Anil Kumar

Determination of three-dimensional structures of non-crystalline proteins in Solution by NMR

11 to 11:30 am: Tea Break

Chair: S. Brahmachari

11:30 to 12 noon: V.S. Chauhan

Peptide Design: From Models to Applications

12:00 to 12:30 pm: Mani Ramaswami

The control of mRNA translation: microRNAs, neurological disease and memory

12:30 to 1 pm: D. Balasubramanian

Optineurin and its Mutants: Molecules Associated With Some Forms of

Glaucoma

1 to 3:30 pm: LUNCH and POSTER SESSION

3:30 pm: Closing Remarks by Prof. VijayRaghavan and others

5:30 pm: High Tea


Local Organising Committee

Chairman: Dr. N. Srinivasan (IISc., Bangalore)
Co-Chairpersons: Dr. K.S. Krishnan (NCBS)
Dr. M.K. Mathew (NCBS, Bangalore)                      
Dr. R. Sowdhamini (NCBS, Bangalore)
Dr. V. Rodrigues (NCBS, Bangalore)                        
Dr. K. VijayRaghavan (NCBS, Bangalore)
Dr. J.Udgaonkar (NCBS, Bangalore)               
Dr. N. Balakrishnan (IISc., Bangalore)                       
Dr. M.R.N. Murthy (IISc., Bangalore)                       
Dr. D.N. Rao (IISc., Bangalore)                                           
Dr. Siddartha Sharma (IISc., Bangalore)
Dr. B. Gopal (IISc Bangalore)

International Organising Committee

Chairman : Dr. S.K. Brahmachari (CSIR)
Dr. M. S.Bhan (DBT)
Dr. T.S. Ramaswamy (DST)
Dr. R. Nagaraj (CCMB)
Dr. Rangarajan (IISc., Bangalore)
Dr. Rajesh Ghokale (NII)
Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
Dr. Mani Ramaswami ( Dublin)
Dr. V. S Chauhan ( ICGEB)
Dr. G. Anatharamiah (Univ. Of Alabama)
Dr. P R Krishnaswami (Kaveri Medical Center)
Dr. M.R.S. Rao ( JNC)
Dr. P. Gautam (Anna University)

 

The Organisers
ChemBio Symposium 2009
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
GKVK, Bellary Road,
Bangalore 560 065 INDIA

Registered Participants