Chemistry Biology Symposium 2009

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTERFACE BETWEEN CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE CAMPUS and in National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR) Bangalore

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 10.30to 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

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

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