Program

Tentative programme of the Joint Indo-Russian Workshop “Predictive Biology using Systems and Integrative analysis and Methods” Institute for Microbial Technology (CSIR), Chandigarh, India 15-19 November 2010

November 14, 2010
Arrival day
November 15, 2010
Institute for Microbial Technology (CSIR)

Time Speakers and Chair Title
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Visit to IMTECH Laboratories
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM LUNCH

 

Time Speakers and Chair Title
2:00 P.M. – 2:10 P.M. Director, IMTECH, Chandigarh Opening Remarks
2:10 P.M. – 2:20 P.M. Dr. S. Ramachandran, Dr. G.P.S. Raghava Indian Co-ordinators Indo-Russian Co-operation in the era of Systems analysis for Predictive Biology
2:20 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. Dr. Dmitry Afonnikov, and Prof. Nikolai Kolchanov Russian Co-ordinatior
2:30 P.M. – 3:15 P.M. Dr. GPS Raghava Machine intelligence for biological predictions
3:15 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. Dr. A. Kochetov Computational genomics: searching for new proteome components (pdf )
4:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. TEA
4:30 P.M. – 5:15 P.M. Dr. Vinod Scaria “Understanding the Biology of Genomes”
5:15 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. Dr. Andrew M. Lynn “Information theoretic applications in identifying specificity determining residues”

November 16, 2010
Institute for Microbial Technology (CSIR)

Time Speakers and Chair Title
10:00 A.M. – 10:45 A.M. Dr. Yuri Matushkin Evolution of trophically linked populations of unicellular organisms; translation efficiency in unicellular organisms. (pdf)
10:45 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Prof. Alexander V. Efimov Modeling of Protein Structure and Protein Folding (pdf)
11:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. TEA
12:00 P.M. – 12:45 P.M. D. Debasisa Mohanty Structure based approach for predicting substrates for protein kinases (pdf)
12:45 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. LANCH
2:00 P.M. – 2: 45 P.M. Dr. Vladimir Ivanisenko Reconstruction of molecular genetic networks: text mining as a tool for knowledge discovery (pdf)
2:45 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. Dr. S. Ramachandran Computational platforms for Integrative Analysis in Open Source (pdf )
3:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. TEA
4:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. Dr. Nagasuma Chandra Networks in M. tuberculosis: Deriving optimal strategies for drug discovery (pdf)
4:45 P.M. – 5: 30 P.M. Dr. Anshu Bhardwaj Open Source Drug Discovery (pdf)
Special Dinner

November 17, 2010
IMTECH, Chandigarh

Time Speakers and Chair Title
10:00 A.M. – 10:45 A.M. Dr. Dmitry Afonnikov on behalf of Prof. Nikolai Kolchanov, Russian Organizer The systems biology: integration of experimental and computational approaches (pdf)
10:45 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Prof. Alok Bhattacharya Comparative genomics and genome evolution of microbes (pdf)
11:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. TEA
12:00 P.M. – 12:45 P.M. Dr. Dmitry Afonnikov Prokaryotic adaptation to different environmental conditions at the genomic level: Molecular evolution analysis (pdf)
12:45 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. Prof. Sergey Deev Barnase-barstar module as a platform for targeted delivery of imaging and therapeutic nanoconstructs (pdf)
2:45 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. Dr. R. Ravishankar Rational approach to drug discovery (pdf)
3:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. TEA
4:00 P.M. – 4:45 P.M. Prof. Alexis Ivanov Integration of Structure-Based Drug Design and SPR Biosensor Technology in Discovery of New Lead Compounds (pdf)
4:45 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. Dr. RamaSubbu Sankar Using molecular dynamics simulations to understand the specificity of protein-ligand interactions (pdf)

November 18, 2010

Time Speakers and Chair Title
10:00 A.M. – 10:45 A.M. Ms. Nisha Chandran Open source methods and using SysBorg2.0
10:45 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Prof. Roman Efremov Intrinsic structural heterogeneity of biomembranes is functionally important: a molecular modeling view.(pdf)
11:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. TEA
12:00 P.M. – 12:45 P.M. Dr. Vsevolod Makeev Improved modulon identification from bacterial expression array data using operon-based reference correlation set
12:45 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. LUNCH
2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. Round table discussion “Bioinformatics research in India and Russia: perspectives of mutual collaboration”. Sum up report.

November 19, 2010
Individual discussions (and other visits)
Departure.