National Workshop

On

Protein folding and bioinformatics

(March 04 and 05, 2008)

 

 

Venue : Seminar Room,

Centenary Campus, Bose Institute, Kolkata - 54

 

Speaker

Title of the talk

04th March 2008           

09:30 –10:00

Registration (only for confirmed participants)

10:00 - 10:15
Welcome Address Prof. P. Chakrabarti- Scientist-in-Charge, Bioinformatics Centre
10:15 - 11:00 Prof. B. Bhattacharyya

Chaperone-like Activity of Tubulin and MAPs

11:00 –11:15

Tea

 

Session I Chairperson : Prof. S. Vishveshwara

11:15-12:15

Prof. Rajiv Bhat

Protein folding and aggregation-An overview

12:15 - 13:00

 Prof. Kalipada Das Basics of Protein Folding

13:00 –14:00

Lunch

 

Session II Chairperson : Prof. N. Gautham

14:00 –14:45

Prof C.K. Dasgupta

In Search of a Biological Protein Folding Code

14:40 - 15:30 Prof. Soumen Basak

Misfolding and Aggregation of Polyalanine Peptides

15:30 –15:45

Tea

 

Session III Chairperson :Dr. G. Basu

15:45 –16:30

Prof. N. Gautham

Protein Folding

Session IV Felicitation to Prof.  B. Bhattacharyya (Chairperson : Prof. P. Chakrabarti)
17:15 High Tea

 

05th March 2008       

Session IV Chairperson : Prof. P. Chakrabarti

10:00 –10:45

Prof. S. Vishveshwara

Protein Structure, Folding, and Dynamics:  Insights from Computational Approaches

10:45 - 11:30

Prof. Rajani Joshi

Nonparametric Statistics in Protein Datamining

11:30 -11:45

Tea

 

Session V Chairperson : Dr. G.P.S. Raghava
11:45 -12:30 Dr. S. Ramachandran

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Pathogens: The case of Rv3221c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

12:30 - 13:15

Dr. S. Selvaraj

Inter-residue interactions in protein structure and folding kinetics

13:15 - 14:15

Lunch

 

Session VI Chairperson : Dr. T. C. Ghosh

14:15 - 15:00

Dr. G.P.S. Raghava

Prediction of Irregular Secondary Structure of Proteins

15:00 - 15:45 Prof. R. Anishetty Tripetide Analysis and local structural deformations due to mutations
15:45-16:30 Prof. N. Gautham Protein Structure Prediction
16:30 Tea