1. Healthcare

DEPARTMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS
ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY
(Re-Accredited with ‘A’ Grade by NAAC)
KARAIKUDI – 630 004, TAMIL NADU, INDIA
7th National Symposium cum Workshop on “Recent Trends in Structural
Bioinformatics and Computer Aided Drug Design”
[SBCADD’2015]
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24 to 27th February, 2015
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
24th Feb 2015
09.00-10.00 am
Registration
Invocation and Vallal Vazhthu
Lighting of Kuthuvilakku
Welcome address
Inaugural Address
Presidential Address
10.00-11.00 am
Key note address
Special Address
Felicitation Address
Vote of Thanks
11.00-11.15 am
HIGH TEA
Session I
Chairperson:
11.15 – 12.00
pm
Co-Chairperson: Dr. J. Jeyakanthan
Plenary Lecture – I : Dr. K. Muniyappa, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Title: Telomere Length Maintenance as a Target for Anticancer Drug Discovery
Plenary Lecture – II: Dr. D. Velmurugan, University of Madras, Chennai
12.00-12.40 pm
Title:
Plenary Lecture – III: Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
12.40-1.20 pm
Title:
1.20-2.00 pm
LUNCH
Session II
Chairperson:
Co-Chairperson: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Plenary Lecture – IV: Dr. M. Krishnan, Bharathidasan University, Trichy
2.00-2.40 pm
Title: Lipophorin - a protein exploited for pest management
Plenary Lecture – V: Dr. N. Jeyakumar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
2.40-3.20 pm
Title: Text Mining and Structural Bioinformatics
3.20-4.00 pm
Plenary Lecture – VI:
4.00-4.15 pm
HIGH TEA
Session III
Chairperson:
Co-Chairperson: Dr. P. Srinivasan
Plenary Lecture – VII: Dr. B. K. Tiwary, Pondicherry University, Pudhucherry
4.15-4.55 pm
Title: Role of SRGAP2 gene in brain development: A Bayesian study
Plenary Lecture – VIII: Dr. A. Anand, VIT University, Vellore
4.55-5.35 pm
Title: Open Source databases for Invasive bacterial diseases: SPGDB and HIGDB
25th Feb 2015
Session IV
Chairperson:
Co-Chairperson: Dr. M. Karithkeyan
Plenary Lecture-IX: Dr. Vikas Kumar Dubey, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
9.30-10.10 am
Title: Confronting neglected protozoan diseases Leishmaniasis: integrated computational and
Biochemical studies
Plenary Lecture – X: Dr. Suresh Kumar Rayala, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
10.10-10.50 am
Title: P21 activated kinase-1: A new druggable target for pancreatic cancers
Plenary Lecture – XI: Dr. Ganesh Venkataraman, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai
10.50-11.30 am
Title: Deciphering the mechanism of action of β-lactam containing polycyclic fused
pyrrolidine/pyrrolizidine derivatives against a dental pathogen Enterococcus feacalis using in
vitro, in vivo and in silico approach
11.30-11.45 pm
HIGH TEA
Session V
Chairperson:
Co-Chairperson: Dr. J. Jeyakanthan
Plenary Lecture – XII: Dr. P. Gautam, Anna University, Chennai
11.45-12.25 pm
Title: Applications of Systems biology in quorum sensing and metagenomics
Plenary Lecture – XIII: Dr. N. Manoj, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
12.25-1.05 pm
Title: Structural and biochemical studies of a SGNH arylesterase
Plenary Lecture – XIV: Dr. M. Michael Gromiha, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
1:05-1:45 pm
Title: Binding specificity of protein-protein complexes: Sequence and structural analysis,
discrimination and prediction
1.45-2.30 pm
LUNCH
Session VI
Chairperson:
Co-Chairperson: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Plenary Lecture – XV: Dr. K. Sekar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2.30-3.10 pm
Title: Protein Structure Analysis
Plenary Lecture – XVI: Dr. Arpita Yadav, C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur
3.10-3.50 pm
Title: Self-assembling Bio-compatible Systems
3.50-4.05 pm
HIGH TEA
Session VII
Chairperson:
Co-Chairperson: Dr. P. Srinivasan
Plenary Lecture – XVII: Dr. K. Gunasekaran, University of Madras, Chennai
4.05-4.45 pm
Title: Applications of Biophysical Techniques towards Structural Biology
Plenary Lecture – XVIII: Dr. R. Krishna, Pondicherry University, Pudhucherry
4.45-5.25 pm
Title: Structure and function of proteins involved in Breast and Ovarian cancers
Plenary Lecture – XIX: Mr. R. Raghu, Schrodinger, USA
5.25-6.05 pm
Title: Recent advances in computational biology in biologics with Schrodinger
Plenary Lecture – XX: Dr. Srinivasa Babu, GE Healthcare Life Sciences
6.05-6.30 pm
Title: Process Techniques in Recombinant Protein Purifications
Workshop
26th Feb 2015
9.00-10.45 am
Session I
10.45-11.30 am
Session II
11.30-11.45 am
11.45-1.15 pm
1.15-2.15 pm
Session III
Introduction to Molecular modeling, Molecular interaction,
Thermodynamics & Quantum Mechanics
Presentation and Hands on
Structure –based drug design, Binding site analysis and designing
of potential inhibitors against factorXa receptor
Presentation and Hands on
HIGH TEA
Structure based Virtual screening for IRAK4 receptor with a
concise test Phase database
Hands on
LUNCH & POSTER SESSION
2.15-3.15 pm
Session IV
3.15-4.00 pm
Session V
4.00-4:15 pm
4.15-5.30 pm
Session VI
Watermap: Using Hydration Energetics in a Lead Optimisation
Case Study of HSP-90
Presentation and Hands-on
Conformational sampling of bioactive conformations for kinase
receptors using systematic search, Monte-Carlo and Molecular
dynamic methods
Hands-on
HIGH TEA
Designing IRAK4 receptor with the help of Sitemap
Hands-on
Practice session
5.00-10.00 pm
27th Feb 2015
9.00-10.45 am
Session VII
10.45-11.30 am
Session VIII
11.30-11.45 am
11.45-1.15 pm
Protein –protein docking and analysis of protein-protein
interaction interface: Case study of PORCINE PANCREATIC
TRYPSIN/SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR interactions
Presentation and Hands-on
Modeling of Antibody and, epitope designing
Presentation and Hands-on
HIGH TEA
Session IX
Advances in Ligand-based drug design, Pharmacophore modeling
and QSAR
Presentation and Hands-on
1.15- 3.00 pm
LUNCH & POSTER SESSION
3.00- 3.30 pm
VALEDICTORY FUNCTION
3.30- 3.45 pm
CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION FOR POSTER PRESENTATION
3.45-4.00 pm
VOTE OF THANKS
4.00-8.00 pm
Practice session