KARUNYA UNIVERSITY (Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences) (Declared as Deemed to be University under Sec.3 of the UGC Act, 1956) Karunya Nagar, Coimbatore – 641 114 Department of Bioinformatics 7. Guest Lectures (a) Lectures delivered in our campus either by guests or by our faculty S.No Nature of the Programme Date Topic 1. Guest Lecture 11.02.2011 “Avenues of Research in Avasthagen” 2. MSCNDD’11 24.03.2011 X-ray crystallography and Drug design 24.03.2011 Bioinformatics approaches for understanding the structure and function of membrane proteins 24.03.2011 Disease metabolic pathway analysis & prediction of drug target sites 3. 4. MSCNDD’11 MSCNDD’11 5. MSCNDD’11 24.03.2011 In silico approaches to evaluating candidate drugs with antimicrobial activity 6. MSCNDD’11 24.03.2011 Data mining applications to structural bioinformatics 7. MSCNDD’11 24.03.2011 Molecular dynamics simulation study:theory and hands on training Resource person & Designation Dr. K.R. Kumaraswamy, CEO, Avasthagen – AQUAS and Dr. Chellapa Gopalakrishnan, Chief Bioinformatics officer, Avasthagen Ltd, Bangalore Dr.D.Velmurugan Professor and Head, CAS in Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Chennai Dr.M.Micheal Gromiha Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai Dr. Soma Marla Principal Scientist (Bioinformatics) NRC DNA Fingerprint NBPGR, Pusa Campus, New Delhi. Dr.P.R.Padma Professor, Department o Biochemistry, Avinashilingam Deemed University for Women, Coimbatore. Dr.N.Jeyakumar Reader, Department of Bioinformatics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Dr.Thaiyagarajan.S Assistant Professor Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj Venue Director’s Conference Hall, School of Biotechnology & Health Sciences, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU 8. MSCNDD’11 25.03.2011 Structural studies on OPRTase from S.typhi 9. MSCNDD’11 25.03.2011 Protein Secondary structure 10. MSCNDD’11 25.03.2011 QSAR and Drug designing 11 Department Association Valedictory function 31.03.2011 Synthetic Biology University, Madurai Dr.K.Panneerselvam Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University Dr.S.Arul Mugilan Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University Dr.Md.Afroz Alam Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University Dr.Shenbagarathi Lady Doak College, Madurai. Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU Elohim Auditorium, KU S&H seminar Hall ,KU (b) Guest Lectures delivered outside campus by our faculty S.No 1 Name of the faculty & Designation Dr.K.Panneerselvam Professor 2 Date 3 4 Dr.K.Panneerselvam Professor Crystallographic studies on biomolecules Structural Bioinformatics Nature of the Programme Venue 10th winter school on “Environmental Genomics” School of biological sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University,Madurai 04-02-2011 Applications of single crystal x-ray crystallography Invited talk Dept. of Chemistry, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore 14.03.2011 Protein structural analysis using X-ray crystallographic studies Department of Biochemistry association valedictory function PSG college of Arts & Science, Coimbatore 08-01-2011 09-01-2011 Dr.K.Panneerselvam Professor Topic Microarray Gene Expression Analysis in Rice and Brassica Juncea crops using R language Training Program 5 Dr. Md. Afroz Alam 09.03.2011 to 10.03.2011 6 Dr.E.Rajasekaran Associate Professor 25.03.2011 Overview of Molecular Modeling Invited Talk 7 Dr. S.Arul Mugilan Associate Professor 8.04.2011 HPC in Bioinformatics IBM HPC Road show National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Pusa Campus , New Delhi Biotech Center & Anna University, Coimbatore. Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.