NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOPHYSICS 21-23 February 2003 and INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EDUCATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN BIOPHYSICS: NEEDS OF THE ASIAN AFRICAN REGION 24-25 February 2003 LIST OF SPEAKERS OF NSB2003 G. N. Ramachandran Memorial Lecture S. No. 1. Names of Speaker with affiliation Title of Invited Talk Wim G. J. Hol University of Washington, Seattle, USA(presently Sir C.V. Raman Prof. in Madras Univ.) Medicinal Protein Crystallography and Structural Genomics for Tropical Diseases Wim G. J. Hol Abstract received Yes Invited talks, Oral and Poster Presentation of Research Papers S. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Names of delegates with affiliation A.A.Jeyaprkash Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India Achintya Das Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi110007 A.K.Bhattacharya Department of Biophysics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 221005 Amarnath Chatterjee Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai Amit Kumar Jana Indian Research Institute for Integrated Medicine, Howrah Amit Das Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Trombay, Mumbai 400085 Anil K. Lala Department of Chemistry and School of Biosciences and Bioeng, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Bombay 400 076 Anil Saran University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai-400 019 Anoop Saxena Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai Title of Invited Talk/Research papers and authors’ names (Oral and Poster) Structural Studies on Jacalin-carbohydrate Interactions A.A.Jeyaprkash, P.G.Rani, S.Katiyar, K.Sekar, A.Surolia and M.Vijayan Abstract received Yes Brownian dynamics simulations of lecitin- carbohydrate interactions Diffusion of of Trimannoside to concanvalin A. Achintya Das, Rita Kakkar & B.Jayaram Transport of cyclic AMP across membrane of Escherichia Coli irradiated with ultraviolet light A.K.Bhattacharya Yes Probing the Auto-processing Aided Folding of HIV-1 protease Amarnath Chatterjee, Ram Kumar Misra, Rohit Mittal , Ramkrishna V. Hosur Interactions of Liposomal Membranes with ionizing and Non-ionising Radiations Amit Kumar Jana Trifluoroethanol and Urea-Induced Structural Changes in the Microtubulr Protein, Tubulin Amit Das, s. R. Madhavi, D. Dasgupta, M. Ramanadham, S.R. Kasturi A New Method for Mapping Hydrophobic Surface in Proteins – Detection of Molten globule and other folding intermediates in folding of -Lactalbumin Anil K. Lala Yes Conformational Study of Fragments of Envelope Proteins (gp 120:254-274 and gp 41: 519-541) of HIV-1 by NMR and MD Simulations Meena Kanyalkar, Sudha Srivastava, Anil Saran, Evans Coutinho Protein Dynamics Controls the Fast Kinetics of Proton transfer from Bulk solvent to interior of proteins: A case study with GTP Anoop Saxena, Roop Mallick, Jayant Udgaonkar and G. Krishnamoorthy Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 10. A.Srinivasan Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi– 110029 11. Ashutosh Kumar Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai Ashwini A. Diwakar Department of Biophysics, Govt Institute of Science,Nipatniranjan Nagar, Aurangabad - 431 004 Maharashtra, India Ashwani K. Sharma Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, India Baldeep Khare Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh – 160014, India 12. 13. 14. 15. B.Syed Abrahim Department of Crystallography & Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India 16. C.L.Khetrapal Distinguished Professor, SG Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Bareilly Road, Lucknow Chaitanya G. Chinawale, Dept. of Physiology, C.U. Shah Medical College, Surendranagar-363001 Gujarat D.Bharanidharan Department of Crystallography & Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus ,Chennai-600 025, India Deepak V. Shilvant, Department of Radiotherapy, Seth Nandlal Dhoot Hospital, Aurangabad (M.S.), INDIA. Deepti Gupta Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi –110029 Devendra Srivastava Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi -110029 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Dhruv Sethi National Institute of Immunology, Delhi 23. Dinkar Salunke National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi 24. Durg V Rai, Dept. of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh Structure-Function Relationship of Snake Venom Phospholipase A2 A.Srinivasan, T. Jabeen, N. Singh, R. Singh, J. Jasti, G. Singh, M.Paramasivam, S. Sharma, V. Chandra, P. Kaur, T. P. Singh Residual Structure and Initial folding Events in SUMO-1 Ashutosh Kumar, Ram Kumar Misra, Rohit Mittal , Ramkrishna V. Hosur Physico-chemical Characterization of Aromatic Amino Acids after Ultrasound & Gamma Irradiation. Satish G. Kulkarni, Ashwini A. Diwakar, Sujata B. Tupsamindar Yes Structure-Based Design of Class I MHC/Peptide Cancer Immunotherapeutics Ashwani K. Sharma, Jennifer J. Kuhns, Shuqin Yan and Edward J. Collins Effect of Terminal L/D Leu residue’s on the Conformational behaviour of achiral Poly-(Aib-zPhe) : Designing of Unique Handed Structure Fateh S.Nandel and Baldeep Khare Role of hydration in the weak forces in the thermal stability of proteins. B.Syed Abrahim and Vasantha Pattabhi A novel structural and functional aspects of protein- protein interactions through Trypsin- inhibitor complex. B.Syed Abrahim and Vasantha Pattabhi From Liquid Crystal NMR to Biomedical and Socially Relevant Magnetic Resonance C.L.Khetrapal Yes Gamma irradiation response of certain aliphatic Amino acids Satish G. Kulkarni, Chaitanya G. Chinawale, Satish D. Vidyasagar Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of DNA Oligonucleotides Structural Data D. Bharanidharan and N. Gautham Yes Quality assurance of treatment planning system using gel phantom & TL dosimetry technique DeepakV. Shilvant, Virendra Bhandari, Satish G. Kulkarni Yes Role of amino- and carboxy terminal domains of human endothelin receptors in ligand binding Deepti Gupta, K. Saravanan, Hari Prasad G, S. Dey, T.P. Singh and A. Srinivasan Structure of a Buffalo Mammary Gland Protein involved in Involution and Breast Cancer Devendra Srivastava, Samita Bilgrami, Janesh Kumar, Ashok K. Mohanty, Sujata Sharma, Punit Kaur, A. Srinivasan and T. P. Singh In-silico design of a viral B cell epitope peptidomimetic Dhruv Sethi, Deepak Nair,Uma Katre, Kanury VS Rao and Dinakar M. Salunke Conformational Convergence in an Antiboday Response; X-ray Studies Involving Flexible Antigen and Diverse Antibodies Dinkar Salunke Study of Pressure Points in Stance Phase of Gait: A Preliminary Report Durg V Rai, Lalit M Aggarwal and Kirpal S Kohli Transition Temperature of Bone D. V. Rai, Anshul Awasthi Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes 25. D. V. Behere Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai 26. Faizan Ahmed Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi - 110 025, India 27. F.S.Nandel Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014 Gaurav Sahni National Institute of Immunology, Delhi 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. G.Suresh Kumar Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032 Gopal B. Navle. Department of Biophysics, Government Institute of Science, Nipatniranjan Nagar, Aurangabad - 431 004 Maharashtra, India. Hari Prasad Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi -110029, India Harpreet Kaur Department of Biophysics, Panjab University Chandigarh-160014, INDIA Heme prosthetic group is responsible for the enhanced unfolding kinetic stability of Soyabean peroxidase compared to Horseradish peroxidase Amisha Kamal J. K. and Digamber V. Behere Conformational and Thermodynamic Characterization of the Molten Globule State Occurring on the Folding Unfolding Pathway of Cytochromes-c by Weak Salt Denaturants Shabir H. Qureshi, Beenu Moza, Sushma Yadav, and Faizan Ahmad Electronic Spectra of Some Potentiometric Membrane Dyes F.S.Nande Yes Conformational change in Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Receptor may facilitate hormone binding Gaurav Sahni and Dinakar M. Salunke Influence of pH on the structure of poly (dG-dC) and poly (dG). Poly (C) and their Interaction with Berberine: Spectroscopic Studies G.Suresh Kumar,S. Das and M.Maiti In-vitro Studies of certain Physico-chemical characteristics of BSA & PPA after Ultrasound and Gamma irradiation Satish G. Kulkarni, Shilpa M. Patil, Gopal B. Navle Yes A Non-radiolabeled Method for Ligand Binding Assay and Western Analysis of Soluble Endothelin Receptor Hari Prasad G, K. Saravanan, D. Gupta, S. Dey, T.P. Singh and A. Srinivasan Designing of neuropeptide Achatin-I Harpreet Kaur and Fateh Singh Nandel Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes 33. H.B. Bohidar School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 Transient Bio-molecular Self-assembly of Gelatin B. Mohanty and H. B. Bohidar Yes 34. J. Arunachalam Department of Crystallography & Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus,Chennai-600 025, India J. Raul Grigera IFLYSIB, La Plata, Argentina Jayasundar J James Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai 600 004. India Ab initio Protein Structure Prediction Using MOLS and Genetic Algorithm J. Arunachalam and N. Gautham Yes Heme proteins: Some New Results on Allosteric Nature J. Raul Grigera, Aldres G. Salvay and Marcio Colombo Yes 35. 36. 37. 38. Jun-Xian Shen Lab of Visual Information Processing, Center for Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing-100101, CHINA Jyotirmoy Banerjee Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi-110021 The effect of hydrophobic environment on the activation of lipase: A Molecular dynamics study Jayasundar J James, N. Athi Narayanan, Pennathur Gautam Azimuth-Tuning Characteristics of Auditory Neurons in the Bat and Mouse Jun-Xian SHEN Yes Role of Voltage Dependent Anion Channel (VDAC) in Brain Cell Death: An Electrophysiological Study. Jyotirmoy Banerjee and Subhendu Ghosh. Yes Yes 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. Kazuyuki Akasaka Department of Biotechnological Science, Faculty of Biology-oriented science and technology, Kinki University, 930 Nishimitani, Uchito-cho, Wakayama 649-6493, Japan K.G. Joshi Department of Botany, Government Institute of Science, Nipatniranjan Nagar, Aurangabad 431004Maharashtra, India K.L.Khanduja Departments of Biophysics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh160012, India K. L. Yadav Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee K.Saikrishnan Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India. K.Saraboji Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University Of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chenna 600 025, India. Kunal B. Roy Center for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi K.Vengadesan Department of Crystallography & Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India K.V.R.Chary Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai-400 005 Lavanya Krishnan National Institute of Immunology, Delhi L.D.Williams School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Biomedical Engg, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30306-USA L. S. Rath GVK Bioscience, #210, My Home Tycoon, 6-3-1192, Begumpet, Hyderabad-500016, INDIA. L S Rath GVK bioSciences private limited (Biocampus), #210, My Home Tycoon, 6-3-1192, Begumpet, Hyderabad500016, INDIA Madhumita Guha Department of Biophysics, All India institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029 Protein Structure Determination by NMR at High Pressures Kazuyuki Akasaka Yes Interaction of Biofertilizers with plants K.G. Joshi Yes Prooxidant/Antioxidant Status of Alveolar Macrophages in Lung Carcinogenesis K.L. Khanduja Yes Synthesis of Hydroxyapatite at Physiological Temperature K. L. Yadav and P.W.Brown Yes Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis single-stranded DNA binding protein. Variability in quaternary structure and its implications K.Saikrishnan, J.Jeyakanthan, J.Venkatesh, N.Acharaya, K.Sekar, U.Varshney and M.Vijayan Thermal stability analysis of proteins: Free energy approach K.Saraboji Yes GGATCC Repeats in Supercoiled Plasmid form a foldback Quadruplex Structure that promotes Homologous Recombination Kunal B. Roy, Tapas Saha and Arun K. Shukla Conformational Studies of Enkephalins using MOLS Technique. K.Vengadesan and N. Gautham Yes Folding: NMR Study on a Protozoan Calcium-Binding Protein Sulakshana Mukherjee and K.V.R. Chary Yes Molecular analysis of carbohydrate-peptide mimicry in antibody response Manisha Goel, Lavanya Krishnan, Surinder Kaur, Kanwal J. Kaur, Dinakar M. Salunke The Role of Magnesium in RNA Folding Loren Dean Williams Yes Yes Yes Yes Modeling the structure of human 15-lipoxygenase and docking studies Rath L.S Modeling Of Tetramanganease Cluster Of The D1 Protein Of Photosystem II L S Rath, S Ramadevi, Sunita Tajne Yes Structure–based rational design of the potent and selective inhibitors of Phospholipase A2 Madhumita Guha, Vijay Kr. Goel, Arun P. Baxla, Jyoti Makker, Nagendra Singh, Sujata Sharma, Sharmistha Dey, A.Srinivasan & T.P. Singh Yes Yes 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. Maganti R. Rajeshwari Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India Mahua Ghosh Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 2M9 CANADA Manjunatha R. Kini National University of Singarore, Singapore Manju Bansal1,2 1 Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India. &2Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, ITPL, Bangalore – 560066 Mala Nath Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee Manisha Goel National Institute of Immunology, Delhi Manoj Srivastava PhD (Philosophy, IIT Kanpur) IMS Engg. College, Ghaziabad Mohammad I. El Gohary Biophysics branch, Faculty of science, AL Azhar University, Egypt. Mohd Ismail Iqbal Maulana Azad College, Rauza Bagh, Aurangabad. 431 001 M. Mohamed Naseer Ali Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024,Tamil Nadu, India 63. M.R.N.Murthy Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, INDIA 64. M. V. Hosur Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India M.Vijayan Molecular Biophysics Unit and Associate Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Nabanita Nag Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai Neha Kumari Department of Biophysics, All India institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029 65. 66. 67. The Role Of GAA/TTC Repeat Expansions In Freidreich’s Ataxia (FRDA) M. R. Rajeswari Yes Dipolar coupling refined structure of transcription factor TFIIB Mahua Ghosh, and Mitsuhiko Ikura Yes Interaction of Novel Anti Coagulant Peptides with Blood Coagulation Factor Va Bindya Jacob, Jeremiah S. Joseph and R. Manjunatha Kini Role of water, ions and cross-strand interactions in A-tract DNA A.Madhumalar and Manju Bansal Yes Synthesis and Characterisation of some Organo-Tin Compounds having Anti Tumour Activity Mala Nath Yes Crystal structure of Jacalin bound to a porphyrin, mesotetrasulphonatophenylporphyrin at 1.8 Å resolution Manisha Goel, Kanwal J. Kaur, Musti J. Swamy, Dinakar M. Salunke How to improve the efficiency and productivity of Indian mind Manoj Srivastava and Rashmi Chandra Yes Effects of Tobacco Smoking on the Electrical Activity of Rat’s Brain Mohamed I. EL Gohary, Khairy M. T. Ereba,Hamdy A. Mekkawy, and Tamer M. EL Sayed Personal computer based data acquisition system for biological signals, using printer adapter. Mohd Ismail Iqbal, Ayub K. J. K. Pathan & S. G. Kulkarni Comparison of Potential Energy Surfaces (PES) of glyphosate and its analogs: ab initio Molecular Orbital calculations M. Mohamed Naseer Ali and P. Kaliannan Yes Structural Studies On Recombinant Capsids Of Intact Sesbania Mosaic Virus Coat Protein And Its Deletion Mutants V. Sangita, G.L. Lokesh, P.S. Satesh Kumar, M.R.N.Murthy and H.S.Savithri Structures of non-active-site mutants and inhibitor complexes of HIV-1 Protease M. V. Hosur, B. Pillai,. S. V. Bhat, Mukesh Kumar and Vishal Prashar Hydration, Plasticity and Action of Proteins M.Vijayan Yes MutS a DNA repair system protein: Role of ATP hydrolysis in its functioning Nabanita Nag, G. Krishnamoorthy, B. J. Rao Purification and Characterization of L-amino oxidase from equine colostrum Neha Kumari, Janesh Kumar, Savita Yadav, A. Srinivasan, T.P.Singh Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. N. Nandi Chemistry Department, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan N.Sampath Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025. Om Prakesh Gulati Protein NMR Facility, Department of Biochemistry, 103, Willard Hall, Kansas State Univ.Manhattan, KS 66506 Parag Sharma Department of Physics and computer Science, Dayalbagh educational Institute (Deemed University), Agra 282005 P. Arun Prasad Department of Crystallography & Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India Paramita Ghosh Department of Biophysics University of Delhi SouthCampus New Delhi 110021 India Parminder Kaur Department of Biophysics Panjab University, Chandigarh – 160014, India Pooja Narang Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, Delhi 110 016 Pradeep Sidhu Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014, India Praveen Singh Biophysics and Electron Microscopy Section, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar-243122, Bareilly, UP Preeti Misra Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, Delhi 110 016 Puniti Mathur Dept. of NMR All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi P.S.Chandel Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160 014, India Ravindra Tewari National Chemical Laboratory, Pune411008 Chiral Discrimination in Biometric Langmuir Monolayers N.Nandi, D. Vollhardt Yes Crystallization of - 1, 3- D-glucan binding protein from Perna Viridis (Mollusc) N.Sampath Yes NMR in Molecular Design: A Case Study of Opioid Agonist Om Prakesh Gulati No All-Optical Modulation in pharaonis Phobo rhodopsin Parag Sharma, C.P.Singh and Sukhdev Roy Yes Study of Behaviour of gap penalty in Sequence P. Arun Prasad and N. Gautham Yes Collective Behavior of Membrane Channels: Electrophysiological studies on Gap Junctions Paramita Ghosh, Debasish Bose & Subhendu Ghosh Yes Effect of the oxidative stress on the LDH-X expression and the reproductive ability of male mice. Parminder Kaur and M.P.Bansal Yes Biophysical Filters for Protein Structure Predictions. Pooja Narang, Kumkum Bhushan, Preeti Misra, Surojit Bose, Achintya Das and B. Jayaram Yes Usefulness of EDXRF in the assessment of trace elements in rat liver following Nickel Toxicity Pradeep Sidhu, M.L.Garg, J.S.Shahi, N.Singh, D.K.Dhawan Augmentation of Fracture Healing: Magnetic Stimulation and its Cellular Mechanism Praveen Singh, R.C.YashRoy and M.Hoque Yes A Free Energy path From Amino acid Sequence to Native Structure: In Silico folding of Villin Headpiece Preeti Misra, Achintya Das and B.Jayaram Yes Peptide design using , -dehydrophenylalanine amino acid: Synthesis and structure determination by CD and NMR Puniti Mathur, V. S. Chauhan and N. R. Jagannathan Electrical and structural properties of exposed and unexposed biological material with alcohol P.S. Chandel, A. Thakur, V. Sharma, N. Goyal, G.S.S. Saini and S.K. Tripathi Hypermodified Wobble Nucleoside Queuosine in tRNAAsp Anticodon Loop and Significance of Modified Nucleoside Lysidine in Mycoplasma Capricolum tRNAIle Uddhavesh B. Sonavane, Kailas D. Sonawane and Ravindra Tewari Yes Yes Yes Yes 82. Influence of Berberine on the Denaturation and Renaturation of Ployadenylic Acid Structure: Spectrophotometric and Spectropolarimetric Studies R.C.Yadav, G.Suresh Kumar,S. Pal, K.Ghosh and M.Maiti ATR-FTIR studies of Aerosol-OT/water/isopropyl myristate treated mice skin. Reeta Rani Gupta, S.K.Jain, Manoj Varshney. Indicators of a Quantum Description of " Life " R.P.Bajpai Yes Attempt to Understand the Conformational Preferences of b-Ala Peptides For Rational Designing of Secondary Structural Features R.Kishore Crystal structure studies of Catalase-inhibitor complexes R.Sugadev, D.Balasundaresan,M.N.Ponnuswamy, K.Sekar, D.Kumaran and S.Swaminathan Yes Probing the Folding Hierarchy in HIV-1 Protease R.V.Hosur Yes Rizwan Hasan Khan Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002 Rupali V. Diwakar, Department Of Biophysics, Government Institute Of Science Nipatniranjan Nagar, Caves Road, Aurangabad-431 004. Sanganahalli B.G. Department of Biophysics National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Bangalore- 560029. India Sanjiv Dhingra Department of Biophysics Panjab University, Chandigarh – 160014, India Characterization of a proteinase Inhibitor from Cajanus cajan (L.) Soghura Khatun Haq and Rizwan Hasan Khan Yes Influence Of Ultrasound On Enzyme Kinetic Parameters Of Alpha-amylase. Satish G. Kulkarni, Rupali V. Diwakar, Rupali V. Sapkal Yes Contribution of NMDA and non-NMDA receptors in glutamate mediated neuronal injury in young and adult cortical slices Sanganahalli B.G., Joshi P. G. and Joshi N. B. Yes Role of selenium Status in LDL receptor activity and T 3/T4 kinetics in rats under hyperlipidemia Sanjiv Dhingra and M.P.Bansal Yes 92. Satish G. Kulkarni Dept. of Biophysics, Govt. Institute of Science, Nipatniranjan Nagar, Aurangabad-431004 Ultrasonic Velocity & Osmolarity Profiles Of Gamma Irradiated Enzyme Solution Satish G. Kulkarni , Satish D. Vidyasagar Yes 93. Saurabh Suhasaria Department of Electronics and Communications,Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India Shah Raj Ali Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee-247 667 Shamaladevi.N Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Chennai-600 025 S.Aravamudhan Department of Chemistry, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, Meghalaya, India Biomedical Implants Coating Saurabh Suhasaria and K.L.Yadav Yes Studies on Metal-Cyanogen Complexes as Prebiotic Catalyst Kamaluddin and Shah Raj Ali Yes The crystal structure of autolysed Trypsin Syed Ibrahim.B, Shamaladevi.N and Vasantha Pattabhi Yes Aromatic ring current effects for macromolecule structure:Consequences of obtaining induced field estimates in the full tensor form for the shielding S.Aravamudhan Yes 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 94. 95. 96. R.C.Yadav Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata 700032 Reeta Rani Gupta Department of Chemistry Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi-110062 R.P.Bajpai Institute of Self Organising Systems and Biophysics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022,India. R.Kishore Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh-160 036 R.Sugadev Department of Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai – 600 025 R.V.Hosur Chairman, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai-400 005 Yes Yes Yes 97. Seethalakshmi T Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli 620024Tamil Nadu Analysis of Calcium- carboxylate interactions in EF Hand Calcium Binding Proteins. T.Seethalakshmi and P. Kaliannan Yes 98. Siddhartha P.Sarma Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Solution Structural Studies Of Conotoxins From Indian Marine Snails Siddhartha P.Sarma, Sudarslal, Paromita P.P, G.Senthil Kumar, P.Balaram, K.S.Krishnan Yes 99. Simrat Sodhi Department of Biochemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160 014, India Role of oxalate induced kidney lipid peroxidation in experimental rat urolithiasis Simrat Sodhi, Dr RK Jethi Yes 100. Sinerik Ayrapetyan UNESO Chair- Life Science International Educational Center, Yerevan, Armenia S.J.B. Rana Mitra Centre for Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi The Metabolic Regulation Of Cell Hydration And Its Physiological Significance In Excitable Cells Sinerik Ayrapetyan Yes Stability of chromophore-protein interaction: A study of cyanobacterial phycobilisomes Mitra S.J.B. Rana, I.B. Jha, Rajiv Bhatt Yes 102. Soumalee Basu Department of Biophysics Molecular &Genetics, University of Calcutta, 92, A.P.C. Road, Kolkata 700009. Role of proton Transfer in Spontaneous mutation: a computational approach. Soumalee Basu, Dhananjay Bhattacharya and Rabi Majumdar Yes 103. S.P.Gupta Prof., Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-333031 S.R.Kasturi Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, MumbaiSubhendu Ghosh Department of Biophylscis, University of Delhi, South Campus New Delhi 110021 Sudha Srivastav Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai-400005, INDIA Sunil Nath Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016 Suman Das Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics,37 Belgachia Road, Calcutta - 700 037 Tapan K. Chaudhuri, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi-110016, India Tai Huang-Huang Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan QSAR-Based Comparative Study on the Mechanisms of Carbonic Anhydrase and Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitions by Sulfonylated Amino Acid Hydroxamates S. P.Gupta, V. Maheswaran, V. Pande, and Dalip Kumar Tubulin-Nucleotide Interactions S. R. Kasturi Yes Understanding the Mechanism of Learning by Brain Subhendu Ghosh Yes L-arginine promotes metabolism, capacitation and acrosome reaction in spermatozoa from goat and bovine Sudha Srivastava, Cristian O'Flaherty, Martha T. Beconi, and Girjesh Govil Ionic Permeability and the Torsional Mechanism of Energy Transduction and ATP Synthesis Sunil Nath Yes Effect of Mithramycin and Daunomycin on the stability Of nucleosome structure Suman Das and Mohd. Ayoub Mir Yes Chaperone Assisted folding of Large substrate proteins Tapan K. Chaudhuri Yes NMR Investigation of the Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of a Serine Protease – E.coli Thioesterase/Protease I Tai-huang Huang, Sergiy I. Tyukhtenko, Alexandra V. Litvinchuk, Chi-Fon Chang, Jei-Fu Shaw Yes 101. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. Yes Yes 111. Tranum Kaur Department of Biophysics, Postgraduate Institute of medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India T.Ramreddy Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Mumbai Inverse Correlation between bcl-2 and c-myc along with anti-oxidant status in Esophageal cancer Tranum Kaur, Rajesh Gupta, Yes ATP hydrolysis modulates DNA Dynamics in RecA-DNAfilaments:Evidence of a novel segmental motion T. Ramreddy, Subhojit Sen, Basuthkar J. Rao and G. Krishnamoorthy Yes 113. Uma Sharma Departments of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029 Yes 114. Virendra Kumar Dept. of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi In-Vitro Proton NMR Spectroscopy of Neuromuscular Diseases Uma Sharma, Surinder Atri, M. C. Sharma, Chitra Sarkar and N. R. Jagannathan In-vivo 1H MRS Study of Brain Metabolism in Patients with Schizophrenia Virendra Kumar, H. Avinash, S. Ramesh, B.M Tripathi and N.R Jagannathan 115. Vishnu D. Udhan, Department of Biophysics, Government Institute of Science, Nipatniranjan Nagar, Aurangabad- 431 004 Maharashtra, India. Activity Profiles Of Alpha Amylase After Sonication Satish G. Kulkarni, Vishnu D. Udhan, Shrikant L. Patil, Nishant T. Wathore Yes 112. Yes Poster Size 1 metre X 1metre For the Invited Talk/Oral presentations, overhead projector, slide projector, LCD Projector and a PC with Microsoft Windows will be made available.