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Seminars 2008

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Date

Topic

Speaker

 1.

03.01.08

High-throughput Structure Determination and Structure Based Function Assignment of Novel Unknown Function Proteins.

Dr. Krishnamurthy Narasimharao

Brookhaven National Lab,
NY, USA.

 2.

09.01.08

Carbon Nanostructures - Integrative Components in Multifunctional Molecular Materials

Dirk M. Guldi

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, 91058 Erlangen,
Egerlandstr. 3

 3.

11.01.08

Application of Olefin Metathesis in Organic Synthesis.

Prof. Sambasivarao Kotha

Department of Chemistry,
IIT Bombay.

 4.

15-01-08

Recent progress in Electronic Structure Theory.

Prof. K. Hirao

Vice President, University of Tokyo

 5.

21-01-08

Asymmetric Sulfenylation and Hydroalumination.

Dr. Shravan Kumar Srisailam

Assistant Manager-Development Chemist
Catalyst Technolgy Development Center,
Johnson Matthey Chemicals Indi Pvt. Ltd.,
Navi Mumbai

 6.

22-01-08

Total synthesis of Rutamycin and Vancomycin.

Dr. Naresh Jain

Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
Research & Development, USA

 7.

22-01-08

Electronic structure studies of materials chemistry using cluster models.

Dr. Krishnan Raghavachari

Professor, Department of Chemistry
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN 47405

 8.

24-01-08

Molecular Dynamics of quantum systems coupled to a classical bath

Dr. Priya Parandekar

Indiana University

 9.

24-01-08

"In situ cryo-crystallography: Pathways to intermolecular interactions".

Professor T. N.Guru Row

Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012

 

:February

 10.

01-02-08

Molecular Recognition with Metal Complexes and Heterocycles.

Prof. Dr. Burkhard König

Institut für Organische Chemie
Universität Regensburg
Universitätsstr. 31
Germany

 11.

05-02-08

Spectroscopic Investigation of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer's, Parkinson, and Dementia withLewy Body).

Dr. Pravat K Mandal

Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 12.

07-02-08

Synthesis of Novel Heterocycles and DNA G-Quadruplex Binding Ligands.

Dr Jyotirmayee Dash

Department of Chemistry,
University of Cambridge

 13.

11-02-08

Total Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743 and Related Polycyclic Alkaloids. .

Prof. Jieping Zhu

Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS,
91198 Gif-sur-Yvette,
France.

 14.

12-02-08

"Weak noncovalent interactions among biomolecular building blocks can be surprisingly strong".

Prof. Pavel Hobza

Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

 15.

14-02-08

'Targeting Cancer: From Small Molecule to [DNatural Products As inhibitors'].

Biswadip Banerji

Ex-Senior Research Associate (Prof. C. J. Schofield group)
Oxford University, Oxford, UK

 16.

15-02-08

"Enantioselective fluorination: mechanistic problems and preparation of fluorinated analogues of bioactive molecules".

Prof. Rene Gree

University of Renne, France

 17.

18-02-08

"Science Publishing : Background and Developments".

Dr. Milne James

Elsevier Publishing Co.

 18.

25-02-08

Recent developments in Non-linear Science.

Prof. R. P. Rastogi

Ex-Vice Chancellor & Professor BHU, Varanasi.

 19.

26-02-08

Aspects of Statistical mechanics.

Prof. R. P. Rastogi

Ex-Vice Chancellor & Professor BHU, Varanasi.

 20.

26-02-08

Teaching and Research in Chemiinformatics / Drug discovery.

Prof. Johann Gasteiger

Univ. Erlangen, Unrnberg, Germany
Inst. for Orgaic Chemistry

 

:MARCH

 21.

07-03-08

A living cell identifies errors while copying DNA through motional dynamics? .

Prof. G. Krishnamurthy

Department of Chemical Sciences,TIFR

 22.

10-03-08

: Leading Technologies for the 21st Century - Innovation at the GE India Technology Centre .

Dr. Adil M. Dhalla

Technical Director, Polymer Science and Technology, GE India Technology Centre.

 23.

14-03-08

:Self-assembled Monolayer and Multilayer Films for Non-volatile Memories and Chemical Sensors

Tarkeshwar Gupta

Department of Organic Chemistry,Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel .

 24.

17-03-08

: Hybrid Organosilica-based materials. .

Prof. Michel Wong Chi Man

Laboratoire Architectures Molélaires et Matéaux, Nanostructuré , Institut Charles Gerhardt (UMR-CNRS 5253)), Ecole Nationale Supéeure de Chimie de Montpellier, 8, rue de l'éle normale-34296 Montpellier CEDEX

 25.

25-03-08

: One-Pot Methods for Glycomics

Dr. Suvarn Kulkarni

Assistant Specialist, Department of Chemistry, University of California Davis, USA

 26.

26-03-08

: PET based Acridinedione Fluorescence sensors and their interactions with nanocavities and urea assemblies .

Prof.P. Ramamurthy

National Centre for Ultrafast Processes, University of Madras, Chennai

 27.

28-03-08

: "Function modulates the beta-trefoil folding landscape." .

Dr. Shachi Gosavi

University of California at San Diego

 

:APRIL

 28.

02-04-08

: 2-Iminoimidazolines as precursors for highly basic ligands in catalytically active transition metal complexes

Dr. Soeren Randoll

Department of Chemistry, IIT-Bombay (formerly at Technical University-Braunschweig, Germany)

 29.

03-04-08

: Sustainable chemistry using ionic liquids

Dr. Prashant S. Kulkarni

REQUIMTE, Dept. de Quíca,,FCT/UNL, 2829-516 Caparica & CQFM,Dept. de Engenharia Quíca, IST, 1049-001 Lisboa,Portugal

 29.

04-04-08

:Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: A versatile method to study the macromolecular and supramolecular dynamics

Dr. Pradipta Purkayastha

Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 333031, Rajasthan, India.

 30.

21-04-08

:Design and Synthesis of Mono and Bicyclic Glycosidase Inhibitors

Prof. Y. D. Vankar

Department of Chemistry,IIT Kanpur

 31.

22-04-08

:On the pharmacophore for the activation of IP3 receptors: A SAR study.

Dr. Kana M. Sureshan

Alexander von Humboldt Fellow,Department of Chemical Biology,Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology,Otto-Hahn Str. 11,44227 Dortmund, GERMANY.

 

:MAY

 32.

02-05-08

:Boranes, GABA, and NF-kappa-B

Prof. P V. Ramachandran

Herbert C. Brown Center for Borane Research,Department of Chemistry,Purdue University, USA

 33.

09-05-08

:"Synthesis of Novel Bioactive and High Energy Density Materials"

Prof. I.N.N. Namboothiri

Department of Chemistry,IIT Bombay.

 34.

20-05-08

:

Dr. Jayashree Ranga

Georgia State University.

 35.

28-05-08

:Gating mechanism in KcsA potassium channel

Dr. Vishwanath

University of Chicago.

 

:JUNE

 36.

03-06-08

:Photoresposive organic and Inorganic Nanomaterials

Dr. P.K. Sudeep

Polymer Science and Engineering Department,Univ of Massachusettes

 37.

09-06-08

:"Alternative Industrial Route to Propylene Oxide Synthesis over Supported Gold Nanoparticles.

Dr. Biswajit Chowdhury

Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Chemistry
Indian School of Mines University (ISM),
Dhanbad-826004, India

 38.

24-06-08

:"EIs, NRTIs and NNRTIs against HIV.

Dr. R. K. Singh

Nucleic Acids Research Laboratory
Department of Chemistry
University of Allahabad,
Allahabad -211002, India

 39.

27-06-08

:Asymmetric Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules via Organocatalysis and Kinetic Resolutions.

Dr. A. Sudalai

Chemical Engg. & Process Development Division
National Chemical Laboratory
Pune 411008

 

:JULY

 40.

15-07-08

: "Developing photoaffinity labels for enzyme Paraoxonase-1: Interplay of experimental and computational studies.

Dr. Siva Muthukrishnan

Department of Chemistry,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, USA

 41.

18-07-08

: Generation and control of high-order harmonics by the Interaction of infrared lasers with a thin Graphite layer.

Ashish Kumar Gupta

Department of Chemistry,
I.I.T., Guwahati 781039

 42.

22-07-08

: "Methods for Applications in Organic Synthesis and Storage of Electricity Produced from Renewables".

Prof. M. Periasamy

School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad

 43.

22-07-08

: Water-soluble scaffolds for catalysis and diagnositics: from small molecules to nano-conjugates..

Dr. Ankona Datta

Postdoctoral Researcher
Chemistry Department
University of California, Berkeley CA-94720,
USA

 44.

23-07-08

: Probing nature's photochemical secrets : from Ultrafast bond isomerization to photoassembled clusters.

Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Chemistry Department
University of California, Berkeley,
CA-94720, USA

 45.

23-07-08

: The Baylis-Hillman Adducts / Acetates as a Valuable Source for One-Pot Multi-Step / Reaction Strategy for Synthesis of Heterocyclic Molecules of Medicinal Relevance.

Professor Deevi Basavaiah, F.A.Sc.,F.N.A.

Dean, School of Chemistry
University of Hyderabad

 46.

31-07-08

: 2-Deoxy-C-Aryl-Nucleosides Framwork & Weinreb Amides:Surprises and Success.

Prof. Indrapal Singh Aidhen

Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras

 

:AUGUST

 47.

04-08-08

:Organic Electronics at JNCASR.

Prof. K. S. Narayan

JNCASR, Jakhur, Bangalore

 48.

27-08-08

:Steric Control of Organic Molecular Reactivity and Molecular Organization.

Prof. J. Narasimha Moorthy

Department of Chemistry,IIT Kanpur

 

:SEPTEMBER

 49.

15-09-08

:Time-Resolved Imaging, Spectroscopy and Microscopy using ultrafast gated Intensified CCD cameras.

Ramesh C. Ahuja, PhD

TauTec LLC, USA
and
University of Goettingen, Germany.

 50.

19-09-08

:"Synthetic Studies on Cyclopropanecarboxylated Sugar Derivatives" .

Prof. S. Chandrasekaran

Chairman, Division of Chemical Sciences,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

 51.

25-09-08

:"3d-4f Heterometallic Trinuclear Compounds. A New Family of Single-Molecule Magnets" .

Prof. V. Chandrasekar, FNA,FASc,FNASc

Lalit Kapoor Chair Professor
Head, Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur-208 016

 52.

27-09-08

:6th Inhouse Symposium .

Chemistry Dept, IIT-B.

 53.

29-09-08

: "Metal-based Artificial Photonucleases as PDT Agents".

Dr. Akhil R. Chakravarty, FASc,FNA

Professor and former Chairman,
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry,
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012.

 

:OCTOBER

  54.

01-10-08

: A Quantum Classical approach to the photoabsorption spectrum of relatively large molecular system.

Professor Satrajit Adhikari

Physical Chemistry Department
I.A.C.S, Jadavpur - 700 032

  55.

10-10-08

: "Design, Synthesis, and Biological Activity of Prodrugs of Nitric Oxide"

Dr. Harinath Chakrapani

Visiting Fellow
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, MD 21702 (301) 846-1601

  56.

17-10-08

: Impact of nanostructured materials on Polymer Electrolyte fuel cell research.

Dr. K. Vijayamohanan

Physical and Materials Chemistry Division
National Chemical Laboratory, Pune411008

  57.

20-10-08

: Department Program on Research Scholars Confluence

  58.

20-10-08

: "Synthesis of Amino Alcohols from Olefins using a Pendant Sulfinyl Moiety"

Dr. S. Raghavan

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Hyderabad.

  59.

22-10-08

: Molecular Electronics

Prof. Klaus Muellen

Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research,
Mainz, Germany.

  60.

30-10-08

: Quantum Ratchet and the study of Quantum Transport

Dr. J. Ray Chaudhuri

Department of Physics
Katwa College
Katwa-713130,
Burdwan, W. Bengal.

  61.

31-10-08

: Total synthesis of sesquiterpenes containing vicinal quaternary carbon atoms employing Ireland Claisen rearrangement and ring-closing metathesis reactions.

Prof.A. Srikrishna

Department of Organic Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012.

 

:NOVEMBER

 62.

04-11-08

: "Structure/function relationships of nickel-containing metallo enzymes".

Dr. Juan C. Fontecilla

Camps Head LCCP,
Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre
Ebel, CEA/CNRS
41, rue Jules Horowitz (ex-Avenue des Martyrs)
38027 Grenoble Cedex 1, France

 63.

04-11-08

: "Synthesis of Highly Oxygenated Cyclopentanoids and Marine Organohalogen Natural Products.

Prof. F. A. Khan

Department of Chemistry,IIT Kanpur

 64.

10-11-08

: "Long chain fluorinated ketones as inhibitors of esterases. Synthetic aspects and photochemical stability studies.

Prof. Angel Guerrero

Department of Biological Organic Chemistry
National Research Council,
Barcelona, Spain

 65.

20-11-08

: "Introduction to NMR Spectroscopy.

Dr. Natarajan Hari

Magnetic Resonance Systems
Varian India Pvt Ltd

 66.

26-11-08

: "Targeted delivery of Pt(IV) Anticancer Prodrugs and selective detection and quantification of Oxidised Abasic DNA Lesions.

Dr. Shanta Dhar

Anna Fuller Postdoctoral Fellow
Prof. Stephen J Lippard's group
Dept. Of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge MA02139

 

:DECEMBER

 67.

03-12-08

: Enantioselective C-C Bond Forming Reactions and Total Synthesis of Architecturally Interesting Miscellaneous Lycopodium Alkaloids.

Dr. Alakesh Bisai

Prof. Sarpong's Research Group
Deparment of Chemistry
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720.

 68.

08-12-08

: Oxidation State Determination via Structure Analysis Can It Be Trusted ?

Prof. Wolfgang Kaim

Stuttgart University
Germany.

 69.

18-12-08

: Zero- and One-Dimensional Hybrid Nanocrystals:Synthesis and Self-Assembly

Mr. Arshad S. Sayyad

Department of Chemistry,
Rice University, Houston, Texas.