About Us

The Computational Biology group is the youngest and smallest group at IMSc. It includes faculty members, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and project assistants who work on a variety of topics at the interface of biology with computational and biophysical modeling.

Currently, members of the group work on computational genomics, biophysics, systems and network biology, ecological modelling, computational neuroscience, bio-molecular simulations and cancer research.

The "Annual Talks" series, held every year, will provide a snapshot of our research. Among other things, the idea of this meeting is to explore possibilities for collaborations both within the group and with members of other groups.

Venue

Alladi Ramakrishnan hall
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc)
4th Cross Road, CIT Campus, Taramani
Chennai 600113 India

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Schedule

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Introduction

Gautam Menon

0915 - 0920
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Network approaches and their applications in biological systems

Areejit Samal

0920 - 0935
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Knowledgebases for drug discovery and toxicology – Missing links and the way forward

B S Karthikeyan

0935 - 0945
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Exploration of the phytochemical space of Indian medicinal plants using cheminformatics and network theory

R P Vivek Ananth

0945 - 0955
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Discussion Break

0955 - 1000
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Protein and Polymer Dynamics and interaction with membranes

Satyavani Vemparala

1000 - 1015
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Membrane-active proteins induce ripple structure in phospholipid membranes

T Devanand

1015 - 1025
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Discussion Break

1025 - 1030
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Transcriptional regulation

Rahul Siddharthan

1030 - 1045
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Clustering of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) in chromatin

Ankit Agrawal

1045 - 1055
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3D enhancers: co-occurrence of TFBS in chromatin

Rakesh Netha

1055 - 1105
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Discussion Break

1105 - 1110
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Coffee Break

1110 - 1130
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Self-organization across scales in biological systems:Emergence, coordination, structure & function

Shakti Menon

1130 - 1145
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Role of gradients in the origin of synchronized activity in heterogeneous biological excitable media

Ria Ghosh

1145 - 1155
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Making segments in developing embryos

Chandrashekar K A

1155 - 1205
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Discussion Break

1205 - 1210
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Biophysics and Disease Modeling

Gautam Menon

1210 - 1225
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Higher order chromatin architecture in the cell nucleus

Ankit Agrawal

1225 - 1235
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Modeling transport of soluble cargo in axons

Reshma M

1235 - 1245
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Discussion Break

1245 - 1250
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Towards geometry of biological memory

S. Krishnaswamy

1250 - 1300
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Lunch Break

1300 - 1400
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Integrity of the Bacterial Cell wall

Garima Rani

1400 - 1410
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Mesoscopic Organization in Brain Networks: Connecting Structure and Function

Anand Pathak

1410 - 1420
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Discussion Break

1420 - 1425
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Auxetic Phenotype in mouse embryonic stem cells exiting pluripotency

Kamal Tripathi

1425 - 1435
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Memory, Learning and Dynamics in Biological Systems: From Cell to Disease

Tanmay Mitra

1435 - 1445
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Discussion Break

1445 - 1450
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Modeling cargo transport in C. elegans touch neurons

T Vinod Kumar

1450 - 1500
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Persistence and emergence in neuronal networks

R Janaki

1500 - 1510
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Discussion Break

1510 - 1515
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Summing up

Rahul Siddharthan and Gautam Menon

1515