Name                                       : PROF. SAMIR K. BRAHMACHARI

 

Date of Birth                            : 1^st January 1952

 

Present Position                      : Director

                                                  Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR)
Mall Road, Delhi Univ. Campus,

  Delhi 110 007

 

Phone                                      : 91-11-2766 7298, 2766 7578

Fax                                          : 91-11-2766 7471, 2766 2407-8

E-mail                                      : skb@igib.res.in

 

 

Academic Record

 

Degree             Subject                                    Year                 University

 

Ph.D.                Molecular Biophysics                 1978                 Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore

 

M.Sc.               Pure Chemistry                          1973-74 University of Calcutta

(Physical Chemistry

Specialisation)

 

B.Sc.                Chemistry (Hons.)                      1971-72 University of Calcutta

 

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Professional Appointments

 

Positions Held              Period                                      Name of Organization

 

Director                         11^th August 1997-Present            Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology,

CSIR, Delhi

 

Professor                      June 1997 - Aug 2003                 Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute

                                                                                    of Science, Bangalore

 

Associate Professor       April 1992-June1997                   Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute

                                                                                   of Science, Bangalore

 

Visiting Professor           May-July 1997                           Max. Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry,

Goettingen, Germany

 

Associated Faculty        April 1989-March 1995                Centre for Genetic Engineering, Indian

                                                                       Institute of Science, Bangalore.

 

Asst. Professor              April 1986 - March 1992              Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute

of Science, Bangalore

 

Lecturer                        April 1981 - March 1986              Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute

                                                                                   of Science, Bangalore

 

Research Associate       Dec 1979-March 1981                Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute

                                                                                    of Science, Bangalore

 

Visiting             Scientist           Nov. 1979                                  Dept of Biochemistry, Memorial University

                                                                                    of Newfoundland, St. Jones, Newfoundland,

                                                                                   Canada

 

Post-Doctoral                Sept. 1978-Oct.1979                  French Govt. fellowship Institute, de

Rechercheen Biologie Moleculaire CNRS, Univ. of Paris, Paris VII

 

Adjunct Professor          June 2003-Present                     Bioinformatics Centre

University of Pune, Pune

 

Visiting Professor           Jan 1998-Present                       B. R. Ambedkar Centre for

Biomedical Research,

University of Delhi, Delhi

 

 

Awards and Honours

 

Name of Award                                          Conferring Agency                                           Year

 

• National Science Talent                          NCERT (INDIA)                                                  1968

Search Scholarship

• Young scientist medal                            Indian National Science Academy                       1979
• Kani medal                                            National Cancer Research Centre,                       1981

Tokyo, Japan

• Cama Memorial Award                           Society of Biological Chemists (India)                  1990
• Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar                       Council of Scientific & Industrial Research            1990

Award in Biological Sciences                  (India)

• C. R. Krishnamurthy                               Society of Biological Chemists (India)                  1998

Oration Award

• FICCI Award 1998-99 in              Federation of Indian Chambers of             1999

recognition of individual initiative              Commerce and Industry

in Life Sciences including agriculture

• Millennium Medal                                   Indian Science Congress                                    2000
• Ranbaxy Research Award                       Ranbaxy Science Foundation                              2002

for The Year 2001 in the field

of “Medical Sciences – Medical

Research”

·         Goyal Prize 2001 in the field of   Kurukshetra University                                         2003

Life Sciences.

• B. K. Bachhawat Oration                        JNU                                                                   2003

Lecture Award

• C. R. Krishnamurthy                               CDRI                                                                 2003

Oration Award

• Prof. P.K. Bose Memorial Award             Indian Chemical Society                                     2004
• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award       Indian Council of Medical Research                     2005

      for excellence in biomedical research

• The Jagadis Chandra Bose Medal            Indian National Science Academy                       2007
• H. K. Firodia Awards For Excellence       H.K. Firodia Memorial Foundation                        2007

In Science and Technology

                       

 

Membership/Fellowships to Academies and Scientific Bodies

 

• Elected member                                    Guha Research conference (India)                       1986
• Fellowship of the Indian                          Indian Academy of Sciences                               1991

Academy of Sciences

• Elected member                                    Human Genome Organization (HUGO)                 1991
• Fellowship of the Indian                          Indian National Science Academy                       1995

National Science Academy

• Elected Council Member                         Federation of Asian & Oceanic                            1995

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• Fellowship of the National                       National Academy of Sciences                            2001

Academy of Sciences, Allahabad

• Elected Council Member, HUGO Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)                 2004

·         Fellow of Biotech Research                     Biotech Research Society of India                       2005    

Society of India (BRSI)                           (BRSI), RRL, Trivandrum

 

Membership of Professional  Bodies, Organization of Conferences, etc.

 

·         National Responsibilities

 

1.       Organizing Secretary, International symposium on Biomolecular Structure and Interactions, Dec 1984.

2.       Invited member, “Advisory Committee to Curriculum Development Centre for Postgraduate Education in Biophysics”. India 1987-1988.

3.       General Secretary, Society of Biological Chemists, India, 1987-89, 1993-95.

4.       Executive committee member, Society of Biological Chemists, India, 1987.

5.       Convenor, INDO-SOVIET Workshop on “DNA Protein Interaction & Crosslinking” Bangalore, March 1990.

6.       Member, Task Force on Medical Biotechnology, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India. 1990-’94.

7.       Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Biosciences 1991-97.

8.       Member, Chemical Sciences and Technology Research Committee, CSIR (India) 1993-98.

9.       Convenor, Review meeting on “Trends in DNA Structure-Function and Genome Organization”, Bangalore, Jan 1993.

10.   Member, Task Force on Human Genetics, Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India. 1994.

11.   Member, National Organizing Committee, XVI IUBMB Congress, New Delhi, September 1994.

12.   Member, National Organizing Committee, Third Asian Conference on Transcription, Bangalore, September 1994.

13.   Member, National Bioethics Committee, Ministry of Science & Technology, Department of Biotechnology, w.e.f. November 1999- 15 November, 2006.

14.   Member, Animal Ethics Committee, Delhi University South Campus.

15.   Member, Management Council, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.

16.   Member, Research Council, National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi.

17.   Member Academic Committee, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.

18.   Member Advisory Committee of the Biotechnology Teaching Programme, Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, Delhi.

19.   Member, Society, Governing Body, and Finance Committee, National Brain Research Centre, New Delhi.

20.   Member, Board of Governors, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research, Punjab.

21.   Member, Sectional Committee-IX of Indian National Science Academy. - INSA Medal for Young Scientists, New Delhi.

22.   Member, Performance Appraisal Board, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi.

23.   Member, Advisory Committee, CSIR Young Scientists Award on Biological Sciences for the year 2000, New Delhi.

24.   Chairman, Research Advisory Committee, National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, Karnal (Haryana).

25.   Member, Research Council, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad,  2001 - 2007

26.   Member, Research Council, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 2004-2007.

27.   Visitor’s nominee, Selection committee for teaching post, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

28.   Member, Governing body and Society, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research for a period of three years, 2001-2004.

29.   Member, Recombinant Drug advisory Panel, Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Govt. of India.

30.   Member, Task Force Madhya Pradesh Expert Committee for Life Sciences.

31.   Member, Maharashtra Biotech Commission.

32.   Member, Kelkar high power Committee of CSIR.

33.   Member, Task Force Himachal Pradesh.

34.   Area Coordinator (Life Sciences) Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP), Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi.

35.   Appointed Chairman of Project Advisory Committee for International Programmes in Life Sciences & Biotechnology (PAC-LSBT), Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, w.e.f. 25^th January, 2005.

36.   Chairman, Working Group on Bioinformatics Research and Development, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (DIT), Govt. of India, 7th October 2005- Present.

37.   Member, Medical Biotechnology Development Board, Ministry of S&T, Department of Biotechnology, India w.e.f. 15^th July, 2005.

38.   Member, Steering Committee on Technology Financing in India – A National Initiative, Department of Science & Technology, India w.e.f. July 2004.

39.   Member, CSIR Working Group for the formulation of XI ^th Five Year Plan w.e.f. December, 2005.

40.   Chairman, CSIR Committee for “Optimising the CSIR support staff in various streams in the global context”.

41.   Member, CSIR Change Team for the implementation of recommendation of Kelkar Committee.

42.   Member, Indian Council of medical Research (ICMR) for preparing the XI ^th Five Year Plan document.

43.   Member, Advisory Committee of Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 2006.

44.   Member, Committees for preparing plan and budget of ‘Biology & Biotechnology’ and ‘Drug, Pharma & Healthcare’ Sectors of CSIR, India

 

 

·         International Responsibilities

 

1.       Council Member, Federation of Asian & Oceanic Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1995 till date.

2.       Advisory Board Member, Journal of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Biophysics. The official journal of FAOBMB.

3.       Chairman of the FAOBMB Fellowship Committee for the 17^th FAOBMB Symposium “Genomics and Health for the 21^st Century” held at Thailand, November 2004.

4.       Chairman of the FAOBMB Fellowship Committee for the 18^th FAOBMB Symposium “Genomics and Proteomics in Health and Agriculture” held at Lahore, November 2005.

 

5.       Member, Human Genome Organization 1991.

6.       Elected Member of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Council for the years 2004 to 2007.

7.       Member, Advisory group on “Biotechnology & Human Rights” to H. R. High Commission, Geneva.

 

8.       Member of India-European Commission S&T Steering Committee responsible for Genomics & Biotechnology for Health.

9.       Member, Planning Group of the Human Variome Project coordinated by Professor Richard G. H. Cotton AM, Director: Genomic Disorders Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2006.

 

10.   Appointed an independent Director on the Board of the India Pharma Fund Ltd., an open-ended multi-class investment company incorporated in Mauritius in 2005.

 

11.   Coordinator of the Indo-EU workshop on “Functional Genomics & Biotechnology for Health”, organized by DST, India at Delhi on 27th and 28th April, 2005.

12.   Coordinator of the “Indo-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Trilateral Workshop on "Functional Genomics, Life Science, GM Food and Agriculture”, organized by DST, India at Delhi on     18th -19th July, 2005.

13.   Coordinator of the “Indo-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Functional Genomics” organized by DST, India at Delhi on 20th-21st October, 2005.

14.   Organized the “2^nd CSIR-NSFC Workshop on Genome Informatics” at Delhi from 22^nd to 25^th February, 2006.

15.   Invited by the Council of Human Genome Organisation to host the Human Genome Meeting in India in 2008 and to Chair the National Organising Committee .

 

16.   Regional Editor for South Asian Countries for the Journal Genomic Medicine, 2006 onwards.

17.   Advisory Board member for Archon-X prize for genomics, X-Prize foundation, USA.

 

 

 

 

 

Member of Important Delegation of Govt. of India/ CSIR

 

 

1.       Member, Indian delegation to attend 2^nd Indo–US Round Table Dialogue meeting in Washington DC, September 2000.

 

2.       Member,  Indian delegation to Moscow to explore the possibility of bilateral co-operation with Russian Institutes in the area of Biomedical Research, organised by Department of Science & Technology, 6-12 October, 2002.

 

3.       Member, Indian delegation to participate in the Indo-South African Workshop on advanced computing, organised by Department of Science & Technology at Pretoria, S. Africa, 28-29 October, 2002.

 

4.       Member, Indian delegation to London to participate in the `India Day' celebrations on 11^th December 2002 organised by the Royal Society, London.

 

5.       Member, Indian delegation to Brussels to participate in the 1^st Meeting of the India-EC S&T Steering Committee during March 3^rd to 5^th, 2004.

 

6.       Member, Indian delegation to Russia for participation in the 12th Session of ILTP Joint Council Meeting in St. Petersburg and Joint Committee Meeting of the Russian-Indian Centre for Ayurvedic Research in Moscow from September 30 to October 4, 2004.

 

7.       Member of the Indian delegation to Israel to attend the Workshop on “Promoting and Facilitating Innovation driven new ventures”, held from 29^th May to 3^rd June, 2005 at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, organised by TIFAC, DST.

 

8.       Lead a group of Indian scientists to attend the Taiwan-India Joint Symposium on Functional Genomics on 3^rd-4^th March, 2006 at Taipei, Taiwan.

 

9.       Member, Indian delegation to Brussels to participate in the 3^rd Meeting of the India-EC S&T Steering Committee during November 16^th-17^th, 2006.

 

 

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Research Achievements and Present Research Interest

 

·         Major Scientific Achievements

 

Dr. Brahmachari has demonstrated the structural flexibility of DNA and the role of repetitive sequences in DNA transactions much before the discovery of repeats association with genetic disorders. His work on the structural flexibility of telomeric repeat sequences is one of his well cited contributions. He has made major contributions in molecular analysis of genetic disorders associated with trinucleotide amplification and repetitive sequence instability. Using a combination of structural biology, computational genomics and population based polymorphism scanning he and his group have provided a novel structural frame work for understanding the etiology of several neurological disorders. He was first to establish a close clinical network to address genetics of complex disordres and demonstrated association of two genes to Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder (synaptogyrin 1 and MLC1 gene) and identified several SNPs and other markers associated to various neurological disorders. Taking advantage of genetic diversity of Indian population and core expertise in structural biology and computation, he has pioneered functional genomics initiative in India and and led the Indian Genome Variation Consortium which developed a database of over 1000 genes related to disease and drug response, exploring human genome variation in multi-ethnic, multi-lingual populations of India to develop a national resource: the genetic profile of the people of India.

 

Dr. Brahmachari and coworkers have carried out extensive computational analysis of the repetitive sequences in the genome and were one of the first to propose functional role of such sequence. He and his associates have developed novel and unique tools for genome annotation and identification of functional signature for hypothetical proteins in the genome through comparative genomics approach. He and his group has developed novel softwares for genome analysis and identified several novel non-active site targets for bacterial pathogen under a national network project in In Silico Biology for drug target development led by him. He is also the first to market novel globally competitive Bioinformatics software products from CSIR. His group has also developed tools for System Biology Platform. Recent finding of Prof. Brahmachari and his associates that Human miRNA can target critical genes in HIV, thus preventing HIV proliferation has received wide international recognition. (Petit-Zeeman, S. Nature Rev. Drug Discovery, 2006, 5.5). His group has developed computational model for gene-gene interaction network for Complex Disorders like schizophrenia.

 

 

Dr. Brahmachari has also been involved in issues relating to Human Genome research ethics and Human Rights. As a member of the steering committee of the International Human Rights Commission he has contributed to the formulation of the draft guidelines in terms of benefit sharing by the populations that are the part of the research endeavor as resources of genetic material and addressed issues of unethical exploitation of genetic resources of the Third world. His contribution in India in promoting genomics research through thrust area development in granting agencies, lectures, courses and human-resource training is very significant. Dr. Brahmachari has contributed significantly in promoting industry-academia interactions through novel program of knowledge partnerships in genomics and bioinformatics.

 

·         Knowledge Alliance

 

Dr. Brahmachari has positioned IGIB as Institution of Knowledge generation and Development and established alliances with industries who are expert in production, marketing and wealth generation. GENOMED Alliance and TCGA project are outcomes of such strategy.

 

Dr. Brahmachari was first to conceptualize and implement Genomed, a first-of-its-kind alliance in India between a government Institute and a pharmaceutical company - Nicholas Piramal India Limited & a CSIR lab - Centre for Biochemical Technology (CBT) now IGIB. This knowledge alliance was dedicated to the study and advancement of genomics, pharmacogenomics and bioinformatics. This model allowed knowledge generation and absorption by industry simultaneously and this was distinctly different from contractual research or technology transfer. The first predictive diagnostic medicine for drug nonresponders of Asthma has been developed. The project has so far filed 2 international patents.

 

Dr. Brahmachari has also conceptualized creation of TCGA, “The Centre for Genomic Application”. It is a collaborative R&D project between The Chatterjee Group and IGIB/CSIR/DST that is used as a shared resource for all the research centers in the country, be it public or private. TCGA is a trendsetter in this direction, where a world class high throughput facility / infrastructure required to harness the knowledge coming out Human Genome research is established jointly by industry and the Institute. This facility is allowing IGIB to lead Genomics research in the country by disseminating its knowledge, help in fulfillment

of IGIB’s mandate to provide support services for large-scale development of Genomics & Proteomics in the country allowing India to lead, and not to merely follow, in the post genomics era. 77 institutions and 250 scientists have availed the services of TCGA.

 

In summary, Dr. Brahmachari has shown exemplary scientific leadership and has made contribution in the area of Functional Genomics with special emphasis on molecular genetics of neurological and psychiatric disorders and functional Genomics in silico. Dr. Brahmachari’s scientific contribution has positioned IGIB in the world genome research map (Nature, Vol. 436; pp 480-483 and pp 492-495; 28th July, 2005).

 

·         Teaching Experience

 

1)       Involved in courses in Bio-molecular Structure; Biophysical Chemistry, DNA Structure-Function and Expression for a large number of Ph.D. students at Indian Institute of Science for 18 years.

 

2)       Delivered over 200 lectures at various institutions, universities and colleges in the country on Human Genome Project and Genome Analysis Technology.

 

3)       Has delivered lectures for the Integrated Ph.D students of B. R. Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi from 1998 onwards.

 

 

·         Dr. Brahmachari’s contribution in Institutional Transformation

 

Relatively unknown Centre for Biochemical Technology of CSIR underwent major transformation over the last 10 years to emerge as a leading institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology in the country. The scientific production and quality grew from 7 publication (Avg. IF 1.01) in 1996 to 75 (Avg. IF 3.30) in 2006 and expected to reach higher in 2007. It also acquired an impressive portfolio of 67 foreign and national patents (and 176 pending patents). IGIB’s patent portfolio has caused value realization and IP asset creations and has attracted foreign and national collaborations and project funding. The following are the salient achievements of CBT/IGIB during the last 10 years.

 

 

1998-          IGIB established largest clinical network in India

2000-          First Knowledge Alliance ‘GenoMed’ with NPIL

2002-          G.N. Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics established through private funding to attract IT Professionals

2003-          First Bioinformatics Software of CSIR Commercialized

2004-          Largest Private – Public partnership TCGA “The Centre for Genomic Application” (co-shared facility) established

2005-          First Genomic marker for drug response discovered

2005-          Largest High Performance Computing facility (4.7 tera flops) established

2005-          India’s highest number of co-authored (158) paper published

2005-          First Recombinant Growth Factor drug REGEN-D launched (Technology Award 2006)

2005-          HP Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics in Asia.

2005-          IGIB among the World’s best Bioinformatics Institutes for developing PML 2 protocol

2006-          First Bioincubator “Eclosion” being established

2005-2006-  IGIB attains highest number of paper, total IF, Patents and ECF per scientist

2007-          IGIB coordinated Indian Genome Variation project provided the Genetic landscape of people of India: A canvas for affordable predictive medicine development and for informed policy level decision for Adverse Drug Reaction and disease (like HIV, Malaria, Diabetes, CVD etc.) management

2007-          Initiated a novel programme on Open Source Drug Discovery platform for infectious diseases

2007-          Launched a programme on pharmacogenomics to keep affordable drugs in the market.
 

Visits Abroad

 

·         1979-1996

 

1.          Participated in workshop on “Chromatin structure”. Weizmann Institute of Sciences. Rehovot, Israel, March 1979.

2.          Visiting Scientist to Dept. of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada, Nov. 1979.

3.          Participated in first AMBO meeting on “Future of Nucleic Acid Research” in Kyoto, Japan, Dec, 1981, and visited several laboratories in Japan during 26^th Nov. to 22^nd Dec, 1981.

4.          Visitor, University of Ulm, West Germany, May 1985.

5.          Participation and paper presentation at the IV^th conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y.USA, June 1985.

6.          Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Human Genetics and Development, University of Columbia, N.Y. USA, June-Sept. 1985.

7.          INDO-USSR ILTP exchange visit. Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, May 1988.

8.          Symposium speaker, 6^th Convention in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y., USA, June 1989.

9.          Visitor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, June 1989.

10.      Visitor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Tufts University, Boston, USA. June 1989.

11.      Invited, speaker, 2^nd International symposium of Protein Structure Functions, University of Karachi, Pakistan, Dec 1989.

12.      Participated and presented poster at the Gordon Research Conference on “Nuclear Proteins, Chromatin Structure and Gene Regulation” Tilton school, New Hampshire, USA, July 1990.

13.      Visitor, Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, July 1990.

14.      Participated and presented paper at 10^th International Biophysics Congress of IUPAB Vancouver, Canada, 29^th July-3^rd August 1990.

15.      Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Stanford Research International, Stanford, California, USA, Aug 1990.

16.      Invited speaker, International Symposium on “Synthetic Oligonucleotides: Problems and Frontiers of Practical Application”, Shemyakin Institute, Moscow, June 1991.

17.      INDO-USSR ILTP exchange visit. Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, July 1991.

18.      Symposium speaker, 8^th Conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y., USA, June 1993.

19.      Visitor, Dept. of Biophysics, University Paris Nord, Paris, France, June 1993 (Hosted by Prof. E. Taillandier).

20.      Visitor, Dept of Biophysics, Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. C. Helene).

21.      Visitor, Dept. of Chemistry, New York University, New York University, New York, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. N. R. Kallenbach).

22.      Visitor, NIDDKD, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. H. T. Miles).

23.      Visitor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Dr. S. Adhya).

24.      Visitor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. Wilma Olson).

25.      Visitor, Dept. of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Boston, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. A. Rich).

26.      Visitor, Dept. of Human Genome Centre, Boston University, Cambridge, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. Charles R. Cantor).

27.      Visitor, NIG, Japan, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. T. Gojobori).

28.      Visitor, Genome Science Laboratory, Riken, Japan 1996 (Hosted by Dr. Y. Hyashizaki).

29.      Visitor, Banyu Tsukuba Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Susumu Nishimura).

30.      Visitor, Human Genome Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Yoshiyuki Sakaki).

31.      Invited Speaker, Human Genome Treaty Symposium, Berlin, Germany, October 1996.

32.      Visitor, Institute of Human Genetic, Berlin, Germany, October, 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Karl Sperling).

33.      Visitor, Institute fur Kristallagraphie, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. W. Saenger).

34.      Visitor, Max-Planck Inst. fur Biophysical Chem, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. T. M. Jovin).

35.      Visitor, Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany October 1996 (Hosted by Dr. U. Heinmann).

36.      Visitor, Genetique Medicale Et. Development, Marseille, France, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. M.Fontes).

 

·         1997 onwards

 

1.          Senior visiting scientist, Max-Planck Inst. for Biophysical Chem. Goettingen, Germany, May-June 1997.

2.          Attended the council meeting of the FAOBMB & the 8^th FAOBMB Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 1998.

3.          Attended and delivered invited talk at the Indo-Israel Golden Jubilee Conference, Israel, December 1998-January 1999.

4.          Attended the Council meeting of the FAOBMB, Delivered invited symposium lecture at 14^th FAOBMB Symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 1999.

5.          Delivered invited lecture at Institute for Biomedical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, December 1999.

6.          Attended the International Colloquium entitled “Life Sciences, Ethics, Economy & Society” at University of Bordeaux-I, France, June 2000.

7.          Attended 2^nd Indo –US Round Table Dialogue meeting in Washington DC, September 2000.

8.          Invited speaker at an International Symposium on “Ethics, Intellectual Property and Genomics” at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 30^th January-1^st February 2001.

9.          Attended and delivered invited talk at the Working Group Meeting as a follow up of the symposium on “Ethics, Intellectual Property and Genomics” at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 13^th –14^th June 2001.

10.      Attended and delivered invited talk at the Symposium on Bioethics in Austria 21^st-23^rd November 2001.

11.      Attended and delivered invited talk at the Conference on Expert Group on Human Rights and Biotechnology at Geneva 23^rd – 25^th January 2002.

12.      Invited Speaker for HGM 2002 workshop at Shanghai 14^th – 17^th April 2002.

13.      Attended and delivered invited talk at the conference on “Bioscience Asia 2002” at Taiwan 20^th – 23 ^rd May 2002.

14.      Attended Indo-South African Workshop on advanced computing, organised by Department of Science & Technology at Pretoria, S. Africa, 28-29 October 2002.

15.      Invited speaker during India Celebrations Day at  Royal Society London, 11^th Dec 2002

16.      Participated in a Workshop organised by the University of Mauritius to help them in developing Bioinformatics and its application to Academics and graduate students and also to discuss and identify together with Academics niche research areas in the Bio-informatics field, 18^th to 25^th October 2003.

17.      Participated in the 1^st Meeting of India-EC Steering Committee at Brussels, Belgium from March 3^rd to 5^th, 2004.

18.      Visited Japan at the invitation of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)’s Support Programme for Japan- India Business Matching in the Field of Biotechnology from March 21^st to 27^th, 2004 at delivered invited talk at JETRO.

19.      Visited Russia as a member of the Indian delegation to Russia to participate in the 12^th Session of ILTP Joint Council Meeting in St. Petersburg and Joint Committee Meeting of the Russian-Indian Centre for Ayurvedic Research in Moscow from September 30^th to October 4^th, 2004.

20.      Visited Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland to develop collaborative project under the Indo-Swiss Collaboration Programme to identify promising areas in Life Sciences and for business development during October 5^th to 7^th, 2004.

21.      Participated at the HUGO Council meeting at Toronto, Canada on 27th October, 2004.

22.      Headed the Indian delegation participating in the Sino-Indian Workshop on Genome Informatics held at Hangzhou, China from October 27th to November 2nd, 2004.

23.      Invited speaker at the HUGO Pacific Meeting in Singapore November 17-20, 2004 and took part in the Pan Asian SNP Consortium meeting in Singapore on 18th November, 2004.

24.      Invited speaker, Council Member and the Chairman of the Fellowship Committee at the FAOBMB/IUBMB/A-IMBN Meeting held at Bangkok, Thailand from 22nd to 26th November, 2004.

25.      Invited speaker at the International Conference Asia Biotech Forum 2005 at Kuala Lumpur from 3^rd to 4^th February, 2005.

26.      Invited speaker at the Workshop entitled “Health of Populations in the Mediterranean in the post genomic era” in Tunisia from 4^th to 5^th March, 2005.

27.      Attend the India Pharma Fund Limited inaugural board meeting at Mauritius on 17th March, 2005.

28.      Delivered an invited talk at the HUGO’s Tenth International Human Genome Meeting, HGM2005, Kyoto, Japan, from 18^th to 21^st April, 2005 and took part in the Pan Asian SNP Initiative Executive Committee Meeting and the Pan-Asia SNP Initiative Policy Review Board (PRB) Meeting.

29.      Attended and delivered invited talk at the Workshop on “Promoting and Facilitating Innovation driven new ventures”, held fro 29^th May to 3^rd June, 2005 at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

30.      Invited talk at the Albany 2005: The 14^th Conversation at Albany, NY, USA from 14^th -18^th June, 2005.

31.      Invited talk at the Annual Convention of BIO 2005 in Philadelphia, USA from 19th-21st June 2005 and .was a speaker at the CII Session on " India in the wake of 2005: A Hub of Innovation."

32.      Visited Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France from 23^rd -25^th June 2005 to discuss about possible future collaborations and prepare for joint projects in the area of Integrated Systems Biology for Health.

33.      Attended the India Pharma Fund Limited board meeting at Mauritius on 4^th-5^th July 2005.

34.      Attended and delivered invited talk at the 2005 International Symposium on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (ISCBB2005) in Tokyo, Japan on 28^th October, 2005.

35.      Delivered invited talk at the meeting on Integrative Systems Biology for Health -TRANSCRIPTOME 2005 at Shanghai, China from 5^th -10^th November, 2005.

36.      Attended the India Pharma Fund Limited board meeting at Mauritius on 10^th-11^th January, 2006.

37.      Delivered invited talk the Taiwan-India Joint Symposium on Functional Genomics at Taipei, Taiwan on 3^rd-4^th March, 2006.

38.      Invited lecture at the HUGO Asia Pacific Meeting held at Taipei, Taiwan from 6^th-10^th March, 2006.

39.      Visit and invited talk at the Dept of Bioorganic Chemistry, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2006 (Hosted by Prof. Jyoti Chattopadhyaya).

40.      Invited as a Chairman at the Bioinformatics Workshop at HUGO’s Eleventh International Human Genome Meeting, HGM2006 at Helsinki, Finland from 31st May to 3rd June, 2006 and also delivered invited lecture in the EU Workshop on 3rd June, 2006.

41.      Attended the India Pharma Fund Limited board meeting at Mauritius on 14th June, 2006.

42.      Invited talk at the Human Variome Project Meeting at Melbourne, Australia from 20th to 23rd June, 2006.

43.      Invited talk at the 2006 International Conference on Genomics in Hangzhou, China from 23^rd – 25^th October, 2006.

44.      Attended the Data Analysis and Manuscript Writing Meeting of the Pan Asian SNP Initiative in Singapore from 9^th – 11^th November, 2006.

45.      Attended the 3^rd Meeting of the India-EC Steering Committee on S&T Cooperation at Brussels, Belgium on 16^th & 17^th November, 2006.

46.      Invited to the 2nd UKIERI (UK-India Education and Research Initiative) Evaluation Panel meeting at London, UK on 28^th – 29^th November, 2006.

47.      Visit to the University of Leicester, UK at the invitation of Prof. Anthony Brookes on 1^st December, 2006.

48.      Attended the India Pharma Fund Limited board meeting at Mauritius on 16th January, 2007.

49.      Attended the Manuscript Writing Meeting of the Pan Asian SNP Initiative in Singapore from 20^th – 21^st March^, 2007.

50.      Invited as a Chairman at the Bioinformatics Workshop at HUGO’s 12^th International Human Genome Meeting, HGM2007 at Montreal, Canada from 21^st to 24^th May, 2007.

51.      Visit in USA to Research Triangle Institute International, NC; National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda; invited talk at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda and Center for Complex Disease, Genomics McKusick - Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore from 25^th May to 3^rd June, 2007.

 

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Invited Lectures delivered at various International laboratories, National and International Conferences

 

·         Lectures delivered in National Forum

 

1.       Invited speaker, INDO/FRG seminar, Molecular Biology and Agriculture division, BARC Bombay, India, March 1982.

2.       Invited speaker, Int. Symposium on Genome organisation and Expression in development, Differentiation and Neoplasia, Dept. of Zoology, University of Poona, Pune, Feb. 1984.

3.       Invited speaker, Int. Symposium On Biomolecular structure and interactions, IISc. Bangalore, Dec. 1984.

4.       Invited Speaker, XII Annual meeting of Indian Biophysical society, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Mysore, Mysore, Feb. 1985.

5.       Invited Speaker, 54^th Annual meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists, Panthnagar, India, Nov. 1985.

6.       Invited speaker, Int. Symposium on Immunochemistry, Structure and Function of Nucleic Acids, IISc., Bangalore, July 1987

7.       Invited speaker, Mahabaleshwar Seminar in Modern Biology on “Molecular Evolution”, Oct. 1987.

8.       Invited speaker, Symposium of Genetic Engineering Research in India, IISc. Bangalore, July 1988.

9.       Invited speaker, INDO-SOVIET symposium on Genetic Engineering, IICB, Calcutta, March 1989.

10.   Invited speaker, International symposium on Bioseparation, CSIR Centre for Biochemicals, New Delhi, December 1989.

11.   Guha Research Conference, Lakshadweep, India, 9^th-13^th January 1990.

12.   Symposium speaker, INDO-SOVIET workshop on “DNA-Protein interaction and cross-linking” Bangalore, India. 21^st-25^th March 1990.

13.   Invited Speaker, National Symposium on Biophysics, Madras, February 1991.

14.   Guha Research Conference, Udaipur, India, March 1991.

15.   Invited speaker, 57^th Annual Meeting of the Academy, Pune, November 1991.

16.   Invited speaker, “Gene Structure and Expression” symposium, IISc, Bangalore, December 1991.

17.   Guha Research Conference, Kemmangundi, India, December 1991.

18.   Invited speaker, Diamond Jubilee Annual General Body Meeting, Society of Biological Chemistry, Calcutta, December 1991.

19.   Invited speaker, “Regulation of Gene Expression” Nagarbhavi, Bangalore, January 1992.

20.   Dept. of Anatomy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Feb 24^th-6^th March 1992.

21.   Dept. of Biotechnology (India), Extension Lecture, Dept. of Biochemistry, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, India, July 1992.

22.   Symposium speaker, Trends in DNA Structure-Function and Genome Organization, 11^th-14^th Jan, Bangalore, 1993.

23.   Invited speaker, “Biophysics Symposium”, Calcutta, February 1993.

24.   Guha Research Conference, Dalhousie, India, May 1993.

25.   Invited speaker, “International Symposium on Cellular & Molecular Aspects of Developmental Regulation” Pune, November 1993.

26.   Invited speaker, “INSA Golden Jubilee Symposium” Delhi, January 1994.

27.   Invited speaker, “Symposium on Bioinformatics: The current scenario”, Calcutta, 1994.

28.   Invited speaker, “Gene Therapy”, Delhi, September 1994.

29.   Symposium speaker, 16^th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Delhi, September 1994.

30.   Symposium speaker, Asian Conference on Transcription (ACT III), Bangalore, September 1994.

31.   Invited speaker, “Emerging Areas in Science and Technology”, Jorhat, October 1995.

32.   Symposium speaker, “Third International Symposium on Genetics, Health and Disease”. Amritsar, December 1995.

33.   Symposium speaker, “South-North Human Genome Conference”, Delhi December 1995.

34.   Symposium speaker,” Genome Analysis: Recent Trends and Applications”, Hyderabad, January 1996.

35.   Invited speaker, “Genome 96: Workshop on Biotechnology”, Bangalore, January 1996.

36.   Invited speaker, “Transcription Assembly”, Hyderabad, August 1996.

37.   Invited speaker, Society of Biological Chemists, Bangalore, Sept. 1996.

38.   Symposium speaker, “MBU Silver Jubilee Symposium on Structural Biology”, Bangalore, Dec. 1996.

39.   Guha Research Conference, Mirik, India, December 1996.

40.   AP Mitra Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Chemistry, Delhi Univ., Delhi, September, 1997

41.   Diversity in Modern Biology – An Interdisciplinary Symposium, University of Delhi, South Campus, N. Delhi, September, 1997.

42.   International Hands-on Training Course on DNA Fingerprinting, CCMB Hyderabad, India, November, 1997.

43.   46^th Annual Conference of Neurological society of India, Jaipur, India, December 1997.

44.   Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Delhi, Delhi, December 1997.

45.   49^th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress, Thiruvanthapuram, India, December 1997.

46.   Anniversary meeting of INSA, Hyderabad Univ., Hyderabad, India, December 1997.

47.   Winter school on Human Genetics, I.S.I., Calcutta, January, 1998.

48.   Second annual National Convention of ADNAT, CCMB Hyderabad, March 1998.

49.   National Defence College, New Delhi, March 1998.

50.   Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, March 1998.

51.   Vision for Neurosciences in next millennium, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 1998.

52.   Seminar on Science & Technology-21^st century challenges (ST-2000), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, March 1998.

53.   Indo-French Workshop on new Opportunities in Molecular Technologies, Ashoka Hotel, Bangalore, March 1998.

54.   Frontiers in Biomedical Research, Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, Delhi, April 1998.

55.   All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, April 1998.

56.   Director’s Conference, NAL, Bangalore, May 1998.

57.   National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad 1998.

58.   St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, September 1998.

59.   Delhi University, Botanical Society, Dept. of Botany, Delhi University, Delhi.

60.   5^th Annual Symposium Ranbaxy Science Foundation, Gurgaon, NII, New Delhi, October, 1998.

61.   International Update on Neurosciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, November 1998.

62.   Workshop on Sequence Analysis & Molecular Modelling, School of Life Sciences, Jawahar     Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, December 1998.

63.   67^th Annual Meeting of Society of Biological Chemists (I), School of Life Sciences, Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, December, 1998.

64.   86^th Session of the Indian Science Congress Association, Anna University, Chennai, January 1999.

65.   Workshop on “DNA Isolation from Forensic Specimen & STRs analysis”, Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Calcutta, March 14-26, 1999.

66.   Golden Jubilee Celebrations, VP Chest Inst. Delhi, April 1999.

67.   Symposium on Research in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in India: Challenges in the next millennium, India Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta, September 1999.

68.   National Symposium on Bimolecular Electronics-Interfacing Physics and Chemistry with Biology, National Physics Laboratory, New Delhi, September 1999.

69.   Sixty fifth Annual meeting, Indian Academy of Sciences, CDRI, Lucknow, October 29-31, 1999.

70.   Trends in Biochemistry, Sixth meeting, Department of Biotechnology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, November 23-24, 1999.

71.   Invited lecture at Miranda House College, Delhi, December 1999.

72.   68^th Annual Meeting of SBC (I) & Symposium on Current Trends in Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, December 27-29, 1999.

73.   Millennium Lecture at 87^th Science Congress in Plenary Session Emerging Frontiers in Basic Science and Technology, Pune, Jan 4^th 2000.

74.   Symposium on Impact of Science on Society in next Millennium at Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Calcutta, 7^th Jan 2000.

75.   Invited lecture at National Aerospace Laboratories Bangalore, July 20^th, 2000.

76.   Seminar on Beyond Genome- Bioinformatics and Drug Research, CII, Delhi, July 25^th 2000.

77.   Seminar on Developing India’s Capability In Genomics: New Era of Public – Private Partnership in Genomics IT & Medicine, FICCI, New Delhi, July 26^th 2000.

78.   Seminar on Beyond Genome- Relevance for India, CII, Delhi, July 25^th 2000.

79.   Colloquium on The Human Genome: Scientific and Ethical Implications, Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science, New Delhi, August 7^th, 2000.

80.   Invited lecture at the Training Programme for Senior IAS Officers, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, 17^th August 2000.

81.   Invited lecture at Defence Science Forum, Metcalfe House, Delhi, August 24^th 2000.

82.   Invited lecture at Kirori Mal College, Delhi, 27^th September 2000.

83.   INDO-CUBA Workshop on Biotechnology in health care, INMAS, Delhi, 3^rd October 2000.

84.   Seminar on India Chem 2000 Conference, FICCI, New Delhi, 6^th October 2000.

85.   Invited lecture during the Biotechnology Conference organised by Chemtech Foundation, Mumbai, 10^th November 2000.

86.   Invited lecture on 5^th International meeting on “Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious diseases”, CDFD, Hyderabad, 14^th November 2000

87.   Invited lecture at Daulat Ram College, Delhi, 16^th November 2000.

88.   Invited lecture at National Science Centre during the symposium Biotechnology India 2000 organised by Exhibitions India Pvt. Ltd, 29 November 2000.

89.   Invited lecture at International Workshop on “Innovation in Science and Technology: Economic, philosophical and social dimensions” held at CSIR Science Centre, organized by NISTADS, 5^th December 2000.

90.   Delivered lecture at Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta during the 69^th Annual meeting of the Society of Biological Chemists (India), 8^th December 2000.

91.   Invited lecture at Chembiotech, Calcutta during the symposium Chemcon 2000, 19^th December 2000.

92.   Seminar on “Haemoglobinopathies-South Asia-Problems and Prevention” at Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Calcutta, 29^th December 2000.

93.   Invited lecture at J. N. Tata Auditorium, National Science Seminar Complex, IIS Campus Bangalore organised Confederation of Indian Industry, India, 16^th January 2001.

94.   Invited lecture on “Information Technology & Biotechnology: Bridge over Genome River at M. S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 17^th January 2001.

95.   Delivered a lecture at Chemistry Society Hindu College, Delhi University, 24^th January 2001

96.   Delivered a lecture on “DNA Microarray Technology” Workshop at IISc Bangalore, 19^th February 2001.

97.   Delivered a lecture in the “ISHG-2001” XXVI Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Human Genetics at CCMB Hyderabad, 21^st February 2001.

98.   Delivered a lecture in the Workshop cum Seminar on Bioinformatics during the national symposium – Biohorizon 2001 at IIT, Delhi, 24^th February 2001.

99.   Delivered a lecture during the national Conference on “Human Genome-The Prospective Research Strategies” at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, 24^th-25^th August 2001.

100.   Delivered a lecture at the meeting on “Biomolecular Conformation and Function” at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 26^th July 2001.

101.   Delivered a lecture on “The Human Genome Research and its Social Implications” at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 29^th August 2001.

102.   Round Table Discussion on Genomics, IISc Bangalore, 3^rd September 2001.

103.   “Population Polymorphism Scanning: A functional genomics approach”, for the society young Scientist at AIIMS at 7^th September 2001.

104.   INDO GERMAN Symposium on Genomics at Chandigarh 18^th September 2001.

105.   Delivered three Lectures at IIT, Kanpur: “Functional Genomics in silico”, “Population Polymorphism Scanning: A Novel method for Gene Function Discovery” and “Public Lecture: Beyond the Human Genome Sequence”. 15^th – 16^th October 2001.

106.   Delivered a Talk at MV Symposium, IISc Bangalore, on PLHOST^FA novel tool for identification of Functional signatures and Comparative genomics 22^nd – 29^th November 2001.

107.   “DNA Microarray opportunities and Challenges ahead”, at Mini-symposium ICGEB, New Delhi. 30^th November 2001.

108.   Delivered a Lecture at Workshop on Functional Genomics at ISI, Kolkata. 11^th December 2001.

109.   Delivered a talk on “Genomics and New Drug Discovery” at Goa. 15^th December 2001.

110.   Delivered a talk “BT-IT: Bridge over River Genome” at Techfest, IIT- Mumbai.2^nd February 2002.

111.   Delivered a talk on “BT-IT: Bridge over River Genome” at IIT, Kharagpur. 11^th February 2002.

112.   Delivered a Lecture “PLHOST^FA novel tool for identification of Functional signatures and Comparative genomics at ADNAT Symposium CCMB, Hyderabad. 23^rd February 2002.

113.   Delivered a talk on “Population Polymorphism Scanning: A Functional Genomics approach at INDO French workshop INSA on 4^th March 2002.

114.   Delivered lecture during the Pharmacogenomics meeting at DBT on   July 11^th 2002.

115.   Delivered an invited lecture at Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum on Beyond the Human Genome Sequence: Predictive and Personalised Medicine” on November 22^th 2002.

116.   Delivered lecture at CCMB, Hyderabad on “Comparative and Functional Genomics In silico” in the International Knowledge Millennium Conference at the Symposium `The Current Excitement in Biology’ on November 24-29^th 2002.

117.   Delivered a talk on “Comparative and Functional Genomics: New opportunities and Challenges” at Bundelkhand University, Jhansi during the `Emerging Areas in Biomedical Sciences’ on December 28-30^th, 2002.

118.   Delivered invited lecture in the celebration of `50 years of DNA Double Helix’ at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University on the topic “From Helix to Genomics – A 50 year Saga” on January 11^th, 2003.

119.   Delivered lecture during the Workshop `Knowledge Discovery in Genomics & Proteomics Bio informatics Approach’ at Pune University on January 15^th, 2003.

120.   Delivered lecture on `The Need for Grand Vision and Microplanning’ at CIMAP Lucknow during the Annual Meeting of Planning and Business Development Scientists on January 22-23^th, 2003.

121.   Delivered lecture Title: “B.K. Bachhawat Memorial Lecture” during the Symposium `Frontiers in Molecular Medicine’ at Jawahar Lal Nehru University on February 10^th, 2003.

122.   Delivered lecture Title: “Comparative Genomics: An Approach to Seamless Biology” during the Yeast 2003 Symposium at IMT in March 2003.

123.   Delivered lecture on "Human Genome Project"  at the Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, Univ. of Delhi on  February 26^th, 2003

124.   Delivered lecture on `Beyond the Human Genome Sequence: Predictive and Personalized Medicine’ in DIPAS, Delhi on February 28^th, 2003.

125.   Delivered lecture on 23.3.03 during the Knowledge Millennium III- the Business of Biotechnology organised by ASSOCHAM during March 21-23^th, 2003.

126.   Delivered lecture on “Showcasing Institutional R&D: IGIB” in Bangalore Bio 2003 on April, 2003.

127.   Delivered Dr. C. R. Krishnamurthy Award lecture at CDRI, Lucknow on March 4^th, 2003

128.   Delivered lecture in a symposium on “Genomics: Challenges and opportunities, at Hyderabad on April, 2003

129.   Delivered lecture during workshop on "Genetic Epidemiological Methods for dissection of complex human traits" at ISI, Kolkata on 11 June 2003.

130.   Delivered lecture at Miranda House, Delhi University on "Borderless Science: Integration of Biology, Chemistry and Information Technology", on Sep 22^nd 2003.

131.   Delivered lecture on Role of Bioinformatics in Genomics" in Symposium "Computational challenges in Bioinformatics" at C-DAC, Pune on 5^th Nov 2004.

132.   Delivered lecture on "SNPs, Chips, Informatics and Predictive Medicine" at ITRC, Lucknow on 7th Nov 2003.

133.   Delivered Talk on "IPR & PPP In Biotechnology" on 17^th Nov 2003 at TERI Retreat, Delhi.

134.   Delivered lecture at Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University on "Borderless Science: Integration of Biology, Chemistry and Information Technology", on Nov 26^th 2003.

135.   Delivered lecture at FAOBMB Symposium at IGIB, on "Variation and Conservation: a balancing act in genome" on 6^th Dec 2003.

136.   Delivered lecture on "Functional Genomics to System Biology: Integration of Information Technology to biology" at Indian Science Congress, 3-7 Jan 2004, Chandigarh.

137.   Delivered lecture on "Functional Genomics to System Biology: Integration of Information Technology to biology" at All India Cell Biology Conference & International Symposium, Pune on Jan 9^th 2004.

138.   Delivered talk on "Globalization of Biotech R&D: Role of Indian Institutions" in CII conference "BioEconomy-Growth Engine of 21st century" on 5^th Feb 2004.

139.   Delivered talk on "New Horizons in BioTechnology - Planning for the Century" at TIFAC, Delhi on 10^th Feb 2004.

140.   Delivered talk on "Challenge of Managing Creativity" at TERI Retreat, Delhi on 11^th Feb 2004.

141.   Delivered talk on “Three Decades @MBU: Triple Helix to Genomics” at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore on 29th April, 2004

142.   Delivered inaugural and keynote lecture at Indo-Tunisian Workshop on Bioinformatics in Medicine on 28^th June, 2004 at Delhi on “Predictive Medicine in Genomic Era”.

143.   Delivered a lecture on “Beyond the Human Genome Sequence” at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Delhi on 28^th June 2004.

144.   Delivered 14^th G.S.Sidhu Science Lecture at IICT, Hyderabad on 2^nd July 2004 on “SNPs, Chips, Informatics and Predictive Medicine”.

145.   Talk on “Public – Private Partnership in Biotech R&D” at IIM, Ahmedabad on July 3^rd, 2004.

146.   Invited lecture at 4^th Management Development Programme on harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitive Advantage on July 3^rd 2004 at IIM, Ahmedabad on “IP Mediated technology collaboration between public and private sector”.

147.   Delivered talk at Bangalore Bio 2004 on 12^th July 2004 in the session ‘Current Advances in Biotechnological Session’ on “Functional Genomics to System Biology- Integration of Information Technology to Biology”.

148.   Delivered plenary talk “Predictive Medicine in Genomic Era” at Indo-Tunisian Workshop on Bioinformatics in Medicine, New Delhi on 28 June 2004.

149.   Delivered invited lecture on “SNPS, Chips, Informatics and Predictive Medicine” at “Genomics 2004: Challenges and opportunities” organised by National Centre for Plant Genome Research, Delhi on 13^th September, 2004.

150.   Delivered talk on “Science and Business of Bioinformatics: Will India Lead or Follow?” at Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad on 14^th September 2004.

151.   Delivered lecture as faculty of the INSA sponsored workshop on Genomics and Medicine at University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi on 23^rd September, 2004.

152.   Delivered talk on “Public – Private Partnership in Biotech R&D Opportunities in Life Sciences” at Technology Summit & Technology Platform 2004, organised by CII in Delhi on 19th October, 2004.

153.   Delivered Invited Lecture on “ “Dare to Dream & Dream to Dare”: Need for sustained Commitment to Implement Dreams” at CII Conference “Building Innovative Pharma in India” on 5^th Nov 2004 in New Delhi at the Session “Branding India-The Hub of Innovation”.

154.   Delivered an invited talk at the session on IITians Empowering India: Global Competitiveness: Bio-technology at the pan IIT meet on the 24th December 2004, entitled “Global Competitiveness in Biotechnology: Need for Innovation” held at Delhi.

155.   Chaired the session ‘Indian Goal in Genomics’ and delivered a talk on 6^th January, 2005 at the 92^nd Session of Indian Science Congress held at Ahmedabad, entitled “Genomics to System Biology: An  Overview”.

156.   Delivered an invited lecture at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on 17^th January, 2005 on “Genome Research: Where do we stand?”

157.   Delivered an invited talk at the International Conference ‘50 years of discovery of triple “Triple Helix to Comparative Proteomics” organised by University of Pune.

158.   Delivered an invited lecture at the Ramanbhai Foundation 2^nd International Symposium at Ahmedabad titled “Comparative Proteomics in silico for Drug Target Identification” on 24^th January, 2005.

159.   Delivered invited talk at the International Conference, BioAsia 2005 in Hyderabad at the Student Forum entitled “Global Competitiveness in Biotechnology: Need for Innovation” on 10^th February, 2005.

160.   Delivered a talk at International Symposium on “Genes, Evolution and Complex Diseases” at NCBS, Bangalore on 19^th February, 2005 at the Session “Bioinformatics approaches to the study of complex diseases”: “Schizophrenia as a Case Study”.

161.   Delivered an invited talk at the ADNAT Convention / Symposium on Molecular Medicine and Health in Hyderabad on 20^th February 2005 entitled “Comparative Proteomics for Drug Target Identification”.

162.   Invited as ten Chief Guest at the Book Release Ceremony ‘Microorganisms: Their Biotechnological Applications’ on May 9^th, 2005 at AMITY Campus, Noida and delivered a talk entitled “Predictive Medicine and Health Research in the Post-Genomic Era”.

163.   Delivered an invited talk at the 11th Technology Summit & Technology Platform organized by CII, New Delhi on 21^st September, entitled “Indian Biotech at the Crossroads of Development”.

164.   Delivered an invited talk at the Symposium “Drug Discovery to Clinical Trials” at Mumbai entitled “Current status of India's strengths capabilities in early stage research” on 6^th October, 2005.  

165.   Delivered a plenary lecture at the Conference Molecular Mechanism of Diseases and Drug Action (MMDDA 2005) at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata on 16^th November, 2005 entitled “Novel Genomic approaches to understand complex disorders & host pathogen interaction”.

166.   Delivered an invited talk entitled “The Security Dimensions in Biological Research” at the NISDA Security Conference 2005 “Conceptualizing Security in the 21st Century" on 19^th November, 2005 at Pune.

167.   Delivered invited talk at the session ‘Bio Technology: Translating R&D into Commercial Opportunities’ at the INFOCOM 2005, Kolkata entitled “Leveraging Indian IT for Global Drug Development” on 8^th December, 2005.

168.   Delivered an invited talk at the Annual Festival of the Chemistry Society of the                     St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University titled “Comparative Genomics and Pathway Modeling approaches towards Novel Drug Target Identification’ on 22^nd December, 2005.

169.   Delivered the Kapil Sood Oration at the UP NEUROCON, organized by the Fortis HospitalsHospitals titled “Predictive Medicine- from Bench to Bedside” on 26th February, 2006 at Noida.

170.   Delivered a talk titled “Keeping up with the Expectation in Science!” at the Symposium Frontiers of Molecular Biology in the New Millennium at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on 12^th April., 2006.

171.   Delivered the inaugural, keynote address at the Consultative Meeting on National Innovation Systems (NIS) of India entitled “Innovation Systems for R&D in Genomics” on 19th September, 2006 at New Delhi organized by United Nations Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology, DSIR, CDC and NRDC. 

172.   Delivered invited talk at the International meeting on RNAi at ICGEB, New Delhi 06  entitled “MicroRNA mediated regulatory networks: an in-silico approach” on 27^th October 20.

173.   Delivered a talk at the Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS) Science Camp entitled “Joy of Doing Science: Learning vs. Creativity” on 21st November, 2006 at Kolkata.

174.   Delivered an invited lecture at the 2nd Global Conference and Exhibition on “India R&D 2006- Mind to Market” organized jointly by FICCI and DST entitled “Positioning For The Future : Need For Innovation” on 5^th December, 2006 at New Delhi.

175.   Delivered an invited lecture at the EMBO International Workshop on Human Evolution and Disease at Hyderabad on 7^th December, 2007 entitled “Genotype to Phenotype for Complex Disorders: An Integrative Biology Approach”.

176.   Delivered an invited plenary lecture at the International Winter School on Bioinformatics organized by University of Hyderabad in Hyderabad entitled “Genome Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead” on 8^th December, 2006.

177.   Delivered an invited talk at session on ‘Beyond Human Genome’ during the 75^th Meeting of the Society for Biological Chemists (SBC), India titled “Harvesting the Human Genome Sequence: Need for an Integrative Approach” at New Delhi on 11^th December, 2006.

178.   Delivered an invited talk in the National Science Festival organized by St. Stephens College, Delhi titled “Becoming of a Scientist: Learning vs. Creativity” on 20^th December, 2006.

179.   Delivered an invited talk at the International seminar on Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise organized by University of Mumbai, Institute of Chemical Technology titled “Innovation lead Institutional Transformation: A Case Study” on 24^th December, 2006 at Mumbai.

180.   Delivered the Endowment Lecture [Professor  P. K. Bose Memorial Lecture for the year 2004] at the 43rd Annual Convention of Chemists held in the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad on 25^th December, 2006 entitled “Chemistry to  Genomics: A Challenging Journey”.

181.   Delivered the valedictory lecture at the XXXII Annual Conference of ISHG, and International Symposium on 'Deconstructing Human Diseases: The Genomic Advantage' at Kolkata on 16^th February, 2007 entitled “Human Genome Research: Road Ahead”.

182.   Delivered the National Science Day Lecture organized by Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi on 28^th February, 2007 titled “IT for New Biology : Future Challenges“.

183.   Delivered an invited talk at the International High Performance Computing (HPC) Users Conference on Leadership Computing for Science and Industry organized at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore titled “Human Genome Research: Computational Challenges Ahead” on 2^nd March, 2007.

184.   Delivered an invited talk at the National Symposium on Current Trends in Zoological Research organized by Presidency College, Kolkata titled “IT for New Biology : Future Challenges” on 10^th March, 2007.

185.   Delivered an invited talk at the National Conference on Health Care Biotechnology in Bangalore titled “Genome Sequence to Molecular Medicine: The Pharma Business vs. Affordable Health for All” on 21^st April, 2007.

186.   Delivered an invited talk at the International Symposium on Chromosomes to Genome organized by Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) on 4^th July 2007 titled “Looking for Disease Genes: Whole Genome Association Studies vs. Systems Biology Approach“.

187.   Delivered the Prof. G. N. Ramachandran Oration lecture at the Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune on 1st  August, 2007 titled “Tale of Two Cities: Hope and Reality“.

188.   Delivered an invited talk at the Biotechnology Seminar organized by Modern School, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi titled “IT for New Biology: Future Challenges” on 1^st September, 2007.

189.   Delivered the Foundation Day lecture of Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow titled “Human Genome Research: Road Ahead” on 10^th September, 2007.

190.   Delivered an invited lecture at the 5th Global Knowledge Millennium Summit: B2B in Biotechnology & Nanotechnology” organized by ASSOCHAM, Delhi titled “Open Source Drug Discovery: a solution for Infectious Diseases” on 19^th September, 2007.

 

 

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·         Lectures delivered in International Forum

 

1.       National Cancer Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Dec.1981.

2.       Dept. of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, December 1981 (Hosted by Prof. T. Miyazawa).

3.       Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Osaka, Japan, Dec. 1981 (Hosted by Prof. M. Ikehara).

4.       Dept. of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1981 (Hosted by Prof. A. Wada).

5.       Section Polymere, University of Ulm, Ulm, West Germany, May 1985 (Hosted by Prof. H. Seliger).

6.       Centre for Crystallographic Research, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, USA, August 1985 (Hosted by Prof. R. Parthasarathy).

7.       Dept. of Biophysics and Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Colombia, N.Y. USA, Sept. 1985 (Hosted by Prof. C. R. Cantor).

8.       Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, Sept.1985 (Hosted by Prof. A. Rich).

9.       Chromosoma Lecture, Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow May 1988 (Hosted by Acad. A. D. Mirzabekov).

10.   Institute of Molecular Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow May 1988 (Hosted by Prof. Frank Kamaenestkii).

11.   Dept. of Biochemistry, Tufts University, Boston, USA June 1989 (Hosted by Prof. B.D.Stollar).

12.   Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA June 1989 (Hosted by Prof. A. Rich).

13.   Symposium speaker, 6^th Conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, N.Y. USA, June 1989.

14.   Invited speaker, 2^nd International symposium of Protein Structure Functions, University of Karachi, Pakistan, December 1989.

15.   Dept. of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, July, 1990. (Hosted by Prof. A. Rich)

16.   Dept. of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, Aug 1990 (Hosted by Prof. Stanley Gartler).

17.   Invited speaker, International Symposium on “Synthetic Oligonucleotides: Problems and Frontiers of Practical Application”. Shemyakin Institute, Moscow, June 1991.

18.   Institute of Molecular Biology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 1991 (Hosted by Acad, A.D. Mirzabekov).

19.   Institute of Molecular Genetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, June 1991 (Hosted by Prof. Frank Kamaenestkii).

20.   Institute of Cytogenetics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad June 1991.

21.   Symposium speaker, 8^th Conversation in Biomolecular Stereodynamics, Albany, New York, USA 1993.

22.   Dept. of Biophysics, University Paris Nord, Paris, France, June 1993 (Hosted by Prof. C. Helen).

23.   Dept. of Biophysics, Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. C. Helene).

24.   Dept. of Chemistry, New York University, New York, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. N.R. Kallenbach).

25.   Dept. of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA, 1993 (Hosted by S. Adhya).

26.   Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rutgers, New Jersey, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. Wilma Olson).

27.   Dept. of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, Boston, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. A. Rich).

28.   Dept. of Human Genome Centre, Boston University, Cambridge, USA, 1993 (Hosted by Prof. Charles R. Cantor).

29.   Invited speaker, 2^nd Indo-Japan Workshop and ACT IV meeting Japan, March 1996.

30.   National Institute of Genetics, Mashima, Japan, March 1996 (Hosted by Prof. T. Gojobori).

31.   Banyu Tsukuba Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Susuma Nishimura).

32.   Invited speaker, “Human Genome Treaty Symposium, Berlin, Germany, October 1996.

33.   Institute of Human Genetic, Berlin, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. Karl Sperling).

34.   Institute for Kristallagraphie, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. W. Saenger).

35.   Max-Planck Inst. fur Biophysical Chem, Germany, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. T.M. Jovin).

36.   Max-Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany, (Hosted by Dr. U. Heinmann).

37.   Genetique Medicale Et Development, Marseille, France, October 1996 (Hosted by Prof. M. Fontes).

38.   FAOBMB 14^th Symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 28^th –December 3^rd 1999.

39.   Invited lecture, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Sydney, December 1999.

40.   Delivered a talk at UNESCO on “Genome Research & IPR” 13^th June, 2001.

41.   Delivered a talk at Vienna on “Genome Research & Patenting in Developing Countries” on 22^nd November 2001.

42.   Delivered a talk at Geneva on Rights & Issues relating to the “Genetic Resources of the Developing Countries” on 24^th January 2002.

43.   Delivered a talk in “Disease Genomics Workshop” at HUGO meeting at Shanghai, April 2002.

44.   Invited Lecture at Beijing in Genome Centre on April 2002.

45.   Delivered an invited Lecture in Bioscience Asia meeting at Taiwan on “Functional Genomics in Silico” on 22^nd May, 2002.

46.   Delivered lecture during the India Day Celebrations at Royal Society, London on December 11^th, 2002.

47.   Delivered talk on “Variation and Conservation Balancing Act in Genome: Comparative Genomics Approach” at RIKEN, Japan on 22^nd April, 2004.

48.   Delivered talk on “BT-IT Bridges over Genome River: Functional Genomics to System Biology” at India Biotechnology Seminar in Japan on 23^rd April, 2004.

49.   Delivered a talk “SNPs, Chips, Informatics and Predictive Medicine” at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland on 6^th October 2004.

50.   Delivered talk on “Variation and conservation: a balancing act in genome” at the Sino-India Workshop on genome Informatics at Hangzhou, China on 30th October, 2004.

51.   Delivered a talk at the Pan Asian SNP Consortium meeting held at Singapore on 18th November entitled “A brief comment on Pan Asian SNP Project”.

52.   Delivered invited talk at the 17th FAOBMB/IUBMB/A-IMBN Meeting entitled “Comparative Proteomics in silico for drug target identification” held at Bangkok, Thailand from 22nd to 26th November, 2004.

53.   Delivered invited lecture at the Asia Biotech Forum 2005 at Kuala Lumpur titled “Private-Public Partnership in Genomics & Bioinformatics: An Indian Perspective” on 4^th February 2005.

54.   Delivered inaugural and keynote address at the Workshop “Health of Populations in the Mediterranean in the post genomic era” in Tunisia on 4^th March, 2005 entitled “Predictive Medicine and Health Research in the Post Genomic Era”.

55.   Delivered an invited talk at the HGM 2005, held at Kyoto on 19^th April, 2005 entitled “Conservation and Variation: A Balancing Act in the Genome”.

56.   Delivered talk on "Identification of Evolutionarily Conserved Polypeptide folds by Comparative Genomics" at Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel on 29^th May, 2005.

57.   Delivered talk entitled “Transforming CSIR to Council for Scientific & Innovative Research” at the Workshop on “Promoting and Facilitating Innovation driven new ventures” in Haifa, Israel on 31^st May, 2005.

58.   Delivered the BIGROC Lecture at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel on 2^nd June, 2005 entitled “Conservation and Variation: A Balancing Act in the Genome”.

59.   Delivered an invited talk at session on Comparative genomics in the Albany 2005: The 14^th Conversation at Albany, NY, USA entitled “Conservation and Variation: A Balancing Act in the Genome”.

60.   Delivered an invited talk at the CII session ‘Enabling Global Drug Discovery by Leveraging Information Technology prowess in India’ at the BIO 2005 in Philadelphia, USA on 21st June 2005 entitled "Identification of Novel Drug Targets using In Silico Comparative Genomics and System Biology Approach".

61.   Delivered an invited talk entitled "Comparative Genomics and pathway modeling approaches towards Novel Drug Target Identification" at the India session at the 2005 International Symposium on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (ISCBB2005) in Tokyo, Japan on 28^th October, 2005.

62.   Invited to co-chair the session on "Developing the Proper Context for Systems Biology" and deliver a talk entitled “Need for High Input Biology for Systems Biology Approach” at the meeting on Integrative Systems Biology for Health -TRANSCRIPTOME 2005 at Shanghai on 9^th November, 2005.

63.   Delivered a talk at the Taiwan-India Joint Symposium on Functional Genomics at Taipei, Taiwan on 3^rd-4^th March, 2006 titled Comparative Genomics and Pathway Modelling approaches towards Novel Drug Target Identification.

64.   Co-chaired and delivered a talk at the session “Biobank” at the HUGO Asia Pacific Meeting held at Taipei, Taiwan from 6^th-10^th March, 2006 titled ‘Indian Genome Variation Database: From a Disease Perspective’.

65.   Delivered an invited talk at the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University on 29^th May, 2006 entitled “Conservation and Variation in the Genome: A Balancing Act”.

66.   Chaired the Bioinformatics Workshop at HGM 2006 at Helsinki, Finland on 1^st June, 2006 and delivered Workshop overview entitled “Genome Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges ahead”.

67.   Delivered a talk at the EU Workshop on International Cooperation in Functional Genomics Research during the HGM 2006 at Helsinki, Finland on 3^rd June, 2006 entitled “Functional Genomics: Indian Initiative”.

68.   Delivered an invited talk at the Human Variome Project meeting at the Session on “Relevance to the Emerging World” at Melbourne, Australia on 22^nd June, 2006 entitled “Genotype to Phenotype Correlation (G2P) for Complex Disorder”.

69.   Delivered an invited talk at the session entitled Genomics in Asia during the 2006 International Conference on Genomics in Hangzhou, China on 25th October, 2006 titled “Genome Variation & Disease Genomics: the Indian Initiative”.

70.   Delivered lectures at the Pan Asian SNP Data Analysis and Manuscript Writing Meeting at Singapore entitled “Pan Asian SNP Initiative: An Anthropological Perspective” and “Structural Polymorphism in Indian Population” on 9^th and 11^th November, 2006 respectively.

71.   Chaired the Bioinformatics Workshop at HGM 2007 at Montreal, Canada on 22^nd May, 2007 and delivered Workshop overview entitled “Genomics Research: What’s Next”?

72.   Delivered an invited talk a the National Cancer Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda titled “MicroRNA mediated regulatory networks: an in-silico approach” on 31^st May, 2007

73.   Delivered an invited talk at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore titled “Indian Genome Variation database from Complex Disease Perspective” on 1st June, 2007.

 

In addition to these, Prof. Samir K. Brahmachari has delivered several lectures at various other laboratories and academic institutions.