12 Sep 2019
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. Ulf Schmitz who will give IBSE Seminar on Thursday, 12th September 2019 in BT Seminar Hall (Biotechnology Dept. Block 1, Ground Floor), at 4:00 pm. The title of his presentation will be: “Unpeeling the layers of post-transcriptional gene regulation”. Dr. Ulf Schmitz is head of the Computational BioMedicine Lab at the Centenary Institute (University of Sydney). He is also Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health (University of Sydney).
07 Aug 2019
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. Anjali Krishnan who will give IBSE Seminar on Wednesday, 7th August 2019 in BT Seminar Hall (Biotechnology Dept. Block 1, Ground Floor), at 12:00 pm. The title of her presentation will be: “Multivariate approaches to examine cognitive brain function”. Dr. Anjali Krishnan is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (http://www.
17 Jun 2019
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. Shyam K. Masakapalli who will give IBSE Seminar on Monday 17th June in RBC-DSAI Seminar Hall (Biotechnology Dept. Block 2, 5th Floor), at 11:30 am. The title of his presentation will be: “Introducing 13C Fluxomics and Smart Agriculture in Indian context”. Dr. Shyam K. Masakapalli is an Assistant Professor at BioX Center, School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (http://faculty.
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. T.S. Suryanarayanan. The title of his presentation will be: “Fungal endophytes: concerted effort needed for realizing their technological potential”. Dr. T.S. Suryanarayanan is the Director of from VINSTROM, RKM Vidyapith, Chennai (https://rkmvc.ac.in/vinstrom/). Abstract: Fungal endophytes are a constant constituent of plant microbiome. They may have played an essential role in the colonization of land by early plants nearly 425 M year ago.
25 Apr 2019
IBSE In-house workshop to be held on 25 April 2018 from 2.30 pm to 5.30 pm . Venue: BT Seminar Hall | 1430 - 1445 | Context-Specific independence in understanding Huntington progression from postmortem data | Sriram R, IBSE | | 1445 - 1500 | Reduction of genome-scale metabolic networks | Gayathri S, IBSE | | 1500 - 1530 | Specialised ribosomes – buffers of phenotypic variation? | Dr. Himanshu Sinha, IBSE | | 1530 - 1545 | Developing the India-specific model for estimating gestational age in the first trimester in GARBH-Ini cohort | Nikhita Damaraju & Ramya Vijayram, IBSE | | 1545 - 1615 | Coffee break | | | 1615 - 1630 | Can simulating mutations in driver genes help us understand them better?
Given the rich expertise in data science at IBSE & RBC-DSAI, IIT Madras, this initiative will be catalytic in developing strong collaborations with University of Heidelberg in frontier areas of biological data analysis, and to train future leaders in these emerging areas. The Indian Express, India Today, NDTV
07 Mar 2019
The Fourth Colloquium of the IBSE will be held on 7th March 2019. Dr. John S. Tsang, Chief, Systems Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit, Laboratory of Immune System Biology and Co-Director, NIH Center for Human Immunology (CHI) has kindly agreed to be our guest speaker. His lab works on developing and applying systems biology approaches— combining computation, modeling, and experiments—to study the immune system at both the organismal and cellular levels. He will discuss work on developing predictive models and uncovering correlates of immune responsiveness in humans and on evaluating human immune states across health and diseases.
05 Mar 2019
Interested in learning #RStats #tidyverse w/ a genomic dataset? Dr. Janani Ravi, Senior Research Associate, Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Michigan State University (https://jananiravi.github.io/) will be organizing a half day R/tidyverse workshop. Co-hosting w/ Dr. Arjun Krishnan, Group Leader , Dept. Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University (https://www.thekrishnanlab.org/), and RLadiesChennai (https://twitter.com/RLadiesChennai). Join our workshop on March 05 ‘19, 2–5pm at RBC-DSAI Seminar hall, Biotech Dept.
IBSE, IIT Madras is going to collaborate on applying advanced analytical approaches for predicting pregnancy outcomes with Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) in Faridabad, Haryana. A Research Collaboration Agreement between the two Institutes was signed on February 22, 2019 during the IITM-THSTI Conclave on ‘Transforming Maternal and Child Healthcare Using Data Science.’ The broad objectives of this Collaboration include: Ø Bringing physician-scientists, biologists, engineers and data scientists together to solve public health problems related to maternal and child health,
14 Feb 2019
The Third Colloquium of the IBSE will be held on 14th February 2019. Prof. Michael Knop, Group leader at the Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Institute (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany has kindly agreed to be our guest speaker. His laboratory develops software and advanced microscopy methods in biology, and methods for genome engineering in model organisms. He also investigates processes that regulate cellular morphogenesis, cell signalling and protein homeostasis.
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. Kavita Jain. Abstract of her talk: In an influential essay, evolutionary biologist Theo Dobzhansky stated that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”. Indeed, evolution shapes diversity at all levels of biological organization, ranging from cells to species. Population genetics and quantitative genetics have been used for over a century to describe biological evolution at genetic and phenotypic level, respectively.
15 Nov 2018
IBSE In-house workshop to be held on 15 November 2018 from 2.30 pm to 5.45 pm . Venue: BT Seminar Hall | 1430 - 1500 | A network perspective on chemical spaces for drug discovery and toxicology | Dr. Areejit Samal, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai | | 1500 - 1515 | Co-expression of genes in different tissues: tissue-tissue communication or developmental lineage effects? | Arjun Sarathi, IBSE | | 1515 - 1530 | Deciphering metabolism of Bifidobacteria using constraint-based genome scale models | Dr.
by Aarthi Ravikrishnan and Karthik Raman
Systems-Level Modelling of Microbial Communities: Theory and Practice introduces various aspects of modelling microbial communities and presents a detailed overview of the computational methods which have been developed in this area. This book is aimed at researchers in the field of computational/systems biology as well as biologists/experimentalists studying microbial communities, who are keen on embracing the concepts of computational modelling. The primary focus of this book is on methods for modelling interactions between micro-organisms in a community, with special emphasis on constraint-based and network-based modelling techniques.
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Mr. Srikiran Chandrasekaran. The title of his presentation will be: “Bayesian optimization for fitting dynamical systems in environmental engineering”. Srikiran Chandrasekaran graduated from IIT Madras with a B. Tech in Biotechnology in 2015. Currently, He is a PhD candidate in the Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology programme at the University of California, Irvine in the lab of Prof. Sunny Jiang.
Our new IBSE space A brand new lab space for IBSE was opened on August 17th, 2018 in Block II of Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras alongside the Robert Bosch Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI). The lab accommodates several researchers and visiting faculty. Each workstation in the lab is provided with high end personal computers that have fast connectivity to clusters and internet.
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. Adam Rubin. He is currently transitioning between Stanford and MIT. He is a data analysis expert in ATAC-seq, HiChiP. He has recently submitted a paper on Perturb-ATAC to Cell. You can look into his publications at his Google Scholar page.
24 Jul 2018
Grand Challenges India and the Program Management Unit at BIRAC (PMU-BIRAC) are pleased to announce the launch of a call on ‘ki Data Challenge for Maternal and Child Health’, a program directed at addressing key knowledge gaps in our understanding of how nutrition, prenatal and antenatal care, maternal support, and environmental and social factors contribute to an elevated risk of poor maternal and childhood health outcomes. Grand Challenges India is a partnership of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, BIRAC and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr Nathan Bachmann from University of Sydney. He is currently working with Dr. Sivaraman at National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT). Dr. Nathan and Dr. Sivaraman are working on whole-genome sequencing of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis samples. IBSE is very excited to explore potential collaborations with Dr. Nathan’s group at University of Sydney and NIRT on topics ranging from evolution of drug resistance to how social networks drive spread of Tuberculosis infection.
29 Jun 2018
The second seminar of the IBSE Seminar Series will be held on 29th June, 2018. Dr. Anurag Agrawal has kindly agreed to be your guest speaker of this seminar series. Dr. Anurag Agrawal is interested in experimental and computational approaches for understanding biological and clinical aspects of respiratory diseases, especially asthma.
21 Mar 2018
IBSE In-house workshop to be held on 21 April 2018. Venue: BT Seminar Hall | 0930 - 1030 | Natural variation in gene expression as a route towards multimodal systems biology | Dr. Manikandan Narayanan | | 1030 - 1100 | Coffee break | | | 1100 - 1115 | Novel ratio-metric features enable the identification of new driver genes across cancer types | Malvika Sudhakar | | 1115 - 1130 | MKT1 mediated post-transcriptional regulation of stress resistance in yeast | Koppisetty Viswa Chaithanya | | 1130 - 1145 | Identifying driver genes from a Pan-cancer study | Shayantan Banerjee | | 1145 - 1200 | Determining the role of ribosomal protein genes in phenotypic diversity and adaptation | Purnima K V K | | 1200 - 1215 | Mining evolutionary gene expression patterns in mammalian tissues | Gaurav Bilolikar | | 1215 - 1230 | Understanding microbial interactions in communities through an integrated computational and experimental framework | Aarthi Ravikrishnan | | 1230 - 1245 | Systematic comparison of NGS pipelines using five gold standard datasets | Likith Reddy P | | 1245 - 1300 | Designing Modular Gene Circuits | Saransh Umale | {:.
IBSE is very pleased to introduce you all to our guest speaker Dr. Rahuman Sheriff. The title of his presentation will be: “Dynamics of cellular signalling networks: lessons from quantitative imaging” Dr. Rahuman Sheriff is a Project Leader at European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI). His interest pertains to Systems Biology, Mathematical modelling of Biological processes, BioModels tools and resource development, curation, Translational quantitative systems toxicology data analysis and data management platform development.
IBSE welcomes Dr. Manikandan Narayanan, who has joined IIT, Madras as an Associate Professor. He received his MS and PhD (2007) from UC Berkeley and his B.E. from CEG, Anna Univ. Until December 2017, he was with NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. His research interests are in: Bioinformatics, Computational network biology, Systems biology/genomics in health and disease, Data science. See more about Dr. Mani’s work here.
IBSE is very happy to inform you that an MoU was signed today, with a generous endowment from Dr. Prakash Arunachalam.
IBSE is pleased to announce “The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Research Fellowship in Biomedical Research schemes” to Dr. Manikandan Narayanan. We are extremely proud to inform you all that Dr. Manikandan will be joining IBSE soon.
22 Jan 2018
The first IBSE International Symposium was organised from 22-24th January 2018, at the IC&SR Auditorium, IIT Madras. Preceding the symposium, student participants were trained and challenged to perform next-generation sequence analyses as part of a day long workshop conducted by Rohit Gupta (MedGenome Labs). The symposium was inaugurated by Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi (Director, IITM) who pointed out the importance of this symposium to not only usher in a transition from genotype to phenotype but eventually also to actionable prototypes, and Prof.
Open Positions Applications are invited for two Junior Research Fellow (JRF) positions in a project funded by the Department of Biotechnology at the Computational Systems Biology Lab, IIT Madras. PhD applications are also welcome Apply at https://research.iitm.ac.in/ to one of the following departments: (a) Interdisciplinary Stream on “Data Science and Artificial Intelligence” (b) Biotechnology (c) Chemical Engineering (d) Computer Science Project The burgeoning amounts of cancer genome data have opened several avenues for computational analysis of these sequences to gain insights into disease associations of genes, as well as the molecular bases of diseases.
03 Nov 2017
What transcriptional noise tells us about the cell inside Speaker: Victor de Lorenzo Venue: Central Lecture Theatre (CLT), at 3:30 pm on Friday, 3rd November 2017 Systems Biology Program. Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, CSIC, C/ Darwin, 3 (Campus de Cantoblanco), Madrid 28049, Spain. Abstract Transcriptional noise is a necessary consequence of the molecular events that drive gene expression in prokaryotes. However, the m-xylene degrading soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida mt-2 seem to have co-opted evolutionarily such a noise for deploying a metabolic diversification strategy that allows a cautious exploration of new chemical landscapes.
Recent work from IBSE was featured in The Hindu Business Line. This article refers to the recent paper published by Karthik Raman and Sayan Ranu, in Bioinformatics.
09 Sep 2019
IBSE in-house workshop to be held on 9-September-2017. Venue: BT Seminar Hall | 0930 - 1015 | Role of gut microbiota in autism | Swagatika Sahoo | | 1015 - 1030 | Coffee break | | | 1030 - 1045 | Mining evolutionary gene expression patterns in mammalian tissues | Gaurav Bilolikar | | 1045 - 1100 | Quantifying Microscopic Pathway Heterogeneity in Protein Folding | Soundhara Rajan G | | 1100 - 1115 | Understanding the evolutionary design principles underlying metabolism | Gayathri S | | 1115 - 1130 | Rational development of microbial consortia for metabolic engineering | Aarthi Ravikrishnan | | 1130 - 1145 | Mapping microRNA gene regulatory network to understand its role in cervical cancer | Ashley Xavier | | 1145 - 1200 | Disease Module Identification in Biological Networks | Beethika Tripathi | | 1200 - 1215 | Understanding redundancies in metabolic networks through synthetic lethals | Omkar Mohite | | 1215 - 1230 | Novel sequence-based and network-based approaches to predict essential genes across diverse organisms| Karthik Azhagesan | | 1230 - 1245 | Binning of genes using optimisation | Malvika Sudhakar | {:.
03 Nov 2017
The first seminar of the IBSE Seminar Series will be held on 3rd November, 2017. Prof. Victor de Lorenzo has kindly agreed to be the first speaker of this seminar series. Prof. de Lorenzo is an eminent scientist in the area of synthetic biology / environmental engineering, and his group has pioneered research using Pseudomonas putida for several biotechnological applications.
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) and IIT Madras today signed an MoU for establishing the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI). RBC-DSAI will undertake foundational research in various areas of AI and Data Science. IBSE / systems biology research has been a strong vertical at the erstwhile Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Data Sciences (ILDS); we hope this will give further fillip to IBSE activities!
The DBT award comprises two projects: Karthik Raman, B Ravindran and Raghunathan Rengaswamy: A computational pipeline for Identifying the Context of Key Mutations in Cancer Genomes Michael Gromiha and Suresh Rayala: Development of computational tools for analysis and prediction of disease-causing mutations
Venue: ICSR Hall IBSE Posters Predicting the Role of Diet and Gut Microbiota in Autism Identification of Disease Modules using Integrated Biological Networks A Graph-Theoretic Algorithm to Design Microbial Communities for Metabolic Engineering Understanding Cancer Expression Profiles using I-COMIC Pipeline
05 Mar 2016
The 1st IBSE workshop will happen as part of the ILDS Workshop on Data Analytics on 5-Mar-2016. The IBSE session is from 11 am onwards, till 1 pm. Venue: CS 25 0915 - 0930 | Introduction to ILDS-IBSE activities | Dr. B Ravindran (CSE) 0930 - 1000 | Bridge Correlational Neural Networks for Multilingual Multimodal Representation Learning | Janarthanan R (CSE) 1000 - 1030 | Phase and Topology Identification in Smart Distribution Networks | Jayadev Satya P (EE) 1030 - 1100 | Coffee Break 1100 - 1200 | Integration and analysis of multi-omics data within metabolic network context | Dr.