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 offers Post-baccalaureate Fellowships to exceptional graduates, who are desirous of pursuing a 1-2 year research internship at the interface of biology and engineering at IBSE, IIT Madras. IBSE also offers post-doctoral fellowships to exceptional doctorates, who are desirous of pursuing a 1-2 year research to initiate long-term research goals at the interface of biology and engineering at IBSE, IIT Madras.
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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? | Malvika Sudhakar, IBSE |
| 1630 - 1645 | Network Analysis for Identification of Hub RNAs in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Associated Metastasis | Satarupa Banerjee, Dept. of BT |
| 1645 - 1700 | Inferring Causal Relationships from Noisy Observational Data | Amol Dumrewal, IBSE |
| 1700 - 1715 | Multi-objective optimization for co-production of metabolites | Lavanya Raajaraam, IBSE |
| 1715 - 1730 | Identifying the context of mutations in a cancer genome | Shayantan Banerjee, IBSE |
| 1730 - 1745 | Software Demo | Anjana A S, IBSE |
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.