School of Natural Sciences
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Rational Design of an Artificial Peroxidase
We have rationally modified the active site of this thermostable P450 to introduce a residue at the distal heme pocket that could act as an acid-base catalyst and thus enhance the peroxidase activity in the mutant enzyme. This could potentially lead to the creation of a thermally stable artificial peroxidase...
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Title : To be announced
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Turn-on Sensors for in vivo Imaging
The quest for unraveling fundamental biological pathways relies heavily upon the ability to precisely visualize strategic molecular players in vivo. Our group works at the interface of synthetic chemistry, molecular biology, and imaging, to develop molecular probes which give a specific ‘ON’ response only in presence of the bio-molecule of interest....
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Proteins and the Computational Microscope
Theoretical modeling along with high performance computational simulations of biomolecules are probing how thermal motions of atoms drive diverse molecular scale processes such as charge transfer, enzymatic catalysis, biomolecular aggregation…..
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Metabolomics for investigating disease process
Malaria is considered to be one of the major killers in large part of the world. We believe, systems biological approaches may provide us specific insights to the mechanism of disease progression, since this involves the joint biological network of host and the parasite...
About the Department
Scientists at the DCS explore the link between living systems and the physical laws that govern nature. They study molecules ranging in size as small as water and as large as a virus. The laws that govern interaction in molecules are best studied in well-defined and isolated small molecules. This information becomes applicable to design novel materials with exotic properties, of value to chemical and solar energy industries and to medical applications. To understand working of biological systems, studies are made on structure, dynamics and function of biological molecules. TIFR is a leader in state-of-the-art experimental techniques such as high field NMR, ultrafast lasers and single molecule methodologies.
News & events
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Prof. R.V. Hosur awarded "Padmashree"
One of our colleagues, Prof. R.V. Hosur has been awarded "Padmashree" by the Government of India. Prof. Hosur is currently the Senior Professor in the Department. He is also been holding the position of the Director at the Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences at Kalina, Mumbai
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Awards for DCS Graduate Students
TIFR research scholars have consistently garnered accolades at both international and national meetings. Congratulations on their latest achievements!
Ms Aditi Bhatacherjee (Research group of Prof. Sanjay Wategaonkar)
- Ms Aditi Bhattacherjee received one of the Best Poster awards at the "Trombay Symposium on Radiation and Photochemistry" held at BARC in January 2014.
- She had also received the Poster award earlier at the "International Conference on Horizons in Hydrogen Bond Research" held in Antwerp, Belgium in September 2013.
Mr. K. Hemachandra (Research group of Dr. A.S.R. Koti)
- Mr. K. Hemachandra, recieved the "Student Research Achievement Award" for the best poster in Mechanobiology section in the 58th Biophysical Society Meeting held at San Francisco, California, USA, held during February 15-19, 2014.
Mr. Biswajit Mishra & Ms. Shama Parween (Research group of Prof. Deepa Khushalani)
- Mr. Biswajit Mishra and Ms. Shama Parween received the Best Poster Award at International Union of Materials Research Societies International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) held at Bangalore for their poster entitled "ZnTiO3: Synthesis, Characterization and Exclusive Visible Light Photocatalysis".
Mr. Amitava Acharjya (Research group of Dr. Vivek Polshettiwar)
- Mr. Amitava Acharjya, recieved the Best Poster Award at 6th International Conference On Nano Science And Technology (ICONSAT) 2014 held at Chandigarh during March 3-5, 2014 for his poster entitled "Shape Controlled Synthesis of Nano Cobalt Oxide for Catalytic Applications"
Mr. Bappaditya Chandra (Research group of Prof. Sudipta Maiti)
- Mr. Bappaditya Chandra won the best oral presentation award at the National Magnetic Resonance Society Symposium[NMRS-2014] held at Tezpur University, Tezpur, between Feb 2- 5, 2014. His research presentation on the project conducted in collaboration with Prof. P. K. Madhu was titled: "Combining fluorescence and slow NMR technique to determine the atomic level structure of transient toxic amyloid beta oligomers".
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Prof. S. Mazumdar elected as Fellow of NASI
One of our colleagues, Prof. Shyamalava Mazumdar, has been elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India
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Technological innovation from Maiti group
Prof. Sudipta Maiti`s research group has made significant contributions to the development of biophotonic instrumentation and methodology.
Calendar
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May 12, 2014 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Seminar by Dr.Virabhadrarao Kaliginedi, University of Bern, Switzerland
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April 28, 2014 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Seminar by Dr. Ranja Sarkar, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR
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April 22, 2014 at 2.30 pm in AG-69
Seminar by Dr. Anoop Rawat, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
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April 21, 2014 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Seminar by Mr. Himanshu Singh, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai