School of Natural Sciences
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Deciphering the Catalytic Activity of an Orphan P450 enzyme
A systematically screened several fatty acids (saturated and monounsaturated) for their potential as substrates for CYP175A1 shows that the wild type enzyme could catalyze the reaction of mono-unsaturated fatty acids but not of saturated fatty acids...
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Spin Dynamics: Electron Spin Polarization and Relaxation
Our research on Spin Dynamics attempts to understand mechanistic details that govern the generation electron spin systems in non-Boltzmann distribution and their evolution to Boltzmann distribution governed by the perturbing electron spin-lattice relaxation processes....
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Materials for Nanocatalysis
We have developed new kind of fibrous silica nanospheres. The material exhibits excellent physical properties, including a high surface area, a fibrous surface morphology, good thermal and mechanical stability. Material was found to be very useful as a support for development of nano-catalysts and sorbents, wherein accessibility of active sites was increased significantly.
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Structure/Dynamics of Proteins and Fibrils from Solid State NMR
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of solid materials reveals structural and dynamics information. The methods make use of a combination of sample preparation, radiofrequency pulse sequence design, acquisition of multi-dimensional spectra techniques to get geometry information and structural elucidation…..
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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…..
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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Upcoming meeting: NMR meets Biology
Biophysics Paschim is a regional meeting forum originally organized by a club of Biophysicists from TIFR, IIT Bombay, IISER Pune and NCL Pune.
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DCS Annual Talks
Every year the Department of Chemical Sciences showcases its research during the "DCS Annual Talks" event. This year the talks were held over three days between Sept 25th-27th. Faculty members from the department presented snippets of their research in short talks. Also featured were special invited talks by Dr. Sayam Sengupta (NCL, Pune) and Prof. Tapas Chakraborty (IACS, Kolkata). Also of interest were student talks which discussed/debated the latest advances in chemical sciences. Students and faculty presented posters on the 26th and 27th. Please click here see the full schedule.
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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.
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Department welcomes new batch of graduate students
The Visiting Student Research Programme (VSRP) is part of TIFR`s outreach endeavor wherein talented first year Masters level students are given the opportunity to intern and experience the research environment at TIFR during the Summer.
Calendar
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January 13, 2014 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Seminar by Prof. Anja Böckmann, CNRS - University of Lyon, France
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January 6, 2014 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Seminar by Mr. Samsuzzoha Mondal
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December 26, 2013 at 11.30 am in NMR Conference Room
Seminar by Dr. Janarthanan Krishnamoorthy, University of Michigan, USA
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December 19, 2013 at 2.30 pm in AG-80
Seminar by Dr. Umakanta Tripathy, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai