School of Natural Sciences
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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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Chemistry driven by delocalized molecular motions
Chemical reactions are often conceptualized by making and breaking one bond at a time. The idea of localized bond alterations inhibits intuitive thinking about the structure as a whole. The Dasgupta group is focusing on creating a theme using collective motions existing in the molecular structure to drive selective and efficient chemistry...
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Tracking the molecular players in neurodegenerative disorders
In the department of chemical sciences, we investigate biophysically tractable yet biologically interesting systems, using (mostly) spectroscopic and imaging tools, most of which we build ourselves. Our recent focus has been on two problems: protein misfolding/aggregation, and vesicular neurotransmission....
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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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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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TIFR Annual Chemistry Conference (TACC-2020)
The TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (TCIS) is hosting the "TIFR Annual Chemistry Conference (TACC 2020)" at TCIS Hyderabad, during March 3-5, 2021. The detailed schedule is coming soon.
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Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 to Prof. Polshettiwar
Prof. Polshettiwar has been awarded Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 by Nano Mission, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He received the award during International Conference on Nano S&T (ICONSAT-2020) during 5-7 March, 2019 at Kolkata.
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Congratulations to Khushalani and her group members for recognition of their research efforts!
- Best Poster Prize to Dr. Ashish Nadar (PDF in Khushalani Group) at Nano 2020 held in Bangalore in March 2020
- Invited Review article exclusively detailing work from Khushalani lab was showcased in ACS Langmuir along with the Front Cover for the print issue: Langmuir 2019, 35, 9101-9114
Best Poster Prize to Ashish Nadar at Nano 2020 held in Bangalore
Calendar
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April 20, 2021 at 5.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Avik K. Pati, Cornell University, USA
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April 19, 2021 at 5.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Avik K. Pati, Cornell University, USA
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April 9, 2021 at 6.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Gourab Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
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April 6, 2021 at 4.30 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Palas Baran Pati, University of Nantes, France
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April 5, 2021 at 4.30 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Palas Baran Pati, University of Nantes, France
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March 30, 2021 at 2.30 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Apoorva Badaya, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
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March 25, 2021 at 10.00 am (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Ms. Neha Choudhary, University of British Columbia, Canada
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March 23, 2021 at 4.30 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Sumanta Sarkar, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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March 22, 2021 at 4.30 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Sumanta Sarkar, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
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March 19, 2021 at 2.30 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Mr. Vicky Vishvakarma, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai