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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Single-Molecule Protein Mechanics
Single-molecule techniques are novel approaches to understand the structure-stability-function relationship of proteins, especially force spectroscopy methods in studying mechanically relevant proteins. These techniques are also useful to drive chemical reactions and bond-breakage at single-molecule/bond level to understand the reaction mechanism and get the elusive ‘transition state’ properties....
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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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Perfecting Imperfection: Defected Nanosilica can transform CO2 to Fuel without any metal and ligands.
Using the defect engineering approach, we develop metal-free–ligand-free nanocatalysts, which convert CO2 to methane at the significant rates, scales, and stabilities.....
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Imaging Protein Dynamics at Work
Molecular fluorescence, when observed with a time resolution of a few picoseconds, becomes a powerful tool for revealing the ‘wiggling and jiggling’ which makes the biological world ‘living’. With the state-of-the-art laser technology available today one can observe dynamics of molecules in ultrafast timescales with high sensitivity and selectivity. …..
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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June 17, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Ph.D. Synopsis Seminar by Ms. Mona Gupta, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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June 14, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Prof. Jyotishman Dasgupta, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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June 10, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Dr. Shubhankar Gadre, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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June 7, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Prof. Partha Hazra, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
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June 3, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Mr. Dipin Tomar, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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June 1, 2021 at 2.30 pm (Via Zoom)
M.Sc. Synopsis Seminar by Mr. Rohit Mann, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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May 31, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Mr. Pulkit Joshi, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai
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May 27, 2021 at 5.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Ms. Sunandita Paul, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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May 20, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Mr. Bibek Samal, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai
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May 6, 2021 at 4.00 pm (Via Zoom)
Seminar by Mr. Arup Kundu, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai