Upcoming Seminars

• BSSE Seminar: “Learnings from Research and Bio Innovations Efforts in a Clinical & Academic career of 40 years, My thoughts on future directions”, 1st December, 2020. Tuesday, 04:00 PM, Virtual
  Speaker: Dr. Ravi Nayar, Dean of Academic Research, Health Care Global Enterprises, HCG Towers, Bangalore.
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*Calendar of events below

Seminars in 2020

1. BSSE Seminar: “Biological fluids: mucus swirling, white blood cells snaking, and red blood cells swinging", 2nd Nov, 2020. Monday, 04:00 PM, Virtual
   Speaker: Dr. Annie Viallat, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS CINAM, Marseille, France.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
   
2. BSSE Seminar: “Studying Functional Bio-interfaces using Scanning Probe Microscopy Approach”, 17th August 2020, 11:00 AM, Virtual
   Speaker: Dr. Tatini Rakshit, DST INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
   
3. BSSE Seminar: “Mechanical interactions dictate wound repair and tumorigenesis in epithelial tissues”, 24th August 2020, 4:30 PM, Virtual
   Speaker: Dr. Medhavi Vishwakarma, Research Associate, School of cellular and molecular medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
   
4. BSSE Seminar: “At the boundaries of a cell – allies and invaders of the membrane world”, 10th August 2020, 11:00 AM, Virtual
   Speaker: Dr. Krishnan Raghunathan, Research Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
5. BSSE Seminar: “Examination of the anti-fragility of microbial system at multiple scale”, 3rd August 2020, 11:00 AM, Virtual
   Speaker: Dr. Amitesh Anand, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
6. BSSE Seminar: “Leveraging physiological dynamics towards drug discovery and development”, 27th July 2020, 3:30 PM, Virtual
   Speaker: Dr. Madhuresh Sumit, Senior Scientist, Pfizer Inc, USA.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
7. BSSE Seminar: “Picturing the future of healthcare through molecular imaging”, 20th July 2020, 4:30 PM, Virtual.
   Speaker: Dr. Sanhita Sinharay, University of Texas.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
8. BSSE Seminar: “Constructing feedback assisted dynamic molecular circuits and systems ”, 29th June 2020, 4:30 PM, Virtual.
   Speaker: Dr. Deepak Kumar Agarwal, University of Colorado Denver.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
9. BSSE Seminar: "Cooperation, Resistance and Spatial Patterning in Microbial Communities", 26th February 2020, 12:00 PM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
   Speaker: Dr. Anupama Sharma, University of Michigan.
   Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
10. BSSE Seminar: "The Stag Hunt Game in Cancer: How Cells Cooperate Within Cancer Populations and Stroma to Divide and Conquer", 17th February 2020, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Kshitiz Gupta, University of Connecticut.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
11. BSSE Seminar: "Vesicles and Capsules in Strong Electric Fields ", 3rd February 2020, 11:00 AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Rochish Thaokar, IIT Bombay.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
12. BSSE Seminar: "Big Omics Data-Driven Computational Approaches for Stem Cell Systems Biology ", 21st January 2020, 2:30PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Srikanth Ravichandran, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
13. BSSE Seminar: "Mechanosensitivity of Lymphatic Vessels: A Clue Towards Understanding Lymphatic Dysfunction", 20th January 2020, 2:30 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Mr. Anish Mukherjee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
14. BSSE Seminar: "DNA Enabled Design of Multimodal Nanoparticles for Cancer Theranostics", 13th January 2020, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Suchetan Pal, IIT-Bhilai.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
15. BSSE Seminar: "A New Approach to Metabolism: The Power of a Good 'RACIPE'", 6th January 2020, 4:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Dongya Jia, Rice University, Texas.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker

Seminars in 2019

16. BSSE Seminar: "Reconstituting Eukaryotic Cytokinesis", 20th December 2019, 4:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Mohan Balasubramanian, University of Warwick, U.K.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
17. BSSE Seminar: "Multiscale Modelling of Cancer Progression and Treatment Responses", 16th December 2019, 4:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Gibin Powathil, Swansea University, U.K.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
18. BSSE Seminar: "Natural and Engineered Biological Sensors: Visualizing Cellular Dynamics and Discoveries in Natural Light Sensing", 16th December 2019, 11:00AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Akash Gulyani, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bengaluru
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
19. BSSE Seminar: "Mechano-Genomics: From Cell-Fate Decisions to Biomarkers", 11th December 2019, 4:00PM, Biological Sciences Auditorium, Ground floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. G.V Shivashankar, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore & FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM), Milan, Italy
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
20. BSSE Seminar: "Closed Mitosis Requires Local Disassembly of the Nuclear Envelope", 9th December 2019, 4:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Gautam Dey, UCL, London
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
21. BSSE Seminar: "A Small Rearguard Action in the Age of Big Data and Machine Learning: Mechanistic Models in Computational Physiology", 9th December 2019, 11:00AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. George Verghese, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
22. BSSE Seminar: "A CRISPR-Cas9 Screen Reveals Novel Mechanisms of PD-L1 Regulation in Human Lung Cancer", 2nd December 2019, 4:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
23. BSSE Seminar: "Mechanics of Cell Motility: Swimming and Crawling", 27th November 2019, 11:00AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Mohd Suhail Rizvi, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, Grenoble, France
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
24. MRDG-BSSE Seminar: "A Novel Quantitative Approach For Understanding Strain Level Microbiota Dynamics After Fecal Transplantation For Several Diseases", 26th November 2019, 4:00PM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Varun Aggarwala, Genetics and Genomics Institute of Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
25. BSSE Seminar: "Wearables and AI in healthcare ", 11th November 2019, 4:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Mr. Rahul Shingrani, ten3T Healthcare, Bengaluru
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
26. BSSE Seminar: "Natural and Engineered Biological Sensors: Visualizing Cellular Dynamics and Discoveries in Natural Light Sensing ", 4th November 2019, 12:00PM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Akash Gulyani, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bengaluru
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
27. BSSE Seminar: "Multi-scale Modeling of the heart: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Cardiac Arrhythmia Management and Therapy", 28th October 2019, 11:00AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Rupamanjari majumder, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
28. BSSE Seminar: "Microbes in Space", 21st October 2019, 11:00AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
29. BSSE Seminar: "Imaging and Defining Dynamic Interactions in the Tumor Microenvironment", 14th October 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Arja Ray, University of California, San Fransisco
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
30. BSSE Seminar: "Mechano-Immunology-Exploring the Physical Drivers of Macrophage Activation", 30th September 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Jain, Department of Health, Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
31. BSSE Seminar: "Understanding How Therapeutic Plasma Exchange is Beneficial in Patients with Acute Liver Failure / Acute on Chronic Liver Failure", 13th September 2019, 11:00AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. C. E. Eapen, Christ Medical College, Vellore, Tamil nadu
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
32. BSSE Seminar: "Out-of-Equilibrium Modeling of Biomembranes", 4th September 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Walani , Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
33. BSSE Seminar: "On-Chip Soft Biosystems", 27th August 2019, 11:00AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Siddharth Deshpande, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Netherlands
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
34. BSSE Seminar: "Bioengineering Human Tissues and Organs: The Way Forward", 26th August 2019, 10:00AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Biman B. Mandal, Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Guwahati
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
35. BSSE Seminar: "Novel Ligament / Tendon Repair Strategies", 21st August 2019, 11:00AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Sarah Cartmell, The University of Manchester, UK
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
36. BSSE Seminar: " Differential Regulation of Signaling Pathways in a Novel Colorectal Carcinoma Cell Line", 19th August 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Monideepa Roy, Vice President, Product Development and Operations, Akamara Therapeutics, Inc.
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
37. BSSE Seminar: " Therapeutic and prophylactic nanomaterials for biomedical applications", 22nd July 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Praveen Kumar Vemula, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
38. BSSE Seminar: " The CEBPD transcription factor in Breast Cancer: 'not so simple'", 17th July 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Balamurugan Kuppusamy, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling (NCI/CCR)
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
39. BSSE Seminar: " The CEBPD transcription factor in Breast Cancer: 'not so simple'", 17th July 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Balamurugan Kuppusamy, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling (NCI/CCR)
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
40. BSSE Seminar: " Probing signaling crosstalk between NF-kappaB-activating pathway ", 15th July 2019, 04:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Soumen Basak, Systems Immunology Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
41. BSSE Seminar: " Spatial Patterns in Elastic Properties of Mitral Valves and Veins Reveal Understudied Heterogeneity in the Cardiovascular System ", 28th May 2019, 02:30PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Dragoslava Vekilov, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
42. BSSE Seminar: " Stochastic Modeling of the Cancer-Immune Interaction ", 29th May 2019, 04:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Jason George, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
43. MRDG and BSSE Joint Seminar: " Hybrid live cell—supported membrane interfaces for cadherin adhesion and signaling ", 17th May 2019, 4:00PM, Friday, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Kabir H Biswas, Ph D , Assistant Professor, Center for Health and Lifesciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
44. MRDG and BSSE Seminar: " Patient-specific iPSC-derived eye organoids for ocular disease modeling and regenerative applications ", 30th April 2019, 11:30AM, Tuesday, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Indumathi Mariappan, Ph D , Scientist, Center for Ocular Regeneration, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
45. BSSE Seminar: "Mechanistic Physiological Modeling in Modern Drug Development ", 29th April 2019, 4:00PM, Monday, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Rukmini Kumar, Principal Scientist & Co-Founder, Vantage Research
    Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
46. BSSE Seminar: "Enhancing tumor immunogenicity for cancer therapy ", 24th April 2019, 4:00PM, Wednesday, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Ganapathy Sriram, Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellow at the David H. Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, MIT
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
47. BSSE Seminar: "Microscale biochemical assays for multiomic profiling of tumor sections ", 16th April 2019, 4:00PM, Tuesday, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Aditya Kashyap, IBM Research - Zurich
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
48. BSSE Seminar: "Analyzing Cell Behaviour: From Mitotic Cell Shape to Intracellular Delivery ", 15th April 2019, 11:00AM, Monday, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Martin Stewart, Lecturer in Medical Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
49. BSSE Seminar: "How and Why Temperate Bacteriophage Count Genomes to Make a Binary Choice between Two Cell Fates ", 8th April 2019, 4:00PM, Monday, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Sandeep Krishna, Simons Centre for the Study of Living Machine, NCBS
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
50. BSSE Seminar: "Engineering Materials for Biomedical Applications", 25th March 2019, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Dr. Kaushik Chatterjee, Biosystems Science and Engineering - Associate Faculty, Materials Engineering - Associate Professor
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
51. BSSE Seminar: "Computational Gastronomy: The emerging data science of food, flavors, and health", 20th February 2019, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: Ganesh Bagler, IIIT-Delhi
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
52. BSSE Seminar: "PhageShift: Improving treatment of bacterial infections through novel modifications to conventional phage therapeutics", 4th February 2019, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building.
    Speaker: iGEM
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
53. BSSE Seminar: "Mechanobiology of Collective Cell Dynamics: Cells in the Epithelium", 28th January 2019, 2:00PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Prof. Tamal Das, TIFR Hyderabad
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker

Seminars in 2018

54. BSSE Seminar: "MMP-cytoskeletal crosstalk in cancer invasion", November 30th, 2018, 3:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Prof. Shamik Sen, Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT Bombay
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
55. BSSE Seminar: "Quantitative ultrasound imaging techniques for tissue characterization", December 3rd, 2018, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Karla P. Mercado-Shekhar, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
56. BSSE Seminar: "Cargo induced perturbations in very early endosomal dynamics revealed by lattice light-sheet microscopy", December 5th, 2018, 4:00 PM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Senthil Arumugam, Group Leader, Single Molecule Science, University of New South Wales, Australia
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
57. BSSE Seminar: "Engineering Morphologically Diverse Self-Assembled Nanocarriers for Immunomodulation", September 24th, 2018, 4:00 PM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Sharan Bobbala, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
58. BSSE Seminar: "Emergence of a bilaterally symmetric body plan during zebrafish embryogenesis", September 10th, 2018, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Sundar Naganathan, Postdoctoral Fellow, EPFL
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
59. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Porous polymeric membranes with engineered surface for water remediation", 17th September, 2018 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Mr. Paresh Kumar Samantaray, BSSE, IISc.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
60. BSSE Seminar: "A novel bacterial microbiota quantification method at the single cell and single base level using our high dynamic range DNA molecular barcode and droplet system", September 4th, 2018, 2:30 PM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Katsuyuki Shiroguchi, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), JST PRESTO
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
61. BSSE Seminar: "Microdroplets for single cell and single molecule analysis", August 27th, 2018, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Prof. Rahul Roy, Chemical Engineering, IISc
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
62. Joint CES-IMI-BSSE Seminar: "Mathematics and Epidemics: Challenges and Opportunities in the Study of the Dynamics and Control of Influenza", August 14th, 2018, 11:00 AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor, New Biological Science Building, IISc
    Speaker: Prof. Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Regents Professor, Director Simon A Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State University
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
63. BSSE Seminar: "Stem Cell - Immune Cell Interactions in Wound Repair and Fibrosis", August 13th, 2018, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Melanie Rodrigues, Stanford University
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
64. BSSE Seminar: "Failure Biomechanics of Ascending Thoracic Aorta", August 6th, 2018, 3:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Spandan Maiti, Bioengineering Department, Univerity of Pittsburgh
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
65. BSSE Seminar: "Biomaterials for Orthopedic Applications", August 6th, 2018, 4 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. K V Menon, Clinician, Sparsh Hospital
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
66. BSSE Seminar: "Principles of Robustness in Biological and Bio-inspired Systems", August 3rd, 2018, 4 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building
    Speaker: Dr. Kaushik Jayaram, Microrobotics Laboratory, Harvard University
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
67. BSSE Seminar: "EndoMimyk: An Endoscopy Simulator", 30th July, 2018,4 PM , MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building
    Speakers: Dr. Shantanu Chakravarthy & Dr. Nithin Shivashankar, Mimyk
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
68. BSSE Seminar: "Signal response studies during cell polarization and external stress ", 23rd July, 2018,4:00 PM , MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building,
    Speaker: Dr. Rati Sharma, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA.
69. BSSE Seminar: "Pain and Beyond: Utilizing the Peripheral Nerve for Local Drug Delivery", 20th July, 2018,11 AM , MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building,
    Speaker: Dr. Sahadev Shankarappa, Center for Nanoscience and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
70. BSSE Seminar: "Biomaterials for Cardiothoracic Surgery", 16th July, 2018,4:00 PM , BSSE Meeting Room, Biological Sciences Building,
    Speaker: Dr. T. R. Rajesh ,Clinician at Sparsh Hospital.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
71. BSSE Seminar: "Writing for Researchers", 13th July, 2018, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, MCB Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building,
    Speaker: Karthik Ramaswamy, APC, IISc.
72. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Insights into signalling and crosstalk in Two-component signalling systems of Mycobacterium tuberculosis", 2nd July, 2018 10:00 AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Gaurav D. Sankhe, BSSE, IISc.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
73. BSSE Thesis Colloquium:"Development of anti-infective therapy against intracellular pathogens using targeted particulate delivery systems." , 12th June,2018 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker:Mr. RAJEEV J MUDAKAVI, BSSE, IISc.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
74. BSSE Seminar:"Functionalized Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Innovations and Interventions" , 22nd March,2018, 11:30 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Prof Ashok Kumar, Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, IIT Kanpur.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
75. BSSE Seminar:"Diagnosing Diagnostics: Ideas, Solutions, and Misconceptions" , 2nd March,2018 4 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Speaker: Prof Melissa Mugambi;University of Washington.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
76. BSSE Seminar:"New Approaches for Engineering of Different Tissues" , 26th February,2018 4 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Speaker: Prof Rui reyes.;University of Minho, Braga/Guimaraes, Portugal .
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
77. BSSE Seminar:"iFLOAT: A multifaceted approach to cluster bioengineered gas vesicles in vitro and enhance their flotation" , 12th February,2018 4 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Speaker: Raj Magesh G.;iFLOAT Team Representative, IISc Undergraduate Student.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
78. BSSE Seminar:"Morphogenetic Patterns: Biochemical Signalling, Mechanics and Geometry" , 5th February,2018, 4 PM, CES Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Speaker: Dr. VijayKumar Krishnamurthy, ICTS, Bangalore.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
79. BSSE Seminar:"BIONIC EAR & BIONIC EYE: PROGRESS AGAINST HEARING DISABILITY & VISUAL IMPAIRMENT " , 29th January,2018 4 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Bhujanga Rao, NIAS.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
80. BSSE Seminar:"Development of a Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery System for the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy" , 5th January,2018 3:30 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Dhirendra Katti, IIT kanpur.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    

Seminars in 2017

81. BSSE Thesis Colloquium:"Lab-On-Chip Platform For Stem Cell Differentiation In Regenerative Medicine" , 14th December,2017 4:00 PM, MMCR Seminar Hall,MRC Department. Speaker:Ms Sharmistha Naskar, BSSE, IISc.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
82. BSSE Seminar:": Computational systems biology of epithelial-hybrid-mesenchymal transitions: can theory help understand cancer biology?" , 13th November,2017 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker:Mohit Kumar Jolly, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
83. BSSE Seminar:": Nanomachines to Nanoclusters: From Sensors to regulators of Mitochondrial Cristae" , 2nd November, 2017 11:00 AM, CES Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Souvik Modi;Marie Curie Fellow; Dept. of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology; University College London, United Kingdom
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
84. BSSE Seminar:": Nature's nano-machines: Molecular motors and their regulation" , 27th October,2017 4:00 PM, CES Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Steven Gross;University of California, Irvine.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
85. BSSE Seminar:" A web of streamers: Interplay of hydrodynamics and bacterial biofilm processes" , 16th October,2017 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Aloke Kumar; Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc.
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
86. BSSE Seminar:" Mechanics in cell and tissue organization and function" , 28th September,2017 11:00 AM, Main Auditorium, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Marino Zerial,Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
87. BSSE Seminar:" Kinesin: A machine or an animal. A single molecule force spectroscopy approach" , 11th September,2017 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor,Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Avin Ramayia, Lumicks, Netherlenads
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
88. BSSE Seminar:" DNA based emerging technologies for biological and biomedical applications" , 24th August,2017 11:00 AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor,Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Dhiraj Bhatia, Curie Institute, Paris
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
89. BSSE Seminar:"Cell Structure and Systems Biology in Heart Disease" , 21st August,2017 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor,Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Vijay Rajagopal(Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne)
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
90. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Mechanistic insights into the effect and application of shockwaves in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms",
    17th August,11-12 AM,2017 CES seminar hall , 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Mr. Akshay Datey, BSSE, IISc.
    Abstract of the talk
    
91. BSSE Seminar:"Modelling dynamical diseases in physiological systems : a primer" , 7th August,2017 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor,Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. S. Sridhar (Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems, IISc)
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
92. BSSE Seminar:"Engineering desired behaviors in populations of living cells" , 21st July,2017 4:00 PM, BSSE meeting room, 3rd Floor,Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Prof. Calin Belta, Mechanical engineering, Boston University
    Abstract and Biography of the speaker
    
93. BSSE Seminar:"When Nature Stammers: Constraints and consequences of amino acid repeat emergence in proteins" , 18th July,2017 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Dr. Sreenivas Chavali, Investigator Scientist, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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94. BSSE Seminar:"Technical Writing for Scientists" , 13th July,2017 11:00 AM, CES Seminar Hall, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Karthik Ramaswamy, Visiting Scientist, IISc
95. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "The Role of Basal Ganglia and Redundancy in Supervised Motor Learning",
    July 03rd, 2017, 04:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Mr. Puneet Singh, BSSE, IISc.
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96. BSSE Seminar:"Drug discovery by combining genetics, proteomics and model organisms" , June 29th, 2017, 11:00 AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Guruharsha Kuthethur Gururaj, Senior Scientist, Neurodegenerationand Repair, Biogen, Cambridge Abstract
97. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Investigations into the changes in biomechanics of liver cells upon Hepatitis C Virus infection",
    June 27th, 2017, 11:00 AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Mr. Sreenath Balakrishnan, BSSE, IISc.
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98. BSSE Seminar:"Transforming the Landscape of Chronic Viral Hepatitis B and C in India: A Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Model for Research and Practice" , May 30th, 2017, 4:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Ramakrishna Prasad, Family Medicine and Infectious Diseases at St. Philomena's Hospital, Co-founder Molecular Solutions Care Health, Co-founder Health Roots Clinic. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
99. BSSE Seminar:"How to write for and get published in international scientific journals" ,
    May 24th, 2017, 02:30 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Ms. Swati Meherishi, Executive Editor-Applied Science and Engineering, Springer. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
100. Joint Seminar by ChE and BSSE:"Adventures in Super-Resolution Imaging" ,
     May 22th, 2017, 04:00 PM, Chemical Engineering, Seminar Hall. Speaker: Prof. Daniel Coombs, University of British Columbia. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
101. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Molecular determinants of self-assembly for the pore forming toxin Cytolysin A" ,
     May 15th, 2017, 04:30 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Mr. Pradeep Sathyanarayana, BSSE, IISc.
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102. BSSE Seminar:"Identification of a small molecule modulator of Niemann Pick Type C disease using simple model organisms" ,
     May 15th, 2017, 11:00 AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Sangeetha Iyer, Senior Scientist, Perlara PBC, San Francisco. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
103. BSSE Seminar:"Biomaterials and Engineering Solutions to Stem Cell Biology" ,
     May 12th, 2017, 04:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Shyni Varghese, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
104. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Tailored Xylitol based Biodegradable Polyesters for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery" ,
     May 9th, 2017, 04:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Ms. Queeny Dasgupta, BSSE, IISc.
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105. BSSE Thesis Colloquium: "Engineering 3D Organotypic Models for the Study of Breast Cancer Metastasis",
     May 8th, 2017, 04:00 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Ms. Gowri Balachandar, BSSE, IISc.
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106. BSSE Seminar: "Medical Device Development - from idea to market" ,
     May 08th, 2017, 11:00 AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Venkatesan, Professor in Biomedical Engineering and TMA Pai Chair in Medical Devices, Manipal Institute of Technology.
107. BSSE Seminar:"Nanoclusters of integrins underlie cell matrix adhesions" ,
     May 2nd, 2017, 4-5 PM, BSSE Meeting Room, Third Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Rishita Changede, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
108. BSSE Seminar:"Systems approaches for elucidating and engineering information processing at multiple levels in cellular systems" ,
     April 25th, 2017, 4-5 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Krishnan, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
109. BSSE Seminar:"Opportunities and challenges in genomics-based healthcare in India" ,
     April 17th, 2017, 3-4 PM, CES Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Nikhil Phadke, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, GenePath Dx. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
110. BSSE Seminar:"Quantitative Biology of the Cytoskeleton during Division, Differentiation and Disease" ,
     April 10th, 2017, 4-5 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, INSPIRE Faculty Fellow, BSSE, IISc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
111. BSSE Seminar:"Visualizing dynamic cellular machineries with electron microscopy" ,
     March 20th, 2017, 4-5 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Saikat Chowdhury, The Scripps Research Institute. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
112. BSSE Seminar:"Electrohydrodynamics of Fluid Interfaces and Cells" ,
     March 27th, 2017, 4-5 PM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Priya Gambhire, Postdoctoral Associate, Chemical Engineering, IISc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
113. BSSE Seminar:"Good touch and bad touch: Direct immune cell-cell contacts in immune response and metastasis" ,
     March 14th, 2017, 11-12 AM, MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Sudha Kumari, MIT, Cambridge. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
114. BSSE Seminar:"May the force be with you: Piezomodulates protrusion switching in migrating Dictyosteliumcells" ,
     March 1st, 2017, 11-12 AM, Meeting Room, BSSE, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Nishit Srivastava, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
115. BSSE Seminar:"What Is the Contribution of One Muscle to a Task?" ,
     February 27th, 2017, 4-5 PM, Meeting Room, BSSE, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Andy Ruina, Cornell University. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
116. BSSE Seminar:"Complex self organized structures assembled from small peptide units and there perspective application in biology and biomaterials science" ,
     February 15th, 2017, 4-5 PM, Meeting Room, BSSE, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Hans-Georg Braun, Leibniz Instiutue for Polymer Research, Dresden.
117. BSSE Seminar:"Novel drug targets to inhibit Epithelial to Messenchymal transition" ,
     February 13th, 2017, 4-5 PM, Meeting Room, BSSE, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Vibhuti Agarwal,Prof. Forest White Lab, MIT. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
118. BSSE Seminar:" Revealing molecular order across biological scales with computational microscopy " ,
     February 9th, 2017, 10:30 AM(Thursday), Meeting Room, BSSE, 3rd Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Shalin Mehta, University of Chicago. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
119. BSSE Seminar:" Targeted Drug Delivery Systems: Needle Steering and Medical Microrobotics " ,
     February 1st, 2017, 4:00 PM(Wednesday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Sarthak Mishra, Surgical Robotics Laboratory, University of Twente. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
120. BSSE Seminar:"Translational Research: Challenges & Opportunities in the Continuum from Bench to Bedside " ,
     January 19th, 2017, 2:30 PM (Thursday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, Professor of Engineering and Surgery, University College London, United Kingdom. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
121. BSSE Seminar:"Beyond The Routine Exploring The Potential of Haematology Analysers in Evaluating Blood Cellular Morphology" ,
     January 16th, 2017, 4 PM (Monday), MCB Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speakers: Dr. Sukesh C Nair and Dr. Joy Mammen,Department of Transfusion Medicine, CMC, Vellore. Abstract and Biographies of the Speakers
122. BSSE Seminar:"Intellectual property rights" ,
     January 9th, 2017, 3-5 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Nitin Deshpande, Open Innovation Manager, Unilever, India. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
123. BSSE Seminar:"The Role of Interfacial Lipids as Modulator of Membrane Protein Oligomerisation" ,
     January 6th, 2017, 4:00 PM (Friday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Kallol Gupta, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
124. BSSE Seminar:"Towards a fluid-structure-growth and remodelling framework to simulate Vein graft failure post Coronary Artery bypass surgery " ,
     January 2nd, 2017, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Abhay Ramachandra, Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab, Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker

Seminars in 2016

125. BSSE Seminar:"Single-molecule nano photonics and nano fluidics",
     December 20th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Tuesday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Siddharth Ghosh, Debye Institute for Nano materials Science, Utrecht, Netherlands. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
126. BSSE Seminar:"Innovations for a Sustainable World - A Journey from Lab to Market",
     December 5th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), Main Auditorium, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Dr Samiran Mahapatra, Research and Developments Director, Open Innovation, Unilever , South Asia Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
127. BSSE Seminar:"Force of AFM",
     November 28th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Prof. M.S Bobji, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
128. BSSE Seminar:"Engineered Biomaterials for therapeutic applications",
     November 21st, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Sangram K Samal, Ramunajan Fellow, Materials Research Center,IISc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
129. BSSE Seminar:"Curvature remodelling of cell membranes and its implications in targeted drug delivery ",
     November 14th, 2016, 11:00 AM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Dr. Ramakrishnan Natesan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
130. BSSE Seminar:"HLA polymorphism and disease susceptibility to H1N1 Influenza: A multi-scale modelling study ",
     November 07th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Nagasuma Chandra, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, IISc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
131. BSSE Seminar:"Curvature Instabilities in Colloidal Membranes ",
     October 24th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Prerna Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, IISc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
132. BSSE Seminar:"Microfluidics in Medical Diagnostics ",
     October 17th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Dhanunjaya Dendukuri, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Achira Labs, Bangalore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
133. BSSE Seminar:"Towards next-generation Biomedical diagnostics and mobile healthcare technologies ",
     Aug 18th, 2016, 11:00 AM (Thursday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Sandeep K. Vashist, Chief Scientific Officer, Vallo Med Health Care GmbH, Germany Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
134. BSSE Seminar:"Tissue imaging for cancer diagnostics: An Optical Engineers perspective ",
     Aug 8th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Varun Raghunathan, ECE Department, IISc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
135. BSSE Seminar:"Cross ? Amyloid Nanostructures: From Chemical Evolution to Functional Materials ",
     July 22nd, 2016, 4:00 PM (Friday), MMCR, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Dr. Dibyendu Das, Chemistry Department, IISER Tirupati. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
136. BSSE Seminar:"Medical Device Innovation: From Research to Reality",
     July 25th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. B.Ravi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
137. BSSE Seminar:"The Metabolic Marketplace: Regulating the cellular economy of supply and demand",
     July 18th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. Jan-Hendrik S. Hofmeyr, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
138. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Engineering ethics and IP",
     July 11th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. S. A. Shivashankar, MRC, IISc
139. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Doctoral research in BSSE",
     July 8th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Friday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speakers: 2012 batch of BSSE PhD students
140. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Anchors weigh in on cytoplasmic dynein regulation",
     July 4th, 2016, 4:00 PM(Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, BSSE, IISc Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
141. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Technical Writing",
     June 27th, 2016, 3-5 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Karthik Ramaswamy, IISc Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
142. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Engineering micro and nano carriers for treatment of inflammatory diseases and antibiotic resistant infections",
     June 24th, 2016, 11:00 AM (Friday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Rachit Agarwal, UT, Austin. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
143. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Magnetically Actuated Smart Textured (MAST) fibrous systems for cancer treatment",
     June 20th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Shilpee Jain, BSSE, IISc Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
144. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS): Design strategies, computational challenges, and translating genetic discoveries to personalized medicine",
     June 14th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Tuesday), MCB Seminar Hall, Second Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Bratati Kahali, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
145. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Artificial nanoswimmers: Toward applications in biotechnology",
     June 13th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Ambarish Ghosh, CeNSE, IISc Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
146. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Cancer cell migrations: Explorations from Petri dishes to human bodies",
     June 10th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Friday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. T. S. Sridhar, St. John's Hospital, Bangalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
147. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Mechanisms of Shiga Toxin clustering and entry into cells",
     June 6th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Senthil Arumugam, University of New South Wales, Australia Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
148. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Latin for Biologists (and everyone else)",
     May 30th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MCB Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Mr. Suhas Mahesh, IISc Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
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149. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Immuno engineering: Vaccines and beyond",
     May 23rd, 2016, 3:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, BSSE, IISc Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
150. "Nano-scale Microbial Tissue Engineering",
     May 23rd, 2016, 11:00 am (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Anand Ramasubramanian, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
151. "An anatomic transcriptional atlas of glioblastoma",
     May 20th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Friday), MCB Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Nameeta Shah, Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumour Treatment, Seattle, USA. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
152. BSSE Summer Seminar:"Medical Innovations",
     May 16th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Jagdish Chaturvedi, Director, Clinical Innovations and Partnerships, Innaccel Acceleration Services Private Limited. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
153. "Biophysical Insights into the Ras-Membrane Interactions & Small-molecule mediated modulation of signaling pathways",
     May 13th, 2016, 11:30 am (Friday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Shobhna Kapoor, Post Doctoral Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
154. "Plasmonic structures for protein and cell analysis",
     May 2nd, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Shourya Dutta Gupta, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Texas at Austin Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
155. "Glycosaminoglycan derivatives promising candidates for the design of functional biomaterials",
     April 7th, 2016, 4:00 pm (Thursday), MCB Seminar Hall, Biological Sciences Building Speaker: Dr. Dieter Scharnweber, Institute of Materials Science, TU Dresden Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
156. "Cellular Therapies for Ocular Disorders",
     March 21st, 2016, 4:00 pm (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Pallavi Deshpande, Sri Research for Tissue Engineering, Bangalore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
157. "Microfluidic devices for high-resolution imaging of C. elegans",
     February 22nd, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Sudip Mondal, University of Texas, Austin, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
158. "Biological Materials: How to make non-toxic, functional, Protein-based Nanoparticles?",
     February 4th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Thursday), Lecture Hall, Materials Engineering Speaker: Prof. Challa Vijaya Kumar, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut USA; IPC Department, Indian Institute of Science Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
159. "Genetically Engineered Polypeptide Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery",
     February 2nd, 2016, 2:00 PM (Tuesday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharyya, Department of Bio-medical Engineering, Duke University Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
160. "BSSE Annual Symposium 2016 - Cell, Tissue and Systems Engineering",
     January 8th and 9th, 2016, 9:00AM onwards, CES Seminar Hall, Third Floor, Biological Sciences Programme
161. "Systems Engineering Perspective of Human Metabolism: A Multi-scale Model for Disease Analysis",
     January 4th, 2016, 4:00 PM (Monday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. K V Venkatesh, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
162. "Surface-chemical Gradients and Patterns: Applications in Biology",
     January 5th, 2016, 3:30 PM (Tuesday), MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker:Prof. Nicholas Spencer, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich Abstract and Biography of the Speaker

Seminars in 2015

163. BSSE Medical Science and Practice Seminar: "Novel Insights into the Pathogenesis of Diabetes in India: the Vellore Story from Womb to Tomb",
     December 29th, 2015, 11:30 AM (Tuesday) , MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Nihal Thomas, Professor and head, Endocrinology, Vice principal (Research), Christian Medical College, Vellore Abstract
164. "Ionic Bases of Arrhythmias in AF and Diabetes",
     December 15th, 2015, 12:00 noon (Tuesday) , MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Sandeep V. Pandit, Center for Arrhythmia Research, Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
165. "Airflow sensing in flying insects",
     November 30th, 2015, 04:00 PM (Monday) , MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Sanjay Sane, Associate Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Banagalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
166. "Listening to the chitter-chatter in the hippocampus (In silico experiments on small synapses using Monte Carlo simulations)" ,
     November 16th, 2015, 04:00 PM (Monday) , MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Suhita Nadkarni, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
167. "The Emerging Discipline of Computational Medicine",
     November 3rd, 2015, 04:00 PM (Tuesday) Faculty Hall Speaker: Prof. Raimond S. Winslow, Raj and Neera Singh Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
168. "The Diversity and Complexity of Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Muscle",
     November 4th, 2015, 12:00 noon (Wednesday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. Raimond S. Winslow, Raj and Neera Singh Professor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
169. "Artificial Endocrine Pancreas 2015: From Bench to Bedside",
     October 26th, 2015, 04:00 PM (Monday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Ananda Basu, MBBS MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
170. "Looking ahead: From endocrine physiology towards bioengineered artificial pancreas",
     October 19th, 2015, 04:00 PM (Monday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Pranay Goel, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
171. "Leading Pathogens to the Death chamber : A Kinder face of Cholesterol",
     September 28th, 2015, 04:00 PM (Monday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Roop Mallik, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
172. "The watchmaker's apprentice: building a synthetic genetic oscillator with parts borrowed from nature",
     September 21st, 2015, 04:00 PM (Monday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Mukund Thattai, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
173. "Human Pancreatic Islet Cell Transplantation: Bench to Bedside",
     September 1st, 2015, 04:00 PM (Tuesday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. T. Mohanakumar, School of Medicine, Washington University? at St. Louis, USA. ? Abstract of the talk
174. "Engineering Biomaterials and Drug Delivery Systems for Next Generation Cardiovascular Medical Devices",
     August 24th, 2015, 03:30 PM (Monday) Lecture Theatre, Materials Engineering Speaker: Dr. Gopinath Mani, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of South Dakota, USA Abstract of the talk
175. "Living Root Bridges",
     August 19th, 2015, 04:00 PM (Wednesday) Seminar Hall, Centre for Ecological Sciences Speaker: Sanjeev Shankar Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
176. "Physiological Systems Modelling",
     August 3rd, 2015, 04:30 PM (Monday) Seminar Hall, Materials Engineering Speaker: Dr. Suresh Devasahayam,Professor, Christian Medical College, Vellore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
177. "Immunity Guided Engineering and Engineering Immunity: two sides of the same coin",
     July 22nd, 2015, 11:00 AM (Wednesday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, Mazumdar-Shaw International Oncology Fellow, Anderson and Langer Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Abstract
178. Joint Space Technology Cell-Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering Seminar - "Learning Control Applied To Human Motor Skill Learning",
     July 13th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Monday) Seminar Hall, ISRO-IISc Space Technology Cell, Department of Aerospace Engineering Speaker: Prof. Iven Mareels, Dean of the School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
179. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Publishing and Patenting Ethics" ,
     July 10th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. SA Shivashankar, Materials Research Centre, IISc.
180. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Host Pathogen Interactions: Chemotaxis behavior of C. elegans towards bacterial pathogens" ,
     July 3rd, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Varsha Singh, Molecular Reproduction Development and Genetics, IISc.
181. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Technical Writing" ,
     June 26th, 2015, 3:30-5:30 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Karthik Ramaswamy, IISc.
182. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Super Resolution Microscopy" ,
     June 19th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Rahul Roy, Chemical Engineering, IISc.
183. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Shockwaves in Biology" ,
     June 12th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. Jagadeesh Gopalan, Aerospace Engineering, IISc.
184. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Life of a single dynein motor in vivo" ,
     June 5th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Dr. Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, Bioengineering Programme, IISc.
185. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Electric field stimulated cell functionality modulation on engineered biomaterial substrates" ,
     May 29th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. Bikramjit Basu, Materials Research Centre, IISc.
186. Bioengineering Summer Seminar - "Designing Proteins using Optimization" ,
     May 22nd, 2015, 4:00 PM (Friday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. G.K. Ananthasuresh, Mechanical Engineering, IISc.
187. "Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation" ,
     April 27th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Monday) MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences Speaker: Prof. G. V. Shivashankar, Deputy Director, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
188. "High resolution Optical Coherence Tomography for optical biopsy and non-destructive testing" ,
     March 18th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Wednesday) Multimedia room, Physics Department Speaker: Dr. Kanwarpal Singh, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School and Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Massachusetts, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
189. "Statistical mechanics provides novel insights into microtubule stability and mechanism of shrinkage" ,
     February 16th, 2015, 11:30 AM (Monday) MMCR auditorium, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Prof. Mandar Inamdar, Associate Professor, IIT Bombay Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
190. "Unique T-cells in autoimmune diabetes: What have we learnt from the NOD model" ,
     February 11th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Wednesday) at MRDG Seminar Hall, First Floor, Biological Sciences. Speaker: Dr. Deepak K Nayak, Staff Scientist, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
191. "Cartilage Regeneration Techniques - Clinician's Perspective" ,
     January 19th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Monday) at Seminar Hall, Materials Engineering. Speaker: Dr. Boopalan Ramasamy, Associate Professor, Dept of Orthopaedics unit 3, Christian Medical College, Vellore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
192. "Neural control of the human eye's auto-focusing response" ,
     January 12th, 2015, 4:00 PM (Monday) at MMCR Auditorium, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Dr. Shrikant R Bharadwaj,Scientist Visual Optics Laboratory, Associate Director of Optometry, L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) Abstract and Biography of the Speaker

Seminars in 2014

193. "Innovation Process in Biomedical Devices" ,
     December 22nd, 2014, 3:00 PM (Monday) at AR Auditorium, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: A. Vijayasimha, CEO, OneBreath Inc. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
194. "Patentabiltiy of bio-engineering related inventions" ,
     December 1st, 2014, 4:00 PM (Monday) at MMCR, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Narendra Bhatta H.L., Founder Partner, Intellocopia Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
195. "Disease-responsive biomaterials to prevent autoimmune diseases" ,
     November 10th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Monday) at Seminar Hall, MRDG. Speaker: Dr. Praveen Kumar Vemula, Assistant Investigator, Ramalingaswami Fellow, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (InStem), Bangalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
196. "The Orchestra of Natural Micro Transducers Behind the Cricket Song" ,
     October 13th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Monday) at Seminar Hall, CES. Speaker: Prof. Rudra Pratap, Centre for Nano Science and Engineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering, IISc Bangalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
197. "The Mechanisms of Rupture in Aortic Aneurysms" ,
     September 29th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Monday) at MMCR, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Dr. Madhavan Lakshmi Raghavan, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
198. "An enhancer based story of Aspirations, consciousness and memory of a cell" ,
     September 12th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Friday) in the MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Dr. Vibhor Kumar, Research Scientist, Genome Institute of Singapore, A-star, Singapore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
199. "System Theoretic Techniques in Systems and Synthetic Biology" ,
     September 1st, 2014, 4:00 PM (Monday) in the Multimedia Classroom, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Dr. Vishwesh Kulkarni, Consultant, Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
200. "Progenetor Cell Mechano-Biology Supporting Valvulogenesis" ,
     August 7th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Thurday) in the Multimedia Classroom, Mechanical Engineering. Speaker: Prof. Sharan Ramaswamy, Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
201. "Engineering "pathogen Mimicking Particles" and "Immune Priming Microenvironment" for cancer Immunotherapy" ,
     July 25th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Friday) in the Seminar Hall, Materials Research Center (MRC) building. Speaker: Dr. pallabh Pradhan, Research Scientist, Biomedical Engineering, georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
202. "Cavitation-induced Damage in Brain Tissue and Surrogates: Relevance to Traumatic Brain Injury" ,
     July 7th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Monday) in the Mechanical Engineering A. R. Auditorium, 3rd floor, BMechanical Engineering Building . Speaker: Professor Ghatu Subhash, University of Florida, Gainesville Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
203. "Exploring the HIV Fitness Landscape" ,
     May 30th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Friday) in the MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st floor, Biological Sciences Building . Speaker: Professor Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Theoretical Biology, ETH, Zurich Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
204. "Visualization for Micro-Neurosurgery: the Way Ahead" ,
     May 8th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Thursday) in the Multimedia Classroom (MMCR), Mechanical Engineering Building . Speaker: Dr. V. Vikas, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, NIMHANS, Bangalore Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
205. "Neural Cell Response on Amorphous Carbon Nano/micro Structures and in the Presence of Vertical Electric Field" ,
     April 11th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Friday) in the Lecture Hall, 1st Floor, Materials Engineering Building . Speaker: Shilpee Jain, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
206. "Dynamics of Cytoplasmic Dynein in vivo" ,
     March 21st, 2014, 4:00 PM (Friday) in the Seminar Hall, 1st Floor, Chemical Engineering . Speaker: Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, Post-doctoral Fellow, National Centre for Biological Science, Bangalore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
207. "Biomimetic Scaffolds and Signal Delivery for cartilage and Osteochondral Regeneration" ,
     March 4th, 2014, 4:00 PM (Tuesday) in the MRDG Seminar Hall, 1st Floor, Biological Sciences Building. Speaker: Neethu Mohan, Chitra High Value Fello D, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
208. "Biofluid Dynamics in Microdevices" ,
     February 6th, 2014 , 11:30 AM (Thursday) in AR Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Mechanical Engineering . Speaker: Dorian Liepmann, Professor, Department of Bioengineering University of California, Berkeley Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
209. "Particle Engineering of Stem Cells using Surface Modified Drug Delivery Systems for Phenotype Control & Targeted Cancer Therapy" ,
     January 17, 2014, 4:00 pm (Friday) in Chemical Engineering Building Seminar hall. Speaker: Sudhir Ranganath, Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
210. "Gradient and 'Raw Materials in Tissue Engineering'" ,
     January 10, 2014, 2:30 pm (Friday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Michael Detamore, Professor, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering University of Kansas. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker

Seminars in 2013

211. "From Glowworms to Robots: Searching the Physical space" ,
     October 18, 2013, 4:00 pm (Friday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Debasish Ghose, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
212. "Modelling and systems approches for investigating cellular processes at different levels: gene regulation, protein networks and cellular responses in tissues" ,
     September 20, 2013, 4:30 pm (Friday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Dr. J. Krishnan, Lecturer, Imperial college, london. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
213. "Reduced mobility of E-cadherin necessary for efficient junction formation" ,
     August 28, 2013, 4:00 pm (Wednesday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Dr. Kabir H. Biswas, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
214. "Embryonic Stem Cells: An Alternative Model in Developmental Toxicology and Safety in Pharmacology" ,
     August 16, 2013, 4:00 pm (Friday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Prof. Rajarshi Pal, Manipal University. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
215. "Nanoscale Biophysics of Protein Amyloids" ,
     July 26, 2013, 4:00 pm (Friday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Prof. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, IISER-Mohali. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
216. "Functional Inference of Complex Anatomical tendinous Networks via Sparse Experimentation" ,
     June 26, 2013, 3:30 pm (Wednesday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Prof. Anupam Saxena, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
217. "Engineering: the sine qua non for Systems Biology and Medicine" ,
     June 21, 2013, 3:30 pm (Friday) in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Prof. Shankar Subramaniam, University of California, San Diego. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker
218. "Gait changes, as we age" ,
     May 28, 2013, 3:30 pm in MRDG Seminar hall. Speaker: Dr. Pretesh Kiran, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore. Abstract and Biography of the Speaker