UPCOMING EVENTS:
BIOPHYSICS PASHCHIM 2017
Biophysics Paschim is an intense but informal meeting of Biophysicists from TIFR, NCL, IISER Pune, ACTREC and IIT Bombay that happens twice a year. It was started few years ago by some of us back in 2011 at TIFR, Mumbai and since then the meetings continued to be hosted in the same spirit at every participating institute. This time it (the 10th meeting) is going to take place at TIFR, Mumbai on Tuesday, 28th of March, 2017.
Schedule: March 28, 2017 (Tuesday).
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India.
Please visit : http://biophysicspashchim2017.weebly.com
PAST EVENTS:
NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FCS-2010
Following Fluorescence 2009 and FCS Workshop 2009 (www.fcsworkshop.in) which took place in TIFR Mumbai we plan to organize a series of smaller and more focused annual workshops on different themes in Biophotonics. These National workshops are focused towards in depth teaching of a specific topic to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and practicing scientists in the area. The workshops will be at a level where even established laboratories will benefit by trading ideas and practical knowledge. The long term hope is to produce researchers who are competent to modify, design and construct their own sophisticated biophotonic instruments in the country.
The theme of the workshop was two-pronged: Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (five days altogether) with an additional day for review discussion. Two sessions of poster presentation were be made available to the students during the workshop.
NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FCS-2009
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a technique that can measure ligand (e.g. antibody or drug molecules) binding, conformational change of single molecules, molecular reaction rates, protein aggregation and flow velocity at a microscopic scale.
Though the instrument has been commercialized a few years ago (by Carl Zeiss and a few other leading microscopy companies), its use in India has been limited mainly due to two reasons:
(1) its prohibitively high cost (list prices are nearly Rs. 70 lakhs for a standalone instrument), and
(2) the users’ inability to exploit the system to the maximum, due to unfamiliarity with the sophisticated technology.
The purpose of this present workshop (for faculty members/scientists/graduate students from various Universities and institutes in India) was to render an in-depth knowledge on the theory of FCS, on how to build an instrument, how to analyze the data, and how to apply it to possible interesting problems.
The workshop is a part of the Department of Information & Technology (DIT), Govt. of India sponsored research project entitled “Construction and multi-site commissioning of multiple fluorescence correlation spectrometers (FCS, a single molecule biophotonic tool)”[Project No. 12(4)/2007-PDD, Principal Investigator: Sudipta Maiti, TIFR, Mumbai, co-Investigator: Sivaprasad Mitra, NEHU, Shillong].
The objective was to train people in single-molecule level biophotonic instrumentation. About 10 preselected research teams of two members each containing one faculty member/scientist (Senior Researcher, SR) and one Ph.D student (Junior Researcher, JR) from various Universities and institutes were familiarized with the theory of FCS, how to build an FCS instrument, analyzing the data, and how to apply it to possible interesting problems.
They were each supplied with one FCS kit free of cost, and at the end of the two week workshop, each of them built a functioning FCS instrument on their own. They took these instruments to their respective laboratories at the end of the workshop and used it for their research.
Regular interaction through an internet newsgroup, and annual meetings for two years following the workshop, will help individual groups to exchange ideas and become productive. The participating research groups will be selected by a committee approved by DIT( more...).
Schedule: March 07 to March 24, 2009.
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India.
Please visit : www.fcsworkshop.in
PROTEIN ASSOCIATION AND AGGREGATION MEETING-2003
The protein association and aggregation field is a rather interesting field of biophysics. There are obvious commonalities between aggregations of different proteins, with some of them leading to diseases. Similarities also exist in the association of proteins on cell membranes, which are major factors in cellular signal transduction. However, the theory of protein aggregation is not developed enough to predict/understand this commonalities, or to predict the effect of the environment factors (temperature, pH, ionic strength, concentration, dimensionality, membrane fluidity etc.) on the aggregation.
A discussion meeting on the problem of protein association and aggregation was designed as an interdisciplinary dialogue between physicists, chemists and biologists. This meeting was an opportunity to get condensed matter physicists (who work on nucleation, phase separation, diffusion etc.) and protein experimentalists (who work on aggregation/association of protein molecules) together to see if we can highlight the problems and opportunities to each other.
Schedule: February 22 to February 23, 2003. (Part of the Mahabaleshwar Seminar 2003)
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India.
BIOPHYSICS PASHCHIM 2017
Biophysics Paschim is an intense but informal meeting of Biophysicists from TIFR, NCL, IISER Pune, ACTREC and IIT Bombay that happens twice a year. It was started few years ago by some of us back in 2011 at TIFR, Mumbai and since then the meetings continued to be hosted in the same spirit at every participating institute. This time it (the 10th meeting) is going to take place at TIFR, Mumbai on Tuesday, 28th of March, 2017.
Schedule: March 28, 2017 (Tuesday).
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India.
Please visit : http://biophysicspashchim2017.weebly.com
PAST EVENTS:
NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FCS-2010
Following Fluorescence 2009 and FCS Workshop 2009 (www.fcsworkshop.in) which took place in TIFR Mumbai we plan to organize a series of smaller and more focused annual workshops on different themes in Biophotonics. These National workshops are focused towards in depth teaching of a specific topic to graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and practicing scientists in the area. The workshops will be at a level where even established laboratories will benefit by trading ideas and practical knowledge. The long term hope is to produce researchers who are competent to modify, design and construct their own sophisticated biophotonic instruments in the country.
The theme of the workshop was two-pronged: Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (five days altogether) with an additional day for review discussion. Two sessions of poster presentation were be made available to the students during the workshop.
NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FCS-2009
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a technique that can measure ligand (e.g. antibody or drug molecules) binding, conformational change of single molecules, molecular reaction rates, protein aggregation and flow velocity at a microscopic scale.
Though the instrument has been commercialized a few years ago (by Carl Zeiss and a few other leading microscopy companies), its use in India has been limited mainly due to two reasons:
(1) its prohibitively high cost (list prices are nearly Rs. 70 lakhs for a standalone instrument), and
(2) the users’ inability to exploit the system to the maximum, due to unfamiliarity with the sophisticated technology.
The purpose of this present workshop (for faculty members/scientists/graduate students from various Universities and institutes in India) was to render an in-depth knowledge on the theory of FCS, on how to build an instrument, how to analyze the data, and how to apply it to possible interesting problems.
The workshop is a part of the Department of Information & Technology (DIT), Govt. of India sponsored research project entitled “Construction and multi-site commissioning of multiple fluorescence correlation spectrometers (FCS, a single molecule biophotonic tool)”[Project No. 12(4)/2007-PDD, Principal Investigator: Sudipta Maiti, TIFR, Mumbai, co-Investigator: Sivaprasad Mitra, NEHU, Shillong].
The objective was to train people in single-molecule level biophotonic instrumentation. About 10 preselected research teams of two members each containing one faculty member/scientist (Senior Researcher, SR) and one Ph.D student (Junior Researcher, JR) from various Universities and institutes were familiarized with the theory of FCS, how to build an FCS instrument, analyzing the data, and how to apply it to possible interesting problems.
They were each supplied with one FCS kit free of cost, and at the end of the two week workshop, each of them built a functioning FCS instrument on their own. They took these instruments to their respective laboratories at the end of the workshop and used it for their research.
Regular interaction through an internet newsgroup, and annual meetings for two years following the workshop, will help individual groups to exchange ideas and become productive. The participating research groups will be selected by a committee approved by DIT( more...).
Schedule: March 07 to March 24, 2009.
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India.
Please visit : www.fcsworkshop.in
PROTEIN ASSOCIATION AND AGGREGATION MEETING-2003
The protein association and aggregation field is a rather interesting field of biophysics. There are obvious commonalities between aggregations of different proteins, with some of them leading to diseases. Similarities also exist in the association of proteins on cell membranes, which are major factors in cellular signal transduction. However, the theory of protein aggregation is not developed enough to predict/understand this commonalities, or to predict the effect of the environment factors (temperature, pH, ionic strength, concentration, dimensionality, membrane fluidity etc.) on the aggregation.
A discussion meeting on the problem of protein association and aggregation was designed as an interdisciplinary dialogue between physicists, chemists and biologists. This meeting was an opportunity to get condensed matter physicists (who work on nucleation, phase separation, diffusion etc.) and protein experimentalists (who work on aggregation/association of protein molecules) together to see if we can highlight the problems and opportunities to each other.
Schedule: February 22 to February 23, 2003. (Part of the Mahabaleshwar Seminar 2003)
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005, India.
