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OSDD FOUNDATION DAY & 3 DAY REVIEW MEETING, 15-17th September 2011

15th September 2011, Venue: CSIR HQ Brain Storming Session on OSDD: 10.00-1.30 PM Introductory Remarks: Project Director (10.00-10.30 AM) Coordinating OSDD Activities: Led by Dr Balganesh (10.30 – 11.00 AM) Comments: Chief Mentor (11.00 -11.30 AM) Lead Optimization and Library Screening Projects (Coordinator Dr Geetha Vani) Dr Sudhir Sinha/Dr. Tushar Chakarborty - Proposal for Preclinical Development of Thiophene Compounds (11.30 – 12.00 noon) Dr Rajesh Gokhale - Multi target system based approach to drug discovery (12.00 –12.30 PM)  Dr Inshad Ali Khan/Amit Nargotra - Whole Cell Screening of library of drug like compounds from Chembridge database (12.30 - 1.00 PM)  Dr Nagasuma Chandra - Systems Level Pharmacodynamic Modelling to Predict Therapy Outcome (1.00 -1.20 PM) Lunch Break 1.30- 2.30 PM Seminar on Affordable Health Care for All: 2.30-5.30 PM        16th September 2011,Venue: Science Centre, Gate No.2 Lodhi Garden         Bioinformatics Projects (Coordinator Dr Anshu Bhardwaj)  Dr Anshu Bhardwaj - Interactome and metabolic construction of Mtb, Generating resources both in terms of data and tools for better evaluation of potential drug targets (10.00 – 10.20 AM) Dr Andrew Lynn- Hosted Methods for OSDD Communities; OSDD Portal Development Project (10.20 – 10.40 AM) Dr GPS Raghava – Webservers and software in the field of cheminformatics and pharmacoinformatics (10.40 -11.00 AM) Tea Break (11.00-11.20 AM) Dr Nanda Ghosal - Designing potential lead molecules for inhibition of siderophore biosynthesis in Mtb (11.20 -11.40 AM) Dr U.C. Jaleel – Cheminformatics (11.40 -12.00 PM) Dr Amit Mishra: Transcript Profiling of Macrophages Exposed to TB Drugs and Drug Microparticle (12.00 – 12.20 PM) Dr Vinod Scaria – Chieminformatics and Genome Annotation (12.00 – 12.20 PM) Dr Haridas Rode – A resource of anti TB phytomolecules (12.20 – 12.40 PM) Lunch (1.00 – 2.00 PM)              Biology Projects (Coordinator Dr Geetha Vani Rayasam) Dr Sridhar Sivasubu & Dr Swati Subodh – Sequencing of MTb strains (2.00 -2.20 Dr Devendra Chauhan- JALMA MTb Strains (2.20 -2.30 PM) Dr M Vijaylakshmi/Dr Sadhna Sharma/Dr Urmi Bajpai – Cloning and Expression of the select Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Genes (2.30 -2.50 PM) Dr. K.K. Srivastava- Drug target based screens (2.50 – 3.10 PM) Dr. Javed Aggrewala - Regression of the growth of M. tuberculosis by lipidated promiscuous peptide (3.10 - 3.30 PM) Tea Break (3.30 - 4.00 PM) Dr. Ashwini Kumar- System to validate protein-protein interactions (PPIs) (4.00 -4.20 PM) Dr Gobardhan Das - Immunomodulation as a therapeutic approach (4.20 – 4.40 PM) Dr Vinod Scaria – Chieminformatics and Genome Annotation (4.40 -5.00 PM) Dr Debasis Dash - Mycobacterium tuberculosis GlmURv1018c as potential Drug Target (5.00 - 5.20 PM) Dr Avinash Sonawane - Construction of GlmU mutants and Understanding the effect of Mutation or Deletion of C-terminus amino acid stretch involved in Protein-Ligand Interaction (5.20-5.40 PM) Dr Balaji Prakash- Crystal structure analysis of GlmU (5.40-6.00 PM) Dr B Siram: Design and synthesis of new inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis GlmU (6.00-6.20 PM) Dr Vinay Nandicoori - Assay Development and Hit Identification for GlmU (6.20-6.40 Dr Y. Singh: Protein kinases as a drug targets in Mycobacteria (6.40-7.00 PM) Dr Vinay Nandicoori: Assay Development and Hit Identification of PKNB inhibitors (7.00-7.20PM) OSDD Students: Presentations and Interaction (7.20-8.00 PM)      17th September 2011 , Venue: Science Centre, Gate No.2 Lodhi Garden      Chemistry & Early Hit Identification (Coordinator Dr. Haridas Rode) Dr Tushar Chakraborty - Open Chemistry + Outreach program (10.00 – 10.20 AM ) Dr. Radhakrishnan – Outreach Program (10.20 – 10.40 AM ) Dr Anamik Shah - Organic synthesis (10.40 – 10.50 AM ) Dr Nagaraju - Exploring the medicinal plants of the Western Ghats for potential drug molecules that possess ant-microbial activity and synthesis of a few molecules derived from lead compounds (10.50 – 11.00 AM ) Dr S V Eeshwaran - Substituted Aryl/Biaryl Triazoles and Quinoxalines as pontential Anti-tubercularagents (11.00 – 11.10 AM ) Dr Anil Kumar - Small molecule inhibitors of Mycobacterial Menaquionine biosynthetic pathway enzymes as novel anti-TB drugs; Improved Chemical Entitites as Anti-Tubercular Agents Targeting the Respiratory Pathway through Co-Crystal Engineering (11.10 – 11.20 AM) Rev Fr Dr S Ignacimuthu - Isolation of antimycobacterial compounds vasicine acetate and 2-acetyl benzylamine from adhatoda vasica and synthesis (11.20 –11.30 AM )  Tea Break (11.30 – 11.50 AM) Dr Pemaiah Brindha - Screening of Anti-Tubercular Compounds from Plant Resources (11.50– 12.00 Noon) Dr Saraswathi R – Nano particle based drug delivery (12.00 -12.10 PM) Dr. Surinder Koul - MDR resistant efflux pump Rv1258c of Mtb (12.10 -12.30 PM) Dr G.P.S Raghav: Prediction of Dap A and Dap B inhibitors (12.30-12.50 PM) Dr S. Ramachandran: Development of assays for Dap A and Dap B (12.50-1.10 PM) Dr Bala Pesala/Dr Ashwini Kumar: Non invasive optical TB diagnostics (1.10-1.30 Dr. Saman Habib: OSDD – Malaria (1.30-1.50 PM)

Minister Science and Technology on OSDD in Parliament

COLLABORATIVE MEETING - OSDD CHEMINFORMATICS AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY CHEMINFORMATICS

Meeting was held today for collborative OSDD Cheminformatics work between
1. Professor David wild(Associate Professor & Director of cheminformatics Program  Indiana Univerrsity bloomington) ,
2. Zakir thomas(OSDD Project Director ) ,
3 Dr UC Abdul Jaleel(Associate Professor of cheminformatics Malabar christian college & Principal Investigator of the       OSDD cheminformatics) and
4 Abhik Seal(PhD scholar  at Indiana University Bloomington & OSDD cheminformatics group 1 leader)

The following important points have been discussed  by the people:

Prof David Wild:

Prof david gave a  brief idea about the cheminformatics and chemgenomics research going on in his lab and about the PXR project with university of Cincinnati  . He also discussed about the chembio2Rdf repository and the semantic web technologies involved in his research and how he would like to develop tools for chemgenomics and cheminformatics research.
Zakir thomas:

Dr Zakir thomas gave a brief idea about what OSDD is and how OSDD is collaborating with the graduate students and discussed the why osdd is needed to get started in india .He also discussed the difference between osdd and other open source models that exist . OSDD is basically runned by the graduate students from any subject area ,researchers, and institutes.

Dr. Abdul Jaleel:

Dr Jaleel discussed the problems now we are facing in OSDD cheminformatics mainly related to the following area in Clustering compounds with molecular diversity , designing quantum chemical descriptors  and building semantic chemical biology framework for OSDD data.
I hope Collaborative cheminformatics with osdd and Indiana takes a postive side for future prospects.



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Abhik Seal
Indiana University Bloomington
Department of Chemical Informatics
abseal@indiana.edu
OSDD CHEMINFORMATICS
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http://osddcheminfo.webs.com

WORK SHOP -Monitoring and Evaluation of Recalcitrant Chemicals in the Environment

Dear OSDD members, 

 Very happy to inform you that we are organizing a National LevelTraining Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Recalcitrant Chemicals in the Environment(MERE '11) during 28^th - 31^st October 2011. The main focus of the workshop is to impart hands on training on the analysis of emerging pollutants in the environmental samples using GC-MS (Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer) for detection and quantification of pollutants. Herewith I have attached the event brochure for more details. Kindly circulate this information among your department people and friends circle.  

http://www.bdu.ac.in/events/MERE11.pdf

Event contact details: 

Dr. R. Babu RajendranOrganizing Secretary - MERE '11
Dept. of Environmental Biotechnology
School of Environmental Sciences
Bharathidasan University
Tiruchirappalli - 620024
Tamil Nadu, India
Mobile: 09442105438

Email: mereworkshop2011@gmail.com

Website: www.bdu.ac.in

Please do not hesitate to contact us through e-mail or mobile for further information.

Thanking you,

S. KRISHNA KUMAR
OSDD DECODE2-Cheminformatics Group


Research scholar 
lDept. of Environmental Biotechnology
Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu
Ph: 9952520536www.bdu.ac.in   www.osdd.net
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NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN LIFE SCIENCES FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN LIFE SCIENCES FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The departments of life sciences of Shankarlal Khandelwal College Akola have planned to organize a National Conference on advances in life sciences for sustainable Rural Development on 11th & 12th October 2011. In recent years, rural development has become the focus of attention in countries around the world. It is one of the most important item in the development agenda of India, whose seventy percent of population is dependent upon agriculture for livelihood. Development of villages without harming the integrity of their traditional wealth and peaceful environment is the need of 21st century. Many of the developmental issues of villages are related with the applied aspects of life sciences such as Biogas, Biofertilizers, Biopesticides, Organic manures, Medicinal plants, Plant tissue culture, Floriculture, Animal husbandry, Aquaculture, Sericulture, Apiculture, Vermiculture and many other aspects of Agricultural biotechnology. This National Conference is intended to offer an opportunity to all concerned including students, teachers, researchers and scientists from different parts of India to exchange the ideas and views regarding the latest technological advances in life sciences for sustainable rural development.

When	Tue, October 11, 10:00am – Wed, October 12, 5:30pmGMT+05:30
Where	SHANKARLAL KHANDELWAL ARTS SCIENCE AND COMMERCE COLLEGE, AKOLA

for details 

http://www.khandelwalcollege.org/#

http://www.khandelwalcollege.org/LinkFiles/National%20Conference-Life%20Sciences.pdf

OSDD NEWSLETTER

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Medicinal chemistry related to Antimalarials

Dear All,

Ganpati Bappa Morya

I am pleased to announce that CSIR-CDRI will be organizing a one-day
symposium on developments in the medicinal chemistry related to
Antimalarials on 16th November 2011. The conference will be held under
the aegis of OSDD and will be funded by Medicines for Malaria Venture.
We expect to have Professor Stephen A Ward, Walter Myers Professor of
Parasitology, Deputy Director LSTM, Dr. Jeremy Burrows, Head,
Discovery Science, MMV here to discuss the developments of new
antimalarials. From Indian side Prof. Rahul Jain, Dr. K.
Muraleedharan, Prof. Hema Balram, Dr. Saman Habib will be delivering
talks beside other. We intend to have a 2-3 talks by younger
participants (may be research scholars) working in the field of
development of new antimalarials. In order to encourage wider
participation we intend to have only token registration money. We will
be soon posting the details of the symposium on the cdri website. We
request you to circulate the information amongst your colleagues for a
wider participation.

Thanking you and with kind regards,

Sanjay. 
 http://www.cdriindia.org/sanjay.htm


Dr SANJAY  member OSDD organic chemistry forum