Meetings and Conferences

4th Indo-Japan Bilateral NMR Meeting, ICGEB, New Delhi, 7-8 March 2025. Invited Speaker (Probing conformational heterogeneity in an RNA recognition motif: implications for fibril formation)

NMR-based Metabolomics and in vitro Diagnostic Research Workshop, Center for BioMedical Research, Lucknow, 24-28 Feb 2025. Invited Speaker (1. Phase cycling in NMR, 2. Labeled RNA sample preparation and purification for high-resolution structural studies by NMR spectroscopy)

Drug Discovery 2025: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 24-26 Feb 2025. Invited Speaker (Probing conformational heterogeneity in an RNA recognition motif: implications for fibril formation)

Poster presentations by two lab members at IFBNS-2024: Indo-French Biomolecular NMR Winter School: Theory and Practice for Integrative Structural Biology held at IIT Guwahati from 14 Dec 2024 - 20 Dec 2024. Zainab Amin won the Best Poster Award at the winter school.

Poster presentations by four lab members at Biophysics Paschim, IISER Pune, 24 Aug 2024. Nikhil Sunny won the Best Poster Award at the meeting.

30th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS), Seoul, Korea, 18-23 Aug 2024. Invited Speaker (Differential Conformational Dynamics in two type-A RNA-Binding Domains Drive the Double-Stranded RNA Recognition and Binding)

12th RNA Group Meeting, IIT Guwahati, 22-24 May, 2024. Invited Speaker (Differential Conformational Dynamics in two type-A RNA-Binding Domains Drive the Double-Stranded RNA Recognition and Binding)

29th Annual meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society, CBMR Lucknow, 2-5 Feb 2024. Invited Speaker (Insights into protein aggregation by conformational dynamics)

Bioconclave, IISER Pune, 1-3 Feb 2024. Speaker (Insights into protein aggregation by conformational dynamics)

Emerging Trends in Chemical Characterisation, BARC, Mumbai, 27 Jan 2024. Invited Speaker (Molecular Insights by Solution NMR Spectroscopy)

FORCE-IICS 2023, Kathmandu, 28 Sept-1 Oct 2023. Invited Speaker (Understanding Protein-RNA Interactions via Conformational Dynamics)

Refresher Course in Basic Science from 22 August to 4 September 2023 organized by The Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. Invited Speaker (Applications of solution NMR: From Metabolomics to understanding Protein-RNA interactions)

IISER Mohali, on April 6, 2023. Invited Speaker (Applications of solution NMR: From Metabolomics to understanding Protein-RNA interactions)

28th Annual Meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India, hosted by IISER Berhampur, during Feb 24 – 27, 2023. Invited Speaker (Understanding Protein-RNA Interactions via Conformational Dynamics)

ICGEB Meeting on “Protein RNA interaction in cellular regulations” from November 22-24, 2022, at ICGEB, New Delhi. Invited Speaker (Understanding RNA-Protein interaction via conformational dynamics)

Webinar series hosted by Biology Club La Vida of IISER Berhampur on 18th June 2022. Invited Speaker (Inherent conformational plasticity in dsRBDs enables interaction with topologically distinct RNAs

Training course on “Omics in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice, 2022” conducted by NIRRCH, Mumbai, from 9th May to 3rd June 2022. Invited Speaker (Metabolomics in disease biomarker discovery)

44th Annual Meeting of the Indian Biophysical Society (Conceptual Advances in Biophysics and its Applications), hosted by ACTREC Mumbai, during March 30-31 and April 1, 2022. Invited Speaker (Inherent conformational plasticity in dsRBDs enables interaction with topologically distinct RNAs)

Short-term course under AICTE-QIP Scheme (Emerging Techniques and Applications in Biosciences and Bioengineering Research), hosted by IIT Indore via Zoom, during 21-26, March, 2022. Invited Speaker (An overview of NMR spectroscopy and a few applications to biomolecules)

27th Annual Meeting of the National Magnetic Resonance Society of India, hosted by IIT Gandhinagar via Zoom, during March 6 – 9, 2022. Invited Speaker (Conformational plasticity of dsRBDs and their interaction with topologically distinct dsRNAs)

Webinar on Magnetic Resonance: Theory Instrumentation, and Applications, jointly organized by Magnetic Resonance Society Kerala (MRSK) and Srinivasa Ramanujan Institute for Basic Sciences (SRIBS), Pampady, Kottayam, during 20-23 May, 2021. Invited Speaker (2-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy: Basics and Applications)

Chemotsav’21 organized by Department of Chemistry, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi on 9th March, 2021. Invited Speaker (NMR-based metabolomics – a versatile tool to understand the effect of stressors on cells, tissues, and organisms)

National Webinar on Emerging Trends and Future Challenges in Chemical Sciences (ETFC-2021) organised by the Department of Chemistry, Kirori Mal College, the University of Delhi on 4 and 5 March 2021. Invited Speaker (NMR-based metabolomics – a versatile tool to understand the effect of stressors on cells, tissues, and organisms)

Indo-Finnish workshop on Tools and Techniques for Analysis of Skin Microbiome and Metabolome” an international online workshop sponsored by SPARC, MHRD, India, scheduled on 4th-5th January 2021 at the Department of Zoology, Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly University of Pune). Invited Speaker (NMR-based metabolomics – a versatile tool to understand the effect of stressors on cells, tissues, and organisms)

26th National Magnetic Resonance Society Meeting and Conference on NMR – From Molecules to Human Behaviour and Beyond held at Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujrat during February 18-21, 2020. Invited Speaker (Biophysics of RNA-Protein Interactions)

National Conference on Relationship between Chemical Sciences and Society (RCSS-2020) held at Shivaji College, the University of Delhi during January 16-17, 2020. Invited Speaker (Biophysics of RNA-Protein Interactions)

107th Indian Science Congress held at The University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, India, during Jan 3-7, 2020. Invited Speaker (Biophysical Insights into RNA-Protein Interactions

5th Anniversary Symposium of Sakura Science Plan held at The University of Tokyo, Japan on Nov 11, 2019. Participated in Panel Discussion

Japan-Korea Bilateral Symposium on Multi-Scale Structural Life Science and the Advanced Technologies at Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University on March 15, 2019.

DBT National Symposium on Applied Spectroscopy: Biology and Medical Science at Udai Pratap College, Varanasi, Feb 18-20, 2019. Invited Speaker (Dynamical basis of shape-dependent dsRNA-recognition by dsRNA-binding domains)

Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and 25th National Magnetic Resonance Society Meeting at Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, during Feb 13-16, 2019. Invited Speaker (Dynamical basis of shape-dependent dsRNA-recognition by dsRNA-binding domains)

Advanced Omics Technologies & Approaches at Mumbai, India during Jan 17-18, 2019. Invited Speaker (NMR based Metabolic Signatures in Glucotoxic, Lipotoxic, and Glucolipotoxic Stresses in Pancreatic Beta Cells)

4th NMR Meets Biology Meeting at Khajuraho, India, during Dec 16-21, 2018. Invited Speaker (Dynamical modes in RNA binding protein allow for shape-dependent RNA recognition)

1st Sakura Science Club Alumni Meeting at the Embassy of Japan in India on Oct 5th, 2018. Invited Speaker (SSC program, IISER Pune and RNA-Protein Interactions)

Refresher Course in Natural Sciences at Department of Botany, SP Pune University during Aug 16th – Sept 5th 2018. Invited Speaker and Resource Person (Applications of NMR in drug-design/discovery)

Expanding Horizons of NMR at TIFR Mumbai on May 12 2018. Invited Speaker (Understanding the Complexity of Ligand Binding Interactions prevailing in Protein-RNA Complexes)

Innovations in Frontier Chemistry (IFC2018) at IISER Pune during May 8-9 2018.

Special lecture at Defense Institute of Advanced Technology at Pune, Maharashtra on Feb 7 2018. Invited Speaker (Applications of NMR in drug-design/discovery)

Special lecture at Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, SP Pune University at Pune, Maharashtr on Feb 3 2018. Invited Speaker (NMR as a high-throughput screening method in drug-design/discovery)

Invited as a mentor to attend 7th Ramalingaswami Conclave held at Imphal, Manipur during Aug 29-31 2017 organized by IBSD, Imphal and DBT India

ICGEB Course on NMR Spectroscopy: Role of NMR Spectroscopy in Structural Biology, Metabonomics and Drug Discovery at ICGEB, New Delhi, India during 15-26 November 2016. Invited Speaker (Solution-state NMR Methods to Study RNA Motional Modes Critical for Gene Regulation)

USP Biology Workshop at Hyderabad during February 15-16, 2016. Invited Speaker (Characterization of Therapeutic Peptides by NMR)

Western Region Structural Biology Meet at IIT Bombay, Powai, India on Aug 01, 2015. Oral Presentation (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome)

7th Young Investigator Meeting (YIM 2015) at Gulmarg, J&K, India during March 28-31, 2015. Poster Presentation (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome: New Structures of Known Molecules for Drug Target)

National Symposium on Biophysics and Golden Jubilee Meeting of Indian Biophysical Society at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi February 14-17, 2015. Oral Presentation (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome: New Structures of Known Molecules for Drug Target)

Advanced Isotopic Labeling Methods for Integrated Structural Biology (AILM2015) at Grenoble, France during Feb 2 – 5, 2015. Oral Presentation (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome: New Structures of Known Molecules for Drug Target)

NSASST-2014 at School of Physics, Sri Ramatirth Marathwada University, Nanded, India during March 21 – 22, 2014. Plenary Speaker (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome)

ISCBC-2014 at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India, during March 1 – 4, 2014. Invited Speaker (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome: New Structures of Known Molecules for Drug Target)

One Day NMR Symposium” at IIT Bombay, Powai, India on Feb. 11, 2014.

India-UK Scientific Seminar on “Complementary Approaches in Structural Molecular Biology” at IISER Pune, India during Jan. 27 – 29, 2014. Invited Speaker (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome)

International Conference on Biomolecular Simulations and Dynamics at IIT Madras, India during Nov. 28 – 30, 2013. Invited Speaker (Visualizing Transient Structures in A-site RNA of the Ribosome)

International Meeting on Chemical Biology at IISER Pune, India during May 26-28, 2013.

52nd Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference at Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA during April 10-15, 2011. Poster presentation (Combined NMR and Stopped-Flow Fluorescence Dissection of Flux Through Induced-Fit Versus Conformational Selection in A-site–Antibiotic Adaptive Recognition)

55th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting at Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD during March 5-9, 2011. Poster presentation (NMR Dissection of the Detailed Mechanism for Antibiotic Binding to A-site RNA)

SuperRNA meeting at University of Michigan, MI, USA on Feb 7, 2011. Oral presentation (Long-range Activation of RNA Base Flipping by a Non-canonical U.U Base Pair)

51st Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Daytone Beach, FL, USA during Aptil 18-23, 2010. Poster presentation (The Two Zinc-finger Domains Dynamically and Semi-independently Engage Sites on the SL1 RNA)

50th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Asilomer, CA, USA during March 29- April 3, 2009. Poster presentation (Visualizing NC mediated SL1 kissing to duplex transition using NMR)

Special symposium on Advanced MR applications and 14th NMRS meeting held at INMAS, Delhi during January16-19, 2008. Poster Presentations:

1. Dinesh Kumar, Jeetender Chugh, Shilpy Sharma, Ashutosh Kumar, Jyoti Ranjan Misra, and Ramakrishna V hosur (NMR investigations of structural and dynamic features of SUMO from Drosophila melanogaster) (Awarded Best Poster Prize)

2. Jeetender Chugh, Dinesh Kumar, Shilpy Sharma, Jyoti Ranjan Misra, and Ramakrishna V hosur (Dynamics perturbations caused by single point mutations in the GED of Dynamin influence its association characteristics)

3. Jeetender Chugh, Dinesh Kumar, and Ramakrishna V Hosur (Tuning the HNN experiment: Generation of Serine-Threonine Check Points)

4. Jeetender Chugh, Shilpy Sharma, and Ramakrishna V Hosur (NMR insights into ~5 MDa assembly of GED of Dynamin)

Workshop on NMR: Principles and Applications held at TIFR, Mumbai from December 3-7, 2007.

National Symposium on Biophysics: Trends in Biomedical Research, IBS Meeting held at INSA, New Delhi from February 13-15, 2007. Poster presentation (NMR view of the topological preferences and fluctuations in the denatured state of the GTPase Effector Domain of Dynamin)

Current trends in Solid State NMR Methodology and Practice, 13th NMRS Meeting at NCL, Pune from February 5-8, 2007. Poster presentation (Structural and dynamic heterogeneities in guanidine denatured state of GED: all beta propensities in an all alpha-helical protein)

TIFR-Weizmann Interaction Meeting at TIFR, Mumbai from Nov 26-Dec 1, 2006.

Workshop on Biomolecular NMR at TIFR, Mumbai from Jan 16-20, 2006.

12th National Magnetic Resonance Society Meeting (National Symposium on Advances in Magnetic Resonance and its Applications) at Gulmarg, J&K and RRL, Jammu from Ocotber 8-11, 2005. Oral presentation (Strucutral Characterization of large Soluble Oligomers of GTPase Effector Domain of Dynamin)

46th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference at Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, USA during April 10-15, 2005. Poster presentation (Structural studies on GTPase Effector Domain of Dynamin)

International conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems at Shilp Kala Vedika, Hyderabad, India during Jan 16-21, 2005. Poster presentation (GTPase Effector Domain of Dynamin: structure, function, relationships)

Abstract accepted for poster presentation at 15th ISMAR conference held at Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA during Oct 24-28, 2004 (NOT ATTENDED)

Abstract accepted for poster presentation at 45th ENC during April 18-23, 2004, held at Asilomer Conference Centre, Pacific Grove, CA (NOT ATTENDED)

National symposium on NMR Drug Design and Bioinformatics organized by NMRS during Feb 17-20, 2004 at SINP, Kolkata. Poster presentation (GTPase Effecter Domain of Dynamin forms stable helical structures) (Awarded Best Poster Prize)

National symposium on Cellular and Molecular Biophysics organized by IBS during Jan 14-17, 2004 at NIMHANS, Bangalore. Poster presentation (Biophysical studies on GTPase Effecter Domain of Dynamin)

Solid state NMR workshop during Dec 22-26, 2003 at TIFR, Mumbai