February 2025: Role of Biotechnology in Biological Sciences: Striving for a Sustainable Future, Miranda House, Delhi University, India
February 2025: 5th IBSE International Symposium on Microbiomes in Environment, Space and in Human Health, IIT-Madras, Chennai, India
January 2025: NetScix2025, IIT-Indore, India
November 2024: Amrita Legion for Antimicrobial Resistance Management, Amrita University, India.
March 2024: In-person Talk, Chair and Panelist, Antimicrobial Resistance, Novel Drug Discovery and Vaccine Development: Challenges and Opportunities, SRM University Delhi, India.
January 2024: Virtual Talk, American Chemical Society (ACS) Science Talks, USA.
November 2023: In-person talk, American Chemical Society ACS Global Outreach Summit, INSA, Delhi, India.
April 2023: Virtual Talk, Open Life Science talk on Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond, UK.
23-24 March 2023. India-UK Partnership on AMR Surveillance Consultation for planning phase 2, WHO, Delhi.
10-12 March 2023. International scientific conference: 23rd-ADNAT- "Translating Human Evolutionary History to Precision Medicine". Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
16-17 February 2023. Two-day symposium on Cell and Molecular biology. Dept. of Biological sciences SRM University-AP.
9th December 2022. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai.
24-26 November 2022. Two-day Symposium ALARM 2022, “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance - Together We Can”. AMRITA School of Biotechnology, Kerala.
14th - 18th Dec 2020 - International E-workshop on Bioinformatics, DTU, online.
3rd Sept 2020 - International conference on Data Science in Biology (ICDSB) 2020, online.
21st Aug 2020 - Drug Discovery Virtual Tool Room: What is available and how to access. DDH2020, online.
6th Dec 2019 - Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance, Drugs, Bugs & SynBio, CRI, Paris, France.
28th Nov 2019 - Collaborative Tools to Accelerate Infectious Diseases Research, Platforms for Engagement: Technology for Citizen Science, CRI, Paris, France.
21st - 25th July 2019 - Poster: Crowdsourcing towards Antimicrobial Resistance & Open Source Drug Discovery, BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), Basel, Switzerland.
10th July 2019 - Data-driven approaches to address Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
4th July 2019 - MITOLINK: An integrated Web-based Workflow System to Evaluate Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Human Mitochondrial Diseases, Galaxy Community Conference, Freiburg, Germany.
3rd July 2019 - CHAIR: Transcriptomics and Genomics Track, Galaxy Community Conference, Freiburg, Germany.
19th June 2019 - Crowdsourcing Science, Education & Research: Individual Competence to Team Delivery, Centre D’épidémiologie Clinique, Paris, Cochrane, France.
16th June 2019 - Emerging Opportunities in Biomedical Research, FEA, Live Facebook talk with viewership of 3000.
23rd March 2019 - Invited as speaker and panelist in the Open Source Pharma Foundation Meeting, Paris, France.
11th- 12th October 2017 - International Conference on Frontiers in Life, Digital & Educational Sciences, INSERM CRI, Paris, France.
10th - 11th Feb 2017 - Integrated Web-based Platform and Novel Fingerprinting Ontology for Genotype-Phenotype Correlations for Mitochondrial Diseases. International Conference on Mitochondria in Health and Disease, 10-11 Feb 2017, JNU, Delhi, India
7th - 10th Nov 2016 - Tackling the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance: Increasing Awareness and Facilitating Research Networks. CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India. Keynote speaker.
Oct 2014: Innovative Collaborative Platforms for Disease Genomics and Drug Discovery. 2014 ITMAT Symposium: Progress in Translational Science: Emerging Therapeutic Modalities, Philadelphia, USA.
April 2013: Open Source Drug Discovery: An Alternative Innovation Model for Affordable Healthcare, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Sept 2012: MitoLSDB: The Human Mitochondrial Locus Specific Database, 11th European Conference on Computational Biology, Basel, Switzerland.
March 2012: Cheminformatics and Open Source Drug Discovery: a case study in academic collaboration between the U.S. and India, US-India Network Enabled Research Collaboration Workshop #2, Washington, USA.
March 2012: Open Source Drug Discovery: A Novel Approach to Collaborative Research for Affordable Health and Opportunities for Young Investigators in India. Special NIH-India Seminar, NIH, USA.
May 2011: Customized Galaxy with Applications as Web Services and on the Grid for Open Source Drug Discovery, Galaxy Community Conference, Lunteren, The Netherlands.
May 2011: Open data systems for open drug development, Enabling 21st Century Healthcare by Advanced Informatics, European Human Genetics Conference 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
May 2010: A Genotype-Phenotype Correlation Database for human mitochondrial Genome. The Third Human Variome Project Meeting, UNESCO Paris, France.
April 2009: 2009 Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD), China Education and Research Conference, 22nd – 24th April 2009, Chengdu, China.
Invited Speaker at National platforms:
February 2025: Chemistry-Innovation and Translations in Drug Discovery-2025, NIPER, Ahmedabad, India.
March 2024: In-person Talk, Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
March 2024: In-person Talk and Workshop, educational workshop on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) for pharmacy students, Superheroes against Superbugs (SaS), Ropar, India.
December 2023: Virtual Talk, Refresher Programme in Life Sciences, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre at Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
December 2023: Virtual Talk (Plenary), National Conference on Innovation in Infectious Disease Therapeutics, Drug Delivery, and Regulation: Unleashing Future Potential, Anand Pharmacy College, Gujarat, India.
November 2023: Virtual Talk, Antimicrobial Awareness Week, Amrita University, India.
November 2023: Virtual Talk, Antimicrobials: handle with care, Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India.
October 2023: In-person Talk, Sustainable Development Goals, PM-SHRI KV Dappar, Mohali, India.
July 2023: Virtual Poster presentation at Galaxy Community Conference 2023, Brisbane.
July 2023: In-person talk, Network Biology Day, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India.
June 2023: In-person poster presentation, 9th Annual Conference of the SMRM on Mitochondria in Biology and Medicine, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad, India.
April 2023: Virtual Talk, Faculty Development Program on "Advancements in Computational biology and healthcare", SRM University – AP, Andhra Pradesh, India.
April 2023: Virtual Talk, Current Trends in Life Sciences (CTLS-2023), Life Science Research Conference, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai.
February 2023. Discuss the ongoing initiatives and discuss next steps on genomics surveillance with respect to AMR, ICMR Hqrs., New Delhi.
13-17 March 2023. 1-week short-term course on "Computer-Aided Drug Design and Structural Bioinformatics". Indian Institute of Technology (BHU).
16-22 January 2023. High-End Workshop: Biosecurity, Biosafety, Capacity and Capability Building: Working with Infectious Agents (BBCCB-2023) funded by SERB, New Delhi under Accelerate Vigyan scheme under CSIR-Integrated Skill initiative. CSIR-IMTECH.
24th November 2022. Gamification of antimicrobial resistance awareness. Dr. BR Ambedkar Institute of Medical Sciences. AIMS Mohali.
14-15 November 2022. Thought Leadership Forum (TLF) meeting on “AMR in the Post COVID World ''. India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
19-23 September 2022. Hands-on-workshop on Python, R and Galaxy for bio-data analysis, under the CSIR Skill Development initiative. CSIR-IIIM, Jammu.
30th August 2022. Omics Research Symposium 2022. Online.
29th July 2022. A popular science lecture to the school students under the CSIR-JIGYASA-ATL (Atal Tinkering Labs of NITI AAYOG) webinar series called 'Demystifying Science". Online.
18-28 July 2022. High End Workshop on Instrumentation and Bioinformatics under the Karyashala Scheme - A SERB initiative. Department of Medical Parasitology, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
13th July 2022. Understanding & addressing Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Complex Diseases. ACBR, University of Delhi Summer Undergraduate Research Programme. Online.
4th May 2022. Education and Science in the Era of Big Data in Biotechnology. Kalinga University. Online.
4th April 2022. 2-week Virtual Workshop & Hands-on Training on “Next Generation Bioinformatics Approaches In Infection Biology”. Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. Online.
13th March 2021 - Current trends in Proteomics and Genomics studies, St. Xavier's College- Autonomous, Mumbai.
5th Nov 2020 - webinar in IMSc, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai.
24th October 2020 - Coronavirus Webinar Series (CoV-WS), Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB), Bengaluru
22nd Aug 2020 - Webinar for Freshmen Induction 2020, University Institute of Biotechnology (UIBT), Chandigarh University , Mohali.
24th July 2020 - One Day Workshop on Basic and Advance Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis, DBT Apex BTIC, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Delhi.
10th July 2020 - Eminent Speaker, CSIR-Summer Research Training Programme-2020, online.
5th & 16th July 2020 - National Webinar entitled 'Current Strategies and Challenges of Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of COVID-19', Jiwaji University, Gwalior.
10th Feb 2020 - Data-driven approaches to address Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), IIT-Madras, Chennai.
9th - 13th Dec 2019 - Dynamic Hybrid Pharmacophore Approach for Discovery of New Drugs, National Training Programme, Computational Analysis of Protein Structures (CAPS), CSIR-IMTECH.
11th Nov 2019 - Hacking the Biobugs, Darwin International Conference, India’s Biggest Evolutionary Movement in Biology, Mumbai.
27th - 29th March 2019 - Drug Metabolism Networks: Case study from Tuberculosis to evaluate drug-drug interactions. National Workshop on Alternative Methods to Animal Testing. Shahid Rajaguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, Delhi.
20th September 2018 - Data-intensive Approaches to Identify Novel Therapeutic Interventions for Infectious Diseases. In silico Meet, NIPER, Mohali.
16th August 2018 - Crowdsourcing Science, Education & Research, TedED at DPS, Delhi.
17th March 2018 - Drug Repurposing with Network Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics. Meeting of the Editorial Board members of the Journal of Genetics and Mini-symposium on Genetics and Evolution, Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bengaluru.
16th March 2018 - Big Data Analytics and Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Treatment Pathways of Priority Pathogens. Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases: Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases: Advances and New Applications. ACBR, Delhi University, Delhi.
15th - 17th March 2018 - Innovative drug-repurposing approaches to identify new anti-tuberculosis candidates. Workshop on Bioinformatics & Molecular Modeling in Drug Design, ACBR, Delhi.
14th March 2018 - Ligand and Target based approaches to identify new anti-tuberculosis candidates. Faculty Development Program on Recent Developments in Translational Medicine (RDTM-2018), DTU, Delhi.
13th - 14th March 2018 - Open Source Communities towards Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance: A Feast for Industry-Academia Collaboration. A National Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Microbiology: Perspectives from Academia and Industry. BCAS, Delhi University, Delhi.
20th December 2017 - Mind, Machines & a Meaningful Dialogue. DST INSPIRE Internship Program at Miranda House, Delhi.
28th October 2017 - Molecular Interactome Models of MTB and Open Source Drug Discovery. Symposium on Network Biology, IIIT-Delhi.
28th Feb 2017 - Integrated Web-Based Platform and Novel Fingerprinting Ontology for Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Mitochondrial Diseases. Rare Diseases Day Talk, CSIR-IGIB, Delhi.
22nd - 24th Feb 2017 - Integrated Web-Based Platform & Novel Fingerprinting Ontology for Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Mitochondrial Diseases. 2nd Conference on Next Generation Sequencing, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad.
3. Feb 2017: International Conference on “Mitochondria in Health and Disease” at JNU, Delhi.
20th - 21st Jan 2017 - Integrated Web-Based Platform for Evaluating Genotype-Phenotype Correlation for Mitochondrial Diseases: MitoLink. National Symposium cum Workshop on Bioinformatics for Medical Research, PGIMER, Chandigarh.
Jan 2016: Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Joint Workshop on Systems Biology of Antimicrobial Resistance, ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi.
Jan 2016: 6th Workshop on Bioinformatics and Molecular Modeling in Drug Design, Jan 21-23, 2016, ACBR, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Oct 2015: UK-India workshop on New Diagnostics and Therapeutics to tackle antimicrobial resistance, Delhi.
Feb 2015: Indo-Japan Symposium on Advances in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics, IIT-Delhi, Delhi
Dec 2014: 4th Annual Conference of the Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine (SMRM): Mitochondrial Biology from Molecules to Diseases, Manipal University, Manipal.
Sept 2014: Innovating Drug Discovery for Tuberculosis, UNDP_India, IIT-Delhi, Delhi.
Sept 2014: Innovating Visualization of Multidimensional Data, Workshop on Visualization for Bigdata, CDAC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru.
Sept 2014: OSDD’s experience with GARUDA-NKN. GARUDA NKN Partners Meet, IISc, Bengaluru.
Sept 2014: Presentation and Panel Discussion on Open Source Drug Discovery: Updates, Drug Discovery India 2014, Mumbai.
March 2014: Presentation and Panel Discussion on Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD): Distributed Co-creation Towards Affordable Healthcare Affordable Healthcare for All, Overcoming the Bottlenecks in Drug Discovery and Development, DSIN/Ranbaxy, Gurgaon.
March 2014: Data Intensive Drug Discovery, National Symposium on Infectious Diseases: Advancements in diagnostics, therapeutics and Vaccines, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Aug 2013: Web-based Platforms & Analysis Tools for Data-Intensive Discovery, TIFR, Mumbai.
July 2013: OSDD-GARUDA Collaboration: Experience, Outcomes & Future Expectations GARUDA NKN Partners Meet, SAIACS, Bengaluru.
July 2013: OSDD: Distributed Co-creation Towards Affordable Healthcare Affordable Healthcare, Emerging Themes in TB Research Creating a Network, IISc, Bengaluru.
March 2013: BioPhytMol: An Analysis Platform and Manually Curated Database of Antitubercular Phytomolecules, UK-India MedChem Congress, Hyderabad.
March 2013: OSDD E-learning, National Conference Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education, Delhi University, South Campus, Delhi.
Dec2012: OSDD: Community Collaborative Experiments and Resources. Tuberculosis 2012: Moving towards strategies for prevention & intervention, Bose Institute, Kolkata.
Nov 2012: The Human Mitochondrial Locus Specific Database. 2nd Annual Conference of Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine-India Mitochondria in Health and Disease, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.
Oct-Nov 2012: Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) Connecting Minds & Machines. National Knowledge Network “First Annual Workshop” “The e-Infrastructure of India”, IIT-Bombay, Mumbai.
Feb 2012: Open Source Drug Discovery: Community Collaborative Experiments and Resources. OSCAT, IMT, Chandigarh.
Aug 2011: OSDD: An Alternative Innovation Model for Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases. AstraZeneca, Bengaluru.
April 2011: Open Source Discovery (OSDD) at Exploring Opportunities for Research Collaboration organized by INDO-US NIAID Drug Discovery Forum Joint Conference- DBT DHR ICMR and NIAID/NIH, New Delhi.
Nov 2010: OSDD, Joint Indo-Russian Workshop, IMT, Chandigarh.
Sept 2010: Open Source Drug Discovery, CDAC, Bengaluru.
April 2010: Overview of Connect to Decode 2010 Interactome/Pathway Annotation Project during the On-site Phase of Connect to Decode 2010, April 9th – 11th New Delhi.
March 2010: Indian Institute of Public Administration, workshop on IP for participants of Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA), Delhi.
March 2010: National Conference on Contemporary Developments at Biotech -Bioinformatics Interface, Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM), DST, Gog, Bit Virtual Patan Node, Hem. North Gujarat University, Patan.
Feb 2010: The Indian Virtual Conference on Bioinformatics 2010 (Inbix '10) organized by Bioclues.org, Bioinformatics Organization and Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), regional affiliate of International Society for Computational Biology.
Jan 2010: Computational approaches to decipher Mtb biology. India-USA (SF-Bay Area TB Summit) Jan 11th – 13th, 2010, New Delhi.
March 2009: TBrowse: an Integrative Genomics Map of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Open Source for Computer Aided Drug Discovery (OSCADD), IMT, Chandigarh.
Feb 2009: Short term Training Course on IP Management organized by National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR), Delhi.
Feb 2009: National Seminar on Open Source Drug Discovery organized by Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi. Oct 2008: The First Open Access Day organized by The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
Dec 2006: Identifying Potent Markers For Association Studies. European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Workshop, ‘Human Evolution & Disease’, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad.