Invited Talks

Invited Speaker at International platforms:


  1. 14th - 18th Dec 2020 - International E-workshop on Bioinformatics, DTU, online.

  2. 3rd Sept 2020 - International conference on Data Science in Biology (ICDSB) 2020, online.

  3. 21st Aug 2020 - Drug Discovery Virtual Tool Room: What is available and how to access. DDH2020, online.

  4. 6th Dec 2019 - Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance, Drugs, Bugs & SynBio, CRI, Paris, France.

  5. 28th Nov 2019 - Collaborative Tools to Accelerate Infectious Diseases Research, Platforms for Engagement: Technology for Citizen Science, CRI, Paris, France.

  6. 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.

  7. 10th July 2019 - Data-driven approaches to address Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

  8. 4th July 2019 - MITOLINK: An integrated Web-based Workflow System to Evaluate Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Human Mitochondrial Diseases, Galaxy Community Conference, Freiburg, Germany.

  9. 3rd July 2019 - CHAIR: Transcriptomics and Genomics Track, Galaxy Community Conference, Freiburg, Germany.

  10. 19th June 2019 - Crowdsourcing Science, Education & Research: Individual Competence to Team Delivery, Centre D’épidémiologie Clinique, Paris, Cochrane, France.

  11. 16th June 2019 - Emerging Opportunities in Biomedical Research, FEA, Live Facebook talk with viewership of 3000.

  12. 23rd March 2019 - Invited as speaker and panelist in the Open Source Pharma Foundation Meeting, Paris, France.

  13. 11th- 12th October 2017 - International Conference on Frontiers in Life, Digital & Educational Sciences, INSERM CRI, Paris, France.

  14. 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

  15. 7th - 10th Nov 2016 - Tackling the Emergence of Antimicrobial Resistance: Increasing Awareness and Facilitating Research Networks. CSIR-IMTECH, Chandigarh, India. Keynote speaker.

  16. Oct 2014: Innovative Collaborative Platforms for Disease Genomics and Drug Discovery. 2014 ITMAT Symposium: Progress in Translational Science: Emerging Therapeutic Modalities, Philadelphia, USA.

  17. April 2013: Open Source Drug Discovery: An Alternative Innovation Model for Affordable Healthcare, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

  18. Sept 2012: MitoLSDB: The Human Mitochondrial Locus Specific Database, 11th European Conference on Computational Biology, Basel, Switzerland.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. May 2011: Customized Galaxy with Applications as Web Services and on the Grid for Open Source Drug Discovery, Galaxy Community Conference, Lunteren, The Netherlands.

  22. May 2011: Open data systems for open drug development, Enabling 21st Century Healthcare by Advanced Informatics, European Human Genetics Conference 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  23. May 2010: A Genotype-Phenotype Correlation Database for human mitochondrial Genome. The Third Human Variome Project Meeting, UNESCO Paris, France.

  24. April 2009: 2009 Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD), China Education and Research Conference, 22nd – 24th April 2009, Chengdu, China.

Invited Speaker at National platforms:

  1. 13th March 2021 - Current trends in Proteomics and Genomics studies, St. Xavier's College- Autonomous, Mumbai.

  2. 5th Nov 2020 - webinar in IMSc, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai.

  3. 24th October 2020 - Coronavirus Webinar Series (CoV-WS), Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology ()IBAB, Bengaluru

  4. 22nd Aug 2020 - Webinar for Freshmen Induction 2020, University Institute of Biotechnology (UIBT), Chandigarh University , Mohali.

  5. 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.

  6. 10th July 2020 - Eminent Speaker, CSIR-Summer Research Training Programme-2020, online.

  7. 5th & 16th July 2020 - National Webinar entitled 'Current Strategies and Challenges of Diagnosis, Treatment and Control of COVID-19', Jiwaji University, Gwalior.

  8. 10th Feb 2020 - Data-driven approaches to address Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), IIT-Madras, Chennai.

  9. 9th - 13th Dec 2019 - Dynamic Hybrid Pharmacophore Approach for Discovery of New Drugs, National Training Programme, Computational Analysis of Protein Structures (CAPS), CSIR-IMTECH.

  10. 11th Nov 2019 - Hacking the Biobugs, Darwin International Conference, India’s Biggest Evolutionary Movement in Biology, Mumbai.

  11. 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.

  12. 20th September 2018 - Data-intensive Approaches to Identify Novel Therapeutic Interventions for Infectious Diseases. In silico Meet, NIPER, Mohali.

  13. 16th August 2018 - Crowdsourcing Science, Education & Research, TedED at DPS, Delhi.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 15th - 17th March 2018 - Innovative drug-repurposing approaches to identify new anti-tuberculosis candidates. Workshop on Bioinformatics & Molecular Modeling in Drug Design, ACBR, Delhi.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 20th December 2017 - Mind, Machines & a Meaningful Dialogue. DST INSPIRE Internship Program at Miranda House, Delhi.

  20. 28th October 2017 - Molecular Interactome Models of MTB and Open Source Drug Discovery. Symposium on Network Biology, IIIT-Delhi.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 3. Feb 2017: International Conference on “Mitochondria in Health and Disease” at JNU, Delhi.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. Jan 2016: 6th Workshop on Bioinformatics and Molecular Modeling in Drug Design, Jan 21-23, 2016, ACBR, University of Delhi, Delhi.

  27. Oct 2015: UK-India workshop on New Diagnostics and Therapeutics to tackle antimicrobial resistance, Delhi.

  28. Feb 2015: Indo-Japan Symposium on Advances in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics, IIT-Delhi, Delhi

  29. Dec 2014: 4th Annual Conference of the Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine (SMRM): Mitochondrial Biology from Molecules to Diseases, Manipal University, Manipal.

  30. Sept 2014: Innovating Drug Discovery for Tuberculosis, UNDP_India, IIT-Delhi, Delhi.

  31. Sept 2014: Innovating Visualization of Multidimensional Data, Workshop on Visualization for Bigdata, CDAC Knowledge Park, Bengaluru.

  32. Sept 2014: OSDD’s experience with GARUDA-NKN. GARUDA NKN Partners Meet, IISc, Bengaluru.

  33. Sept 2014: Presentation and Panel Discussion on Open Source Drug Discovery: Updates, Drug Discovery India 2014, Mumbai.

  34. 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.

  35. 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.

  36. Aug 2013: Web-based Platforms & Analysis Tools for Data-Intensive Discovery, TIFR, Mumbai.

  37. July 2013: OSDD-GARUDA Collaboration: Experience, Outcomes & Future Expectations GARUDA NKN Partners Meet, SAIACS, Bengaluru.

  38. July 2013: OSDD: Distributed Co-creation Towards Affordable Healthcare Affordable Healthcare, Emerging Themes in TB Research Creating a Network, IISc, Bengaluru.

  39. March 2013: BioPhytMol: An Analysis Platform and Manually Curated Database of Antitubercular Phytomolecules, UK-India MedChem Congress, Hyderabad.

  40. March 2013: OSDD E-learning, National Conference Redefining Science Teaching: Future of Education, Delhi University, South Campus, Delhi.

  41. Dec2012: OSDD: Community Collaborative Experiments and Resources. Tuberculosis 2012: Moving towards strategies for prevention & intervention, Bose Institute, Kolkata.

  42. 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.

  43. 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.

  44. Feb 2012: Open Source Drug Discovery: Community Collaborative Experiments and Resources. OSCAT, IMT, Chandigarh.

  45. Aug 2011: OSDD: An Alternative Innovation Model for Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases. AstraZeneca, Bengaluru.

  46. 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.

  47. Nov 2010: OSDD, Joint Indo-Russian Workshop, IMT, Chandigarh.

  48. Sept 2010: Open Source Drug Discovery, CDAC, Bengaluru.

  49. 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.

  50. March 2010: Indian Institute of Public Administration, workshop on IP for participants of Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA), Delhi.

  51. 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.

  52. 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.

  53. Jan 2010: Computational approaches to decipher Mtb biology. India-USA (SF-Bay Area TB Summit) Jan 11th – 13th, 2010, New Delhi.

  54. March 2009: TBrowse: an Integrative Genomics Map of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Open Source for Computer Aided Drug Discovery (OSCADD), IMT, Chandigarh.

  55. Feb 2009: Short term Training Course on IP Management organized by National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR), Delhi.

  56. 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.

  57. Dec 2006: Identifying Potent Markers For Association Studies. European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Workshop, ‘Human Evolution & Disease’, CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad.