DBT Sponsored

National Workshop

on

“In Silico Analysis of Mutation” 16th December, 2015

Organised by

Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility

at

Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

University of Kalyani Kalyani – 741235

West Bengal

India

Sponsored by

Department of Biotechnology

Ministry of Science and Technology

Government of India

About the Institute

University of Kalyani was established by the Chief Architect of Modern Bengal, the

great philanthropist and physician Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy in the year 1960. The university is

situated in a surrounding close to the mother earth covering an area of 400 acres in Kalyani

town of West Bengal with national highway (N.H.34) on one side and the river Ganges on

the other.

The University has completed five decades of commendable service to the

development of Higher Education. The University is presently offering a number of

postgraduate programmes under four faculties namely, Science, Arts & Commerce,

Education and Engineering, Technology & Management. Two more faculties, the Faculty of

Law and the Faculty of Music & Fine Arts have been introduced recently. There are under

graduate colleges under the aegis of the University as well.

The DBT funded Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF), housed in the

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics took its inception in the year 2006 with a view

to serve all the Life Science Departments of this university, as well as, the neighboring

institutes.

About the Workshop:

Predicting the phenotypes of mis-sense mutations uncovered by large-scale sequencing

projects is an important goal in computational biology. High-confidence predictions can be

an aid in focusing experimental and association studies on those mutations most likely to be

associated with causative relationships between mutation and disease. When a sequence

variation is found in a candidate gene for a disease, it is important to establish whether this

change is neutral or responsible for the observed disorders in a patient. To answer this

question, in the absence of further experimental investigations, several simulation programs

have been proposed to predict whether a non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphism

is likely to have or not have a deleterious effect on the phenotype.

Organizing this national workshop on “In Silico Analysis of Mutations” is an attempt to

introduce the participants about the principles behind various genetic disorders.

Eligibility:

Faculty members from Universities and affiliated colleges, Scientists and Scholars from R &

D Institutes, Professionals from Industries and Biotech companies, Post-Graduates and

Under-Graduate Students working in the field of Bioinformatics/Computational Biology with

sound biology knowledge are welcome to register for the workshop.

As the numbers of participants are limited to 30, selection will be done on a first

come, first served basis.

Invited speaker

Prof. KARTIKI V DESAI, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani, India.

Prof. Desai did her PhD from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the year 1999. She

then did her first postdoctoral work in the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA

between 1999 to 2004. She was the Research Associate in the Division of Johns Hopkins,

Singapore between 2005- 2006. She was the Research Scientist, at the Genome Institute of

Singapore before joining the NIBMG in 2011.

How to apply

The duly filled Registration should reach the coordinator, BIF Facility at the address for

Communication by 10th December, 2015. Interested participants may confirm their seat by

sending scanned copy of their application form via email with prior permission.

N. B.

No registration fees for the participants

Number of participants is limited to thirty.

Registration Deadline - 10th December, 2015.

No accommodations will be provided

Address for Communication

DR. ANGSHUMAN BAGCHI

Coordinator

Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF)

Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics

University of Kalyani, Kalyani – 741235

PH: 033 2582 3405, 9051948843 (AB), 9432372734 (Suman Nandy), 8981777917 (Rajabrata

Bhuyan)

E-mail: btis_ku@yahoo.co.in

National Workshop on

“In Silico Analysis of Mutations”

16th December, 2015

Organized by: Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility

University of Kalyani

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