Visitors : April2010 – March 2011 :

1. On 31st March, 2011, Dr. L.Arvind from NIH, USA visited and delivered a lecture.

2. On 9th March, 2011, Dr. Sudipto Muhuri from IOP, Bhubaneswar visited and delivered a lecture on “Collective vesicle transport on biofilaments carried by Competing molecular motors"

3. On 2nd March, 2011, Dr. Jagdish Rai from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, USA visited and delivered a lecture on "Structural basis of peptide mimetics as vaccine and inhibitor design: Heam protein & retroinverso peptides".

4. On 2nd February, 2011, Prof. Alan E. Mark from Molecular Dynamics GroupSchool of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences (SCMB), University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia visited and delivered a lecture on

“X-ray Crystal Complexes: How much can we trust the conformations of non-standard ligands”.

5. On 20th January, 2011 Dr. Toshio Asada from Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, JAPAN visited under DST-JSPS exchange programme and delivered a lecture on “Theoretical investigation of the enzymatic reaction by using QM/MM calculations”

6. On 19th January, 2011 Dr. Ragothaman Yennamalli from Iowa State University, USA visited and delivered a lecture on “Understanding Endoglucanases for Biofuel Applications”.

7. On 7th January, 2011 Dr. Areejit Samal from Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS) Univ. Paris-sud, Orsay, France & Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MIS), Leipzig, Germany visited and delivered a lecture on “Randomizing metabolic networks”.

8. On 17th December, 2010 Dr. Mansi Srivastava from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA 02142 visited and delivered a lecture on “Early animal evolution: insights from the genomes and embryos of cnidarians, placozoans, and sponges".

9. On 18th November, 2010 Prof. Prajit Basu from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad visited and delivered a lecture on "Ethics of Ignorance”.

10. On 3rd November, 2010 Dr. Kavita Jain from Theoretical Science and Evolutionary Biology Units, JNCASR, Bangalore visited and delivered a lecture on "Biological evolution on correlated fitness landscapes”.

11. On 31st August, 2010 Dr. Kushal Shah from Weizmann Institute, Israel visited and delivered a lecture on "Dynamics of Charged Bio-molecules in Paul Traps”.

12. On 27th August, 2010 Dr. Sumeet Dua from Upchurch Endowed Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Computer Science, Coordinator of IT Research, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, U.S.A. visited and delivered a lecture on “Robust Feature Fusion for Data Mining Cybertools in Translational Bioinformatics”

13. On 3rd August, 2010 Dr. Ganesh Bagler from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin visited and delivered a lecture on "Computational Biological Investigations of Proteins from Complex Networks Perspective”.

14. On 5 May, 2010, Dr. Rajasekaran from Department of Bioinformatics of Karunya University visited and delivered a lecture on “How much carbon that might stabilize a globular protein?”

15. On 22 April, 2010, Prof. Bikas K chakrabarty from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics visited and delivered a lecture on “Statistics of the Kolkata Paise Restaurant Problem” and on “Econophysics of Income & Wealth Distributions in Societies”.

16. On 8 April, 2010, Dr. Tapan Chaudhury from IIT Delhi visited and delivered a lecture on “Protein folding in cell and in vitro: Involvement of molecular chaperones in the assisted folding pathways”.

17. On 7 April, 2010, Dr. Deepayan Sarkar from ISI, Delhi visited and delivered a lecture on “Modeling Data From High-Throughput ChIP-Seq Experiments”.

Visitors :April 2009 - 2010 March

1. On 26th March, 2010, Dr. Somdatta Sinha from CCMB, Hyderabad visited and delivered a lecture on “In silico analysis of HIV-1 genes”.

2. On 18th March, 2010, Dr. Soumen Roy from University of Chicago visited and delivered a lecture on “Networks: An Emergent Cross-talk System and Biology”.

3. On 10 March, 2010, Prof. Kumaraswamy Velupillai from Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italy visited and delivered a lecture on “The Emergence of the Nonlinear Theory of the Business Cycle”.

4. On 9 March, 2010, Prof. V.Balakrishnan from Dept. of Physics, IIT, Madras visited and delivered a lecture on “Recurrence time statistics in classical and quamtum dynamics”.

5. On 8th February, 2010, Dr. Manu from University of Chicago, USA visited and delivered a lecture on “Robustness of pattern formation in Drosophila”.

6. On 18th January, Prof. Stephan Thurner from Santa Fe institute visited and delivered a lecture on “Stability of model-RNA networks”.

7. On 14th Janurary, 2010, Dr. Sridhar Hannenhalli from University of Pennsylvania, USA visited and delivered a lecture on “Comparative analysis of regulatory region”.

8. Professor Catherine Etchebest Equipe DSIMB, UMR-S665 - INSERM, Université Paris-Diderot-Paris7 Dec 8th 2009

9. Prof. Joel Stiles in Nov 26, (a computational neuroscience workshop at NCBS in the third week of nov.) (Bangalore) as a speaker at the workshop. He is the driving force and developer behind the MCELL software package.

10. On 24 November, 2009, Dr. Amitabha Nandi from Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden visited and delivered a lecture on “Intrinsic common noise in coupled chemical systems”.

11. On 19th November, 2009, Prof. K.B.Athreya from Iowa State University, USA visited and delivered a lecture on “Last Universal Common Ancestor”.

12. On 18 November, 2009, Dr. Nivedita Deo from Delhi University, Physics Department visited and delivered a lecture on “Scaling, phase transition and genus distributions in matrix models of RNA with external interactions”.

13. Professor Martin Henson, Dean of International Development, University of Essex UK October 6th. 2009

14. Seminar by Himadri Pakrasi – WUSTL Oct. 5th . Carbon Capture and Bioenergy Production by Photosynthetic Organisms.

15. On 29 September, 2009, Prof. Prasad V.Bharatam from FRSC Department of Medicinal Chemistry Natl.Inst. Pharm. Edu. & Res. (NIPER) visited and delivered a lecture on “Modeling, Informatics and Synthesis of Anti-diabetic Leads”.

16. On 17th August, 2009, Mr. Sumeet Agarwal from Department of Physics, University of Oxford visited and delivered a lecture on “Revisiting Date and Party Hubs: Novel Approaches to Role Assignment in Protein”.

17. Joint Seminar of Information Technology, JNU and Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore organising a Platinum Jubilee Lecture by Prof Michael Witzel (Wales Professor of Sanskrit, The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)”Origin and Development of Language in South Asia: Phylogeny vs Epigenetics? “on July 9, 2009

18. July 9th , Dr Chandra Verma, BII , Singapore , Talk : Novel ideas for p53 enthusiasts from the computer simulations.

19. April 20th. V.Subramanian, Department of Biology and Biochemistry ,University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom Topics : Angiogenin and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – Making the connection from genetics to mechanisms using stem cell and vertebrate models

20. On 8 April, 2009, Dr. Parbati Biswas from Dept. of chemistry, Delhi University visited and delivered a lecture on “Statistical Theory of Combinatorial Protein Design”.

Visitors 2008april- march2009:

1. “Brains, Computers and Intelligence” by Mriganka Sur Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience Head, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA January 2, 2008.Pink Noise Nick Jones,C Physics Department,Oxford University 7 January, 2008.

2. “Giant mobile phone network : A proxy for the human network at the societal

level” by Dr. Janos Kertesz Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary January 14, 2008 at CSIR, New Delhi.

3. Aug 8th 2008 Committee members with chairman of UGC XIth Plan visited the HPC facility at the school and interacted with the faculties.

4. Aug. 11th. 2008 Dr. Frank Hollinger, Vice President, Computation & Informatics, Sphaera Pharma Pte. Ltd. visited and delivered a lecture on “Fragment Based Drug Design”.

5. Nov. 12 2008 Dr. A.C.Nair from Kerala6. Nov. 27 2008 Dr. Amit K. Chattopadhyay from Delhi University visited and delivered lecture

on” A Mathematical Model of Immunological Synapse”.7. Dec 10 2008 , Vasant Honavar , Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory

Department of Computer Science& Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning, and Discovery, Iwa State UniversityAmes, Iowa 50011, USA, delivered lecture on “Towards a semantics-enabled Distributed infrastructure for collaborative discovery” .

8. Jan 5th. 2009 Prof. S. Thorat, Chairman , UGC visited the HOC facility at the school.9. Jan. 9th 2009 Prof. Pradipta Chaudhury, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, JNU

delivered a lecture on “Political economy of caste: An analysis of macro-level quantitative evidence”.

10. Jan 17th. 2009 Prof. Martin Karplus, Harvard medical school visited and interacted with the faculties and scholars.

11. Feb 17th. 2009 Dr. Rajeev Arora , Dept. of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology ,Saint Louis University School of Medicine ,USA delivered a lecture on “Inference and Validation of a Novel Function of Osteoclasts as Antigen Presenting Cells”.

12. March 3rd. 2009 Dr. Vijay Chandru, a very distinguished scientist & professorat IISC Bangalore and is a co-founder of Strand life science, Bangalore visited the school.

13. March 3rd. 2009 at 4:00PM Dr. Raja Banerjee , WBUT, Kolkata delivered a lecture on “Application of mass spectroscopy in peptide and protein sequencing”.

Visitors 2007:

1. Dr. Pramod Wangikar, IIT Mumbai, delivered a lecture on “Modelling andOptimization of Antibiotic Production” in 2007

2. Dr. K.V.S. Chari, TIFR gave a talk on “NMR of Calcium Binding Proteins :Structure andBeyond” in 2007

3. Dr. Ajay Royyuru, IBM, New York delivered a talk on “Computational Biology atIBM Research” in 2007

4. Prof. A. Livine, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA in 2007

5. “NMR of Calcium Binding Proteins : Structure and Beyond” byProf.K.V.S.Chary, Dept. of Chemical Sciences,TIFR, Mumbai on February 15th,2007.

6. “Modeling and optimization of antibiotic production” by Prof. PramodWangikar,Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,Powai, Mumbai on March 12th 2007

7. “The genetic network controlling E. coli metabolism as a dynamical system”Areejit Samal, Dept. of Physics, DU on 28 June, 07

8. “Metapopulation Dynamics In The Laboratory by Amitabh Joshi Evolutionary &Organismal Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced ScientificResearch, Bangalore Tuesday 27 November, 2007.

9. "Are they victims of their own success?" by Dr. Mallikarjun Shakarad, SLS, JNU.Dec 3rd 07.

10.Recipes of complex stochastic processes in Bayesian machine learning by Dr.Subhashis Ghoshal Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University,Raleigh, U.S.A. on December 11, 2007.