MSMM’21: Multiscale Simulations and Mathematical Modellingof complex biological systems (online)

March 01 - 06, 2021

Inaugural Session by Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday, 01 March at 08:00 AM

*All times are in Indian Standard Time (IST)

*Each lecture will be of 40 minutes duration, followed by a 15-minutes question-answer session.

Date

1^st Session

2^nd Session

Mon, March 01

08:00 - 08:15 AM

Inauguration

08:15 - 09:15 AM (Session Chair: Prof. Shandar Ahmad)

Speaker: Prof. Shoji Takada, Kyoto University, Japan (Title: Diverse nucleosome dynamics revealed by molecular dynamics simulations)

05:00 - 06:00 PM (Session Chair: Prof. Andrew M Lynn)

Speaker: Prof. Dieter W. Heermann, Heidelberg

University, Germany

(Title: The Interaction of Chromatin with multi-Cys2His2 Zinc Finger Proteins)

Tue, March 02

08:00 - 09:00 AM (Session Chair: Prof. Naidu Subbarao)

Speaker: Prof. R. Murugan, IIT Madras, India
(Title: Theory on the rate of site-specific DNA-protein interactions)

05:00 - 06:00 PM (Session Chair: Prof. Rajarshi Chakrabarti)

Speaker: Prof. Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam, Germany
(Title: Non-Gaussian transport in soft and biological matter)

Wed, March 03

08:00 - 09:00 AM (Session Chair: Prof. R.K. Brojen Singh)

Speaker: Prof. Ranjith Padinhateeri, IIT Bombay, India

(Title: Physical models to understand chromatin organization and inheritance of epigenetic information)

05:00 - 06:00 PM (Session Chair: Prof. Neelanjana Sengupta)

Speaker: Prof. Bin Zhang, MIT, USA

(Title: Phase Separation in Genome Organization)

Thu, March 04

08:00 - 09:00 AM (Session Chair: Prof. Anirban

Chakraborti)

Speaker: Prof. Sanjay Kumar, Banaras Hindu University, India
(Title: Dynamical transition in DNA)

05:00 - 06:00 PM (Session Chair: Prof. Pallavi Somvanshi)

Speaker: Prof. Davide Michieletto, University of

Edinburgh, UK

(Title: Modelling the Topological Regulation of Genomes)

Fri, March 05

08:00 - 09:00 AM (Session Chair: Prof. Sobhan Sen)

Speaker: Prof. Debashish Chowdhury, IIT Kanpur,

India

(Title: Rulers, timers and transport for length control in long cell protrusions)

05:00 - 07:00 PM (Session Chair: Prof. Indira Ghosh)

05:00 - 06:00 PM

Speaker: Prof. Supratim Sengupta, IISER Kolkata, India (Title: The RNA world: Exploring the evolutionary pathways leading to the origin of life)

06:00 - 07:00 PM

Speaker: Prof. Athi N. Naganathan, IIT Madras, India

(Title: A Hierarchy of Coupling Free Energies Underlie the

Thermodynamic and Functional Architecture of Protein Structures)

Sat, March 06

08:00 - 09:00 AM (Session Chair: Prof. A. Krishnamachari)

Speaker: Prof. Saikrishnan Kayarat, IISER Pune, India

(Title: The rotary mechanism of GTP hydrolysis by the McrBC endonuclease)

05:00 - 07:00 PM (Session Chair: Prof. Srabanti Chaudhury)

05:00 - 06:00 PM

Speaker: Prof. Biman Jana, Indian Association for the

Cultivation of Science, India

(Title: Modeling the e ects of disease related mutation and anesthetic drug molecule binding on kinesin functionality.)

06:00 - 07:00 PM

Speaker: Prof. Sarah Harris, University of Leeds,UK

(Title: Mesoscale modelling of Molecular Motors with

Fluctuating Finite Element Analysis)