Won Second Prize at the Manipal Research Colloquium 2018

From the year 2014, Director Research, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is conducting Manipal Research colloquium (MRC). This year we are celebrating MAHE's Silver Jubilee. MRC 2018 event is sponsored by PHILIPS and I won the oral second prize in Basic Science section.

Workshop on Homology Modeling @ MLT, SOAHS, MAHE, Manipal

26-March-2018: Department of Medical Laboratory Technology, School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal has organized one day "National Workshop on Clinical Laboratory Research - A Multi Disciplinary Approach". Five parallel workshop has conducted in the same day. 

I have been invited to conduct a day long work on "Homology  Modeling of Proteins and 3D Structure Visualization." It was one of the wonderful experience. Thanks to the faculty, students (international level) and Head of the Department (Dr. Saleena Ummer: https://manipal.edu/soahs-manipal/department-faculty/faculty-list/saleena-ummer-velladath.html) for their invitation and participation. 

Here is some pictures of the day:

Dr. Saleena is presenting a participation certificate to me. 

Workshop participants

Receiving a memento from Dr. Poornima Baliga (Pro-Vice Chancellor, MAHE;  https://manipal.edu/kmc-manipal/department-faculty/faculty-list/dr-poornima-baliga.html), Professor Dr. H,. Vinod Bhat (Vice Chancellor, MAHE https://manipal.edu/mu/about-us/leadership/vice-chancellor.html) and Dr. B. Rajasehkar (Dean, SOAHS, MAHE - https://manipal.edu/soahs-manipal/about-soahs-manipal/leadership/dr-b-rajashekar.html) is also present in the dais.  

Presenting a certificate to Dr. Arun Maiya, Professor and Associate of dean of SOAHS (https://manipal.edu/soahs-manipal/department-faculty/faculty-list/arun-maiya.html). He delivered an excellent invited talk on Diabetics. 

Workshop Flyer and photos

National Science Day: 2018 @ JMC-Trichy

It was a nice experience to visit where we studied. Last Wednesday is a National Science Day (28 Feb 2018), and I had a great chance to discuss with 150 young science students. I have completed my B. Sc. Physics (1991-1994), and M. Sc. Physics (1994-1996) from Jamal Mohammed College (http://www.jmc.edu/index.php?mn=home), Bharathidasan University.  See below our group photo (not a complete one though) during one of our M.Sc. practical day.

Dr. Haja Hameed joined as a faculty in the same department, while we are all scattered in the entire globe. He organized a National level seminar on Solid State Physics and invited me to deliver a lecture.

List of Speakers

A snapshot with some faculties of JMC, Physics 

Master students

The college management is more supportive and they spend good time with all the speakers. It was one of the awesome day to interact with young minds and happy to contribute to the institution, where I graduated. Expecting more and more interactions in future.  

Symposium: Recent Advances in Photonics organized by Dept. of Atomic & Mol Physics, Manipal University

On 13th November 2017, we (https://manipal.edu/damp.html) have organized a symposium on "Recent Advances in Photonics." Professor Dr. G.K. Prabhu [Director, Manipal Institute of Technology & Pro Vice-Chancellor (Technology & Management), Manipal University Manipal]  has kindly graced the function as chief guest and delivered the presidential address. Five experts from photonics filed has presented their recent results of their research. Later in the evening, we had a great opportunity to discuss our results with Professor Kattera A. Suresh another inspiring personality delivered the inaugural address on the symposium. Here are some pictures of the symposium. 

Annual Sports Meet - 2017

On 4th November 2017, I have been invited as one of the chief guests of the Annual Sports Meet -2017 of Christ School, Manipal (http://christschoolmanipal.org/default.asp). It was a wonderful moment and brought back to my school days. I used to actively participate in the long jump, high jump, basketball, kho-kho etc during my school days.  More than sports, during school days I was a good orator in Tamil, and never missed a prize in any school function. College life changed the focus ... and took sharp turns.  I also liked the gift they presented (hibiscus plant) presented by the school.  A big thank you to the school management and Mrs. Elisa Vaz (Principal). Here some of the photos of the function (photo courtesy-Christ School, Manipal).

Innovation Day @ Manipal University 2016: III Prize

Manipal University organizes Innovation Day every year. Our group has participated in 2016 and presented the laser-based crystallization technique as an alternative technique to crystallize biomolecules (drug).  Out of 40 teams, we have won the III prize. 

The Team:
Dr. Abdul Ajees Abdul Salam
Ms. T. Shilpa
Dr. Sajan D. George
Dr. Aseefhali Bankapur
Dr. Santosh Chidangil

Myself and Ms. T. Shilpa (My Ph.D. student) receiving the certificates and cash prize from honorable Dr. Ranjan Pai (CEO and MD of the Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), https://manipalglobal.com/mage/about-us/leadership/ranjan-pai.html) during Founders Day of Manipal University (April 30, 2017). 
https://manipal.edu/mu/news-events/news-list/manipal-group-of-institutions-celebrate-founders-day.html

Recent Publications: Update

1. Synthesis, anticancer, structural, and computational docking studies of 3-benzylchroman-4-one derivatives Published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters: Impact Factor 2:454

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960894X17310119

2. Bisindole-oxadiazole hybrids, T3P® -mediated synthesis, and appraisal of their apoptotic, antimetastatic, and computational Bcl-2 binding potential. Journal iof Biochemical and Molecular Toxicology; Impact factor: 2.042 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbt.21962/full

3. Indole-coumarin-thiadiazole hybrids: An appraisal of their MCF-7 cell growth inhibition, apoptotic, antimetastatic and computational Bcl-2 binding potential. Journal: European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry; Impact Factor: 4.519; 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0223523417303938?via%3Dihub

4. Effect of nucleants in photothermally assisted crystallization

Journal: Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences; Impact Factor: 2.344

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/pp/c6pp00430j#!divAbstract

5. Molecular characterization of neuraminidase genes of influenza A(H3N2) viruses circulating in Southwest India from 2009 to 2013

Journal: Archives of Virology; Impact Factor: 2.058

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00705-017-3306-4

6. Structural analysis of chalcone derivative: 2‐{4‐[(2E)‐3‐(4‐fluorophenyl)prop‐2‐enoyl]phenoxy}acetic acid hydrate

Journal: Chemical Data Collections

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405830016300969