AU-KBC Hands on Training Programme in “Drug Discovery and Development through Bioinformatics”

Hands on Training Programme in “Drug Discovery and Development through Bioinformatics”

15th –19th, December, 2009

ANNA UNIVERSITY Chennai

Programme Conducted by:

AU-KBC Research Centre,

MIT Campus, Chromepet,

Chennai -  600 044.

PROGRAMME BACKGROUND

TOPICS COVERED

AUDIENCE AND COURSE PLAN

SCHEDULE & REGISTRATION DETAILS

REGISTRATION FORM

TOPICS COVERED

·        Translational Research for Drug Discovery
·         Human Genome Project
·         Target Discovery & Validation
·         Lead Generation & Optimization
·         Drug Discovery and Pharmacogenomics
·         RNAi and Drug Discovery
·         Genomic, Proteomic and Metabonomic tools in Drug Discovery & Development
·         Biomarker Discovery
·         Molecular Modeling &  Docking
·         Structure-Guided Drug Design
·        Chemo informatics and Pharmacoinformatics
·         Medicinal Chemistry
·        Marine environment as treasure trove for Drug Source
·         Natural Product Library
·         Combinatorial Chemistry
·        Antibiotics Resistance and Drug Discovery
·         Vaccine development
·         HTS for Drug Discovery
·         Data Mining for Drug Discovery
·         Systems Biology and Drug Discovery
·         Synthetic Biology
·         Toxicogenomics
·         Medical Genomics
·         Nutrigenomics
·         Drug Delivery Systems
·         Patents, IPR, WTO and Drug Discovery
·         Bioethics 

Note: : Please note that there won’t be any wet lab experiments

AUDIENCE AND COURSE PLAN

The workshop is targeted towards Graduate and Post–graduate students in Science, Engineering and Technology / Life Science Scientists / Medicine / Pharma, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Faculty / PhD scholars / PDF’s. The presentation will be in a tutorial style and participant’s interaction will be strongly encouraged.

For each topic, bird’s eye view will be provided in the beginning and a list of tools and databases used also provided. Important tools in each will be demonstrated with few examples. For all categories, exercise will be given to get hands on experience. Course material will be given in the form of CD to each participant.

Course Plan   

The course will be conducted in 10 sessions at the AU-KBC Research Centre, Chromepet from  15th –19th, December, 2009 (5 days; 40 hrs)

Morning Session   - 09:00 AM - 01:00 PM

Afternoon Session - 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM

FACULTY AND ASSOCIATES

Dr. G.Ramesh Kumar (AU-KBC)
Dr. Bharath Srinivasan (IIT,Chennai)
Dr. P.Gautam (CBT, Anna University)
Dr. MD.Nair (Chennai)
Ms. T.K.Subazini Vijay (AU-KBC)
Mr. K.Palani Kannan (AU-KBC)
Mr. S.Nagavignesh (AU-KBC)
Mr.CP Rajadurai  (AU-KBC)
Ms.S.Sangeetha (AU-KBC)
Mr.Avinash Ramani (AU-KBC)
Mr.Sameer Hassan , (Ph.D) ( TRC,Chennai)

SCHEDULE  AND REGISTRATION DETAILS

The course fee is Rupees.Ten Thousand (Rs.10,000/-) only . Please send a Cheque / DD drawn in favour of The Director, AU-KBC Research Centre along with clear contact details (telephone no. and e-mail address). Cash is also accepted at AU KBC Research Centre- Accounts department.

Last Date for Registration: 12.12.2009. Please note that the number of seats is limited and registration is made on the basis of first come first served.

Participation certificate will be given at the end of the programme.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REGISTRATION FORM   

Please send your applications along with DD to: 

G. Ramesh Kumar, Ph.D, 
Course Coordinator,
AU-KBC Research Centre,
MIT Campus, Chromepet,
Chennai - 600 044.
Phone: 2223 2711, 2223 4885,2223 6958 and 2223 6959
E-mail: gramesh@au-kbc.org