VELS Summer Training and Internships in BIOINFORMATICS

DEPARTMENT OF BIOINFORMATICS
VELS UNIVERSITY
Velan Nagar Pallavaram
Chennai - 600 117

Summer Training and Internships IN BIOINFORMATICS 

STARTING FROM- 10th May, 2010

About Training

We have earned a reputation of providing top quality and cutting-edge short term trainings, and six months dissertations guided by the knowledgeable and experienced practitioners in the field of bioinformatics. The Institute focuses on the hands on training sessions with latest advances in technology, and is continually researching and developing new courses to enhance the quality. Our faculty member’s instructors are specialized personnel whose experience brings practical insight and invaluable knowledge.

Training Offered

We offer six weeks summer training and support up to six months dissertation programs. Short term training programs are imparted in the months of May to July at the post graduate and undergraduate level. The program consists of Customized training programs, tailored to meet specific needs of any university or college’s for undergraduate students on special consideration.

Eligibility

B.Tech (Bioinformatics/Biotechnology) Students appearing in their final semester exams with at least an average of 60% marks through out their academic profile.

Students pursuing B.Sc (Bioinformatics/Biotechnology) and M.Sc (Bioinformatics/Biotechnology) semester with at least an average of 60% marks through out their academic profile.

Documents required (in soft copy and hard copy) for applying for Dissertations

Biodata of the Student

Original copy of the letter forwarded by the Head of the Department.

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECTS /TRAINING OFFERED:

Basic Courses (1Week) (Course fee Rs.1000)

· Introduction to Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

· Bioinformatics Databases & Applications

· Sequence Analysis & Similarity

· Structure Prediction & Visualization

Advanced Program’s (2weeks) (Course fee Rs.1500)

· Protein modeling

· Modeling & Docking

· Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Immunoinformatics ( 1 week) (Course fee Rs.1000)

· Databases in Immunoinformatics

· Informatics and the Insilco prediction of immunogenecity

· Vaccine Designing

Pharmacophore analysis (1week) (Course fee Rs.1000)

· Protein Modeling & Pharamacophore search

· Docking & Pharmacophore Analysis

· Pharmacophore Generation

Systems Biology (1week) (Course fee Rs.1500)

· Metabolic pathway construction

Computer Aided Drug designing (2weeks) (Course fee Rs.1500)

· Protein & Ligand Interaction

· Protein & Protein Interaction

· Scoring function analysis

· Interaction Studies

Chemiformatics (1week) (Course fee Rs.1500)

· Chemical Library search & Drawing

· Molecular Format Conversion

· Calculating Descriptors

· QSAR

Bioprograming (2weeks) (Course fee Rs.1500)

· Practical Extraction & Reporting Language (PERL)

· PERL and Creating interface using CGI

· Database creation using VB with RDBMS

CONTACT ADDRESS:

Mrs. RadhaMahendran, Head

Department of Bioinformatics

Vels University,

Pallavaram, Chennai-117

Mobile - 9443652502, 9884958425.

e-Mail : mahenradha@gmail.com,

e-Mail : sri.mithru@gmail.com

ACCOMODATION –FREE FOR ALL SELECTED CANDIDATES.

Request from BIOINFORMATICS DEPARTMENT, VELS COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, PALLAVARAM, CHENNAI-117