Technical Sessions
- The Technical Sessions will commence with Felicitation to Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and a senior most Crystallographer of our country, followed by an Inaugural address by Dr. R. Chidambaram.
- A Public lecture by Distinguished Crystalographer of India by Prof. Vijayan, President Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
- There will be THREE PLENARY LECTURES by eminent Indian Crystallographers
Dr. S. Banerjee, Director, BARC, Trombay
Title: To be announced shortly
Prof. Dhananjai Pandey, BHU, Varanasi
Title:"Protein Crystallography and Drug Discovery"
Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal S cientific Advisor, Govt. of India
Title: Indian Crystallography through Ages
NSC-38 Opening Remarks by Prof. Gautam R. Desiraju
Public Lecture
on 11.02.09
Dr. M. Vijayan, Distinguished Biotechnologist
& President, Indian National Academy of Sciences, New Delhi.
Title: Form and Function in Protein
Evening Special Lectures
on 12.02.09
Prof. Robin Rogers, Editor-in-Chief, Crystal Growth Design, American Chemical Society, U.S.A.
Title: Getting Involved in the Scientific Publishing Process with Crystal Growth & Design: What Does It Take?
Keynote Lectures
Prof. A. S. Myerson, Illinois Institute of technology, U.S.A.
Title: Nucleation of Organic Molecular Crystals: Evidence for the Two Step Nucleation Model
Prof. P. Chakraborty, Bose Inst. Kolkata
Title: Features of macromolecular recognition from an analysis of protein structures
Prof. A. Coleman, France
Title: The Solid State of the Pro-Acyl-Calix[n]arenes
Prof. T.N. Guru Row, IISc., Bangalore
Title: Probing Pathways in Mineral Evolution: An in situ crystallographic Approach
Prof.S. Ramaswamy, University of Iowa, USA.
Title: Molecular Mechanism of Host Pathogen Interaction
Dr. K. Lal, NPL, New Delhi
Title: Challenges in Structural and Chemical Characterization of Solid Surfaces and Thin Film
Prof.A. Nangia, Hyderabad Univ., Hyderabad
Title: Crystal Engineering: Polymorphs, Cocrystals and Network Solids
Prof.M. Zaworotko, University South Florida, U.S.A.
Invited Lectures
Prof. Saraswathi Vishveshawara, IISc., Bangalore
Title: Communication in Proteins through Structure Networks
Dr. Suja Elizebath, IISc., Bangalore
Title: CZ/CF Growth of Certain Oxides
Dr. M.V. Hosur, BARC, Mumbai
Title: X-Ray Analysis of HIV-1 Protease Substrate/Inhibitor Complexes
Prof. Nakai Izumi, Tokyo Univ. Science & Technology, Japan
Ttle: Application of Portable Powder Diffractometer to Art, Cultural Heritage and Archaeology
Prof. Alok Mukerjee, Jadavpur University Kolkata
Title: A Combination of Powder-and Single-Crystal X-ray Differaction in Analysing Polymorphic Structure
Prof. K. Gautham Namashivaya, Madras University Chennai
Title: Kolam Symmetry
Prof. Noor Sahina Begum, Bangalore University, Bangalore
Title: Norbornene Derivatives: Unique Supermolecular Architecture Via Unusual Manner of Self Assembly
Dr. Vedavati Puranik, NCL, Pune
Title: The Role of Proline in the Formation of C9 Alpha-Beta Hybrid Foldomer
Prof. S. Ramkumar, IISc, Bangalore
Title: Structure Function of Xylanases Stable in Poly-extreme Conditions
Prof. Robert E. Dinnebier, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany
Title: It will updated very shortly!
Dr. Shankarnarayan, CCMB, Hyderabad
Title: Structural Model for Editing Defective Synthetases Leading to Disease Conditions
Prof. R. Somashekar, University of Mysore, Mysore
Title: Microstructural Parameters of Natural Fibers Using WAXS Data
Prof. Sabu Thomas, M.G. University of Kottayam
Prof. H. Yoshida, Kagawa University Japan
Title: Crystal Stucture of Rare Sugar Producing Enzyme, Pseudomonas stutzeri L-rhamnose Isomersae and Its Catalytic Mehanism
