Visitors since August 2006
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Sarath Chandra Janga, PhD
Invited talks, conferences and seminars: • (Invited keynote lecture) 'Data mining challenges and cloud computing in genomics, biotechnology and medicine" at International conference on emerging technology trends in cloud computing, Kollam, Kerala, India, March 2011 • (Invited talk) 'Uncovering the functional architecture of a bacterial genome' at the annual meeting of the society for molecular biology and evolution for the symposia 'evolutionary genomics of prokaryotes', Paris, France, July 2010 (Selected talk for the conference) • (Invited talk) 'Employing network-based approaches to understand the design principles of biological systems' at Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, June 2010 • (Invited talk) 'Dynamic and evolutionary constraints imposed on transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks' at Broad Institute of MIT-Harvard & MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. (CSAIL), Cambridge, USA, March 2010 • (Invited talk) 'Exploiting network-based approaches to understand the design principles of biological systems' Computational Systems Biology seminar at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA, March 2010 • (Invited talk) 'Dynamic and evolutionary constraints imposed on transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks' at Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, USA, March 2010 • (Invited talk) 'Exploiting network-based approaches to unravel the principles governing biological systems' at FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, March 2010 • (Invited talk) 'Employing network-based approaches to understand the design principles of biological systems' at Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA, March 2010 • (Invited talk) 'Dissecting the expression dynamics of RNA-binding proteins in post-transcriptional regulatory networks' at Keystone Symposium 'Biomolecular Interaction Networks: Function and Disease', Quebec, Canada, March 2010 (Selected talk for the conference) • (Invited talk) 'Studying RNA-binding proteins and their interactome in post-transcriptional networks' at the Biochemical society RNA-UK 2010 meeting, Lake District, United Kingdom, January 2010 (Selected talk for the conference) • (Invited talk) 'Integrative approaches for elucidating the organization of biological systems –from molecular mechanisms to drug discovery' at Center for DNA-Fingerprinting and Drug Discovery (CDFD), Hyderabad, India, December 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Employing network-based approaches to understand the design principles of biological systems' at National Institute for Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Chandigarh, India, November 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Dynamic and evolutionary constraints imposed on transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks' Genes, Development and Evolution (GDE) seminar at School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, November 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Analyzing post-transcriptional network of RNA-binding proteins to dissect their disease and expression dynamics' at International EMBnet-RIBio conference, Cancun, Mexico, October 2009 (Selected talk for the conference) • (Invited talk) 'Exploiting network theory for elucidating regulatory principles governing genome structure and unchartered protein territories in model systems' at Institute of Biotechnology, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico, October 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Application of network-based approaches for elucidating function and molecular mechanisms in biology ' at Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Benito-Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico, October 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Uncovering regulatory principles and charting protein territories in model systems' at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, October 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Dissecting the expression dynamics of RNA-binding proteins in post-transcriptional networks' at Symposium for Biological and Life Sciences Students, Emmanuel college, Cambridge, UK, September 2009 (Selected talk for the annual graduate symposium) • (Invited talk) 'Using network-based approaches for uncovering structural and functional relationships between proteins in a cell' at Institute of Biology and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation Center, Athens, Greece, September 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Network-based approaches for uncovering principles governing biological systems – from molecular mechanisms to drug discovery ' at University of Ioannina, Greece, September 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Exploring the unchartered functional territories of a bacterial genome' at the 13th Annual Symposium for Biology Students of Europe, Kazan State University, Russia, August 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Constraints imposed on transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks' at Department of Systems Biology, Harvard University, USA, July 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Elucidating genomic regulatory principles governing genome structure and exploring unchartered protein territories in model systems using network-based approaches' at Center for Molecular and Structural Biomedicine, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal, April 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional and functional networks: From genomic regulatory principles to protein function prediction' at Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Exploiting genomic neighborhoods and protein complexes for functional inference in Escherichia coli ' at MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K, February 2009 • (Invited talk) 'From building blocks to systems: where do we go next? ' for Science Seminar Series, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK, February 2009 • (Invited talk) 'Insights on constraints imposed by gene regulatory networks on genome structure' at Department of Molecular Genetics, School of Engineering and Science, International University Bremen, Germany, December 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Genome structure is constrained by transcriptional regulation in eubacteria and eukarya ' at Department of Biochemistry, University of Montreal, Canada, December 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Structural and evolutionary principles governing bacterial transcriptional regulatory networks' at Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, Canada, November 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional regulation shapes the organization of genes on both bacterial and eukaryotic chromosomes' at Advanced Technology for Genome and Clinic (TAGC), University of Marseille, France, October 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional regulation in bacteria and eukarya : A network perspective' at Laboratory of Computational Biology, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain, October 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional regulation shapes the organization of genes on both bacterial and eukaryotic chromosomes' at Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, July 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional regulation constrains the organization of genes on both bacterial and eukaryotic chromosomes' at Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan, July 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Post-genomic insights on transcriptional regulation: Regulatory networks from bacteria to eukarya' at Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan, July 2008 • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional complexity constraints genome organization in both bacteria and eukarya' at Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, July 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional regulation shapes genome organization: Implications and insights from network theory' at Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, June 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional complexity constraints genome organization in both bacteria and eukarya' at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, UK, June 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Influence of transcriptional regulation on genome structure: Insights from model systems' at Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, May 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Understanding the structure of transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria: a perspective from phenotypes in growing populations' at Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, USA, April 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Transcriptional complexity constrains genome organization' at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Chicago, USA, April 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Transcritional regulatory networks in bacteria and eukarya' at Western Kentucky University, Kentucky ,USA, April 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Evidence for the influence of transcriptional regulation in shaping the organization of genes in eukaryotic genomes' at Sanger-Cambridge Phd Symposium at Welcome Trust Conference Center, Hinxton, UK, April 2008. (Selected talk for the annual graduate symposium). • (Invited talk) 'Genome organization and transcriptional regulation in bacteria and eukarya: Insights from model systems' at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Hinxton , UK , February 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Structure and complexity of transcriptional regulatory networks in prokarya and eukarya' at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India, February 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Constraints imposed by transcriptional regulation on genome organization: Principles and insights from model systems' at Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Drug design (CDFD), Hyderabad , India , February 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Constraints imposed by transcriptional regulation on genome organization: Principles and insights from model systems' at Department of Biotechnology, University of Hyderabad , Hyderabad , India , January 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Genome organization and transcriptional regulation in bacteria and eukarya: Principles and insights from model systems' at Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad , India , January 2008. • (Invited talk) 'Genome structure and transcriptional regulatory networks in prokarya and eukarya: Insights from model organisms' at Center for Research and Advanced Studies, IPN, Irapuato , Mexico , September 2007. • (Invited talk) 'Gene regulation in prokaryotic organisms- recent advances and genomic perspectives' Teleconference talk for International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCS), University of Karachi, Pakistan, September 2007. • (Invited talk) 'Regulatory plasticity and complexity in prokaryotes: From Operons to Regulons' at Center for Computational Systems Biology, University of KLeuven , Leuven , Belgium June 2007. • (Invited talk) 'Genome context methods and protein-protein interactions in the model bacterium Escherichia coli: Is there any overlap?' at Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, U. Toronto, Canada April 2007. • (Invited talk) 'Operon structure in prokaryotes: exploiting their plasticity for function inference' at MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge , U.K February 2007. • (Invited talk) 'Gene regulation, Transcriptional networks and beyond; what do we understand after 300+ prokaryotic genomes at hand?' at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Petropolis , Brazil August 2006. • (Invited talk) 'Comparative aspects of transcriptional regulation in Prokarya' at Nucleo de Genomica e Bioinformatics (NUGEN), Universidade Estadual do Ceara , Brazil , August 2006. • (Invited talk) 'Comparative and Functional Genomics in Prokaryotes – advantages for genome annotation and analysis' at Parasitology research center, Childrens Hospital in Mexico city, April 2006 as part of Genomics and Bioinformatics Course. • (Invited talk) 'Gene regulation in prokarya: Lessons learned from the model organism' at the School of Computer Science , University of Waterloo , Canada , August 2005. • Presented poster at the 9 th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB-05) at Cambridge , MA , May 2005. • (Invited talk) 'Operon prediction in Microbial Genomes' at Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum , India 2004. • European Conferences on Computational Biology held at France (2003) and United Kingdom (2004) • International Conferences on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) held at Canada (2002), United Kingdom (2004), USA (2005), Brazil (2006) and Austria (2007). • (Invited) to attend the Dagstuhl Seminar on 'Integrative Bioinformatics and Virtual Aspects of the Cell' 4-9th July, 2004 Dagstuhl , Saarland , Germany . • (Invited) volunteer to help at ISMB-2002(Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) at Edmonton , Canada . • (Invited) with complete funding for 'South East Asian Training Course on Bioinformatics Applied to Tropical Diseases' sponsored by UNDP/World bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in tropical diseases (2002) ICGEB , New Delhi . • National Conference on Biotechnology -the Science and the Business organized jointly by All India Biotech. Association and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2001) • Organizing committee member of the national level symposium Biohorizon in the years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 held at New Delhi-India.
Peer reviewer for journals/conferences : • Program chair for the Third International Student Council Symposium at ISMB (2007, Austria ) • Program chair for the Second International Student Council Symposium at ISMB (2006, Brazil ) • Organizing and Review committee member of Biosysbio (Bioinformatics, Synthetic and Systems Biology conference) (2007, U.K) • First Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC) (2006, Canada ) • IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics conference (2005, USA ) • First International Students Symposium at ECCB, Madrid (2005, Spain ) • Nucleic Acids Research • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) • Bioinformatics • Molecular Biosystems • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) • PLoS Computational Biology • BMC Systems Biology • BMC Bioinformatics • Biology Direct • Bioessays • Comparative and Functional Genomics • Current Pharmaceutical Design • Computational Biology and Chemistry • FEBS letters • Genome Biology • Genome Biology and Evolution • Journal of Biotechnology • Journal of Molecular Biology • Bioinformation • Reviewed grants for Czech Science Foundation.
Professional societies and organizations : • Member of All India Biotechnology Association • Member of the International Society for computational Biology (ISCB) • Member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) • Member of the Society for General Microbiology (SGM, UK) • One of the founding members of International Society for Computational Biology-Student Council (ISCBSC) • Vice-Chair of ISCBSC (2005-2008)
Teaching experience : • Courses taught: Introduction to Bioinformatics (Genome annotation/ Comparative and Functional Genomics at Center for Genomic Sciences for B.S students) . Course material can be downloaded from the link below http://tikal.ccg.unam.mx/~sarath/bioinformatics/ • Invited to organize a tutorial on 'Prediction and evolution of transcription factors in prokaryotes' at BioSysBio conference, Manchester , 2007 • Invited to give (Teleconference-based) lecture series on 'Gene regulation in prokaryotic organisms' for International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCS), University of Karachi , Pakistan , September 2007. • Invited to organize a tutorial on 'Prediction of operon structure in prokaryotic systems ' at Western Kentucky University, USA, 2008 • Tutored Quantitative Biology course given by the Department of Plant Sciences and Zoology to B.S students at University of Cambridge from Oct-Dec, 2008 • Invited to give lectures cum workshop on 'Transcriptional Networks' at Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009 • Invited to give a course on 'Transcriptional regulation in bacteria and eukarya' at Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Benito-Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico, 2009 • • Invited to give a course on 'Transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria and eukarya' at Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (Central University), India, 2009
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Visitors since August 2006
*Disclaimer: *These pages are my personal pages. The opinions expressed here, may or may not correspond to those of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, or the Medical Research Council.*