School of Natural Sciences
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Metabolomics for investigating disease process
Malaria is considered to be one of the major killers in large part of the world. We believe, systems biological approaches may provide us specific insights to the mechanism of disease progression, since this involves the joint biological network of host and the parasite...
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Imaging Protein Dynamics at Work
Molecular fluorescence, when observed with a time resolution of a few picoseconds, becomes a powerful tool for revealing the ‘wiggling and jiggling’ which makes the biological world ‘living’. With the state-of-the-art laser technology available today one can observe dynamics of molecules in ultrafast timescales with high sensitivity and selectivity. …..
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Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica for Catalysis, Energy Harvesting, Carbon Dioxide Mitigation, Drug Delivery, and Sensing
NanoCat Group has developed next-generation nanocatalysts via the morphological control of nanomaterials, particularly dendritic fibrous nanosilica (DFNS).....
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Tracking the molecular players in neurodegenerative disorders
In the department of chemical sciences, we investigate biophysically tractable yet biologically interesting systems, using (mostly) spectroscopic and imaging tools, most of which we build ourselves. Our recent focus has been on two problems: protein misfolding/aggregation, and vesicular neurotransmission....
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Chemistry driven by delocalized molecular motions
Chemical reactions are often conceptualized by making and breaking one bond at a time. The idea of localized bond alterations inhibits intuitive thinking about the structure as a whole. The Dasgupta group is focusing on creating a theme using collective motions existing in the molecular structure to drive selective and efficient chemistry...
About the Department
Scientists at the DCS explore the link between living systems and the physical laws that govern nature. They study molecules ranging in size as small as water and as large as a virus. The laws that govern interaction in molecules are best studied in well-defined and isolated small molecules. This information becomes applicable to design novel materials with exotic properties, of value to chemical and solar energy industries and to medical applications. To understand working of biological systems, studies are made on structure, dynamics and function of biological molecules. TIFR is a leader in state-of-the-art experimental techniques such as high field NMR, ultrafast lasers and single molecule methodologies.
News & events
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13TH "FUTURE OF CHEMISTRY SYMPOSIUM" on August 22, 2023 (2.30 - 7.00 pm on zoom platform
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Mr. Rohit won the 1st prize in Poster competition at 'Interdisciplinary conference in Materials Chemistry' held at BARC.
Mr. Rohit from Prof. Deepa Khushalani's group won 1st Prize for poster presentation at the "9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on Materials Chemistry" held at BARC Mumbai during December 7-10, 2022
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Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 to Prof. Polshettiwar
Prof. Polshettiwar has been awarded Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 by Nano Mission, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. He received the award during International Conference on Nano S&T (ICONSAT-2020) during 5-7 March, 2019 at Kolkata.
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Congratulations to Khushalani and her group members for recognition of their research efforts!
- Best Poster Prize to Dr. Ashish Nadar (PDF in Khushalani Group) at Nano 2020 held in Bangalore in March 2020
- Invited Review article exclusively detailing work from Khushalani lab was showcased in ACS Langmuir along with the Front Cover for the print issue: Langmuir 2019, 35, 9101-9114
Best Poster Prize to Ashish Nadar at Nano 2020 held in Bangalore
Calendar
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Seminar by Prof. Swapan K. Pati, IJNCASR Bangalore on September 4, 2023 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Title : Computational Modeling of FLP Catalysts and a few Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions
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Seminar by Dr. Arpan Bera, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on August 1, 2023 at 3.00 pm via Zoom Platform
Title : Studies on BODIPY-Platinum(II/IV) Conjugates for Cellular Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy
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M.Sc. Synopsis Seminar by Ms. Shubhangi Das on July 31, 2023 at 4.00 pm in AG-69
Title : Catalytic oxidation of intracellular thiols in cancer cells mediated by a Re (VII)-oxo catalyst
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Annual Works Seminar by Ms. Rajasree Kundu, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai on July 28, 2023 at 2.30 pm in AG-69
Title : Tracking the Dance of PIP3 in Living Cells with Cell-Permeable Rapid Response Sensors
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Seminar by Mr. Prithwish Ghosh, Dept. of Chemical Sciences, TIFR, Mumbai on July 27, 2023 at 4.00 pm in AG-80
Title : Atomistic Equilibrated Full-Length Models of mTORC1 in the Presence and Absence of RHEB Activator