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Biennial Report 2005-2007 - Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics

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Teaching 273Effect <strong>of</strong> glycation and denaturing conditions on the structure <strong>of</strong> proteins (Soumen Basak)Silpi Banerjee (Bharathiar University, Coimbatore)Role <strong>of</strong> RN736 in Apoptosis (Debashis Mukhopadhyay)Sumit Chakraborty (IIT, Kanpur)Spectroscopic study <strong>of</strong> Lysozyme-Menadione interaction (Samita Basu)Ravindra Laxman Shinde (University <strong>of</strong> Pune)On the transport properties <strong>of</strong> HIgh T c superconductors (Prabhat Mandal)Poulami Samai (IIT, Kanpur)Aggregation study <strong>of</strong> two anticancer drugs: Mithramycin and Daunomycin (Dipak Dasgupta)Moitri Basu (Calcutta University)Mechanism <strong>of</strong> transcription regulation <strong>of</strong> caspase-1 by HIPPI, a molecular interactor <strong>of</strong> Huntingtoninteracting protein HIP-1 (Nitai P Bhattacharya)P Praveen Kumar (S V College, Osmania University, Hyderabad)Deposition <strong>of</strong> aluminium by electron bombardment and morphology study by atomic forcemicroscope (Srinanda Kundu)Abhijnan Chattopadhyay (Calcutta University)Structural studies <strong>of</strong> hemoglobin as a function <strong>of</strong> pH, temperature and glycation (SoumenBasak)7.4 Centre for Advanced Research & Education (CARE)The CARE has been organising a number <strong>of</strong> programs for motivated and talented students<strong>of</strong> physics and the biophysical sciences. Some <strong>of</strong> the major activities <strong>of</strong> CARE are:The Undergraduate Associateship Program in <strong>Physics</strong> and Biophysics has been running successfullywith about 60 student associates trained till date, coming from IITs and other 10-12colleges from all over India; the summer student program with about 20-30 students; ScienceDay celebration through Seminars and Open House for undergraduate students on February28, 2006 & <strong>2007</strong>; Arrange visits <strong>of</strong> high school & college students to the science gallery, SINPlabs and arranges lectures at a semi-popular level; visits <strong>of</strong> KVPY and JBNSTS scholars toSINP.CARE arranged seminars in different undergraduate colleges <strong>of</strong> West Bengal during <strong>2005</strong>,the international year <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong>; Offered advanced level courses on Astroparticle <strong>Physics</strong>,General Relativity, Complex Analysis, Proteins & Proteomics and Immunology; OrganizedPr<strong>of</strong> Amal Raychaudhuri Memorial School on General Relativity both in October, <strong>2005</strong> &2006; School on Genomics and Proteomics for the Clinicians has been a great success inFebruary <strong>2007</strong>; Acts as the nodal center <strong>of</strong> SINP for the Homi Bhabha National <strong>Institute</strong>.CARE also organised the Colloquium lectures, about 25 per year and the Foundation daylecture, Discussion Meetings, Workshops and Schools on different disciplines <strong>of</strong> <strong>Physics</strong>,Biology and issues on social and historical aspects <strong>of</strong> Science; the centre has set-up lab-cumclassroomfor the undergraduate associates and summer students; lab presently has goodcomputational facilities and three spectroscopy set-ups on electronic absorption, emissionand laser based experiments. For biophysical studies, chromatography set-up, refrigerated

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