Abstract: Drug delivery using liposomes for targeting the afflicted areas of the host has attracted significant interest in the scientific community. Despite the development of various processes for…
Past Events
Apr 04, 2014
Abstract: The understanding of the mechanism of water adsorption in the hydrophobic nanospaces of carbons is critical to many industrial processes for gas separation and water purification and to…
Mar 20, 2014
Abstract: Our lab focuses on cyanobacteria which are fascinating from several perspectives. As primary producers they contribute significantly to the fixed carbon budget in terrestrial and marine…
Mar 14, 2014
Abstract: Cell factories are the key players in industrial biotechnology. It is the concept of using living cells as factories. It stresses at harvesting the natural abilities of microorganisms so as…
Mar 06, 2014
Abstract Cells communicate with each other by sending and receiving signals that are transmitted across the cell membrane using a large number of proteins nucleotides and macromolecules. In this talk…
Feb 20, 2014
Abstract: The energy costs associated with separating tightly bound excitons (photoinduced electron-hole pairs) and extracting free charges from highly disordered low-mobility networks represent…
Feb 13, 2014
Abstract : Malaria infects 300-500 million people per year and causes several million deaths mainly in children under 5 years of age. Infection by /Plasmodium falciparum/ is the major cause of…
Jan 24, 2014
The modern-type composite RO and NF membranes were introduced several decades ago. Despite the wide use in today's desalination and water treatment they still pose many challenging scientific and…
Jan 23, 2014
Abstract: Recent years have seen tremendous advances in the use of algae as sources of fine chemicals and in particular as a source of lipids for biofuel. All systems that are utilized for mass…
Jan 02, 2014
Abstract: Interactions between surfactants and the resultant ordering of surfactant assemblies can be tuned by the appropriate choice of head- and tailgroups. Detailed studies of the ordering of…
Dec 20, 2013
Abstract: Consciousness is being conscious of something. We do not need to reify it and some of the philosophical problems that arise when we do so are not real problems. The processes involved in…
Dec 18, 2013
ABSTRACT: We consider various examples to show that metamaterials (artificial nanostructured media) present a unified platform to control all three states of light at the nanoscale: coherent states…
Dec 18, 2013
International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems - DYCOPS 2013 to be held at VMCC IIT Bombay December 18-20 2013 (http://www.dycops2013.org)
Dec 16, 2013
International Symposium on Computer Applications to Biotechnology - CAB 2013 to be held at VMCC IIT Bombay during December 16-18 2013 (http://www.cab2013.org)
Dec 12, 2013
Abstract : When fluids flow the tangential component of the velocity is assumed to be continuous at phase boundaries (the no-slip boundary condition). Experimental work on Newtonian fluids especially…
Dec 02, 2013
Abstract: Biomass is recognised as one of the most promising resources for renewable energy and sustainable chemicals production. However their use is currently limited by the conversion of large…
Nov 28, 2013
Abstract: With the realisation of the human genome project there has been a paradigm shift in thinking. No longer are we focused on decoding the genome but rather on using it. Superficially whole…
Nov 28, 2013
Abstract: S-system model is a set of non-linear differential equations possessing a rich structure capable of capturing various dynamics occurring in gene regulatory network (GRN). In this talk we…
Oct 31, 2013
Abstract: Development of a new drug or a new chemical entity involves the tedious medicinal chemistry plus preclinical and clinical research work generating enormous amount of toxic chemicals as…
Oct 09, 2013
The students of Communication Skills course in the department will debate on the following topics. The number of publications of a researcher is a good measure to be used for evaluating their…