Workshop Schedule

Day 1: Feb 13, 2026

09:00 - 09:45 AM

Registration & Inauguration

Welcome Address

09:45 - 10:30 AM

Manju Bansal, IISc Bangalore

Genesis of the Ramachandran plot, its evolution as a PDB validation tool and application to other macromolecules

10:30 - 11:00 AM

Dinakar M. Salunke, ICGEB

Protein Crystallograpy: What else beyond Structure?

11:00 - 11:30 AM

Indira Ghosh, Teora Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd

Protein Function to Structure to Sequence

11:30 - 12:00 PM

Tea Break

12:00 - 12:30 PM

Bichitra K Biswal, BRIC-NII

Harnessing the impetus of Cryo-EM and X-ray Crystallography in anti-TB Drug Discovery

12:30 - 01:00 PM

Narahari Sastry, IIT-Hyderabad

On our understanding of aging and geriatric care

01:00 - 02:00 PM

Lunch

02:00 - 02:30 PM

Neel Sarovar, ICGEB

Integration of NMR, X-ray, CryoEM, and Alphafold for integrative structural Biology

02:30 - 03:00 PM

R. Sankararamakrishnan, IIT Kanpur

Mining Protein Data Bank for novel/unusual non-covalent interactions: Self-contacting Cys residues

03:00 - 03:30 PM

Prem Kaushal, RCB

Cryo- EM studies on mycobacterial ribosome assembly

03:30 - 04:00 PM

Tea Break

04:00 - 04:25 PM

Uddhavesh Sonavane, CDAC-Pune

HPC-ML framework for adaptive sampling simulations using ICEcloud

04:25 - 04:50 PM

Gitanjali Yadav, BRIC-NIPGR

Structural insights into Rubisco linkers in unicellular green algal Carbon Concentration Mechanism

04:50 - 05:15 PM

Debasisa Mohanty, BRIC-NII

AI/ML-guided Advances in Computational Protein Science: Examples from Structure Prediction, Ligand Binding, Protein Design & Protein Dynamics

05:15 - 05:40 PM

Hands-On Session
Vetriselvi Rangannan, IISc, Bangalore

TFDB-cSAP@PDB-India: A Comparative Structural Analysis Platform for DNA–Transcription Factor Complexes

05:40 - 06:05 PM

Hands-On Session
Sanjeet Kumar Mahtha, Sureshkumar V, BRIC-NII

ProModEv@PDB-India: A platform for continuous evaluation of AI/ML-guided protein structure prediction

06:05 - 06:30 PM

Hands-On Session
Pawan Kumar, IBDC

ISDA: Exploring Functional Connections for 3D-Macro-Molecular Structures

07:00 PM

Dinner

Day 2: Feb 14, 2026

09:30 - 10:15 AM

T. P. Singh, AIIMS

The variability in protein structures can not be captured by AI tools, the only way is experimental structure determination

10:15 - 10:45 AM

Lipi Thukral, IGIB

Conformational mimicry as a strategy to replicate lipid-activated protein activity

10:45 - 11:15 AM

Deepak T. Nair, RCB

Time resolved crystallography conducted on a DNA polymerase sheds new light on the chemical mechanism of enzyme activity

11:15 - 11:45 AM

Tea Break

11:45 - 12:15 PM

Prasun Kumar, IIT Palakkad

Structure-Guided Prediction of Protein Expression

12:15 - 12:45 PM

B Gopal, IISc

Experimental approaches to enzyme engineering in the age of AlphaFold

12:45 - 01:15 PM

Ranjit Bahadur, IIT Kharagpur

Evolution of Structural Bioinformatics: From the era of GN Ramachandran to Machine intelligence

01:15 - 02:15 PM

Lunch

02:15 - 02:45 PM

Manidipa Banerjee, IIT-Delhi

A structure-guided study of virus entry and egress

02:45 - 03:15 PM

Sekhar Mande, SPPU, Pune

Variability of backbone dihedral angles in related protein structures

03:15 - 03:45 PM

Tea Break

03:45 - 04:15 PM

Sameer Velankar, EMBL-EBI [Online]

AF revolution and role of open data

04:15 - 04:45 PM

Panel Discussion
G Harish Kumar, Richi V Mahajan, Sameer Velankar, Uddhavesh Sonavane, Shashank Shekhar, Debasisa Mohanty and Banya Kar (Moderator)

Roadmap for membership wwPDB and augmentation of computational resources for structural biology

04:45 - 06:15 PM

Hands-On Session
Sanjeet, Suresh, Mayank and BIC-NII Team

Hands-on AI/ML-guided Protein Structure Prediction & Protein Design

06:15 - 06:30 PM

Valedictory Function

Closing Remarks & Certificate Distribution