DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY & BIOINFORMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF KERALA ANNUAL REPORT 2015 A.DEPARTMENT PROFILE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY & BIOINFORMATICS Under Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology Est:2005/2011 1. Teaching Staff Dr. Achuthsankar S Nair, MPhil, PhD, Professor & HOD (i/c), (M) Lecturer on Contract Dr. Umesh P (Up to July 30, 2015), MPhil, PhD, (M) Ms. Sunitha P, MSc, MPhil, (F) Mr. Vipin Thomas, MSc, MPhil, (M) Ms. Shanitha A (from June 6, 2015), MSc, MPhil, (F) Dr. Aswathy B L (SIUCEB), MPhil, PhD, (F) Ms. Rani JR ( SIUCEB), MSc, MPhil, (F) 2. Technical Staff including Librarian, Guest Faculty, Emeritus Scientists etc Binimol M.C., Library Assistant (F) Dr. Oommen V. Oommen, Emeritus Professor (M) Dr. P.R. Sudhakaran, Emeritus Professor (M) 3. Administrative staff Administrative Assistant on Contract – 1 (0M,1F) DEO -2 (0M, 2F) 4. Programmes offered - Current Strength & Details Strength Females SC ST Other res. Programme & categories Seats Masters 12 8 4 (Computational Biology) MPhil 10 10 1 1 3 (Bioinformatics) MPhil (CADD) 9 6 1 3 PhD 33 28 4 8 Postdoc 3 1 1 *5 students submitted thesis, 4 submitted synopsis

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6. Placement details 1. Suhaib Salim – Scigenome Labs Pvt. Ltd, Kochi 2. Vinod Kumar C. T. - Scigenome Labs Pvt. Ltd, Kochi 3. Hima V. M. - Scigenome Labs Pvt. Ltd, Kochi 4. Jubina Benny- Scigenome Labs Pvt. Ltd, Kochi 5. Akhil Janardhanan – Shodhaka Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore 6. Neetha - JNTBGRI, Thiruvananthapuram 7. Students who cleared GATE/NET/SET etc with names 1.Jiffy John - NET 8. Library Details No of Books in stock on Jan 1: 2865 No of books added this year: 202 No of Journals Subscribed: Nil Average Books issued/member: 13. 6 9. Major Conferences/Seminars etc organised by the Dept. 9.1 One day seminar on “Plant Pathogen Interactions”, on 23rd January, 2015 by Prof. Ben J C Cornelissen ( Professor, Department of Molecular Plant Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Amsterdam) and Dr. Biju V. C. ( Molecular Plant Pathology, University of Amsterdam). 50 participants attended the seminar (Internal: 28 , External: 22 ) 9.2 Four day workshop on “Next Generation Sequencing and Data Analysis” from 16-19 March 2015 by Dr. Karthi Sivaraman (Director, H3Me life Science, Bangalore). 20 participants attended the seminar. (Internal: 12, External : 8) 9.3 One day workshop on “Development and Analysis of Signalling Network” on 24th April, 2015 by Dr. Rajesh Raju, Post-Doctoral Fellow, RGCB.35 participants attended the workshop (Internal :30, External :5) 9.4 One day Workshop on “Computing in Perl” on 20th June, 2015 inaugurated by Mr. Safirulla IAS 45 participants attended the workshop (Internal : 20, External :25) 9.5 Three day workshop on “Computer Aided drug discovery using Schrodinger” from 6-8 October 2015 by Dr. Ravi, Applications Scientist Schrodinger. 25 participants attended the workshop 9.6 National workshop on “Scale-free Networks (NWSN – 2015)” in collaboration with Dept. of Mathematics, CUSAT, from 12-15 February 2015. 9.7 One day workshop on “Parallel Computing” in collaboration with Dept. of Computer Science &Dept. of Futures Studies on August, 2015: 75 participants. 9.8 Four week advanced industry-academia training programme on “Next Generation Genome Sequencing and Analysis” from 23 November to 18 December 2015 jointly organised by AiCADD, Dept. Of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Kerala and Inapp Information

Technologies, Techno park. 10 participants attended the workshop (Internal :2, External : 8) 9.9 Four day short-term course on Self-Awareness and Integral Education (SAIE -2015) from 24 November to 27 November jointly organised with Translational research & professional Leadership Centre (TPLC), Government Engineering college, Barton Hill, Trivandrum and Department of Computational Biology, University of Kerala. 65 participants attended the workshop (Internal :5, External : 60) 10. No of funded projects active during the year SIUCEB, Govt. of Kerala, 3.5 crores AiCADD, MHRD, Govt of India, 6 crores 11. Details of Consultancy work active during the year Digitization of Biodiversity Registers, KSBB, 2.75 lakhs 12. Major equipments purchased during the year (>5 lakhs) Schrodinger Drug Docking software, Amount: Rs. ͠ 7.8 lakhs, Fund; AiCADD, MHRD Cary 100 UV- Vis Bundle Spectrometer, Amount: Rs. 5,67,700, Fund: University State Plan fund 13. Major developmental activity like construction etc. Ramp for physically challenged in ground floor completed. 14. Syllabus revisions during the year : Nil 15.Community Outreach Programmes One fun day – an outreach programme conducted for students of Attakulangara Government School. – 8, 9 July 2015, 100 participants. 16. OTHER EVENTS IN DEPT (Invited lectures, interactions, get together etc). 16.1 Dr. Ann Marcus (Professor and Director, The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, New York University) and team of 22 students visited the department and had a interaction with the students on January 12th 2015. 16.2 Lecture on “Data Mining Techniques” by Dr. Asharaf S. (IIITMK, Thiruvananthapuram) on 19th and 20th January 2015. 16.3 A talk on “Antitumor peptides from cucurbitaceae for drug development” by Ms. L. Helen Mary, Department of Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology, Loyola College, Chennai on 22nd January 2015. 16.4 A Faculty Development Programme on “Nurturing the Teaching Career “ by Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair on 9th March 2015. 16.5 Faculty Development Programme by Prof. Simon Thattil held on 3rd July 2015 16.6 Faculty Development programme by Dr. Jaikiran, Programme Director, FLAIR, Govt of Kerala was organised Aug 19, 2015 16.7 Awareness seminar on “Bioinformatics” was conducted for the students from A. J. College of Science and Technology, Thonnakkal, Thiruvananthapuram on 28th February 2015. 75 external participants attended the seminar. 16.8 Bioinformatics awareness programme was conducted for the students and faculties of IHRD College of Applied Science, Adoor, on 1st April 2015. 60 external participants. 16.9 A presentation on “Rainwater Harvesting Systems” by Mr. Afzal Azad, Director, Azad Contractors and Traders Pvt. Ltd. on 6th April, 2015.

16.10 Alumni Meet and first Decennial Lecture by Architect Padmasree G. Sankar held on 25th April, 2015. 16.11 Talk by Dr Bismi Gopalakrishnan, Dept of Law on “Dr B R Ambedkar and Indian Constitution” on Dec 2, 2015 16.12 Talk by Dr C P Aravindakshan on the occasion of Year of Light, Dec 3, 2015 16.13 Inter-disciplinary talk on Para psychology by Dr George Mathew on Dec 9, 2015 16.14 Inter-disciplinary interaction with Traffic Warden Ms Mayadevi on May 28, 2015 16.15 World Environment Day celebrated on June 5, 2015 (registered the event at UNEP.org) 16.16 Library Day (Vayanadinam) inaugurated by Ms K R Meera on 19 June 2015 16.17 World Music day organised on June 22 2015 16.18 International Yoga day celebrated on 23rd June 2015 16.19 National Unity Day was celebrated on Oct 31 with group singing 16.20 Organised “Mara Onam” and a talk by Prof RVG Menon on 20 August 2015 16.21 Talk on Stress Management by Prof Girija Krishnaswamy of Australian Catholic University, held on July 31 16.22 Prof. Geoffery Clements of Bournemouth University of UK visited the Dept. and interacted with students and faculty on Sept 16,2015 16.23 An international team of 6 members from the UN University visited the Dept. on 30/9/2015 and interacted with members. 16.24 Dr Luis Mur from Aberystwyth University visited the Dept. on Oct 12 16.25 Dr. Vijaya Gopal, Scientist, CCMB, held an interactive session with members on 28th Oct 2015. 16.26 Padma Vibooshan Prof. M. S. Valiathan, National Professor, visited the Dept and gave a talk on Ayurvedic Biology on Nov 10, 2015. 16.27 Sri. T. P. Srinivasan, VC, KSHEC released anniversary issue of InSIDE News Letter on Nov 17, 2015. 16.28 Dr. J. Prabash, Professor of Politics gave an inter-disciplinary talk on “Understanding Society on 16 Nov 2015. 16.29 A team of teachers and students of the Dept visited CTCRI on 18 August and also SFPC farm at Pallichal on 4 September to study their research and its application. 16.30 Interactive session with Mr. John Samuel, Strategic Planning Advisor at UNDP as a part of interdisciplinary talk on 10th November2015. 16.31 Dr. Jameela, Rtd. Professor Institute of English, University of Kerala conducted Faculty Development Programme for lectures as speaker on 12th November 2015. 16.32 Dr. G. Padmakumar, Rtd. Professor, Dept. of philosophy, Govt. Women’s College,

Thiruvananthapuram delivered an introductory talk on “Yoga” as part of International Yoga Day on 23rd June 2015. 16.33 An interactive session organized by AiCADD Junior Scientists with Ayurveda PG students & Faculty members from Govt. Ayurveda College, Thiruvananthapuram on 24th June 2015.

17. Any other major achievement 17.1. Dept. worked on Sunday 2/8/2016 as a mark of respect to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 17.2 An Induction Programme was organised from 9/9 to 14/9 which included an Industrial visit to UST Global in Technopark, in addition to number of lectures on “Learning to Learn” 17.3 The Ayur Informatica Research Bullettin was released by Dr S Suresh Das, EVP, KSCSTE in a function presided over by Sri Gauridasan Nair of the Hindu 17.4 The wet lab of the Dept successfully experimented with genetic modification to produce bacteria with fluorescence, by gene transfer. 17.5 An MOU for cooperation was signed with CDAC, Thiruvananthapuram 17.6 Students successfully completed Coursera MOOC courses. C. CONTRIBUTION AT INDIVIDUAL LEVEL 1. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1.

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Navya Raj, Agnes Helen, N. Manoj, G. Harish, Vipin Thomas, Shailja Singh, Seema Sehrawat, Shaguna Seth, Achuthsankar S. Nair, Abhinav Grover, Pawan K. Dhar, “In Silico Study of Peptide Inhibitors against BACE 1,” Systems and Synthetic Biology, Vol. 9, Issue 1-2, pp. 67-72 , 2015. (H Index: 15). Aswathy T. R., Sugunan V. S., Achuthsankar S. Nair ,”A review on Chemical and Biological property of Cayratia pedata Lam”, International journal of medicinal plants, Photon 109, pp. 706-710, 2015. (Accepted) Christopher Leela Biji, Manu K. Madhu, Vineetha Vishnu, Satheesh Kumar K., Vijayakumar and Achuthsankar S. Nair, "Compression of Large genomic datasets using COMRAD on Parallel Computing Platform", Bioinformation, Vol. 11(5), 2015 (IF:0.5) Anusha Abdul Rahiman, Jithin Ajitha and Vinod Chandra, “An Integrated Computational Schema for Analysis , Prediction & Visualization of piRNA Sequences” in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 744-750, 2015. Vipin Thomas, Navya Raj, Deepthi Varughese, Naveen Kumar, Seema Sehrawat, Abhinav Grover, Shailja Singh, Pawan K. Dhar, Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Predicting stable functional peptides from the intergenic space of E.coli”, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 135-140, 2015. (H Index: 15) Jacqueline Y. Quinn, Robert Sidney Cox III, Aaron Adler, Jacob Beal, Swapnil Bhatia, Yizhi Cai, Joanna Chen, Kevin Clancy, Michal Galdzicki, Nathan J. Hillson, Nicolas Le Novere, Akshay J. Maheshwari, James Alastair McLaughlin, Chris J. Myers, Umesh P, Matthew Pocock, Cesar Rodriguez, Larisa Soldatova, Guy-Bart V. Stan, Neil Swainston, Anil Wipat, Herbert M. Sauro, " SBOL Visual: A Graphical Language for Genetic Designs", PLoS Biology, Vol. 13(12), 2015. (IF- 9.3)

7. Pravi Vidyadharan, Lekshmisree S.Nair, Aswathy .S, Umesh .P, P.R. Sudhakaran and Achuthsankar S. Nair (2015) An in silico approach to inhibit cell wall glycoconjugates of Candida albicans: PMI as a drug target. Trends in Carbohydrate Research (under review). 2. BOOKS AUTHORED (give ISSN also) 1. Vikram Singh, Pawan K. Dhar,” Systems and Synthetic Biology”, Springer Netherlands, Edition No.1, 2015. [ISBN: 978-94-017-9513-5; 978-94-017-9514-2(e-book)] 3. BOOK CHAPTERS 1. Silpa Bhaskaran, Umesh P., Achuthsankar S. Nair,” Hill Equation in Modeling Transcriptional Regulation”, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Springer, pp. 77-92, 2015. 2. Vipin Thomas, Shidhi P.R., Deepthi Varughese, Navya Raj, Pawan K. Dhar, ”Making Synthetic Proteins from Non-Coding DNA”, Systems and Synthetic Biology, Springer, pp. 369-373, 2015. 3. Remya Krishnan, Pawan K. Dhar, "Systems Biology of MicroRNA", Systems and Synthetic Biology, Springer, pp. 217-225, 2015. 4. PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES/SEMINARS (Indicate Oral/Poster) 1. Sheeba P K., Achuthsankar S. Nair, “Computational Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Site and Affinity Based on Position Specific Energy”, Proceedings of the 27th Kerala Science Congress, p. 144, January 2015. (Oral) 2. Abhinand C. S., Athira A. P., Sudhakaran P. R., ”Molecular docking and molecular dynamic simulation studies of potent anti-angiogenic effect of phytochemicals in Triphala Churna”, Proceedings of the 27th Kerala Science Congress , p. 135, 27-29 January 2015. (Poster). 3. Sunitha P., Umesh P., Sugunan V. S., Achuthsankar S. Nair, Oommen V. Oommen, P.R. Sudhakaran, “Evolutionary Analysis of the Angiogenic Factor, VEGF-A”, Proceedings of the 27th Kerala Science Congress, p. 174, 27-29 January 2015. (Poster) 4. Deepthi Varughese, Pawan K. Dhar, “Therapeutic applications of Novel Peptides from Drosophila melanogaster Non-coding Genome”, Proceedings of National Level workshop on Computational Chemistry – From theory to Applications (In Silico-15), MSM, Kayamkulam, pp. 45-53, 29-31 July 2015. (Oral) 5. Anusha Abdul Rahiman, Jithin Ajitha and Vinod Chandra, “An Integrated Computational Schema for Analysis , Prediction & Visualization of piRNA Sequences”, International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Fuzhou, China, 20-23 August, 2015. (Oral) 6. Priya Venugopal, Achuthsankar S. Nair, Sreejith P. Panicker, Divya V.G. "Effect of Music on Embryonic Development - A study on Avian Model" , International Seminar on Science of Music (ISSM-2015) organized by Inter-University Center for Studies in Science of Music (IUCSSM), MG University, Kottayam, 25-27 September, 2015. (Oral) 7. Vineetha Vishnu, “Analysis of Dynamic programming algorithms in bioinformatics – A big data perspective”3rd IIT Madras-Tokyo Tech Joint Symposium, 5-6 November 2015. (Poster) 8. Abhinand C.S, Aswani Krishna P, Achuthsankar S Nair and Sudhakaran P.R, “A computational model to quantify the sequestration of VEGF 165 in Human”, 16th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2015), Singapore, 23-26 November, 2015. (Poster)

10. Athira A.P., Abhinand C.S., Helen A and Sudhakaran P.R., “Inhibition of serum stimulated angiogenesis by Chebulagic acid” The XXXIX All India Cell Biology Conference On Cellular Organization And Dynamics, p. 114, 6-8 December 2015. (Poster) 11.

Deepthi Varughese, Navya Raj, Shidhi P.R., Vipin Thomas, Pawan K. Dhar, “Junkomics: An Approach to Design Novel Functional Peptides from the Non-coding DNA Regions”, Proceedings of National Symposium on Changing Perspectives in Life Sciences, MARC Life Sciences, University of Kerala, p. 118, December 16-17, 2015. (Oral)

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Aswathy .T .R, Gayathri .E, Dr. V. S. Sugunan, Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair, ‘Evaluation of antiinflammatory property of active principles of Cayratia pedata’, Proceedings of National Symposium on Changing Perspectives in Life Sciences, University of Kerala, p.91, December 16-17-2015.

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Mala S. Kumar, Amjesh .R, Anuroopa G. Nath Aswathy Soman, Lekshmysree S.Nair, Pravi Vidhyadharan, Salini .D.N, Umesh .P, P.R. Sudhakaran and Aachuthsankar S. Nair, ”Ayurinformatics: An Ayurveda inspired innovative paradigm for drug discovery”, Proceedings of National Symposium on Changing Perspectives in Life Sciences, Multidisciplinary Annual Research Conference In Life Science (MARC), 16-17th December 2015 (Oral)

5. SCHOLARLY ARTICLES 1.

Biji C. L and Manu K. Madhu, “Data Compression – An Overview and Trends in Genomics”, CSI Communications, vol. 38, no 12, March 2015, pp 24-27.

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മനു കെ മധു, ബിജി സി എല്, അച്ചുത്ശങ്കര് എസ് നായർ "ഡാറ്റ െംപ്രഷനും ജീനനാമിക്സികെ സാധയതെളും " വിജാനകെരളി , June 2015

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Aswathy T. R, “Amerccakkotti (Cayratia pedata): Endangered medicinal plant of south India” published in Executive Knowledge Lines, vol 10, June 2015,pp 8-9.

6. SERVICE AS REVIEWER OF JOURNALS Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair served as reviewer of: 1.

CSI Communications

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BMC Bioinformatics

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Higher Education for the Future, KSHEC

7. SERVED AS CHAIR/ MEMBER OF COMMITEES/BOARDS/COUNCILS/COMMISSIONS etc Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair served in the following capacities 1.

Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences from 2.09.2015

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Award committee of Kerala State Young Scientist Award, KSCSTE

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Member, Digitization Committee for monitoring the implementation of the project “Digitization and Archival of the University Records”, University of Kerala

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Member, Panel of experts for Post Graduate Students Interaction in the Kerala Science Congress (KSC) organized by KSCSTE on 29th January 2015

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Member, B.O.S. for Mathematics and Statistics of Mar Ivanios College (Autonomous)

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Member, Academic Council of Mar Ivanios College (Autonomous)

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Member, Advisory Committee in the University Service and Instrumentation Centre, University of Kerala

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Executive Committee of the Inter University Centre for Studies in Science and Music (IUCSSM), M.G. University

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Member, Kerala State Statistical Commission, Planning and Economic Affairs Department – Kerala State Strategic Statistical Plan (KSSSP)

10. Director, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) 11. Member, Subcommittee constituted by KSHEC on Research in Universities 12. Member, Executive committee of International School of Dravidian Linguistics 13. Member, committee to propose implementation of Choice Based Credit System and adoption of Credit Framework for Skill Development (CFSD) suggested by UGC, University of Kerala 14. Member, Expert committee on drafting PhD regulation of Kerala Technological University 15. Board Member, Kerala State Biodiversity Board for the period 2015-2018 16. Observer for the centre in Thiruvananthapuram for BINC-2015 (Bioinformatics National Certification -2015) examination 17. Member, Programme Advisory committee (PAC) of SRISTI, KSCSTE 18

Member of the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Kaushal Kendra Advisory Committee, Mar Ivanios College, for the period of 2015-2017

19. Member, Advisory Committee for monitoring the implementation of Sophisticated Instrumentation and Computation Centre (SICC) 20. Member, I & P.R.D-Information Hub, Govt. of Kerala 21. Member, Governing Body of the State Institute of Languages, Nalanda, Thiruvananthapuram 22. Member, Council of Directors of the International School of Dravidian Linguistics, Thiruvananthapuram 23. Advisory committee member of “IETE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IETE ICRA-2016)” organized by the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Thiruvananthapuram Centre 24. Member Committee enquiring into republication of results of SSLC-2015, General Education Department, Govt. of Kerala 8. PATENTS FILED/GRANTED 1.

Dr. P. R. Sudhakaran, Dr. Salini D. N., Amjesh R., Anuroopa G. Nath, Aswathy S., Lekshmysree S. Nair, Maala S. Kumar, Pravi Vidyadharan, Dr. Umesh P., Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair, 2015, “Ayurvedic wound healing formulation for diabetic non healing ulcer and a process for preparation of the same, India”, Patent No. 5076/CHE/2015.

9. ARTISTIC PERFORMANCES HELD (Fine Arts Faculty only) 10. Media Productions (Journalism Only)

11. Student Activities, Journal Clubs etc 1.

Journal Club: Vijayalakshmi B., “Crystal structure of Rad51 filament” on 20th January 2015.

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Journal Club: Priya Das, “Conformational Dynamics of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Channel: A 35-ns Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study” on 3rd March 2015.

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Journal Club: Saraswathy V., “Molecular docking studies on Oxidosqualene Cyclase with 4piperidinopyridine and 4-piperidinipyrimidine as its inhibitors” on 2nd June 2015.

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Journal Club: Sneha R. L., on “Enzymes from carnivorous plants Nepenthes isolation of the protease Nepenthacin” on 17thAugust 2015.

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Journal Club: Sukanya M. K., on “Dominance of basic protein components in the venoms of Indian venomous snakes Naja Naja and Bungarus Caereleus as confirmed by a simple yet versatile paper Electrophoresis” on 15th October 2015.

12. News Letter or Brochures or bulletins Published by the Dept. 1.

InSiDE (A bilingual monthly newsletter of Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics):- 12 issues published in 2015.

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Dept. brochure - 2015

13. Journals Published by Dept. 1.

Ayurinformatica Research Bulletin on “Traditional & Modern Knowledge on Bilva (Aegle marmelos)”, Volume 01, Issue 01, October 2015.

14.Honours received by Faculty/Research Students/Students 1.

Prof. Achuthsankar S. Nair was awarded with Thiruvallam Achuthan Nair Award instituted by Thiruvallam N. Achuthan Nair Foundation for Outstanding Services in Educational Activities, June 2015 (Rs. 25,000/-)

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Prof. Achuthsankar S. Nair was awarded with 'Professor N. A. Karim Award' instituted by Vakkom Maulavi Foundation for Outstanding Public Service, October 2015 (Rs. 1 Lakh)

15. Public Talks/Discussions over AIR/Television channels 1.

Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair inaugurated and delivered a Keynote address on “Examination: Techniques, technology & Quality” at two day seminar on “ The Dimensions of Governance, leadership and Management” organized by Sacred Heart College (Autonomous)’ Thevara, Kochi on 8-9 January 2015

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “Water Memories’ in Cafe Scientifique at Alliance Francaise de Trivandrum on 21st January, 2015.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered the keynote address in the seminar on “Kerala Technological University –Act & Regulation” organized by AKPCTA & KGOA, on 23rd January 2015.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered the inaugural Address for Computer Science Association, Department of Computer Science, A.J. College of Science & Technology, Trivandrum on 3rd February 2015.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair chaired a plenary session on “Global Importance of Arabic Language” in the International Seminar on Contemporary Arabic Language & Literature organized by Department of Arabic, University of Kerala on 6th February 2015.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair served as the resource Person in UGC sponsored two day national seminar on “Women and Cyber World-imminent Threats and Innovation” organized by Women’s Cell, Sree Narayana College, Alappuzha on 9th and 10th February 2015.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a lecture Demonstration on “Research Methodology in Fine Arts” in National Seminar on Confluence of Music organized by Department of Music, University of Kerala, at H.H.Maharani Sethu Parvathy Bai Memorial Auditorium on 25th February 2015.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair served as the resource person in National Conference on Foresight and Technology Futures 2015 (NCFTF-2015) organized by Department of Futures Studies, University of Kerala, and Cosponsored by KSCSTE on 19th March 2015 at Senate Chamber, University of Kerala.

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Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “Assessment and Evaluation” on orientation Programme/ Refresher Course organized by Department of Education, University of Kerala on 20th February 2015.

10. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a science lecture on National Science Day at IISER Thiruvananthapuram on 28th February 2015. 11. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “Assessment as Learning Opportunities” in the training program “ The Art of Innovative Teaching and Research” organized by College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET) on 9th March 2015. 12. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair served as the Chief Guest in 5th Graduation Ceremony of the outgoing Grade 12 students (Batch 2013-2015) organized by the Emirates National School, Sharjah on 21st February 2015 . 13. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “Application in New Biology” at National Workshop on Scale- Free Networks (NWSN-2015) on 14th February 2015 organized by Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala. 14. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk at Mathrubhasha dinam organized by Prathidhwani (a socio-cultural organization of Technopark employees) on 19th February 2015. 15. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk at the meet organized by the Alumni Association of the Department of Library and Information Science (AADLIS) on 30th March 2015. 16. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on Computer Aided Drug Design at the National Seminar of Drug Designing organised by Dept. of Biotechnology, Malankara Catholic College, Kaliyikkavilai on 9th February 2015. 17. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “Promoting Sciences and Social Sciences in Higher Education” at National Seminar organized by School of Distance Education, University of Kerala on 24th March 2015. 18. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “Bioinformatics and behavioural Science” at 31st Annual Conference of IPS, SIPSCON 2015 Kerala State Branch Trivandrum on 22nd August 2015, organized by Venad Gulid of Psychiatrists.

19. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on “National seminar on e-Governance and Kerala society: Prospects and Challenges'' on 10 September 2015 at NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry. 20. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair took part in DD Talk on Space Week, October 2015 21. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair served as resource person in Research Advancement Programme (ReAP), “Dimensions of research-perspectives and innovations”, conducted by the Department of Home Science, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam on 25th November, 2015. 22. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair gave Lecture on “Creativity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship” at Distinguished Speakers Series 2015-16 organised by Cardinal Cleemis School of Management Studies & Kerala Startup Mission on 2nd December 2015. 23. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered a talk on” Science and Development Communication “at the workshop on Development Journalism organized by Vaikom Maulavi Foundation on 26 December 2015. 24. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair delivered inaugural address in the MARC school session organized by School of Communication and Information Science, University of Kerala on 17/01/2015. 25. Dr. Umesh P., served as key resource person for two days Hands-On Workshop of “Data Analysis Using Weka and Bioinformatics solutions using R” on “R language for Bioinformatics” during 30-31st January 2015, Organized by Department of Computer Science & IT, Kochi Campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Cochin, Kerala 26. Dr. Umesh P., delivered a talk on” Control analysis and engineering for Biology” at National seminar on Bioinformatics during 12th and 13th January 2015, organized by Department of Zoology, Govt. Arts & Science College, Kozhikode. 27. Dr. Umesh P., delivered a talk on “Application in Biology “at National Workshop on Scale- Free Networks (NWSN-2015) on 14th February 2015 organized by Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala. 28. Dr. Umesh P., delivered a talk on “Scale free networks for Biology” on National Workshop on Scale-Free Networks (NWSN-2015), during February 14th 2015 organized by Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala 29. Dr. Umesh P, delivered a talk on “Bioinformatics for Post Genomic Era”, on DBT sponsored Bioinformatics workshop on 18th February, 2015 organized by the Department of Biotechnology, University of Calicut, Kerala. 30. Dr. Umesh P, delivered a talk on “MOOC” on Training Programme for Assistant Professors in College of Teacher Education on 20th February, 2015 organized by the Kerala State Higher Education Council, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 16. Miscellaneous Activities 1. The Centre for Venom Informatics took part in “National Biodiversity Congress “conducted from 23rd to 27th February 2015 at Kanakakunnu, Thiruvananthapuram. 2. Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair defended his second Ph.D in music in December 2015.

3. NAAC peer team visited the Dept. on 14th January 2015.