List of Awardees in 2014

Travel bursaries were sanctioned to 79 Applicants out of which 62 Applicants, who attended the Conferences/ Meetings/Workshops, were awarded the bursaries. The list of awardees is as follows:

1. Anupam Singh, PhD student, Product Development Cell II, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “N-Propanol based solubilization buffer enhances refolding yield of inclusion body protein by populating intermediates to the folding pathway” at the International Conference “Protein folding dynamics from computer to the cell: Protein folding, function and evolution”, held in Texas, USA from January 5-10, 2013.

2. Sunil Ashok Nankar, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Panjab, for Poster Presentation on “Effect of Lipopeptide comples containing apolipoprotein E- derived peptides on the activity of paraoxonase 1 enzyme” at the “13th Annual PEP Talk”, held in California from January 13-17, 2014.

3. Adarsh Kumar Mayank, PhD student, ICGEB, New Delhi for Poster Presentation on “Nucleoprotein of influenza virus mediates prolonged suppression of api5, an inhibitor of E2F1-dependent apoptosis to promote virus propagation” at 2014 Keystone Symposia Conference “Pathogenesis of Respiratory Viruses”, held in Colorado, USA from January 19-24, 2014.

4. Gurleen Mehta, PhD student, Department of Immunopathology, PGIMER Chandigarh, for Oral Presentation on “ Time Trend Analysis of HIV Infection showing impact of National Programs in an ICTC set up in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India” at the International Science Symposium on “HIV and Infectious Diseases”, held in Chennai, India from January 30-February 1, 2014.

5. Asif Amin Dar, PhD student, ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai for Poster Presentation on "Immune dysfunction in patients with oral cancer: Role of myeloid derived suppressor cells and regulatory T cells" at the Keystone Symposia on “Inflammation, Infection and Cancer”, held at Whistler, Canada from March 9-14, 2014.

6. Divya Murthy, PhD student, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, for Poster Presentation on "Modulation of Melanosome dynamics of autophagy related proteins” at the Gordon Research Conference “Autophagy in Stress, Development & Disease”, held in Lucca, Italy from March 14-15, 2014.

7. Priyanka Pushkarbahi Trivedi, PhD student, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, Panjab, for Poster Presentation on “Effect of melatonin on colitis-associated colon carcinogenesis in mice: Role of autophagy and Nrf2 signaling pathways” at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA from March 23-27, 2014.

8. Nidhi Hans, Research Associate, ICGEB, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Invasion Inhibitory antibodies against microneme associated antigen of Plasmodium falciparum” at the Gordon research Conference “Antibody Biology and Engineering”, held in Lucca, Italy from March 23-28, 2014.

9. Dr. Satish K. Gupta, Staff Scientist, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Invited lecture “Role of Zonapellucida Glycoproteins during Fertilization” at the “11th Congress of the European Society for Reproductive Immunology (ESRI)”, held in Budapest, Hungary from March 30-April 1, 2014.

10. Abhinav Shrestha, PhD student, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Evaluation of immunogenicity and contraceptive efficacy of gamete specific recombinant proteins for the development of contraceptive vaccine” at the “11th Congress of the European Society for Reproductive Immunology (ESRI)”, held in Budapest, Hungary from March 30-April 1, 2014.

11. Nazia Nasir, PhD student, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Polar residues–Key players imparting functional specificity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis HspATs” at the Keystone Symposia Meeting on “Novel Therapeutic Approaches to Tuberculosis”, held in Colorado, USA from March 30- April 4, 2014.

12. R. Prasida Holla, PhD student, Virology group, ICGEB, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Cellular entry of hepatitis E virus involves Dynamin, Clathrine, and Membrane Cholesterol, but not Factors associated with Macropinocytosis” at Keystone symposium on “ Ins and Outs of Viral Infection: Entry, Assembly, Exit and Spread”, held in Colorado, USA from March 30-April 4, 2014.

13. Shyam Lal Mudavath, PhD student, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Science BHU, New Varanasi, for Poster Presentation on “Amine modified graphene mediated drug delivery of Amphotericin B for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis” at the “16th International Congress on Infectious Diseases”, held in Cape Town, South Africa from April 2-5, 2014.

14. Dr. Ritu Gill, Assistant professor, Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, for Oral Presentation on “Comprehensive genome-wide analysis of WDR superfamily of Plasmodium falciparum, cloning and production of PfWDR protein involved in chromatin remodeling”, at the 16th International Congress on Infectious Diseases”, held in Cape Town, South Africa from April 2-5, 2014.

15. Yatendra Kumar Satija, PhD student, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “The pursuit of p73 regulation: interaction partners tell many different stories” at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2014 on “Targeting Cures in Cancer Research”, held in San Diego, California, USA from April 5-9, 2014.

16. Asif Shajahan, PhD student, Laboratory of Chemical Glycobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Engineering of sialoglycoproteins of brain in mice using carbohydrate-neuroactive (CH-NA) hybrid molecules and their identification by glycoproteomics”, at the “10th Annual US HUPO Conference on Glycoproteomics”, held in Seattle, Washington, USA from April 6-9, 2014.

17. Kaushik C. Thanki, PhD student, Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Panjab for Poster Presentation on “Innovative strategy for improving the oral delivery of amphotericin B: Design, development and evaluation of functional hydrophobic drugs” at the “5th International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) organized Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress”, held in Melbourne, Australia from April 13-16, 2014.

18. Shalini Tanwar, PhD student, Immunobiology Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Check point redundancy in peripheral B lymphocyte maturation” at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting “Gene Expression and Signaling in Immune system”, held at Cold Spring Harbour, New York, USA from April 22-26, 2014.

19. Dr. Ipsita Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), SAS Nagar, Panjab, for Poster Presentation on “Nucleic acid aptamers as potential universal stabilizers of proteins” at the “10th International Conference on Protein Stabilization”, held in Stresa, Italy from May 7-9, 2014.

20. Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Research Officer, Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Generation and functional characterization of human anti-V3 scFv antibodies against HIV-1 clade C viruses” at “27th International conference on Antiviral Research (ICAR)”, held in North Carolina, USA from May 12-16, 2014.

21. Dr. Om Prakash Singh, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, for Poster Presentation on “Leishmania specific CD4 T cells release IFN-γ that limit parasite replication in patients with VL” at “CYTO 2014- XXIX Congress of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry”, held in Florida, USA from May 17-21, 2014.

22. Sanjay Saw, Phd student, Allergy and Immunology Section, IGIB, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Cockroach allergens increases bystander allergen interaction with dendritic cells reduced by serine protease inhibitor” at “European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Congress 2014”, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 6-11, 2014.

23. Dr. Sagar B. Bhattad, Senior Resident, Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh, Panjab, for Poster Presentation on “Complement deficiencies in a cohort of pediatric onset Lupus: A preliminary study from a tertiary care cenre in North India” at “Annual European Conference on Rheumatology”, held in Paris, France, from June 11-14, 2014.

24. Kumari Asha, PhD student, Department of Biochemistry, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Association of Apolipoprotein B/Apolipoprotein A-1 ration with raised carotid Intima media thickness: Marker of subclinical Atherosclerosis in Psoriasis patients” at the joint Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and International Society of Hypertension (ISH), held in Athens, Greece, from June 13-16, 2014.

25. Vanika Gupta, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, for ‘Oral’ Presentation on “Evolution of immune response in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected against a gram-negative bacteria” at the International Conference on “Evolution 2014”, held in North Carolina, USA from June 20-24, 2014.

26. Dr. Tanti Kumar Goutam, Research Associate, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “SG2NA recruits DJ-1 and Akt forming a signalosome in mitochondria and membrane to protect cells from oxidative stress” at the Gordon Research Conference “Cell Biology of the Neuron”, held in Waterville, NH, USA from June 22-27, 2014.

27. Yogesh Chawla, PhD student, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Protein Kinase B (PknB) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for both invitro and invivo survival of pathogen in the host” at the EMBO Conference “Microbiology after the Genomics Revolution: Genomes 2014”, held at Pasteur Institute, Paris, France from June 24-27, 2014.

28. Renu Yadav, PhD student, Department of Genetics, University of Delhi (South Campus), New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Decoding the role of Hemoglobin1 (glob1) in Drosophila development” at the “XVIII International Conference on Oxygen Binding and Sensing Proteins”, held in Sheffileld, UK, from July 6-10, 2014.

29. Mukesh Kumar, PhD student, Department of Biophysics, AIIMS, New Delhi, for attending Summer School 2014 “Integrated Structural Cell Biology, from molecules to cells and organisms: thinking out of the box”, organized at University of Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, from July 7- August 1, 2014.

30. Jyoti Batra, PhD student, ICGEB, New Delhi for Poster Presentation on “Human Heat Shock protein 40 promotes Influenza A virus replication by A viral nucleoprotein interact with cytoskeleton scaffolding protein α- actinin-4 for viral replication” at “XVI International Congress of Virology”, held in Montreal, Canada, from July 27- August 1, 2014.

31. Dr. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER, SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab, for Poster Presentation on “Nanoscale organization of protein molecules within Amyloids and Prions” at the “28th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society”, held in San diego, California, USA, from July 27-30, 2014.

32. Aruna Bitra, PhD student, Department of Chemistry, IIT Mumbai, for Poster Presentation on “Structure based protein engineering to confer selectivity of guanine deaminase” at the “23rd Congress and General Assembly of International Union of Crystallography (IUCR)”, held in Montreal, Canada, from August 5-12, 2014.

33. Ruchi Baghel, PhD student, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Interactive association of of synaptic vesicle trafficking genes with idiopathic epilepsies in north Indian population” at the “10th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, held in Singapore, from August 6-10, 2014.

34. Dr. Kalpana Rajanal, Research Associate, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Phosphorylation of nucleoporin Tpr governs its differential localization and is required for its mitotic function” at the Cold Spring Harbor Meeting “Nuclear Organization and Function”, held in New York, USA, USA from August 19-23, 2014.

35. Richa Kapoor, PhD student, Virology Lab, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Host microRNA 34a enhances HIV-1 replication” at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Conference “Regulatory and Non-Codng RNAs”, held in New York, USA, from August 26-30, 2014.

36. Ankan Kumar Bhadra, PhD student, Department of Biotechnology, NIPER, SAS Nagar, Panjab, for Poster Presentation on “Solubilization of huntingtin aggregates: Success lies with a combinatorial effort, rather than a singular target” at the “FEBS-EMBO Conference 2014”, held in Paris, France, from August 30-September 4, 2014.

37. Pooja Tanwer, PhD student, Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, New Delhi, for attending Workshop “SCF Bio”in the area of Genomics, Proteomics and Drug Designing, organized by Prof. Jayaram at IIT Delhi, from September 1-10, 2014.

38. Mudasir Ahmad Khanday, PhD student, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for attending “2014 Sleep Training Workshop”, organized in California, USA, from September 9-14, 2014.

39. Narender Kumar, PhD student, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, for Poster Presentation on “Comparative genomic analysis of Helicobacter pylori identifies three distinct lineages” at the “XXVIIth International Workshop on Helicobacter”, held in Rome, Italy, from September 10-13, 2014.

40. Rajesh Yadav, PhD student, Department of Physiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, for Oral Presentation on “Contribution of preoptic area thermo transient receptor potential vanilloid type IV (TRPV4) channel in thermoregulation in rats” at the International Conference “Neuroscience 2014”, held in Pacifico Yokohamo, Japan, from September 11-13, 2014.

41. Dr. Manish Rathi, Assistant Professor, Department of Nephrology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Oral Presentation on “Conversion from tacrolimus to cyclosporine in patients with new onset diabetes after renal transplant: Anopen label randomized prospective pilot study” at the “14th Congress of Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation”, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from September 10-13, 2014.

42. Roopali Rajput, PhD student, Department of Respiratory Virology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi University, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Diagnosis of human influenza A virus infection using single chain fragment variable antibody-based competitive inhibition ELISA” at the “5th ESWI Influenza Conference”, held in Netherlands, from September 14-17, 2014.

43. Rahul Shubhra Mandal, Scientist-I, Biomedical Informatics Center, National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, for Poster Presentation on “In silico designing and experimental validation of a potential small molecule inhibitor against Vibrio cholera AphB: a LysR-type transcriptional regulator” at the “5th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics”, held in California, USA from September 20-23, 2014.

44. Dr. Pradeep Sharma, DST-Inspire Faculty, Department of Biophysics, AIIMS, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Structural and Functional Studies of PGRP-S” at the International Conference on Crystallography “Biocrys 2014”, held in Lisbon, Portugal, from September 20-27, 2014.

45. Rashmi Kumari, PhD student, Virology Group, ICGEB, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “The non-structural protein 1 of influenza A virus interacts with the transcription factor C/EBPβ and downregulates RIG 1 promoter activity during viral infection” at the “4th Influenza Meeting”, held in Munster, Germany, from September 21-23, 2014.

46. Anupama Singh, PhD student, Molecular Aging Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “Feed forward loops downstream of DAF-16/FOXO and PHA-4/FOXA control C. elegans life span” at the International Meeting on “Molecular Genetics of Ageing”, held Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA, from September 29-October 3, 2014.

47. Ruchi Gupta, PhD student, National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, for Oral Presentation on “Antimalarial drug resistance: Monitoring artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in Odisha state” at the “IIIrd International Conference on Antimicrobial Research-ICAR 2014”, held in Madrid, Spain from October 1-3, 2014.

48. Prachi Agarwala, PhD student, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “5’UTR localized G-quadruplex synergistically modulate Transforming Growth Factor β2 (TGFβ2) expression” at the EMBO/EMBL Symposia on “Complex life of mRNA”, held in Heidelberg, Germany, from October 5-8, 2014.

49. Sathya Narayanan Nagarjan, PhD student, Department of Biotechnology, Nehru Arts and Science College, Bharathiar University, Tamilnadu, for Poster Presentation on “Tale of Twin Mycobacterium kinases regulating cell growth and division: A blot from the blue” at the International Conference “Cell cycle: bridging scales in cell division”, held in Roscoff, France, from October 11-15, 2014.

50. Dr. Ritu Aggarwal, Associate Professor, Department of Immunopathology, PGIMER Chandigarh, Punjab, for Poster Presentation on “HLA-B*1502 is associated with Carbamazepine induced Steven Johnson Syndrome in North Indian population” at “International Summer School on Immunogenetics 2014”, held at Colorado, USA, from October 15-18, 2014.

51. Dr. Anshuman Mishra, Research Associate, CCMB, Hyderabad, for poster Presentation on “Association of IL10 variants with visceral Leishmaniasis in Indian Population” at the “64th Annual Meeting of Human Genetics”, held in San Diego, USA, from October 18-22, 2014.

52. Dr. Satya Vati Rana, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Oral Presentation on “Imperative effect of wheatgrass on tumor marker and histology of experimentally induced colon cancer in rats” at the “4th World Congress on Cancer Science and Therapy”, held in Chicago, USA, from October 20-22, 2014.

53. Neetu, PhD student, Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, for Poster Presentation on “IFN-gamma released by CD4 T cell limits parasite growth in Human Visceral Leishmanisis”” at “Trieste Course Leishmania 2014”, organized at Trieste, Italy, from October 22- 24, 2014.

54. Namrata Anand, PhD student, Department of Parasitology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster Presentation on “Antiparasitic activity of bovine milk protein lactoferrin on Toxoplasma gondii: an in vitro and in vivo study” at the “International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED) 2014”, held in Vienna, Austria, from October 31-November 3, 2014.

55. Maneesh Kumar Jeengar, PhD student, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, NIPER, SAS Nagar, Punjab, for Poster Presentation on “Emu oil based nano-gel for transdermal delivery of curcumin to treat chronic inflammatory diseases” at the “2014 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition on Crystal Engineering”, held in San Diego, USA, from November 2-6, 2014.

56. Rajan Swamy, PhD student, Department of Pharmaceutics, NIPER, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, for Poster Presentation on “Adenosine receptors ligand modulated nanoparticle targeting to human breast cancer cells via over expressed adenosine receptors” at the “6th International Conference on Nanomaterials-Research and Application (NANOCON 2014)”, held in Brno, Czech Republic, from November 5-7, 2014.

57. Dr. Manoj Sharma, Professor of Radiotherapy, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, for Poster Presentation on “ER/PR status in breast cancer histological specimen and outcome of Tamoxifen blanket therapy- An overall protection in patients of developing countries” at “15th Biennial Meeting of the International Gynaecology Cancer Society (IGCS) 2014”, held in Melbourne, Australia, from Nov 8- 11, 2014.

58. Dr. Vivek Sagar, Senior Research Scientist, School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster Presentation on “Role of collagen binding proteins in the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease: identification of Parf motifs from M protein of North Indian group A,C and G streptococcal strains” at XIX Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases”, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from Nov 9- 12, 2014.

59. Praveen Kumar, PhD student, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), New Delhi, for ‘Oral’ Presentation on “ Efficacy of diagnostics methods for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis persistent infection in reactive arthritis” at the “18th International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI), Asia Pacific Conference”, held in Thailand, from Nov 11-14, 2014.

60. Vinod Kumar, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Nephrology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, for Poster Presentation on “Association of PLA2R and HLA-DQA1 genetic variants with PLA2R serum levels and clinical outcome in Indian Membranous Nephropathy patients” at the “American Society of Nephrology Conference 2014 on Diabetic Nephrology”, held at Philadephia, USA, from Nov 11-16, 2014.

61. Dr. Pramod Kumar, DS-Kothari Postdoc Fellow, School of Life Sciences, JNU, New Delhi, for Oral Presentation on “Molecular epidemiology of Vibrio cholera associated with flood in Brahamputra river, Assam, India” at the “12th International Congress on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious diseases (MEEGID XII), held in Bangkok, from December 11-13, 2014.

62. Dr. Philip Raj Abraham, ICMR-Research Associate, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, for Poster Presentation on “N-terminal region of M.tuberculosis PPE protein RvXXXX induces strong B cell response in active TB patients” at the “12th International Congress on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious diseases (MEEGID XII), held in Bangkok, from December 11-13, 2014.