SECOND BILATERAL SYMPOSIUM ON STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
AND
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE

 18-19 November 2006
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

The Second Bilateral Symposium on Structural biology organized by the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS and the Indian Institute of Science was held on 18-19 November 2006 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. This is the second bilateral conference following the Structural Biology Research Co-operation agreement signed on 18 July 2001 between these two institutions.

This agreement has fostered closer collaboration and facilitated partnerships by bringing together structural biologists and protein scientists from the two institutes to exchange new ideas and establish a common platform for embarking on collaborative scientific programs.

Since the signing of this agreement, there has been at numerous visits from faculty members from IISc to NUS, including Prof. K.R.K. Eswaran (2006), Prof. Dipankar Chatterjee (2006), Prof. Utpal Tatu (2005), Prof. R.Varadarajan (2002).

The conference centred on 3 themes which were :

A 9-member delegation from NUS consisting of structural biologists and biophysicists from DBS and the Department of Physics attended the 2-day Symposium.

Following the conference, members of the delegation also mounted outreach visits to Universities and Technical Institutes in Chennai.