OBJECTIVE

Technobia’09 aims to bring together researchers, scientists, students, engineers, and academic and R&D scholars to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Computational Biology & Chemistry and also Stem cell research, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. The event addresses the development and application of computational methods for biological problems from the perspectives of both research and industry. Eminent well known speakers come together to enlighten the audience with their research, academic and industry experiences, also highlighting the recent research and scope in these fields.

Talk

The conference will cover the following topics,

STEM CELL RESEARCH

Talk 1

- Delivered by Dr. Rama Shanker Verma, Associate Professor,Stem and Molecular Biology lab, Department of Biotechnology, IITM, Chennai

Talk 2

- Delivered by Dr. Shaji R.V, Associate Professor, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences CMC, Vellore.

CHEMINFORMATICS

- Delivered by Dr. Chandan Raychaudhury, Solutions Scientist, Life Science, Accelrys, Bangalore

DRUG DESIGNING

- Talk by Mrs. Rohini Srinivasan, Senior Consultant, Lifesciences and Pharma, HCL Technologies, Chennai

SAS & CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT

- Talk given by Mr. Ahmed Z Kabeer, Project Manager, Laxai, Hyderabd.

STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS

- Speech delivered by Dr. Swagatha Das Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Karaghpur.

SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

- Talk by Mr. Saurabh Bundela, Senior Scientist, Systems Biology India Pvt Ltd, Pune.

MICRO ARRAY

Talk by Dr. Kshitish Acharya, Faculty Scientist, IBAB, Bangalore.

ORGANIZER

The conference is being organized by BionteQ Bioscience Private Limited, a company located at Chennai venturing into Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics and Biomedical engineering providing software and research solutions to the life science world. The company also provides consultancy services in the area of computational biology and chemistry with its own research and development team working on these areas.

VENUE

The conference will be held on 8th and 9th of August 2009 at Hotel Green Park, situated in Arcot Road, (Near Vadapalani Bus Terminal) Vadapalani, Chennai at a distance of 12 Kms from Airport, 10 Kms from Chennai Railway Station and 15 minute drive from the business and shopping centre. The hotel provides the gathering an excellent ambience suited for intellectually stimulating discussions.

REGISTRATION

Early Bird Offer july 1 onwards Upto June 30, 2009 Registration fee includes the following:
Conference kit, Certificate, Lunch and refreshments.

ACCOMODATION

Participants should arrange their own accommodation, however, accommodation in hotels, paying guest houses may be booked on request, against an advance booking amount sent. A special request must be made for accommodation assistance during the registration.

The request must reach BionteQ by July 31, 2009. Payments should be made through a demand draft in favor of BionteQ Bioscience Private Limited payable at Chennai.