Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Ruchi Anand

Ruchi Anand

Adjunct Professor

School of Natural Sciences


Contact Information

Structural biochemistry, Enzyme mechanisms, and Drug discovery

  • 1999-2004 Ph.D, Chemistry Cornell University, Ithaca NY USA
  • 1996-1998 M.Sc., Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, UP, India
  • 1993-1996 B.Sc., Chemistry Miranda House, Delhi University, Delhi, India

  • At Present: Institute Chair Professor and Head of the Chemistry Department, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • 12/2018- Present Professor of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • 07/2014-11/2018 Associate Professor of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • 05/2008-06/2014 Assistant Professor of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • 01/2005-06/2006 Post Doctoral Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania/Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • 01/2003-12/2004 Post Doctoral Howard Hughes Fellow, Sloan Kettering New York, NY, USA
  • 08/1998-05/2002 Teaching Assistant, Cornell University, USA

  • Elected as the President of the Indian Biophysical Society (IBS), 2025
  • Elected as the President of the American Chemical Society Local Chapter (West Region), 2024
  • Inducted as an Associate Editor of ACS journal, Biochemistry, 2024
  • Recipient of the Sun Pharma Science Foundation Research Award, 2023
  • Inducted as a Member of editorial advisory board of Journal of American Chemical Society, 2023
  • Inducted as a Member of editorial advisory board of ACS Journal, J. Phys. Chem (A/B/C) 2023.
  • Inducted as a Member of the Advisory Board of RSC Journal Chemical Society Reviews 2023
  • Recipient of the S.C. Bhattacharya Award, Excellence in Research in Pure Sciences, 2023
  • Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA), 2023
  • Institute Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2022
  • Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), 2022
  • IIT Bombay Impactful Research Award, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2021
  • Inducted into the International Advisory Board of Asian JOC, 2021
  • Member of International IUPAC CHEMRAWN committee
  • Inducted as a Member of the Research Council of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, 2020
  • Elected member of the Guha Research Conference, 2020
  • Recipient of the AV Rama Rao Foundation Lecture Award at JNCSAR, 2020
  • Recipient of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) bronze medal, 2020 Ruchi Anand (PhD) FASc, FNASc, FNA Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Inducted as a Research Council Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, 2020
  • Selected member of Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Council, 2020-2023
  • Recipient of the India Alliance DBT-Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship, 2019
  • Elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), 2019
  • Core committee member: Water Innovation Centre (WICTRE), 2019
  • Member of International Program Committee for AsCA, 2019
  • Elected Secretary, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) West India Section, 2019 onwards
  • Elected member Executive Council of the Indian Biophysical Society, 2019-22
  • Elected member of the International Gender Equity and Diversity Committee of IUCr, 2019
  • Inducted as a Member of the Asian Chemical Biology Initiative (ACBI), 2019
  • Recipient of K Bachhawat International Travel Grant, 2019
  • Recipient National Women Bio-scientist Award, Department of Biotechnology, 2018
  • Recipient Young Outstanding Researcher Award, International Conference on Recent Trends in Material Science and Technology, October, 2018
  • Member Editorial Advisory Board “ACS Sensors” an American Chemical Society Journal, 2016
  • Faculty Mobility Award for Faculty Exchange to Northwestern University, 2016
  • Royal Society of Chemistry, Mumbai Chapter, Madam Curie Women Scientist Award, 2012

  1. “Mechanism of Deamination of Mycobacterial Deaminase Selectively Targeting Mutagenic Bases” Porathoor, S., Choudhury, A. R., Chakrabarti, R., Anand, R*., Nucleic acid Res. (2025) (Accepted).
  2. “Mechanism of conformational Selection of tRNAArg2 by Bacterial Deaminase TadA” Jessy Mariam, J., Porathoor, S., Anand, R*., Biochemistry. (2025) (DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00649).
  3. “Substrate-Induced Dynamic Regulation of the Catalytic Loop in Assisting Allosteric Communication in Formylglycinamidine Synthetase” Singh, S., Kistwal, T., Datta, A., Anand, R*., Phys. Chem. Lett. (2025), 16, 1582-1589.
  4. “Biosensing of multiple aromatic xenobiotics in water by in-house fabricated prototype device” Sahu, S., Ramachandran, S., Bandyopadyaya, R.*, Anand, R*., Biosensors and Bioelectronics (2024), 250, 116077.
  5. “Ultrasensitive detection of aromatic water pollutants through protein immobilization driven organic electrochemical transistors” Sahu, S., Kumar, L., Das, S., Gupta, D., Anand, R*., Chemical Science (2024), 15, 710.
  6. “Identifying Selectivity Filters in Protein Biosensor for Ligand Screening” Sahil, M., Singh, J., Sahu, S., Pal.K. S., Yadav, A., Anand, R.*, Modal, J.*, JACS Au. (2023), 3 (10), 2800–2812.
  7. “Porous silica nanospheres: a nanoplatform towards protein immobilization and cogent design of biosensors for aromatic water pollutant detection” Das, S., Sahu, S., Bandyopadyaya, R., Anand, R*., Environmental Science Nano. (2023), 10(10), 2799-2809.
  8. “Diverse strategies adopted by nature for regulating purine biosynthesis via fine-tuning of purine metabolic enzymes” Singh, S., Anand, R*., Current Opinion in Chemical Biology (2023), 73, 102261.
  1. “Phenol sensing in nature is modulated via a conformational switch governed by dynamic allostery” Singh, J., Sahil, M., Ray, S., Dcosta, C., Panjikar, S., Krishnamoorthy, G., Mondal, Jagannath., Anand, R*., Horowitz, A., Journal of Biological Chemistry (2022), 298(10), 102399.
  1. “Cooperativity in ATP Hydrolysis by MopR is Modulated by its Signal reception Domain and by its Protein and Phenol Concentrations” Singh, J., Anand, R*., Horowitz, A., Journal of Bacteriology (2022), 204(8), e00179-22.
  2. “Identification of allosteric hotspots regulating the ribosomal RNA binding by antibiotic resistance-conferring Erm methyltransferases” Bhujbalrao, R., Gavvala, K., Singh, R.K., Singh, J., Boudier, C., Chakrabarti, S., Patwari, G.N., Mély, Y., Anand, R.*, Journal of Biological Chemistry, (2022), 298(8), 102208.
  3. “Decoding the Mechanism of Specific RNA Targeting by Ribosomal Methyltransferases” Singh, J., Raina, R., Vinothkumar, KR., Anand, R*, ACS Chemical Biology (2022), 17(4) 829–839.
  4. “Harnessing the Potential of Biological Recognition Elements for Water Pollution Monitoring” Sahu, S., Roy, R., Anand, R*., ACS Sensors (2022), 7(3) 704–715.
  5. “Mechanism of Coordinated Gating and Signal Transduction in Purine Biosynthetic Enzyme Formylglycinamidine Synthetase” Sharma, N., Singh, S., Tanwar, A.S, Mondal, J., Anand, R*., ACS Catalysis (2022), 12(3) 1930–1944.
  6. “Tunnel Architectures in Enzyme Systems that Transport Gaseous Substrates” Singh, S., Anand, R*., ACS Omega (2021), 6(49), 33274–33283.
  7. “The Coenzyme A Level Modulator Hopantenate (HoPan) Inhibits Phosphopantotenoylcysteine Synthetase Activity” Mostert, KJ., Sharma, N., van der Zwaag, M., Staats, R., Koekemoer, L., Anand, R., Sibon, OC., Strauss, Eric*., ACS Chemical Biology (2021), 16(11), 2401–2414.
  8. “Insights into the Dual Shuttle Catalytic Mechanism of Guanine Deaminase” Sen, A., Gaded, V., Jayapal, P., Rajaraman, G.*, Anand, R*., Phys. Chem. B. (2021), 125(31), 8814 - 8826.
  9. “Deciphering protein microenvironment by using a cysteine specific switch-ON fluorescent probe” Mariam, J., Ashoka, A, H., Gaded, V., Ali, Firoz., Malvi, H., Das, A.*, Anand, R*., Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2021), 19, 5161-5168.
  10. “Structure Guided Mutagenesis Reveals the Substrate Determinants of Guanine Deaminase” Singh, J., Gaded, V., Bitra, A., Anand, R*., Struct. Biol. (2021), 213(3), 107747.
  11. “Tunable Multiplexed Whole-Cell Biosensors as Environmental Diagnostics for ppb-Level Detection of Aromatic Pollutants” Roy R., Ray S., Chowdhury* A., Anand R*., ACS Sensors (2021), 6, 5, 1933–1939.
  12. “Role of Allosteric Switches and Adaptor Domains in Long Distance Cross-Talk and Transient Tunnel Formation” Sharma, N., Ahalawat, N., Sandhu, P., Strauss, E., Mondal, J., Anand, R.*; Science Advances (2020); 6, eaay7919.
  1. “Structural basis for differentiation between two classes of thiolase: Degradative vs biosynthetic thiolase” Bhaskar S., Steer D., Anand R., Panjikar S.* Journal of Structural Biology (2020), 100018.
  2. “Use of 6‐Methylisoxanthopterin, a Fluorescent Guanine Analog, to Probe Fob1‐Mediated Dynamics at the Stalling Fork Barrier DNA Sequences”; Mariam, J., G, Krishnamoorthy, and Anand, R*.; Chemistry–An Asian Journal (2019); 14,4760 –4766.
  3. “Deciphering Determinants in Ribosomal Methyltransferases that Confer Antimicrobial Resistance” Bhujbalrao, R.; Anand, R.*; Journal of American Chemical Society (2019), 141, 1425-1429.
  4. “Design of Ultrasensitive Protein Biosensor Strips for Selective Detection of Aromatic Contaminants in Environmental Wastewater" Ray S., Senapati, T, Sahu, S; Bandyopadhyaya, R, Anand, R*; Analytical Chemistry (2018), 90 (15), 8960-8968
  5. “Design of Protein based Biosensors for Selective Detection of Benzene Group of Pollutants”, Ray, S., Panjikar, S., Anand, R*; ACS Sensors (2018), 3(9), 1632–1638
  6. “Nucleobase Deaminases as potential enzymes for new therapies”, Gaded V, Anand R*, RSC Adv., (2018),8, 23567-23577.
  7. “Fluorescence Quenching studies of γ-butyrolactone-Binding Protein (CprB) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) ”, Mariam J., Anand R*; Methods Mol Biol. (2018), 1673, 131-143.
  8. “Site-specific fluorescence dynamics to probe polar arrest by Fob1 in replication fork barrier sequences”, Biswas A., Mariam J., Kombrabail M. , Narayan S. , Krishnamoorthy G., Anand R*; ACS Omega (2017), 2, 7389-7399.
  9. “Functional insights into the mode of DNA and ligand binding of TetR family regulator TylP from Streptomyces fradiae”, Ray, S., Maitra, A., Biswas, A., Panjikar, S., Mondal, J., Anand R* ; Journal of Biological Chemistry (2017), 292, 15301-15311.
  10. “Selective deamination of Mutagens by mycobacterial Enzymes ”, Gaded, V., Anand, R.*; Journal of American Chemical Society (2017), 139(31), 10762-10768.
  11. “TetR Regulators: A Structural and Functional Perspective” Bhukya, H. & Anand, R.*; Journal of Indian Institute of Science (2017), 97, 245.
  12. “Structural and Dynamics Studies of the TetR Family Protein, CprB from Streptomyces coelicolor in complex with its Biological Operator Sequence” Bhukya, H., Jana, A.K., Sengupta, N., Anand, R.*; Journal of Structural Biology (2017), 198; 134–146.
  13. “Rassf Proteins as Modulators of Mst1 Kinase Activity” Bitra, A., Sistla, S., Mariam, J., Malvi, H., Anand, R.*; Scientific Reports (2017), 7, 45020.
  14. “Structure Guided Design of Protein Biosensors for Phenolic Pollutants” Ray, S., Panjikar, S., Anand, R*; ACS Sensors (2017), 2(3), 411-418.
  1. “Structural Basis of Selective Aromatic Pollutant Sensing by the Effector Binding Domain of MopR, an NtrC Family Transcriptional Regulator” Ray, S., Gunzburg, M., Wilce, M., Panjikar, S., Anand, R*; ACS Chemical Biology (2016), 11, 2357−2365.
  2. “Determination of formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase ammonia pathway by combining 3D-RISM theory with experiment”, Tanwar, A.S, Sindhikara, D.J, Hirata, F, Anand, R*; ACS Chemical Biology (2015), 10(3), 698-704.
  3. “Mode of DNA Binding with γ-utyrolactone Receptor Protein CprB from Streptomyces coelicolor revealed by Site-specific Fluorescence Dynamics”, Biswas, A., Narayan, S., Kallianpur, M, Krishnamoorthy,G. Anand, R*; Biochimica et Biophysica acta (2015), 1850(11), 2283-92.
  4. “Fluorescence Quenching Studies of γ-Butyrolactone Binding Protein (CprB) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)”, Biswas, A., Swarnkar, R. K., Hussain, B., Sahoo, S.K., Pradeepkumar, P.I., Patwari, G.N., Anand, R.*; J Phys Chem B. (2014), 118(34):10035-42.
  5. “Structural and functional basis of transcriptional regulation by TetR family protein CprB from coelicolor A3(2)”, Bhukya, H., Bhujbalrao, R., Bitra, A., Anand, R.*; Nucleic acid Res. (2014), 42(15), 10122-33.
  6. “Importance of hydrophobic cavities in allosteric regulation of formylglycinamide synthetase: insight from xenon trapping and statistical coupling analysis”, Tanwar, A.S., Goyal, V.D., Choudhary, D., Panjikar, S., Anand, R*; PLoS One (2013) 8(11), e77781.
  7. “Diversity oriented approach to triazole based peptidiomimetics as mammalian sterile 20 kinase inhibitors.” Kotha, S., Goyal, D., Bitra, A., Thota, N., Kruger, G., Anand, R.*; RSC Adv. (2013) 3, 24447-24454.
  8. “Structural basis of the substrate specificity of cytidine deaminase superfamily Guanine deaminase” Bitra, A., Biswas, A., Anand, R.*; Biochemistry (2013) 52(45), 8106-14.
  9. “Identification of Function and Mechanistic Insights of Guanine Deaminase from Nitrosomonas europaea: Role of the C-Terminal Loop in Catalysis” Bitra, A., Hussain, B., Tanwar, A.S., Anand, R.*; Biochemistry (2013), 52(20):3512-22.
  10. “Formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase from Salmonella typhimurium: role of ATP complexation and the glutaminase domain in catalytic coupling” Tanwar, A.S., Morar, M., Panjikar, S., Anand, R.*; Acta Crystallographica D (2012), 68, 627-36.
  11. “Development of a Potent and Specific Organoruthenium Mammalian Sterile 20 Kinase Inhibitor”, Anand, R, Pagano, N., Maksimoska, J., Wong, E., Diamond, S. L., Meggers, E., Marmorstein, R.; Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2008), 52(6):1602-11.
  12. “Structural Basis for DNA Recognition by FoxO1 and its Regulation by Post-Translational Modification”, Brent, M., Anand, R., Marmorstein, R.; Structure (2008), 16(9):1407-16.
  13. “Biochemical Analysis of MST1 Kinase: Elucidation of a C-Terminal Regulatory Region”, Anand, R., Kim, A., Brent, M., Marmorstein, R.; Biochemistry (2008), 242, (25); 6719-6726.
  1. “Structure and mechanism of lysine-specific demethylase enzymes”, Anand, R., Marmorstein, R., Biol. Chem. (2007) 282(49):35425-9.
  2. “Structure and mechanism of lysine-specific demethylase enzymes ", Morar, M., Anand, R., Stubbe, J., Ealick, S.E.; Biochemistry (2006), 45(50):14880-95.
  3. “A model for the Bacillus subtilis formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase multiprotein complex”, Anand, R., Hoskins, A. A., Bennett, E. M., Sintchak, M.D., Stubbe, J., Ealick, S.E.; Biochemistry (2004) 43(32), 10343-52.
  4. “Domain organization of Salmonella typhimurium formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase revealed by X-ray crystallography”, Anand, R., Hoskins, A.A., Stubbe, J., Ealick, S.E.; Biochemistry (2004) 43(32):10328-42.
  5. “The formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase complex from Bacillus subtilis: metabolite mediated complex formation”, Hoskins, A.A., Anand, R., Ealick, S.E., Stubbe, J.; Biochemistry (2004) 43(32):10314-27.
  6. “Structure of Purine 2'- Deoxyribosyltransferase, Substrate Complexes and the Ribosylated Intermediate at 1.75 Resolution”, Anand, R., Kaminski, V.S., Ealick, S.E.; Biochemistry (2004), 43(9), 2384-93.
  7. “Designer Gene Therapy Using an Escherichia coli Purine Nucloside Phosphorylase/Prodrug System”, Bennett, E.M., Anand, R., Allan, P.W., Hassan, A.E., Hong, J.S., Levasseur, D.N., McPherson, D.T., Parker, W.B., Secrist III, J.A., Sorcher, E.J., Townes, T.M., Waud, W.R., Ealick, S.E.; Chemistry and Biology (2003) 10(12), 1173-81.
  8. “Structure of Oxalate Decarboxylase from Bacillus subtilis at 1.75 Resolution”, Anand, R., Dorrestein, P.C., Kinsland, C., Begley, T., Ealick, S.E.; Biochemistry (2002), 41(24), 7659-69.

  1. Sahu, S., and Anand R. "Strategies for Development of Protein-Based Biosensors for Detecting Aromatic Xenobiotics in Water." The World Scientific Reference of Water Science: Volume 1 Molecular Engineering of Water Sensors. 2023. 101-136.
  1. Mariam J., Anand R., Fluorescence Quenching studies of γ-butyrolactone-Binding Protein (CprB) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), Quorum Sensing: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology 2018, 1673, 131-143.

  1. “Structural and Biochemical Studies on Mechanism of Ammonia Channeling in Purine Biosynthetic Enzyme FGAM Synthetase” 42nd Meeting, Structure and Function from Macromolecular Crystallography: ORGANIZATION IN SPACE AND TIME, Erice, Italy, 2010 Invited Participant.
  2. “Insights into Mechanism of Ammonia Channeling, IBS - Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France, June, 2010, Invited Talk.
  3. “Structural Biology of Enzyme Complexes”, Jülich Research Center, Germany, 2010, Invited Talk.
  4. “Structure Based Drug Design Approaches in Mammalian Sterile 20 Kinases” National Symposium in Computational Biology, Pondicherry, September, 2010, Invited Talk.
  5. “Structural biology of Purine Enzymes”, Indo-Swedish symposium, IISER Kolkata, March 2011, Invited Talk.
  6. “Identification of Molecular Tunnels in Purine Biosynthesis as Passages for Unstable Intermediates”, International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry, Mauritius, 2012, Plenary Speaker.
  7. “Purine Biosynthetic Enzymes”, EMBL, Hamburg, Germany, July 2012, Invited Talk.
  8. “Structure Activity Relationship of an Enzyme with Unknown Function” Biochemical Society of India, Mumbai, Sept 2012, Invited Talk.
  9. “From Form to Function” National Symposium on Frontiers of Biophysics, Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, IBS, Mumbai, Jan 2013 Invited Talk.
  10. “Structure Activity Relationship of an Enzyme of Unknown Function” IITB-Strathclyde Mini symposium, Mumbai, Jan 2013, Invited Talk.
  11. “Identification of Molecular Tunnels in Purine Biosynthesis as Passages for Unstable Intermediates” IITB-Strathclyde Meeting, Glasgow, UK, March 2013, Invited Talk.
  12. Structural Insights into Mechanism of Transcription and Antibiotic Regulation by CprB: A - butyralactone TetR-family protein from Streptomyces coelicolor, Asian Crystallography society Meeting, Hong Kong, China, Dec 2013, Invited Talk.
  13. “Structural Insights into Mechanism of Transcription by quorum sensing protein CprB from Streptomyces coelicolor”, 42nd National Seminar on Crystallography and International workshop for application of X-ray diffraction for Drug Discovery, Delhi, 2013, Invited Talk.
  14. “Insights into Ammonia Channeling of Purine Biosynthetic Enzyme PurL” March 2014, Ritsumekan University, Japan, Invited Talk.
  15. “Structural Insights into Mechanism of Antibiotic Regulation in Streptomyces coelicolor”,23rd International Union of Crystallography Meeting, Montreal, Canada, Aug, 2014 Selected Talk.
  16. “Substrate channeling in enzyme systems” Indo-US symposium on Recent Advances in Structural Biology and Drug Discovery, Oct 2014, IIT Roorkee, India, Invited Talk.
  17. “Structure and Mechanism of the Tetracycline Receptor CprB from Streptomyces” Monash University, March 2015, Monash University, Australia, Departmental Talk.
  18. “Protein Crystallization” Workshop on Structural Biology: An Introduction to Protein Crystallography, April 2015, National Institute of Mental Health, Bangalore India, Invited talk.
  19. “Structural based design of Aromatic biosensors” Application of Structural Biology in Translational Research and; Structure Guided Drug Design” ACTREC, Mumbai, India Nov 2015, Invited Talk.
  20. “Mechanism of Nucleobase Deamination” Indo-US Symposium on “Advances in Enzymology: Implications in Health, Disease and Therapeutics” ACTREC, Mumbai, 2016, Invited Talk.
  21. “Basics of X-ray Structure Determination and Refinement” Indo-US Symposium on “Advances in Enzymology: Implications in Health, Disease and Therapeutics” ACTREC, Mumbai, India, Jan, 2016 Workshop Talk.
  22. “Motional Dynamics in Protein-DNA Complexes” Indian Biophysical Society Meeting (IBS), Bangalore, India, Feb 2016, Invited Talk.
  23. “Structural Biochemistry of Transcription Regulation in Biological Systems” University of Santa Cruz, June 2016, USA, Departmental Talk.
  24. “Structural Insights into Antibiotic Regulation and Resistance in Streptomyces” Gordon Conference on Drug Resistance, University of New England, Biddeford, June 2016, USA, Selected Speaker. 25. “Development of Enzyme Based Biosensors for Xenobiotic Pollutants” Current Trends in Protein Structure and Genome Analysis, Centre of bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, Dec 2016, Pondicherry, India, Invited Talk.
  1. “Development of Enzyme Based Biosensors for Xenobiotic Pollutants” Current Trends in Protein Structure and Genome Analysis, Centre of bioinformatics, Pondicherry University, Dec 2016, Pondicherry, India, Invited Talk.
  2. “Transcription Regulation in Biological Systems” Uni. of Illinois, 2016, USA, Departmental Talk.
  3. “Structural Biochemistry of Transcription Regulation in Biological Systems” Bowling Green State University Aug 2016, Chicago, USA, Departmental Talk.
  4. “Design of Biosensors for Aromatic Pollutants” Chemistry Interfacing with Biology and Physics (CIBP-2017), IISER Kolkata, India Jan 2017, Invited Talk.
  5. "Design of Aromatic Biosensors” New Dimension in Chemistry, Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakand, India, May 2017, Invited Talk.
  6. “New Therapies to Combat Antibiotic Resistance” Kaleidoscope, A discussion Meeting in Chemistry Goa, July 2017, Invited Talk.
  7. “X-ray Crystallography as a Tool to Determine Protein Structures” Royal Society of Chemistry Event, Hislop College, Nagpur, India, July 2017, Invited Talk.
  8. “Structural Insights into Plasticity of DNA-Protein Interactions in Tetracycline Receptors”, International Union of Crystallography (IUCr 2017), Hyderabad, India, Aug 2017, Selected Talk.
  9. “Structural Insights into Plasticity of DNA-Protein Interactions in Tetracycline Receptors” Indo-German Conference on NMR Meets Biology, Sept 2017, Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik, Leipzig Germany, Invited Talk.
  10. “Motional Dynamics in Protein-DNA Complexes” Fluorescence Correlation Society (FCS) Meeting, IIT Guwahati, Guwahati, India, December 2017, Invited Talk.
  11. “Development of Enzyme Based Biosensors for Xenobiotic Pollutants” Indo-German Conference on Elementary Reactions in Functional Materials: From Biophysics to Technological Applications, Nov 2017, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Invited Talk
  12. “Using Structural Biology to Combat Drug Resistance” Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, January 2018, Departmental Talk.
  13. “Transcription Regulation in Biological Systems” Indian Institute of Science and Education (IISER) Bopal, India. January 2018, Departmental Talk.
  14. “Insights into Mechanisms of Drug Resistance” Innovations in Frontier Chemistry, IISER Pune, 2018, Invited Talk. 39. “Strategies to Combat Drug Resistance” National Bioorganic Chemistry Conference (NBCC), Celebrating 65th year of DNA Structure, (NISER)-Bhubaneswar, December 2018, Invited Talk.
  1. “Strategies to Combat Drug Resistance” National Bioorganic Chemistry Conference (NBCC), Celebrating 65th year of DNA Structure, (NISER)-Bhubaneswar, December 2018, Invited Talk.
  1. “Using Structural Biology as a Tool to Decipher Origins of Antibiotic Resistance” Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand, December 2018, Invited Talk. 41. “Why does Antibiotic Resistance Arise” 6th World Congress on Nanomedicine & Chemistry Biology Interface Synergistic in New Frontiers,Vigyan Bhavan, Delhi January 2019, Invited Talk.
  2. “Structural Insights into Origins of Resistance” Asian Chemical Biology Initiative Meeting, Yangoon, Myanmar, January 2019, Invited Talk.
  3. “Strategies to Combat Drug Resistance” International Conference on Multiscale Simulation and Mathematical Modelling (JNU), New Delhi, India. January 2019, Invited Talk.
  4. “Structural biochemistry: A versatile tool to study biological reactions” Empowering women in Chemistry, IUPAC 2019 symposium, Miranda House, February 2019, Invited Talk.
  5. “Strategies to Combat Drug Resistance” 8th National symposium on recent advances in chemical sciences, Amritsar, February 2019, Invited Talk.
  6. “Allosteric Regulation in Transient Molecular Tunnels” Diamond Jubilee Chemistry Symposium, IIT Bombay, India, February 2019, Departmental Talk.
  7. “Structural Biochemistry: Photography at atomic level” Department of Biophysics, Calcutta University, March 2019, Invited talk.
  8. “Strategies to combat antibiotic resistance” Weizmann India exchange: Chemical Biology and Material Science conference, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, May 2019, Invited Talk.
  9. “Role of allosteric switches and adaptor domains in long distance cross talk and transient tunnel formation” Kaleidoscope, Goa, July 2019, Invited Talk.
  10. “Molecular Insights into Ribosomal Methyltransferases Mediated Antibiotic Resistance” Indo-German workshop on “Emerging Trends in Chemistry and Materials”, IIT Bombay, August 2019, Invited Talk.
  11. “Understanding Allosteric Regulation in Transient Tunnels” 10th Toyota Riken international workshop: Science of life phenomenon woven by water and biomolecules, Toyota Physical and Chemical research Institute, Japan, September 2019, Invited Talk. 52. “Understanding Molecular Mechanism of Drug resistance” OCS2019@IIT Kanpur, IIT Kanpur, September 2019, Invited Talk.
  12. “Strategies to Combat Antibiotic Resistance” Chemistry Seminar Series, IISER Trivandam, September 2019, Invited Talk.
  13. “Understanding Molecular Mechanism of Drug Resistance” Indo-German workshop Multivalent and Adaptive Bioinspired Materials, University of Dusseldorf Essen, Germany, September 2019, Invited Talk.
  14. “Molecular Insights into the Mechanism of Methyltransferase Mediated Antibiotic Resistance” 88th Annual Meeting of the Society Of Biological Chemists, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre & Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bombay, October 2019, Invited Talk.
  15. “Molecular Insights into the Mechanism of Methyltransferases Mediated Antibiotic Resistance” 8th Annual Conference of ICBS-2019, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, Nov 2019, Invited Talk.
  16. “Allosteric Regulation and Ammonia Tunnels” Let there be light, Udaipur, 2019. Invited Talk.
  17. “Strategies to Combat Antibiotic Resistance” 16th Asian Crystallographic Association Meeting, NUS, Singapore Dec 2019, Keynote speaker.
  18. “Unravelling the Allosteric Regulation Mechanism of Purine Biosynthetic Pathway Enzyme” 12th Asia-Pacific Microscopy Conference (APMC-2020), February, Hyderabad, 2020, Invited Talk.
  1. “Allosteric Regulation of Molecular Tunnels” Modern Approaches in Chemistry and Biology, Bangalore, February, 2020, Invited Talk.
  2. “Structural Biochemistry: A Versatile to Study Biological Reactions” W-CHEM, Women In Science, MS University, Baroda, March 2020, Invited Talk.
  3. “Crystallography: Photography at the Atomic Level”, ACS Webinar Series, April 2020, Invited Talk.
  4. “Probing Mechanisms of Targeting and Allostery to Attain Specificity in Enzymatic Reactions” AV Rama Rao Foundation Award Lecture, JNCSAR, Webinar 2020. 64. “Probing Long Distance Allosteric Communication in Enzyme Systems” First Virtual ACES-CRSI Symposium, Webinar , October 2020.
  5. “Strategies to Combat Antibiotic Resistance” 1st Virtual Indo-German Symposium, 2021, Webinar.
  6. Strategies to combat antibiotic resistance, 48th National Seminar on Crystallography. 2021, IIT Roorkee, Seminar.
  7. Search for Molecular Tunnels in Enzyme Systems, RSC-IISER Desktop seminar with OBC, 2021, RSC-IISER, Invited Talk.
  8. Strategies to combat antibiotic resistance, OIST mini symposium "New proteins by Evolution and Engineering", 2021, OIST, Japan Seminar.
  9. Strategies to combat antibiotic resistance, Institute Colloquia, IISER Tirupati, 2022, IISER Tirupati Colloquium.
  10. Allosteric regulation of molecular tunnel, Institute Colloquia, TIFR, Mumbai, 2022, TIFR Mumbai, Colloquium.
  11. Allostery in Biological System, Special International Women’s Day lecture, 2022, IISER Kolkata. Seminar.
  12. Women in Science, Lecture on International Women’s Day, CBS, 2022, Seminar.
  13. From Laboratory Chemistry to Device fabrication, One Day Virtual National Conference on Role of women Chemist and technologist for sustainable future 2022, Seminar.
  14. Antibiotic Resistance, Let There Be Light, 2022, Himachal Pradesh, Seminar.
  15. Strategies to combat antibiotic resistance, 44th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting, ACTREC, Mumbai 2022, Indian Biophysical Society, Invited Talk.
  16. Cryo-EM as a Bio-imaging tool to Decipher origins of antibiotic resistance, Biomedical, BIO-imaging & Therapeutics for healthcare, 2022, IIT Jodhpur, Invited Talk.
  17. Allostery in biological systems, Institute Colloquia SN Bose National Center for Basic science, 2022, SN Bose National Center for Basic science, Invited Talk.
  18. CRSI Lecture Series August 2022, speaker and Local Convener.
  19. Deciphering the Mechanism of Ribosomal Methyltransferase-mediated Antibiotic Resistance, IUPAC ISBOC-13, NTU Singapore, 2023, Invited Talk.
  20. Deciphering the Mechanism of Ribosomal Methyltransferase-mediated Antibiotic Resistance, EBSA Stockholm, 2023, Invited Talk.
  21. Design of Protein based Biosensors for Selective Detection of Aromatic Group of Pollutants, University of Bourdeaux, 2023, Invited Talk.
  22. Understanding macromolecular crystallography, Indian Academy of Science (IAS) Outreach Program, 2024, Invited Talk,
  23. Methyltransferase induced antibiotic resistance: SATHI SUMMIT, IIT Delhi, 2024, Invited Talk,
  24. Deciphering the role of pathogenic Mtases in antibiotic resistance, EMSI, Invited Talk, 2024.
  25. Understanding methylation based antibiotic resistance, , National Institute of Immunology (NII), 2025, Institute Colloquia.
  26. Combating Antibiotic resistance: war at the microscopic level, 47th Indian Biophysical Society Meeting, IIT Madras 2025, Indian Biophysical Society, Plenary Talk.

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