Academic

1. Oral presentation: "Interactions of Biomacromolecules with Naturally Occurring Polyphenols: Prospects for Inhibitor Design" at Gordon Research Conference on Biomolecular Interactions & Methods, Jan 17-22, 2010 Galveston, TX, USA. 

2. Invited Talk: Technobia ’09: A National Conference On Stemcell Research, Computational Biology And Chemistry. Chennai August 8-9, 2009.

3. “Design and development of inhibitors for the ribonuclease family.” Department of Chemistry, Universitat de les Illes Balears. Cra. de Valldemossa, km 7.5. Palma (Illes Balears), Spain. May 21, 2008 

4. CRSI Workshop lecture “Green tea polyphenolic inhibitors of Ribonuclease A affect Angiogenesis induced by Angiogenin”.  IIT Kharagpur Local Chapter, August 2007

5. Invited lecture “Developing inhibitors for the ribonuclease superfamily”. Indian Photophysical Society, Kolkata, January 2007.

6. Invited lecture on “Protein Structure Analysis to understand Protein Interactions”, Workshop on Bioinformatics. IIT Kharagpur, 22-23 September 2006.

7. Invited Speaker, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Design & Drug Delivery Systems. BITS, Pilani 26th & 27th February 2005.

8. Invited Lecture “Insights into Protein Structure Analysis”. One Day Symposium, Presidency College April 2004.

9. Invited Speaker, An analysis of Ω loops in proteins, International Symposium on NMR, Drug Design & Bioinformatics, NMRS 2004, February 17-20, 2004, Kolkata, India

10. Poster presented at Symposium in “Frontiers in Bioinformatics”, Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, June 6-8, 2003, Buffalo, New York, USA.

11. Invited talk “Protein Structure Analysis: The Turn in Omega Loops of Proteins” 8th Seminar on Biochemistry and Biophysics: Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics April 12, 2003

12. ACA meeting 2000, St.Paul Minnesota, USA. “Protein Crystal Engineering Using Knowledge-based Potentials.” J. A. Bell, G. H. Iyer, S. Dasgupta and U. Srinivasan. 

13. ACA meeting 1999, Buffalo New York. USA. “Intermolecular Crystal Contacts, Ionic Strength and Potentials of Mean Force.” J. A. Bell, S. Dasgupta and G.H. Iyer 

Institutional and Departmental Activities

• Warden, Mother Teresa Hall of Residence, IIT Kharagpur
•  Former Chairperson and member, Departmental Undergraduate Program Evaluation Committee
•  In-charge Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry IIT Kharagpur
•  Assistant Warden, SN/IG Halls of Residence from March 1998 - March 2000
•  One of the Question Paper Setters for GATE 1998, 2003, 2006 Biochemistry
•  Convener, One Day Symposium in Chemistry, Feb 2006

Extracurricular

• Women’s Sports Champion, Presidency College, Calcutta 1984

• Member, IIT Womens’ Basketball team 1986-87

• 1st Prize in Quiz Contest (1987), conducted by the Chemical Society, IIT Kanpur.

• Area Manager, Rensselaer Housing, RPI, NY, USA. 1992-1994

• Article for “Now and Again” appeared in The Statesman Editorial page June 7, 2004

• Popular Lecture for IBM EXITE program to motivate girls into Science October 2005

• General Article: Chemistry is Evergreen 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, appeared in Resonance, published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, March 2009 www.ias.ac.in/resonance/March2009/p248-258.pdf