“"Enzymatic synthesis of small molecular multifunctional scaffolds: Application towards total synthesis of natural products". Invited lecture in 97th Indian Science Congress, Trivandrum, 4-7 th January, 2010.

“"A New hydroxynitrile lyase from Prunus armeniaca: Enzymological prioperties and asymmetric synthesis of cyanohydrins". Plenary lecture in the NSBBOS-2009, Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathawada University, Aurangabad, India,20-21st March, 2009.

“A new (R)-mandelonitrile lyase from Prunusmume: Asymmetric synthesis of cyanohydrins”. S. Nanda and Y. Asano. Presented in BIOTRANS 2005 (7 th International symposium on biocatalysis and biotransformation). Delft, Netherlands, 3-8 th July, 2005.

“A new (R)-mandelonitrile lyase from Prunusmume: Enzymological properties and synthetic studies.” S. Nanda; Y. Kato and Y. Asano. Presented in the JSBBA ( Japan society for bioscience bioengineering and agrochemistry) annual meeting, March 28-31 st, 2005, Sapporo, Japan.

“Screening for novel plant hydroxynitrile lyases”. S. Nanda; Ai Kayo, K. Tamura and Y. Asano. Presented in 8 th BCJ (Biocatalysis chemistry of Japan) symposium, Kieo University, Yokohama, 16-17 th December, 2004, Japan.

“Highly efficient and chemoselective synthesis of 3, 5-diketoesters by lipase catalyzed transesterification: Application in resolution of alcohols and desymmetrization of meso diols”. S Nanda and A I Scott. Presented at the 226 th ACS national meeting, September, 2003, NY, USA.