National

1. “Quantitative estimation of variable dielectric constants around aspartic acids embedded in different solvents based on quantum chemical studies: a case study on bacteriorhodopsin”, Debashree Bandyopadhyay and Akshay Bhatnagar, Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, 2018, 9^th to 12^th March, 2018, IISER Pune
2. Characterization of protein microenviornment and evolutionary rates of active site residues in RubisCo with an aim to enhance fixation of CO2", Kiranmayi V and Bandyopadhyay, D, Convergence of Chemistry and Material" 2017, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, 21st and 22nd of December 2017
3. "Characterization of cysteine thiol modifications based on protein microenvironments and local secondary structures", Bhatnagar, A and Bandyopadhyay, D.Computational Chemistry, Biology and Medicine, 2017, IIIT Hyderabad, 29th and 30th November 2017
4. “Characterization of Cysteine sulfhydryl functions based on protein microenvironment and local secondary structures”, Akshay Bhatnagar and Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Annual Indian Biophysical Society meeting, 2017, 23^rd to 25^th March, IISER Mohali
5. “Microenvironment based functional preferences of Cystine residues in high resolution protein crystal structures”, Akshay Bhatnagar and Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Indian Biophysical Society Meeting, (oral presentation by Akshay Bhatnagar) (Abstract Publication: Journal of Proteins and Proteomics 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1)
6. “Role of quantum chemistry to elucidate spectroscopic properties in material science”, National Conference on Nano and Functional Materials (NFM-2014), BITS-PILANI, Pilani Campus, INDIA, 7^th and 8^th of November, 2014
7. How is the rate of a chemical reaction regulated in biological systems? Study on acid-base reactions in high-resolution protein crystal structures, Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Annual Meeting of the Indian Biophysical Society, February, 7-10, 2014, Kolkata, India
8. Role of Microenvironment in modulating structure and function of Cystine residues in high-resolution protein cyrstal structures, Akshay Bhatnagar and Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Annual Meeting of the Indian Biophysical Society, February, 7-10, 2014, Kolkata, India
9. Chemistry in Biomolecular Structure and Function, Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Symposium on “Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences”, 25^th March 2012, Department of Chemistry, BITS-PILANI, Pilani, Campus, INDIA
10. “Structure and Dynamics of DNA Double Helices Controlled by Formation of Cross-Strand Hydrogen Bonds”, Bandyopadhyay, D. and Bhattacharyya, D; National Symposium on Biophysics, January 15-17, 2001, Calcutta, INDIA.
11. Design and Syntheses of ‘Aggregation Induced Emission’ Active Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes and their Biological Applications, Sheik Saleem Pasha, Parvej Alam, Rajdeep Chowdhury, Debashree Banerjee, Nigam Rath, Inamur R. Laskar, IISER Mohali National Seminar on Crystallography, 28^th to 30^th March, 2014, IISER, Mohali, INDIA
12. Identification of positions and residues key to keratin heteropolymerization versus homopolymerization: bioinformatics approach, Bandyopadhyay D and MS Madhusudhan, ATOMS 2011, September 2^nd to 5^th 2011, IICT, Hyderabad, INDIA
13. Development of quantitative property descriptor for microenvironment around proteins and their complexes, Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Conference on Biomolecular Simulation, Algorithm and Application, March 15th-16th 2011, JNU, New Delhi, INDIA
14. “Structure and Energy assessment of Extra Watson Crick Hydrogen bonds stabilizing different dinucleotide structures; an ab initio quantum study”, Bandyopadhyay, D. and Bhattacharyya, D.; National Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, January 14-17, 2004, Bangalore, INDIA.
15. “Effect of Long Range Interaction in DNA Double Helix Stabilization”, Bandyopadhyay, D. and Bhattacharyya, D; National Conference on Recent Trends in Biology Inspired Physics, March 18-21, 2002, Kolkata, INDIA.
16. “Competitive interactions of Mg2+ ion with water molecules and DNA”, Bandyopadhyay, D. and Bhattacharyya, D; International Symposium on Crystallography and Bioinformatics in Structural Biology, November 22-25, 2001, Bangalore, INDIA.

International

17.  “Kolkata resisted H1N1 swine flu influenza virus in recent past: A bioinformatics study”, Suma C., Prakruthi, B, Thanmayi, R.R., Kiranmayi V and Bandyoapdhyay, D., 16^th International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB2016), 21^st September to 23^rd of September 2016, Singapore.
18. "PROTONATION AND DEPROTONATION REACTION OF ASPARTIC ACID SIDE CHAIN MODULATED BY THE SURROUNDING DIELECTRIC MEDIUM - AB INITIO QUANTUM CHEMICAL STUDIES ON ASPARTIC ACID IN SIXTEEN DIFFERENT SOLVENTS AND TWO PROTEIN STRUCTURES", Akshay Bhatnagar, Sruthi Varanasi, Dhrub Ghiya, G.G.S. Chaitanya and Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Biophysical Society Meeting 2016. Los Angeles, California, 27th February to 2nd March 2016
19. "Cystine Functions cluster around similar micro-environment clusters from diverse protein crystal structures", Bandyopadhyay, D Eur. Biophys J (2015) 44 (suppl 1): S50, European Biophyscial Society Meeting, Dresden, Germany, 18th to 22nd July, 2015
20. Role of Microenvironment in modulating structure and function of Cystine residues in high-resolution protein cyrstal structures, Debashree Bandyopadhyay, 4^th Annual International Conference, Biotech 2014, 10^th and 11^th March, 2014, BITS-PILANI, Dubai Campus, Dubai (oral presentation)

1.     Identification of Keratin residues that are crucial for filament formation, Debashree Bandyopadhyay and M.S. Madhusudhan, International Conference on “Biomolecular Forms and Functions”, 8-11 January, 2013, IISc. Bangalore, India

21. Local unfolding of protein backbone conformation at DNA recognition sites: Characterization based on phi-psi map. Parva Sharma, Divya, E. Nivedita, Debashree Bandyopadhyay, International Conference on “Biomolecular Forms and Functions”, 8-11 January, 2013, IISc, Bangalore, India
22. Improving long loop predictions in GPCR proteins: Bandyopadhyay, D, Bortolato, A, Mehler E.L. and Filizola, M. Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, February, 2008, Long Beach, California, USA
23. Formation of precursor to amyloid aggregation of the tau fragment 306VQIVYK311, Bandyopadhyay, D and Mehler, E.L., Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, March 2007, Baltimore Maryland, USA.
24. Quantitative Characterization of Protein Microenvironments: Local Property Descriptor for analyzing Structure-Function Relationships”, Bandyopadhyay, D., and Mehler, E.L.; Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, February 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
25.  “Sequence Directed Flexibility of DNA with Environmental Effects”, Kundu, S., Bhattacharyya, D., Bandyopadhyay, D., Thakur, A.R. and Majumdar, R.; XIII International Biophysics Congress, September 19-24, 1999, New Delhi, INDIA. (Published in Journal of Biosciences, 1999, 24(4))
26. “Effect of Flanking Residues on Base-pair Stacking Orientation: A Molecular Dynamics Study.” Bandyopadhyay, D. and Bhattacharyya, D.; XIII International Biophysics Congress, September 19-24, 1999, New Delhi, INDIA. (Published in Journal of Biosciences, 1999, 24(4))

Invited talks

1.     “How Computational Studies Can Complement Experimental Studies on Functional Materials?”, International Conference on Nano and Functional Materials (NFM-2017), BITS-PILANI, Pilani Campus, India, 16^th to 18^th of November, 2017

2.     “Role of quantum chemistry to elucidate spectroscopic properties in material science”, National Conference on Nano and Functional Materials (NFM-2014), BITS-PILANI, Pilani Campus, INDIA, 7^th and 8^th of November, 2014

3.     “Chemistry in Biomolecular Structure and Function”, one-day interdisciplinary seminar, Department of Chemistry, BITS-PILANI, Pilani, INDIA, 25^th March 2012

4.     “Elucidation of Biomolecular Structure-Function relationship using computational approaches”. School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, INDIA, September 2^nd, 2011

5.     “Elucidation of Biomolecular Structure-Function relationship using computational approaches”, IISER, Mohali, INDIA, April 14^th, 2011

6.     “Development and application of Microenvironment property descriptor“, West Bengal University of Technology, India, July 2008

7.     Quantitative expression of protein heterogeneity: Response of amino acid side chains to their local environment”, MMDDA seminar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, 11^th July, 2008

8.     “Development and application of Microenvironment property descriptor”, Department of Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Calcutta University, India, 30^th June, 2008

9.     “Protein Structure-function elucidation using computational approaches”, Life Sciences R&D Division, TCS Innovation Lab, TCS, Hyderabad, India, 11^th June 2008“

10. “Prediction of long loop structures in GPCR proteins”, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, USA, March 2008

11. “ab initio prediction of long intracellular loops in G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) “ Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, USA, March, 2008

12. “Blind prediction of G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) loops, ab initio”, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, February 2008

13. “Lecture on Basic Quantum Chemistry”, Habra Shree Chitanya College, Kolkata, India, March 2005