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Published Online on 13 October 2015 Proc Indian Natn Sci Acad 81 No. 4 September 2015 pp. 1063-1075 Printed in India. ACADEMY NEWS INSA MEETINGS PhD, Stat Math Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Council and General Body Meetings For his outstanding results on quantum isometry Several meetings were held during July 27-30, 2015 groups of compact quantum groups which have in the Academy premises. The different Sectional attracted the attention of, and been put to good Committees met for election of new Fellows of the use by, established experts in the area. Academy and selection of the Young Scientist Awardees. The Advisory Boards for the various INSA 4. Dr Arup Kumar Das (b 18.04.1980), PhD, Awards also met. These were followed by meetings Department of Mechanical and Industrial of the Council and General Body on July 30, 2015. Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. INSA Medal for Young Scientists For development of computational algorithms The Council at its meeting during July 29-30, 2015 for dispersed two phase flow with complex approved the award of INSA Medal for Young interfaces and its experimental validation. Scientist 2015 to 29 young researchers below the age of 35. The award carries a medal, a certificate and 5. Dr Rajendra Singh Dhaka (b 10.06.1980), cash prize of Rs. 25,000. PhD, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The following 29 young scientists were selected for the INSA Medal for Young Scientists. For his unique and significant experiments on rare-gas nanobubbles in metallic surfaces and 1. Dr B Anand (b 06.01.1981), PhD, Department establishing a general relation between the of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian nanobubbles and the binding energies of the rare Institute of Technology, Guwahati. gas atoms. For his novel insights into mode of action of 6. Dr Sumit Ghosh (b 01.05.1980), PhD, GTPases and diverse cellular functions that they Department of Plant Biotechnology, CSIR- regulate. His work on CRISPR-cas system has Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic potential applications in genome engineering. Plants, Lucknow. 2. Dr Rehna Augustine (b 18.05.1981), PhD, For having cloned and functionally National Institute of Plant Genome Research, characterized novel amyrin synthase genes from New Delhi. sweet basil for the biosynthesis of medicinally important pentacyclic triterpenes. He also For her significant work on the manipulation engineered slow ripening of tomato by silencing of glucosinolate pathway in oilseed mustard genes that control N-glycan processing. (Brassica juncea). Her transgenics for MYB2 gene could be of high agronomic value in 7. Dr Jitender Giri (b 01.07.1980), PhD, National developing low glucosinolate varieties and Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi. hybrids. For discovering rice genes for stress-associated 3. Dr Jyotishman Bhowmick (b 05.11.1981), proteins (SAP 1 and SAP 11) and receptor-like 1064 Academy News cytosolic kinase (RLCK 253) that confer abiotic 12. Dr Sameena Khan (b 23.05.1984), PhD, stress tolerance in rice and in transgenic Translational Health Science and Technology Arabidopsis plants. Institute, Faridabad. 8. Dr Ashish Gupta (b 22.08.1980), PhD, For her outstanding work about the structural Department of Life Sciences, Shiv Nadar basis of aminoacylation of tRNA in Plasmodium University, Greater Noida. falciparum which has potential application in development of novel therapies against Malaria. For discovering functional characterization of the homologue of eukaryotic Origin 13. Dr Hima Bindu Kudapa (b 22.04.1980), PhD, Recognition Complex (ORC) subunits in Center of Excellence in Genomics, International Plasmodium and for identifying the presence Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PfPCNA) Tropics, Greater Hyderabad. Interacting Protein (PIP) motif in PfOrcl and For her excellent contributions on gall midge confirming the physical interaction between and legume transcriptome which is of high value PfORC and PfPCNA by interaction studies and and useful for breeding of chickpea. complementation assay. 14. Dr Biman Behari Mandal (b 07.07.1981), 9. Dr Nilesh Prakash Gurao (b 11.03.1983), PhD, Department of Biosciences and PhD, Department of Materials Science and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Kanpur. For developing innovative use of silk fibre base For his outstanding work in elucidating scaffolds for human tissue engineering and for deformation mechanisms at multiple length demonstrating their versatility in applications scales (from nanometer to millimeter), in ranging from skin repair to scaffolds for bone particular, his demonstration of the similarity repair. of deformation mechanisms in coarse grained and nanocrystalline Nickel on the basis of 15. Dr Athi Narayanan Naganathan (b misorientation angles determined by electron 28.11.1980), PhD, Department of back scattered diffraction. Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. 10. Dr Tanvi Jain (b 17.05.1981), PhD, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. For developing statistical mechanical models for computational prediction of folding For her contribution in Matrix Analysis and thermodynamics and for comparing predictions proof of the variational principle for symplectic with experimental results on biologically eigenvalues of strictly positive real matrices of important proteins like ACBP, lkβα, RNaseH even order. etc. 11. Dr Vikas Jain (b 06.02.1980), PhD, 16. Dr Rajesh V Nair (b 24.05.1980), PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Institute of Science Education and Research, Technology Ropar, Punjab. Bhopal. For synthesizing and studying high quality For his understanding of the interactions that photonic crystals in the visible and near infrared occur between a bacterium and its phage. And wavelength ranges and for obtaining photonic for developing expression vectors for the rapid band edge lasing from Si-nanophotonic cloning and expression of proteins with structures. hexahistidine tag at either termini. Academy News 1065 17. Dr Santanu Kumar Pal (b 18.03.1981), PhD, For his renowned contributions in the area of Indian Institute of Science Education and algebraic complexity theory and significant Research, Mohali. studies of the development of important deterministic algorithms for primality testing, For his significant contributions on liquid polynomial identity testing and construction of crystal based sensors in detection of cellular hitting sets. analytes. 23. Dr Maheswaran Shanmugam (b 01.06.1980), 18. Dr Vivek Vijay Parkar (b 06.09.1980), PhD, PhD, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic of Technology, Bombay. Research Centre, Mumbai. For his comprehensive studies of the electronic For his outstanding contributions on and magnetic properties of molecular experimental measurements of fusion cross nanomagnets. sections of weakly-bound nuclei on a range of targets which has opened novel possibilities for 24. Dr Narendra Pratap Singh (b 23.03.1981), studying nuclei away from the line of stability. PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. 19. Dr Anbarasan Pazhamalai (b 03.06.1982), PhD, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute For elucidating the divergence of the of Technology, Madras. developmental roles of Drosophila Abd-a and Abd-b in determining segment identity and For his notable work on transition metal proliferation in body segments where they are catalyzed methodology for synthesis of co-expressed. pharmaceutical and useful molecules through cross coupling reactions. 25. Dr Pankaj Kumar Singh (b 03.02.1980), PhD, Department of Translational Medicine and 20. Dr Vijay Kumar Prajapati (b 05.07.1984), Neurogenetics, Institut de Genetique et Biologie PhD, Department of Biochemistry, School of Moleculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), France. Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer. For unravelling cellular functions of Lafora disease proteins and proposing inhibition of For his important work on nanonization of SGK 1 as a potential therapeutic strategy for amphoteresin B, a newer experimental approach the treatment of the Lafora disease. in hamster animal model to increase the antileishmanial efficacy. 26. Dr Hari Sridhar (b 28.04.1982), PhD, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of 21. Dr Upasana Ray (b 11.10.1982), PhD, National Science, Bengaluru. Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. For his significant studies leading to the understanding of the relative roles of predation For establishing the existence of switch from and forging success in driving multi-species translation to replication of HCV RNA and for flocking in birds. designing peptide based antivirals that target La protein and HCV NS3 protein and which could 27. Shri Shashi Kant Tiwari (b 10.07.1985), MSc, inhibit the HCV RNA function. PhD (Thesis Submitted), Developmental Toxicology Division, Indian Institute of 22. Dr Nitin Saxena (b 03.05.1981), PhD, Toxicology Research, Lucknow. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, For demonstrating the mechanisms by which Kanpur. Bisphenol A (BPA) affects the endogenous 1066 Academy News neural stem cells and oligodendrocyte UGC Research Scientist C (Professor Grade), progenitor cells which lead to the identification Chemical Engineering Department, Institute of of means of its amelioration