1 We are grateful to our sponsors: The Indian Institute of Science The International Union of Crystallography The Collaborative Computational project Number 4 The Indian National Science Academy The Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine TTP Labtech Dectris 2 Contents Poster Presentation Schedule ........................................................................................................................ 6 Poster No.-P1 ................................................................................................................................................ 7 Elucidating the structural and functional role of eukaryotic orthologs of fatty acyl-AMP ligases during early embryogenesis ................................................................................................................................. 7 Poster No.-P2 ................................................................................................................................................ 8 When partial structural similarity between target protein and incorrect phasing model misleads molecular replacement structure determination ........................................................................................ 8 Poster No.-P3 ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Pressure studies on the Bi doped pyrochloreiridate Eu2Ir2O7 ................................................................... 9 Poster No.-P4 .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Novel antiparallel tetrameric forms of the rotavirus enterotoxin NSP4 ................................................. 10 Poster No.-P5 .............................................................................................................................................. 11 Deciphering the role of Hypoxia protein Rv0081 in M. tuberculosis ..................................................... 11 Poster No.-P6 .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Controlled release of Mycobacterium tuberculosis σ factors is governed by the substrate specificity of the ClpX chaperone ................................................................................................................................ 12 Poster No.-P7 .............................................................................................................................................. 13 Design, Synthesis, and Experimental Validation of Peptide Ligands Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis σ Factors ............................................................................................................................. 13 Poster No.-P8 .............................................................................................................................................. 14 Characterization of Rv3405c- a DNA binding protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis .................... 14 Poster No.-P9 .............................................................................................................................................. 15 DNA-damage inducible protein(Ddi1) from protozoans ........................................................................ 15 Poster No.-P10 ............................................................................................................................................ 16 Synthesis and Structural Properties of Fe Doped La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 Composite System .......................... 16 Poster No.-P11 ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Influence of variations in Pauling-Corey peptide dimensions on the Ramachandran map – Implications for validation of protein structures .......................................................................................................... 17 Poster No.-P12 ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Preparation and characterization of siderite nano-particles .................................................................... 18 Poster No.-P13 ............................................................................................................................................ 19 Analysis of |E| using Non-ideal Distribution and use of Lévy stable distribution and Lévy flight in crystallographic data analysis ................................................................................................................. 19 3 Poster No.-P14 ............................................................................................................................................ 20 Structural and mechanistic studies on bacterial multidrug transporters .................................................. 20 Poster No.-P15 ............................................................................................................................................ 21 RAMACHANDRAN MAP OF DNA AND RNA BINDING AMINO ACID RESIDUES IN PROTEINS ............................................................................................................................................. 21 Poster No.-P16 ............................................................................................................................................ 22 Title- Understanding the regulation of membrane associated sigma (σ) factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis ............................................................................................................................................. 22 Poster No.-P17 ............................................................................................................................................ 23 Mechanism and X-ray damage: beware of artefacts in Xylose Isomerase ............................................. 23 Poster No.-P18 ............................................................................................................................................ 25 Structural studies on small Heat Shock Proteins .................................................................................... 25 Poster No.-P19 ............................................................................................................................................ 26 A cis-to-trans switch in a DTD variant relaxes substrate chiral specificity for translation proofreading ................................................................................................................................................................ 26 Poster No.-P20 ............................................................................................................................................ 27 Superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors ..................................................................................... 27 Poster No.-P21 ............................................................................................................................................ 28 Structural studies on Banana bunchy top virus- Coat protein ................................................................. 28 Poster No.-P22 ............................................................................................................................................ 29 Study of Staphylococcal RNA degradosomeassembly: structural and functional study of PNPase and role in assembly formation ...................................................................................................................... 29 Poster No.-P23 ............................................................................................................................................ 30 Structure solution of PST13 and PST14 by combining cRED and Cryo-EM ........................................ 30 Poster No.-P24 ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Anomalous volume collapse in pyrochloreIridate Eu2Ir2O7upon isovalent dopingof Bi at the Eu site .. 31 Poster No.-P25 ............................................................................................................................................ 32 Structural and functional studies on StDAPAL ...................................................................................... 32 Poster No.-P26 ............................................................................................................................................ 33 Structure and functional studies of N-acetyl mannosamine kinase from pathogenic bacteria ................ 33 Poster No.-P27 ............................................................................................................................................ 34 Structural and biochemical characterization of an archeal lectin ............................................................ 34 Poster No.-P28 ............................................................................................................................................ 35 SIMBAD: A Sequence independent molecular replacement pipeline .................................................... 35 4 Poster No.-P29 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