This section is a collection of presentations of students made as a part of their assignments. Topics are picked by you from a list. The presentation time is 15 minutes and scoring is based on (a) content, (b) clarity and (c) the question-answer session. The talk itself must have the following components (i) introduction to the technique, (ii) physical principle/algorithm/maths, and (iii) biological application.
| S. No. | Date | Topic | Reference | Student presenting |
| 1 | 2D gel electrophoresis for quantification of protein abundance | Fey & Larsen (2001) 2D or not 2D. Curr. Op. Chem. Biol. 5:p26 | ||
| 2 | DNA sequencinging by Sanger dye termination and denaturation. | Chen et al. (2010) DNA sequencing by denaturation: experimental proof of concept with an integrated fluidic device. Lab on a Chip. 10:p1153. | ||
| 3 | DNA nanopore sequencing | (a) Cherf et al. (2012) Automated forward and reverse ratcheting of DNA in a nanopore at 5-Angstrom precision. Nat. Biotech. 30, p344-348. | ||
| 4 | DNA nanopore sequencing | (b) Manrao et al. (2012) Reading DNA at single-nucleotide resolution with a mutant MspA nanopore and phi29 DNA polymerase. Nat. Biotech.30, 349–353 | ||
| 5 | Atomic force microscopy for imaging | Kuznetsova (2007) Atomic force microsopy probing of cell elasticity. Micron. 38: 824 | A. Pathak | |
| 6 | Atomic force microscopy for DNA flexibility measurement | Wiggins et al. (2006) High flexibility of DNA on short length scales probed by atomic force microscopy. Nat. Nanotech. 1: 137 - 141 | ||
| 7 | DNA devices | Modi et al. (2009) A DNA nanomachine that maps spatial and temporal pH changes inside living cells. Nature Nanotech. 4: 325 | ||
| 8 | DNA origami and motors | Wickham et al. (2012) A DNA-based molecular motor that can navigate a network of tracks. 7: 169. | ||
| 9 | Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) | Ketakee Ghate | ||
| 10 | Dynamic light scattering | |||
| 11 | Surface plasmon resonance in biology | |||
| 12 | Two-photon microscopy for tissue imaging | |||
| 13 | Confocal laser scanning microscopy | |||
| 14 | 4pi Microscopy | |||
| 15 | Fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP) to estimate molecular mobility | |||
| 16 | Single plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) | |||
| 17 | Fluorecence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to estimate diffusion coefficients of molecules | Roopali Pradhan | ||
| 18 | Dynamic light scattering for in vitro protein measurements | |||
| 19 | Photoactivation in diffusion measurements | |||
| 18 | STORM nanoscopy | |||
| 19 | STED nanoscopy | |||
| 20 | Second harmonic generation and CARS | |||
| 21 | Magnetic tweezers to study molecular motors | |||
| 22 | Optical tweezers | Moffit et al. (2008) Recent advances in optical tweezers. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 77: 205-228. | ||
| 23 | Optical tweezers to study forces in constant force mode | Chen et al. (2009) Stretching Submicron Biomolecules with Constant-Force Axial Optical Tweezers. Biophys J. 96: 4710-4708 | ||
| 24 | Cell traction force microscopy | |||
| 25 | Laser nanosurgery | |||
| 26 | Femtosecond resolved absorption spectroscopy | |||
| 27 | Isothermal calorimetry (ITC) | Shubhankar Kulkarni | ||
| 28 | ITC to measure enzyme kinetics | |||
| 29 | Patch clamp | |||
| 30 | Patch clamp for measuring single ion-channel potentials | |||
| 31 | Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) | |||
| 32 | Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) | |||
| 33 | Microfluidics for bacterial chemotaxis | Mao et al. (2003) A sensitive, versatile microfluidic assay for bacterial chemotaxis. PNAS USA 100: 5449-5454. |