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An Amrita study by PhD student Hemalatha Sasidharakurup, along with Kanishka and Lakshmi Nair 2019 undergraduate thesis students BRITE, was presented by Prof. Shyam Diwakar of Amrita School of Biotechnology at the International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (Complex Networks 2019) at Lisbon, Portugal from December 10-12, 2019.
In the study presented, a biochemical systems theory model of tumour necrosis factors in Parkinson’s disease was reconstructed taking into account various signalling mechanisms and biomarkers that connect experimental data to clinical predictions. Parkinson’s disease is a debilitating neurological condition that includes disorders relating to movement and cognitive decline.
Nine research papers were presented at the Third International Conference on Computing and Network Communications (CoCoNet’19), Trivandrum, Kerala, India, from December 18-21, 2019.
The papers were based on studies led by Computational Neuroscience PhD students Chaitanya Kumar Nutakki, Hemalatha Sasidharakurup, Sandeep Bodda, and researchers Rakhi Radhamani, Nijin Nizar, Dhanush Kumar, Joshy Alphonse, Anandhu Presannan and Sreedev Radhakrishnan along with Laboratory interns who were B.Sc and M.Sc. students focusing on human gait, recoding and analysis of neural biosignals, computational modeling, bioinformatics, brain changes to music, yoga and meditation.
Among the papers, the studies by undergraduates on brain and yoga-meditation were done jointly with the Amrita Yoga team at Amritapuri.
The CoCoNet 2019 papers include:
The Complex Networks paper (presented at Lisbon) :
The research studies were supervised by Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology Lab, who is also an Associate Professor at Amrita School of Biotechnology.