Time

Speaker

Title

Chair:

9.00-9.45 am

Rajan Sankaranarayanan

Chirality enforcement during protein biosynthesis and its evolutionary implications

Chairs:

9.45-10.10 am

Sandeep Krishna

Towards building a Darwinian population of autocatalytic protocells: Theory

10.10-10.35 am

Shashi Thutupalli

Towards building a Darwinian population of autocatalytic protocells: Experiments

10.35-11.00 am

Coffee

Chair:

11.00 - 11.25 am

Dimple Notani

Non-canonical function of enhancers and RNA in ligand-dependent transcription

11.25 - 11.40 am

Sreesa Sreedharan

A balancing act: how metabolic flux regulates intracellular phosphate pools

11.40 - 12.05 pm

Raghu Padinjat

The control of human brain development by lipid  phosphatase activity

12.05-12.30 pm

Satyajit Mayor

12.30-12.40 pm

Venkat Srinivasan

12.40-1.00 pm

Gita Chadha

1.00-2.00 pm

Lunch, 1st floor canteen area

2.00-4.00 pm

Posters

Chair:

4.00-4.20 pm

Utpal Nath

4.20-4.45 pm

Rajesh Ladher

Timing Differentiation and Regeneration during Auditory Development

4.45-5.00 pm

Harshith C Y

Wound induced small-peptide mediated signalling cascade regulated by OsPSKR, dictates balance between growth and defense in rice

5.00-5.25 pm

Soumyashree Das

Angiogenic molecules use distinct mechanisms  to build organ-specific collaterals

5.25-6.00 pm

Coffee

Chair:

6.00-6.20 pm

Anusha Shankar

Budgeting heat and energy: How do birds in the tropics do it

6.20 – 6.35 pm

Tiyasa Roy

Molecular mechanisms involved in time-memory in honey bees

6.35 – 7.00 pm

R. Sowdhamini

Understanding Sequence-Structure-Function relationships of proteins through Computational Approaches

7.00 pm

Dinner

Time

Speaker

Title

Chair:

9.00-9.20 am

Samir Damare

Unravelling the deep sea microbiome using "Omics"

9.20-9.35 am

Akshara

Evolution of transcription factor harbouring superfamilies in eukaryotes.

9.35-10.00 am

Deepa Agashe

The benefits of bias – mutation bias shifts as evolutionary engines

10.00-10.15 am

Simran Virdi

Structure and Function of an insect leg mechanosensor

10.15-10.40 am

Krushnamegh Kunte

Community Assembly Rules and the Evolution of Traits in Butterfly Mimicry Rings

10.40-11.00 am

Coffee

Chairs:

11.00 - 11.25 am

L.S. Shashidhara

Cell biology of organ development: Specification of size and shape

11.25 - 11.45 am

K. Kemparaju

Echis carinatus venom-induced sustained tissue destruction, pathophysiology, and strategic remedy

11.45 - 12.10 pm

Vinothkumar Kutti Ragunath

Positive allosteric modulation in metabotropic glutamate receptor

12.10 - 12.25 pm

Apurva Phale

The functional dynamics of viral ubiquitin

12:25 – 12:50 pm

Shruthi Viswanath

Localizing intrinsically disordered regions of proteins in integrative structures of large macromolecular assemblies.

12.50 – 1:05 pm

Savitha Chib

1.05-2.00 pm

Lunch

2.00-4.00 pm

Posters

Chair:

4.00-4.25 pm

Mukund Thattai

Regulatory and Evolutionary Landscape of Eukaryotic Vesicle Traffic

4.25-4.50 pm

Abhishek Bhattacharya

Molecular and functional diversity of C. elegans electrical synapses

4.50-5.10 pm

Reena Singh

5.10-5.25 pm

Digvijay Lalwani Prakash

Computationally studying the capsid assembly of a Leviviridae bacteriophage.

5.25-5.50 pm

Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

5.50-6.15 pm

Coffee

Chair:

6.15-7.00 pm

Vandana Prasad

7.00 pm

Dinner

Time

Speaker

Title

Chair:

9.00-9.45 am

Amitabha Bandyopadhyay

Developmental Biology of adult joint cartilage reveals clues for treating osteoarthritis

Chair:

9.45-10.10 am

Archishman Raju

A Theoretical Perspective on Waddington's Genetic Assimilation Experiments

10.10-10.35 am

Madan Rao

Decoding and Encoding of Molecular Information : the umwelt of the cell

10.35-11.00 am

Coffee

Chair:

11:00 - 11:20 am

Nitin Singh Chouhan

The alternating nature of sleep

11.20 - 11.35 am

Vinu Varghese Pulikkottil

Mechanical and chemical cross-talk between nascent synaptic spines.

11.35 - 12.00 pm

Hiyaa Ghosh

Cellular plasticity in the adult brain: potential for homeostatic adjustments

12:00 - 12:25 pm

Vatsala Thirumalai

Deciphering cerebellar computation at the single neuron, network and behavioral levels

12.25 - 1.15 pm

Panel Discussion

1.15 - 2.00 pm

Lunch

2.00 - 4.00 pm

Posters
&
Board Meeting

5.30 pm

Poster awards

6:15pm

Cultural Program

7:00 pm

Dinner