All talks will be in the InStem 150-seater auditorium. Posters and tea/coffee will be in the InStem atrium. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be on the first floor of the NCBS Main Canteen  (click here for a map showing these locations)





  Feb 3rd, Mon Feb 4th, Tue Feb 5th, Wed
8:30-9:00 Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9:00-9:30 Breakfast/Registration Breakfast Breakfast
9:30-10:00 Sine Svenningsen Christian Kost Mariana Benitez
10:00-10:30 E. Peter Greenberg Sandeep Krishna Namiko Mitarai
10:30-11:00 Tea/coffee/registration Tea/coffee Tea/coffee
11:00-11:30 Tea/coffee Tea/coffee Tea/coffee
11:30-12:00 Christopher Thompson Wenying Shou (chalk talk) Vidyanand Nanjundiah
12:00-12:20 Sarahi Garcia chalk talk continues Sriram Varahan
12:20-12:40 Glen D'Souza Rupali Sathe Ratnasri K
12:40-1:00 Emilie Søndberg Laasya Samhita Yuka Shirokawa
1:00-2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch
2:00-3:30 Poster session Poster session Poster session
3:30-4:00 Sunil Laxman Paul Rainey Sigal Ben-Yehuda
4:00-4:30 David Johnson Silvia De Monte Punyasloke Bhadury
4:30-5:00 Samay Pande Mohit Jolly Kiran Patil
5:00-5:30 Tea/coffee Tea/coffee Closing (15min) + Tea/coffee
5:30-6:00 P. Jayadeva Bhat Varsha Singh  
6:00-6:30 Supreet Saini Satoshi Sawai  
6:30-7:00 Free Free (cultural event)  
7:00-9:00 beverages followed by dinner beverages followed by dinner  

 

 

Monday, February 3rd
9:30-10:00
Sine Lo Svenningsen (University of Copenhagen)
Bacterial control of phage susceptibility and prophage induction by cell-to-cell signaling
10:00-10:30
E Peter Greenberg (University of Washington)
Mechanisms behind the math: quorum sensing control of bacterial cooperation
11:30-12:00
Christopher Thompson (University College London)
Symmetry breaking, strategic decision making and fair division of labour
12:00-12:20
Sarahi L. Garcia (Stockholm University)
Model microbial communities: Understand niches, interactions and functional redundancy
12:20-12:40
Glen D'Souza (ETH-Zurich)
Environmental nutrient composition dictates solitary to collective behavioural transitions in bacterial populations
12:40-13:00
Emilie Søndberg (University of Copenhagen)
TBA
15:30-16:00
Sunil Laxman (Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore)
Metabolic constraints determining phenotypic heterogeneity and specialized cell states across space
16:00-16:30
David Johnson (Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Dübendorf)
Bifurcations and the creation of pattern diversity during microbial spatial self-organization
16:30-17:00
Samay Pande (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Cooperation and cheating among germinating spores 
17:30-18:00
P. Jayadev Bhat (Indian Instittue of Technology, Bombay)
Melibiose utilisation in S. cerevisiae is a co-operative enterprise
18:00-18:30
Supreet Saini (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Study of metabolic cooperation, and its impact on speciation in yeast

Tuesday, February 4th

09:30-10:00

Christian Kost (Osnabrück University)

Emergence of a multicellular life cycle speeds up evolution

10:00-10:30

Sandeep Krishna (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)

The chemical basis of metabolic interdependence

11:30-12:20

Wenying Shou (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle)

Artificial selection of microbial communities

12:20-12:40

Rupali Sathe (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune)

A community approach to vitamin B1 biosynthesis

12:40-13:00

Laasya Samhita (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)

The evolutionary potential of translation errors

15:30-16:00

Paul Rainey (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön)

Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality

16:00-16:30

Silvia De Monte (École NormaleSupérieure, Paris)

Heterogeneity in cell motility and the evolutionary emergence of aggregative multicellular life cycles

16:30-17:00

Mohit Kumar Jolly (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Communication and Cooperation in Clusters of Circulating Tumour Cells: The Key Drivers of Metastasis

17:30-18:00

Varsha Singh (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

Foraging signal drives swarming in populations of starving bacteria

18:00-18:30

Satoshi Sawai (University of Tokyo)

Collective migration in the parallel world

Wednesday, February 5th 
09:30-10:00
Mariana Benítez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City)
Cellular differentiation and coexistence in bacterial multicellular aggregates
10:00-10:30
Namiko Mitarai (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
Persistent coexistence of spatially distributed bacteria and phage
11:30-12:00
Vidyanand Nanjundiah (Centre for Human Genetics, Bangalore)
Many roads lead to Rome: microbial heterogeneity and group living
12:00-12:20
Sriram Varahan (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore)
Metabolite plasticity enables the emergence of phenotypically distinct cell states in a clonal microbial community.
12:20-12:40
Ratnasri K (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
TBA
12:40-13:00
Yuka Shirokawa (University of Tokyo)
Cell fate determination in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum penalizes precocious reversion to solitary growth
15:30-16:00
Sigal Ben-Yehuda (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Bacterial nanotubes: conduits for intercellular molecular trafficking
16:00-16:30
Punyasloke Bhadury (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata)
Biogeochemical cycling in coastal oceans- the role of ‘specialized’ bacterioplankton
16:30-17:00
Kiran Patil (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg)

Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism