September 10, 2016:

Dasheri Auditorium, NCBS Campus, Southern Labs Ground Floor

9:00 – 9:25                  Welcome                                  

Session 1: Hot Topics in European Chemical Ecology

9:30 – 10:00                KEYNOTE ADDRESS ONE

Christer Löfstedt, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,

“Molecular chemical ecology and beyond: Moth pheromone
communication in the post-genomic era”

10:00 – 10:30              1. Ewald Große-Wilde, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena,
                                    Germany

                                    “Keys to the environment - Olfactory genes in Manduca sexta”

10:30 – 11:00              2. Emmanuelle Jacquin-Joly, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences,

INRA, Paris

“Molecular bases of insect chemical ecology: Exploring the biodiversity
of insect chemosensory receptors”

11:00 – 11:30        TEA BREAK

Session 2: Perspectives in Indian Chemical Ecology: Mulitrophic Interactions

Chairperson: Saroj Barik

11:30 – 11:50              3. Uma Shaankar, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore

“The enigmatic endophyte"

11:50 – 12:10               4. Renee Borges, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

                                    “Why do plants flower at night and what are the consequences of

nocturnal blooming for floral scents and rewards?”

12:10 – 12:30              5. Radhika Venkatesan, NCBS, Bangalore

                                    “Chemical ecology of plant-insect-microbe interactions”

12:30 – 12:50              6. Joyshree Chanam and Mahesh Sankaran, NCBS, Bangalore

“Effects of increased temperatures on volatile mediated plant–insect interactions in high altitude meadow ecosystems of the Eastern Himalayas”

13:00 - 14:30         LUNCH

Session 3: Chemical Ecology at High Altitudes

Chairperson: Jharna Chakravorty

14:30 – 14:50              7. Shannon Olsson, NCBS, Bangalore

                                    “Chemical ecology across continents”

14:50 – 15:10              8. Mousumi Poddar Sarkar, University of Calcutta

“Semiochemicals of animals and plant origins from Eastern Himalaya
(EH)”

15:10 – 15:30              9. Axel Brockmann, NCBS, Bangalore

                                    “Insect brains at high altitudes”

15:30 – 15:50              10. Himender Bharti, Punjabi University Patiala

                                    “Role of chemical signatures in ants”

16:00 - 16:30         TEA BREAK

Round Table Discussion 1: The geological, chemical and ecological diversity of India

16:30-18:00                 Chairperson:

                                    Robert Raguso, Cornell University, Ithaca                                   

19:30 - 21:30         WELCOME RECEPTION