23rd April:
Session 1: Bacterial Genomes
Venue: Haapus 
9:00-9:30

Sabari Sankar Thirupathy

Linking mutations and genome organization in bacteria

9.30-10.00

Ramanujam Srinivasan

Segregating independent DNA molecules in bacteria: Plasmid partitioning by actin-like proteins

10:00-10.30

Sunish Radhakrishnan

RNA reserve-driven morphogenesis in bacteria

10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-11.30

Nishad Matange

Deciphering mutational landscapes of antibiotic adaptation in bacteria

11.30-12.00

Rachna Chaba

Systems-level analyses reveals the interconnection between fatty acid metabolism and stress response in Escherichia coli

12.00-12.30

Subhadeep Chatterjee

Understanding the social language of bacteria: Speak or not to speak?

12.30-12.40

Sheetal Ambardar

Omics approaches and strategies to study plant holobioome - A case study in Saffron

12.40-12.50

Akilandeswari R

Unravelling the regulatory network mechanism in Acinetobacter baumannii under antibiotic, host and environment stress: A sub-MIC transcriptomic analysis

12.50-1.00

Srimathy Ramachandran

Unveiling meropenem resistance and co-resistance patterns in Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii: A global genome analysis using ML/DL and association mining

1-2 PM – Lunch Break
Session 2: Insect Genomes
Venue: Haapus 
2.00-2.30

Pankaj Koparde

Odonata Odyssey: Integrating niche modeling, phylogenetics, and genomics in the Euphaea story

2.30-3.00

Riddhi Deshmukh

Evolution of social polymorphism and associated supergene haplotypes across the Serviformica group

3.00-3.30

Saurav Baral

A comparative genomic analysis of diapause evolution in Butterflies

3.30-4.00 Break
4.00-4.30

Nagarjun Vijay

Genetic jigsaw: Tracing the rearrangements behind the mystique of Black-Bone Chickens

4.30-5.00

Yash Sondhi

Environmental niche transitions and adaptive evolution in Lepidoptera

5.00-5.10

Biswajit Panda

Lineage-Specific class-A GPCR dynamics reflect diverse chemosensory adaptations in Lophotrochozoa

5.10-5.20

Bharat Bhusan Patnaik

Cataloguing the molecular resources using the reference transcriptome assemblies for selective breeding applications and biodiversity management

6-7 PM – Workshops
24th April:
Session 3: Human Diseases
Venue: Haapus 
9.30-10.00

Sam J. Mathew

Targeting pathways regulating differentiation in genetic disorders

10.00-10.30

Bratati Kahali

GenomeIndia: Population scale genome sequencing and disease susceptibilities

10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-11.30

Divya Tej Sowpati

Studying DNA methylation using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

11.30-12.00

Kritika Garg*

Sexual selection in pheasants: a genomic perspective

12.00-12.30

Mohit Kumar Jolly

What cannot kill cancer can make it stronger: Dynamical modeling of drug-induced cell-state switching

12.30-12.40

Atreyi Chakraborty

A genome-wide in-silico motif scan to identify functional clustering

12.40-12.50

Parvesh Barak

HALE: An efficient error correction algorithm for genome sequencing

1-2 PM – Lunch Break
Session 4: Plant Genomes
Venue: Haapus 
2.00-2.30

Pankaj Barah

Integrative omics and bioinformatics approaches for understanding plant responses to combined stresses

2.30-3.00

Mahantesha Naika

Bioinformatics for plant improvement from gene identification to breeding strategies

3.00-3.30

Amey Redkar

The transcriptional plasticity of short-core chromosomes drives plant-fungal compatibility across evolutionarily divergent plant lineages

3.30-4.00 Break
4.00-4.30

Suvendu Mondal

Genomics driven isolation of rust resistance and pre-harvest sprouting resistance genes in cultivated groundnut

4.30-4.40

Himsikha Shivom

Medicinal effects of Laxmitaru (Simarouba glauca DC)

4.40-4.50

SreePadmanabh M

An oxo-mechanical regulation of cell state

6-7 PM - Workshops 
25th April:
Session 5: Endangered Mammals
Venue: Haapus 
9:30-10:00

Balaji Chattopadhyay

Whole Genome Sequencing of non-model organisms aids wildlife conservation

10.00-10.30

Anubhab Khan

Survival and extinction in small isolated populations

10.30-11.00 Break
11.00-11.30

Nandini Rajamani

Using genomics to understand trait evolution in small mammals

11.30-12.00

Laura Bertola

Harnessing genomic resources for wildlife conservation

12.00-12.30

Nagasuma Chandra*

Identifying regulatory barcodes that govern macrophage polarization states

12.30-12.40

Suvarna

Genomic variation and transcriptomics analysis of extreme drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis for prediction of key genes associated with extreme drug resistance

12.40-12.50

Sasikala Rajendran

Deciphering host-pathogen interactions in UTI: Reconstruction of genome scale metabolic model of E. coli for predicting niche-specific metabolite origins

1-2 PM – Lunch Break
2-5 PM – Workshops
26th April:
Workshops -
Venue: Langra
9 AM – 12 PM
    1. Enter the Dragon: Fundamentals of Odonatology (Dragonflies & Damselflies)
 
12 PM – 1 PM – Lunch Break
1 PM – 3 PM
    2. Genome Sequencing