inStem Annual Review of Research
Talks: 150 seater Auditorium, inStem; Posters: Atrium, inStem
Sunday 23 February 645PM: Mixer and Dinner, SAB & Invitees
DAY 1
Monday 24th February
8:30 onwards |
Registration – Faculty, Visitors Auditorium Lobby |
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9:15- 9:30AM |
Apurva Sarin |
Welcome |
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Cardiac Theme Chairperson: |
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9:30-10:00AM |
Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA |
Protein kinase inhibition: The challenges of a shifting structural landscape |
10:00-10:30AM |
Dhandapany Perundurai |
Clinical genomics and molecular insights into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy |
10:30-11:00AM |
Minhaj Sirajuddin |
Structure of heart ventricular walls at micron resolution |
11:00-11:30AM |
REFRESHMENTS |
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TATA Institute for Genetics & Society - Centre at inStem Chairperson: Colin Jamora |
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11:30-11:45 AM |
Farah Ishtiaq |
Landscape genetics: a toolbox for studying vector-borne diseases |
11:45- 12:00PM |
Sampath Kumar |
Genomic structural variants in Indian populations of An. stephensi. |
12:00-12:10PM |
Q&A for FI and SK talks |
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1210-12:30PM |
Bipin Nair, Amrita University School of Biotechnology & TIGS_CI |
Combating AMR: Strategies to target MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
12:30-100PM |
Poster Talks |
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1:00-2:15PM |
Lunch for SAB & Invitees |
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2:30-4:00PM
3:30-4:00PM |
POSTER SESSSION-1 Atrium HIGH TEA |
230-330PM PROGRAMME REVIEW by SAB Second Floor South Wing Meeting Room |
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Integrative Chemical Biology Chairperson: Vinothkumar Kutti Raghunath, NCBS |
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4:00-4:30PM |
Dasaradhi Palakodeti |
Diverse roles of tRNAs in stem cells and during regeneration |
4:30-5:00PM |
Praveen Vemula |
Small-molecules mediated repair of gut barrier dysfunction |
5:00-530PM |
S Ramaswamy |
Natures solution to breaking a human-made strong Bond |
5:30-5:5:55PM |
Gayathri Sadashivam & Neelagandan Kamariah |
Chemical Biology & Therapeutics program |
5:55-6:00PM |
Q&A for GS and NK |
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6:05-6:45PM |
Plenary Talk-I Ashok Venkitaraman, University of Cambridge, UK and Collaborative Science Chair, inStem Insights into human cancer susceptibility from the BRCA2 tumour suppressor |
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7:00PM |
Dinner for SAB & Invitees |
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DAY 2
Talks: 150 seater Auditorium, inStem; Posters: Atrium, inStem
Tuesday 25th February
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Speaker/ event |
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Regulation of Cell Fate Chairperson: Sonia Sen, TIGS-Centre at inStem |
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9:00 - 9:30AM |
Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB Hyderabad |
TBA |
9:30- 10:00 AM |
Arvind Ramanathan |
Lipid metabolism mediated control of the senescent state |
10:00-10:30AM |
Arjun Guha |
Regulation of cellular plasticity in Drosophila: How tracheal cells switch from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth |
1030-11.00AM |
REFRESHMENTS |
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11:00-1130AM |
Tina Mukherjee |
Myeloid cells as mobile sensors of animal physiology |
11:30-12:00 PM |
Sunil Laxman |
The Wealth of Cells: logic of amino acid supply and demand in a cellular economy |
12:00-12:40PM |
Poster Talks |
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12:45-2:00PM |
Lunch for SAB & Invitees |
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2:00-4:00PM
3:30-4:00PM |
POSTER SESSION-2 Atrium HIGH TEA (Atrium) |
Focused engagements with SAB |
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Tissue Inflammation & Homeostasis Chairperson: Dipayan Rudra, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea |
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4:00-4:30PM |
Srikala Raghavan |
Non-Immune Functions of Resident Skin Macrophages |
4:30-5:00PM |
Colin Jamora |
The Molecular Basis of Vascular Defects Driving Tissue Fibrosis |
5:00-5:05PM |
BREAK |
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5:05-5:55PM |
Plenary Talk-II Chairperson: Dimple Notalni, NCBS Azim Surani, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK. From genomic imprinting to the human germline and development |
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6:10-7:00PM |
SAB meetings (Coordinated by Dasaradhi Palakodeti) |
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Students registered for PhD 150 seater Auditorium, inStem ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Postdocs 100 seater hall, InStem |
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7:00PM |
DINNER – SAB & Invitees |
DAY 3
Talks: 150 seater Auditorium, inStem; Posters: Atrium, inStem
Wednesday 26th February
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Speaker/ event |
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Brain Development and Disease Mechanisms Chairperson: Upinder Bhalla, NCBS |
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9:00-9:30AM |
Shona Chattarji, NCBS |
Autism and "Astro"logy |
9:30-10:00AM |
Vivek Benegal, NIMHANS, ADBS |
Clinical insights from the ADBS program (Accelerator Program on the Discovery of Brain Disorders using Stem Cells) |
10:00-10:30AM |
Raghu Padinjat, NCBS, ADBS |
Disease in a dish models: insights into the cellular basis of brain disorders |
10:30-11:00AM |
Bhavana Muralidharan |
Chromatin regulation of cortical development in health and disease |
11:00-11:30AM |
REFRESHMENTS |
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Genetic Interventions for Blood Disorders Chairperson: Dasaradhi Palakodeti |
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11:30-12:00PM |
Debojyoti Chakraborti, Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi |
Joining the dots between precision and personalized medicines |
12:00-12:12PM |
Saravanabhavan Thangavel CSCR-inStem, CMC Vellore |
CRISPR-Cas9 based gene editing approaches for gene therapy for hematological disorders |
12:12-12:24PM |
Mohankumar K Murugesan CSCR-inStem, CMC Vellore |
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12:25-12:30PM |
Q&A for ST and MM |
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12:30-1:00PM |
Alok Srivastava, CSCR-inStem, CMC-Vellore |
Lentiviral vector based gene therapy for hematological disorders |
1:10-2:15PM |
Lunch for SAB & Invitees |
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2:30-5:00PM
4:30-5:00PM |
POSTER SESSION-3 Atrium HIGH TEA (Atrium) |
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEETING VENUE: BOARD ROOM, INSTEM |
5:00 -5:30PM |
POSTERS AWARDS – 150-seater Auditorium |
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5:30-6:30PM |
Plenary Talk-III Chairperson: Anjana Badrinarayanan, NCBS Marco Foiani, Scientific Director, The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation (IFOM), Milan, Italy Mechanisms coordinating chromosome replication and transcription |
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6:30-6:35PM |
Vote of thanks |
Meeting Closes