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

 

9:15- 9:30AM

Apurva Sarin

Welcome

 

Cardiac Theme

Chairperson:   

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

 

 

TATA Institute for Genetics & Society - Centre at inStem  

ChairpersonColin Jamora

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

 

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

 

1:00-2:15PM

Lunch for SAB & Invitees

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

 

 Integrative Chemical Biology

Chairperson:     Vinothkumar Kutti Raghunath, NCBS

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

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

7:00PM

Dinner for SAB & Invitees

 

 

DAY 2


Talks: 150 seater Auditorium, inStem; Posters: Atrium, inStem

 

Tuesday 25th February

 

Time

Speaker/ event

 

Regulation of Cell Fate

Chairperson:  Sonia Sen,  TIGS-Centre at inStem

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

 

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

 

12:45-2:00PM

Lunch for SAB &  Invitees

2:00-4:00PM

 

 

3:30-4:00PM

POSTER SESSION-2

Atrium

HIGH TEA (Atrium)

 

 

 

Focused engagements with SAB

 

Tissue Inflammation & Homeostasis

Chairperson: Dipayan Rudra, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea

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

 

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

 

 

6:10-7:00PM

SAB meetings (Coordinated by Dasaradhi Palakodeti)

Students registered for PhD           150 seater Auditorium, inStem

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Postdocs                                                                 100 seater hall, InStem

7:00PM

DINNER –  SAB & Invitees

 

DAY 3


Talks: 150 seater Auditorium, inStem; Posters: Atrium, inStem

 

Wednesday 26th February

 

Time

Speaker/ event

 

 

Brain Development and Disease Mechanisms

Chairperson:  Upinder Bhalla, NCBS

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

 

 

Genetic Interventions for Blood Disorders

Chairperson: Dasaradhi Palakodeti

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

12:25-12:30PM

Q&A for ST and MM

 

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

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

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

6:30-6:35PM

Vote of thanks

 

Meeting Closes