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TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2020

Time

Speaker

Title

9.00 am onwards

Review board meeting

Chair: Jahnavi Phalkey

5.00-5.15pm

 Venkat Srinivasan A year in the Archives at NCBS

5.15-5.30 pm

 Suresh K Electrical Energy Conservation Programme on Campus

5.30-5.45 pm

 Lena Robra Bengaluru Sustainability Forum – A local collaborative initiative towards a better Bengaluru

5.45-6.00 pm

Smita Jain

Engaging Communities Enabling Change

6.15-7.00 pm

Cultural program

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 

Time

Speaker

Title

Chair: Satyajit Mayor

9.00-9.45 hrs

Gagandeep Kang

 Overlooked and under-estimated: Typhoid in India

From Life to Death

Chairs:  Aadish Dani and Sreelaja Nair

9.45-10.15 am

Sudhir Krishna

Viral diseases in India and Africa: small steps, but big challenges

10.15-10.45 am

Radhika Venkatesan

Tritrophic Interactions: From Ecology to Application

10.45-11.15 am

Coffee

11.15-11.30 am

Ashwin Nair

Post-translational modifications play decisive role in plant-geminiviral interactions

11.30-12.00 pm

Shashi Thutupalli

Life after death

12.00-12.30 pm

Deepa Agashe

 Adapt or bust? Predicting adaptive dynamics under new challenges

12.30-1.00 pm

Satyajit Mayor

 Bringing membranes to life

1.00-2.00 pm

Lunch

2.00-4.00 pm

Posters

Growing up, changing and learning

Chair:  Sachin Deshmukh

4.00-4.30 pm

Vatsala Thirumalai

 Speed control in animals: making and breaking rules

4.30-4.45 pm

S. K. Dhanya

Role of STIM1 in regulating gene expression and synaptogenesis in  Cerebellar Purkinje neurons

4.45-5.15 pm

 Hiyaa Ghosh Adult neural stem cell: beyond the neuronal and glial potential

5.15-5.30 pm

Pavan Kumar Kaushik

Characterizing long-range search behavior in flying insects using complex 3D virtual environments

5.30-6.00 hrs

Coffee

Chair:  Mukund Thattai

6.00-6.45 hrs

Boris Shraiman

 Physics of Morphogenesis

7.00 hrs 

Dinner

 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2020 

Time

Speaker

Title

Timing is critical

Chair:  Ramkumar Sambasivan

09.00-09.30 am

M K Mathew

STIM and Hakuna Matata: On Being the Right Time

09.30-10.00 am

Dimple Notani

Role of eRNAs in enhancer assembly

10.00-10.15 am

Zeenat Rashida

Raptor/Kog1 regulates HRSPK/Snf1 activation for metabolic rewiring under nutrient limitation

10.15-10.45 am

 Krushnamegh Kunte Evolution and developmental genetics of polymorphic mimicry in the Papilio polytes butterfly

10.45-11.15 am

Coffee
  Chair:  Vatsala Thirumalai

11.15 -12.00 pm

Rishikesh Narayanan

 The changes within: Intrinsic plasticity in hippocampal neurons

Keeping it together:Maintaining cohesion and balance

Chairs:  Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan and Roop Malik

12.00-12.30 pm

Mukund Thattai

Controlled biomolecular assembly using sloppy enzymes: A computer scientist's view of the Golgi apparatus    

12.30-1.00 pm

Shruthi Viswanath

 Probing aspects of cell division by integrative structural modeling

1.00-02.00 pm

Lunch

2.00-4.00 pm

Posters

4.00-4.30 pm

 Madan Rao Nonequilibriumself assembly of a system of Golgi cisternae

4.30-4.45 pm

Mohak Sharda

Comparative genomics indicates a differential non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) repair trait in bacteria

4.45-5.15 pm

Raghu Padinjat

Passing the parcel inside cells

5.15-5.45 hrs

Coffee

Chair:  Uma Ramakrishnan

5.45-6.30 pm

Scott Edwards

 Enhancers and the evolutionary genomics of flightlessness in birds

7.00 pm

Dinner

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020

Time

Speaker

Title

Talking it out

Chair: Rajagopal Srinivasan

9.00-9.30 am

Sandeep Krishna

The chemical basis of metabolic interdependence

9.30-10:00 am

R Sowdhamini

Interactions in proteins: Honey, I changed my mind

10.00-10.15 am

Siladitya Bandyopadhyay

Discovery of iron-sensing riboswitches

10.15-10.45am

Raj Ladher

The Push and Pull of the Inner Ear

10.45-11.15 am

Coffee

Expanding horizons: Opening the circle

Chair: R. Sowdhamini

11.15-11.35 am

Mahendra Rao

 Accelerator Programme for Discovery in BrainDisorders - a national resource of linked clinical,molecular, genetic and physiological records.

11.35-11.55 am

Jayashree Ratnam

Capacity-building for conservation science in India: 15 years of the MSc Wildlife Program.

11.55-12.15 pm

Praveen Vemula

Enabling ecosystem at BLiSc to foster science-entrepreneurship

12.15-12.35 pm

Shameer Khader

 Digital Transformation of Biomedicine using Machine Intelligence

12.35-12.50 pm

Satyajit Mayor

NCBS Today and in the future

1.00-2.00 pm

Lunch

2.00-4.00 pm

Posters

2.00 pm onwards

Board Meeting 

5.30 pm

Poster awards