All sessions will be held in Dasheri Auditorium at NCBS. Dinners for participants will be on campus Dec 18/19/20/21.
           
Monday, December 19th   Tuesday, December 20th   Wednesday, December 21st  
           
Session I Populations & Communication Session III Molecules & Information Session V Brains & Networks
  Chair: Axel Brockmann   Chair: Dimple Notani   Chair: Vatsala Thirumalai
09:30 - 10:30 Plenary Lecture: Cooperation and conflict in a tropical insect society 09:30 - 10:30 Plenary Lecture: The science of information. Case studies from DNA and RNA assembly 09:30 - 10:30 Plenary Lecture: Sequence recognition in molecules and networks
  Raghavenda Gadagkar   David Tse   Upinder Bhalla
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore   Stanford   NCBS, Bangalore
10:30 - 11:30 Evolution and computation 10:30 - 11:30 Cellular information processing 10:30 - 11:30 Brain computation, a CS perspective
  Nisheeth Vishnoi   Garud Iyengar   Santosh Vempala
  EPFL, Lausanne   Columbia University, New York   Georgia Tech
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee
12:00 - 12:30 Metabolism and multicellularity 12:00 - 12:30 Proteins as learning matter 12:00 - 12:30 Axiomatic theory for neural computation
  Sunil Laxman   Tsvi Tlusty   Venkat Ramaswamy
  inStem, Bangalore   Institute for Basic Science, Ulsan   NCBS, Bangalore
12:30 - 13:00 Communication strategies 12:30 - 13:00 Identifying regulatory architectures by unsupervised learning 12:30 - 13:00 Algorithmic biology: from molecules to intelligence
  Arnab Bhattacharyya   Leelavati Narlikar   Manoj Gopalkrishnan
  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore   National Chemical Laboratory, Pune   IIT Bombay
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
           
Session II Evolution & Sequences Session IV Cells & Timing Session VI  
  Chair: Uma Ramakrishnan   Chair: Raghu Padinjat    
14:30 - 15:30 Plenary Lecture: Evolution of a model organism 14:30 - 15:30 Plenary Lecture: Choosing cell fates 14:30 - 15:30 Panel discussion: A new language for biology
  Marie-Anne Félix   Jyotsna Dhawan   All participants
  École Normale Supérieure, Paris   CCMB, Hyderabad    
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 16:30 Recombination and phylogenetic networks 16:00 - 16:30 Collective dynamics    
  Daniel Gusfield   Shashi Thutupalli    
  UC Davis   NCBS, Bangalore    
16:30 - 17:00 Experimental assays of the genotype to phenotype connection 16:30 - 17:00 Mechanics of development    
  Fyodor Kondrashov   Timothy Saunders    
  Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona   Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore    
18:30 - 20:00 Social + Banquet 18:30 - 20:00 Social + Dinner 18:30 - 20:00 Social + Dinner