February 2, 2018 (Friday)

Registration

8:00-9:00 AM

Outside Dasheri

Welcome Remarks

9:20-9:30 AM

Dasheri

Session 1: Stem Cells in Morphogenesis (Chair: Ramkumar Sambasivan)

Terry Lechler

9:30-10:00 AM

Morphogenesis of the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche

Tina Mukherjee

10:00-10:30 AM

Metabolic control of immune competency by odors in Drosophila

Tea Break

10:30-11:00 AM

 

Indumathi Mariappan

11:00-11:30 AM

Patient-specific iPSCs and eye organoids as disease models to study retinal dystrophies

Deirdre Coombe

11:30-12:00 PM

Extracellular Matrix Matters: properties and composition of matrix direct cell behaviour

Smita Sudheer

12:00-12:15 PM

Different concentrations of FGF ligands determine distinct states of WNT-induced presomitic mesoderm

Lunch

12:30-1:30 PM

 

Poster session

1:30-3:00 PM

 

Session 2: Stem Cells in Tissue Homeostasis (Chair: Raghu Padinjat)

Hiyaa Ghosh

3:00-3:30 PM

Making new neurons in the adult brain: regulations and acute responses

Deepa Subramanyam

3:30-4:00 PM

Regulation of stem cell fate by trafficking

Tea Break

4:00-4:30 PM

 

Arjun Guha

4:30-4:45 PM

A role for the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in management of oxidative and genotoxic stress in the lung

Sveta Chakrabarti

4:45-5:00 PM

Remote control of gut stem cell proliferation by Drosophila blood cells after an injury

Plenary Talk: (Chair: Apurva Sarin)

Utpal Banerjee 5:00-6:00 PM Metabolic control of mammalian pre-implantation development

Dinner

7:00 PM

 

 

February 3, 2018 (Saturday)

Session 3: Mechanisms of Stem Cell Regulation (Chair: Colin Jamora)

Maneesha Inamdar

9:30-10:00 AM

Regulation of blood stem cells

Carien Niessen

10:00-10:30 AM

Making, maintaining and breaking epithelial barriers

Tea Break

10:30-11:00 AM

 

Srikala Raghavan

11:00-11:30 AM

Role of Mechanical Signals in Maintaining Stem Cell Quiescence

Sourabh Ghosh

11:30-12:00 PM

Tissue Engineered in vitro disease models

Abhik Dutta

12:00-12:15 PM

Stimulation of hair follicle stem cell proliferation through an IL-1 dependent activation of T-cells

Lunch

12:30-1:30 PM

 

Poster session

1:30-3:00 PM

 

Session 4: Stem cells in Aging and Disease (Chair: Ravi Muddashetty)

Pritinder Kaur

3:00-3:30 PM

Micro-environmental changes in ageing human skin correspond with decreasing skin regenerative potential.

Shravanti Rampalli

3:30-4:00 PM

Euchromatic Histone Methyltransferases in Aging and Inflammation

Tea Break

4:00-4:30 PM

 

Ramanuj Dasgupta

4:30-5:00 PM

Mapping trajectories of drug-induced tumor evolution “one cell at-a-time

Vikram Matthews

5:00-5:30 PM

New insights into biology and treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia

Vishwas Mishra

5:30-5:45 PM

A novel transgenic mouse with a hyperactive mutation in receptor guanylyl cyclase C serves as a model for familial diarrhoea syndrome

Concluding Remarks

5:45-6:00 PM

 

Dinner

7:00 PM