Conference on Ubiquitin and Ubiquitin like Modifications: Mechanisms and
 Implications for Human Diseases
Organizer: Dr. Ranabir Das
Venue: LH 1 (Haapus)

                                                                         Day 1: Wednesday, January 27, 2016

08:30-09:45

Registration

09:45-10:00

Welcome – Satyajit Mayor (Director, NCBS, inStem)

 

Session I

Chair : R. Andrew Byrd (NCI/NIH)

10:00-11:00

Robert C. Piper (Iowa Univ)

How a Bunch of Ubiquitin Gangs up on Endosomes

11:00-11:45

Girish Ratnaparkhi (IISER, Pune)

Regulation of Drosophila NF-kappaB Signaling by SUMOylation

11:45-12:30

Shikha Laloraya (IISc)

A Role for Smc5/6 Complex Mediated Sumoylation in Chromosome Stability

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Session II

Chair: Allan M. Weissman (NCI/NIH)

14:00-14:45

Amit Mishra (IIT, Jodhpur)

Cellular Quality Control Mechanism: A Cellular Service Alleviates Neurodegeneration and Ageing

14:45-15:30

Shravan Kumar Mishra (IISER, Mohali)

A Ubiquitin-like Processing Generates an Intron-specific RNA Splicing Factor

15:30-16:15

Swati Tiwari (JNU, Delhi)

APC/CFzr1-pRb: A weak link exploited by tumor viruses?

16:15-17:00

Tea

 

Session III

Chair: Christopher D.  Lima (MSKCC, NY)

17:00-18:00

Allan M. Weissman (NCI/NIH)

Metastasis to Activation of RING E3s, Insights from Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation

18:00-18:45

Ajit Bikram Dutta (Bose Institute, Kolkata)

Mechanistic Insights into the Activation of E2~Ub Conjugate by Monomeric RING E3 ligases

18:45-19:30

R V Hosur (TIFR and CEBS, Mumbai)

Structure, Dynamics and Folding/Unfolding of SUMO Proteins

19:30 onwards

Dinner

 

                                                                          Day 2: Thursday, January 28, 2016

Session I

Chair: Robert C. Piper (Iowa Univ)

09:45-10:30

Tushar Kanti Maity (RCB, Faridabad)

Mechanism of bap1 Enzymatic Inactivation: New Insight in its Cancer Association

10:30-11:30

R. Andrew Byrd (NCI/NIH)

Allostery and Dynamics Create Processivity in Ubiquitination

11:45-12:30

Ranabir Das (NCBS)

Structural Studies of a Viral Ubiquitin Ligase

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Session II

14:00-16:00

Poster Session/Te

 

Session III

Chair: S. Ramaswamy (inStem, Bangalore)

16:15-17:00

Manas Kumar Santra (NCCS, Pune)

AKT Promotes Tumorigenesis by Accelerating Proteasomal Degradation of Tumor Suppressor FBXO31

17:00-18:00

Christopher D. Lima (MSKCC, NY)

Ubiquitin-like Proteins: from Conjugation to Recognition

18:30 onwards

Dinner

 
Conference Closes