Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)

Annual Review of Research

March 7-9, 2016

  Venue: Dasheri, SLC

 Sunday March 6, 2016

  7pm: Dinner Main Cafeteria - 1st open area

 

  Monday March 7, 2016

Time

Speaker

0900-0915am

Welcome

Satyajit Mayor, Director, NCBS, inStem

Chairperson: Maneesha Inamdar, JNCASR

0915-0945am

Sunil Laxman, inStem

Waiting for go: post-transcriptional responses to specific amino acid limitations

0945-1015am

Arjun Guha, inStem

Regulation of proliferation and fate of progenitor cells in the respiratory tract

1015-1045am

Tina Mukherjee, inStem

Metabolic and Systemic Control of Hematopoiesis

1045-1115am

Coffee – Outside Dasheri

Chairperson: Praveen Kumar Vemula, inStem

1115-1145am

Dasaradhi Palakodeti, inStem

MicroRNAs and brain patterning in planarians

1145-1215pm

Akash Gulyani, inStem

A sense of light?’ Visualizing neural regeneration and cellular dynamics

1215-1245pm

S Ramaswamy, inStem

A systems approach to understanding regeneration

1245-0200pm

Lunch (faculty & visitors): First floor terrace, Main Cafeteria

0200-0400pm

Posters – Day 1 Colonnade, SLC

0400-0430pm

Coffee – Dasheri Lawns

Chairperson: Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB, Hyderabad

0430-0520pm

Talk by SAB member Azim Surani, University of Cambridge, UK

An Investigation into the Human Germline

0530-0645pm

One-on-one meetings with Themes

[schedule will be circulated]

0700pm onwards

Dinner for SAB, visiting faculty, inStem/NCBS Faculty

First floor open area, Main Cafeteria

 

  Tuesday March 8, 2016

Time

Speaker

Chairperson: Colin Jamora, inStem

0900-0930am

Ashok Venkitaraman, CCBT, inStem

Parsing molecular recognition networks that propagate intracellular signals maintaining genome integrity

0930-1000am

Shravanti Rampalli-Deshpande, inStem

Association of Ehmt1 with nuclear lamin organizes peripheral heterochromatin and regulate aging

1000-1030am

Srikala Raghavan, inStem

Breaking Barriers: Role of Integrins in Epithelial Homeostasis and Sterile Inflammation

1030-1100am

Coffee – Outside Dasheri

Chairperson: Ramkumar Sambasivan, inStem

1100-1130am

Minhaj Sirajuddin, inStem

Structure and function approaches to study cardiomyopathy-causing mutations

1130-1200pm

John Mercer, inStem

A multilevel approach to inherited sarcomeric cardiomyopathies

1200-1230pm

Dhandapany Peundurai, inStem

Cardiomyopathies: from genes to therapies

1230-0200pm

Lunch (faculty & visitors): First floor terrace, Main Cafeteria

0200-0400pm

Posters – Day 2 Colonnade, SLC

0400-0430pm

Coffee – Dasheri Lawns

Chairperson: Ashok Venkitaraman, University of Cambridge

0430-0520pm

Talk by SAB member: Francesco Blasi, IFOM, Italy

PREP1 transcription factor regulates the timing of DNA replication

 

0530-0645pm

One-on one meetings with Themes

[schedule will be circulated]

0700pm onwards

Dinner for SAB, visiting faculty, inStem-NCBS Faculty

 

             Wednesday March 9, 2016

Time

Speaker

Chairperson: S Ramaswamy, inStem

0900-0930am

Vrisha Madhuri, CSCR, CMC, Vellore

Skeletal Regeneration – From concept to Realization

0930-1000am

Alok Srivastava, CSCR, CMC, Vellore

Gene therapy for hemophilia and major hemoglobin disorders

Chairperson: Sanjeev Jain, NIMHANS

1000-1030am

Ravi Muddashetty, inStem

The role of FMRP in synaptic signaling and ES cell differentiation

1030-1100am

Coffee – Outside Dasheri

1100-1130am

Siddharthan Chandran,

University of Edinburgh, UK

1130-1200pm

Sumantra Chattarji, NCBS,

 inStem

1200-1230pm

Raghu Padinjat, NCBS

Understanding altered brain function in mental illness

1230-0200pm

Lunch (faculty & visitors): First floor open area, Main Cafeteria

0200-0500pm

SAB Meeting -  Faculty Lounge

Posters - Colonnade

High Tea – Dasheri Lawns

0500-0515pm

Poster Awards – Dasheri

Chairperson: Upinder S Bhalla, NCBS

0515-0605pm

Talk by SAB member: Mriganka Sur, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, USA

Mechanisms and potential therapeutics for neurodevelopmental disorders

 

Meeting Closes