16:30 – 19:30

16:30-17:00

Welcome Mixer and Registration (outside Ectoderm)

17:00-17:15

Welcome address by the Organizing Committee

17:15-18:00

Cultural program by Students

18:00-19:00

Odissi dance performance by Prithvi P Nayak, Student of Guru Bijayani Satpathy, a former dancer of the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble.

19:30 Dinner (inStem first floor canteen)

07:30-09:00 Breakfast (inStem first floor canteen)

09:15-09:30

Welcome by Maneesha Inamdar, Director iBRIC-inStem

Session I

Specification and differentiation (20 min talk +10 min)

(Chair: Jiwon Shim, Co-chair: Sakshi Tiwari)

09:30 –10:00

Mirka Uhlirova

(CECAD Research Center, University of Cologne, Germany)

Regulation of immune cell plasticity and tissue interaction

10:00-10:30

Volker Hartenstein

(University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Structural aspects of uptake and digestion of apoptotic neurons in the Drosophila embryonic brain

10:30-10:45

(Student short talks, 5+2)

Yashashwinee Rai (JNCASR, Bangalore)

Sakshi Jain (IISc, Bangalore)

Wnt-regulated lipid droplet dynamics effect Drosophila blood progenitor heterogeneity through fatty acid metabolism

From Development to Defense: How LIM-only protein drives Myeloid cell development and function

10:45 -11:30 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

11:30-12:15 

(Chair: Sudarshan Gadadhar)

Satish Khurana, Invited Speaker (lISER Thiruvananthapuram, India)

Molecular regulation of adult hematopoiesis: developmental lessons to learn

12:15-12:45

Angela Giangrande

(IGBMC, France)

Time matters

12:45–14:00 Lunch break (inStem first floor canteen)

SESSION II

Invasion, phagocytosis (20 min talk +10 min)

(Chair: Lolitika Mandal, Co-Chair: Shekhar Patil)

14:00-14:45

Dan Hultmark

(Umea University, Sweden)

Memorial in honor of Uli Theopold

Horizontal transfer as a source of novelty in evolution – hemolysin E in blood cells

14:45-15:15

Neal Silverman

(UMass Chan Medical School, USA)

Role of Hemocyte Lipid Droplets in immunity

15:15-15:45

Shubha Govind

(The City College of New York, CUNY, USA)

The one and many toxins of fruit fly blood cells

15:45-16:30 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

16:30-17:30 Poster Sessions (inStem atrium)

17:30-18:15

Utpal Banerjee

(University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

A perspective of the blood field

19:00 onwards Dinner (inStem first floor canteen)

07:30-09:15 Breakfast (inStem first floor canteen)

SESSION III

Hematopoiesis in the lymph gland (20 min talk +10 min)

(Chair: Mirka Uhlirova, Co-Chair: Asha Channakkar)

09:30 –10:15

(Chair: Diya Binoy Joseph)

Kushagra Bansal, Invited Speaker (JNCASR, India)

Regulators of genome superstructure in the immune system

10:15-10:45

Lauren Goins

(Stanford University, USA)

Spatiotemporal control of progenitor maintenance and differentiation 

10:45 -11:30 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

11:30-12:00

Rohan Khadilkar

(ACTREC, India)

Bendless-mediated K63 ubiquitination regulates cellular signaling controlling blood cell homeostasis

12:00-12:30

Julian Martinez Agosto

(University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Iterative role of signaling pathways in lymph gland growth

12:30-12:45

(Student short talks, 5+2)

Pallawi Choubey (JNCASR, Bangalore)

Manisha Goyal (inStem, Bangalore)

Cohesin complex regulates dendritic cell development and function

Blood progenitor glutathione homeostasis: a mechanism to rewire immune metabolic state

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break (inStem first floor canteen)

(Session III:  Hematopoiesis Continues, Chair: Bruno Lemaitre, Co-chair: Asha Channakkar)

14:00-14:30

Jiwon Shim

(Hanyang University, Republic of Korea)

Immune cells beyond immunity

14:30-15:00

Lolitika Mandal

(IISER Mohali, India)

Leucine-miRNA-Autophagy:  a conserved nexus for blood cell development

15:00-15:30

Juliet Girard

(University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)

Dissecting lymph gland heterogeneity using flow cytometry

15:30-16:15 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

16:15-17:00

Maneesha Inamdar

(Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, iBRIC-inStem, India)

A wider view of blood development

17:00-18:00 Networking by the posters (inStem atrium)

18:30 City Dinner (Invited Speakers)

18:30 onwards dinner for students and volunteers (inStem first floor canteen)

07:30-09:15 Breakfast (inStem first floor canteen)

SESSION III

Hematopoiesis continues (20 min talk +10 min)

(Chair: Tomas Dolezal, Co-chair: Prachiti Vithole)

09:30-10:00

Bama Charan Mondal

(Banaras Hindu University, India)

Understanding the differentiation of myeloid-type cells

10:00-10:30

Anurag Sharma

(Nitte University Centre for Science Education & Research, India)

Drosophila Lymph Gland: Model to Study Environmental Chemicals Induced Hematopoietic Emergencies

10:30-10:45

(Student short talks, 5+2)

Amit Kumar (JNCASR, Bangalore)

Nivedita Chaudhary (inStem, Bangalore)

Topoisomerase 1 is critical for the development and function of thymus

Investigating the role of Tudor RNP granules in regulating the stem cell fate and regeneration

10:45 -11:30 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

SESSION IV

Cellular and humoral immunity (20 min talk +10 min)

(Chair: Bama Charan Mondal, Co-chair: Iqra Rizvi)

11:30-12:00

Dominique Ferrandon

(IBMC, France)

Resistance and resilience in Drosophila host defense against infections

12:00-12:30

Bruno Lemaitre

(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL - Global Health Institute, Switzerland)

A retrospective analysis of claim reproducibility of 400 publications in the field of Drosophila immunity

12:30-13:00

Sveta Chakrabarti

(Manipal Institute for Regenerative Medicine, MAHE, India)

Drosophila blood cells bridge the gap: Distant wounds influence gut homeostasis

13:00-14:00 Lunch break (inStem first floor canteen)

SESSION V

Cancer/metabolism/inflammation (20 min talk +10 min)

(Chair: Sveta Chakrabarti, Co-chair: Digvijoy Dinesh Gogoi)

14:00-14:30

Pablo Wappner

(Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Autophagy controls differentiation of Drosophila blood cells by regulating Notch levels in response to nutrient availability

14:30-15:00

Tomas Dolezal

(University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic)

Coordination of development and immune competence by juvenile hormone

15:00-15:15

10X GENOMICS and NIKON

Sponsorship presentation

15:15-16:00 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

16:00-18:00 Poster Sessions (inStem atrium)

19:00 onwards Dinner (inStem first floor canteen)

07:30-09:15 Breakfast (inStem first floor canteen)

SESSION VI

Cancer/metabolism/inflammation continues

(Chair: Rohan Khadilkar, Co-chair: Sheeraza Ahad)

09:30 –10:00

Andreas Bergmann

(UMass Chan Medical School, USA)

Hemocyte function in a tumor/overgrowth model

10:00-10:30

Catherine Brennan

(California State University, Fullerton, USA)

Larval blood cells: the case of the missing lipids

10:30 -11:15 Tea/coffee break (inStem atrium)

11:15-11:45

Tina Mukherjee

(Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, iBRIC-inStem, India)

Growth and hemocytes: A metabolic confusion

11:45-12:15

Concluding remarks and perspectives

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch (inStem first floor canteen)

Details of Hampi Trip

26^th - 28^th September, 2024

26^th Sept

14:00 hrs

Departure for Hampi from inStem Main Gate

26^th Sept

20:00 hrs

Arrival @ Hyatt, Hampi and Check-in

27^th Sept

09:30 hrs

Breakfast and Hampi sight seeing

28^th Sept

09:30 hrs

Breakfast

28^th Sept

10:00 hrs

Checkout and Departure

16:00 hrs arrival @inStem Main Gate, Bangalore