8:30 onwards

Registration – Faculty, Visitors

Auditorium Lobby

9:15- 9:30AM

Apurva Sarin

Welcome

Cardiac Theme Chairperson: Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB

9:30-10:00AM

Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan,

University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA. Theme Coordinator, Visiting Faculty, inStem

Dark Side of GPCRs and Protein Kinases: Allosteric Regulation through Intrinsically Disordered Regions

10:00-10:30AM

Dhandapany Perundurai

Clinical genomics and molecular insights into hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

10:30-11:00AM

Minhaj Sirajuddin

Structure of heart ventricular walls at micron resolution

11:00-11:30AM

REFRESHMENTS

TATA Institute for Genetics & Society - Centre at inStem

Chairperson: Colin Jamora

11:30-11:45 AM

Farah Ishtiaq

Landscape genetics: a toolbox for studying vector-borne diseases

11:45- 12:00PM

Sampath Kumar

Genomic structural variants in Indian populations of An. stephensi.

12:00-12:10PM

Q&A for FI and SK talks

1210-12:30PM

Bipin Nair, Amrita University School of Biotechnology & TIGS_CI

Combating AMR: Strategies to target MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa

12:30-100PM

Poster Talks - 9

Chairpersons, Thomas van Zanten & Dhananjay Chaturvedi, NCBS

1:00-2:15PM

Lunch for SAB & Invitees (First Floor inStem Canteen)

2:30-4:00PM

3:30-4:00PM

POSTER SESSSION-1 Atrium

HIGH TEA

230-345PM

PROGRAMME REVIEW by SAB

Second Floor South Wing Meeting Room

Integrative Chemical Biology

Chairperson: Vinothkumar Kutti Raghunath, NCBS

4:00-4:30PM

Dasaradhi Palakodeti

Diverse roles of tRNAs in stem cells and during regeneration

4:30-5:00PM

Praveen Vemula

Small-molecules mediated repair of gut barrier dysfunction

5:00-530PM

S Ramaswamy

Natures solution to breaking a human-made strong Bond

5:30-5:5:55PM

Gayathri Sadasivam &

Neelagandan Kamariah

Targeting the molecular recognition of protein phosphorylation to interrupt intracellular signalling

5:55-6:00PM

Q&A for GS and NK

6:05-6:45PM

POSTER SESSSION-1 extended

Atrium

7:00PM

Dinner for SAB & Invitees, (First Floor inStem Canteen)

Regulation of Cell Fate

Chairperson: Sonia Sen, TIGS-Centre at inStem

9:00 - 9:30AM

Jyotsna Dhawan,

CCMB Hyderabad

Signaling surprises in quiescent myoblasts: a role for the primary cilium

9:30- 10:00 AM

Arvind Ramanathan

Lipid metabolism mediated control of the senescent state

10:00-10:30AM

Arjun Guha

Regulation of cellular plasticity in Drosophila: How tracheal cells switch from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth

1030-11.00AM

REFRESHMENTS

11:00-1130AM

Tina Mukherjee

Myeloid cells as mobile sensors of animal physiology

11:30-12:00 PM

Sunil Laxman

The Wealth of Cells: logic of amino acid supply and demand in a cellular economy

12:00-12:40PM

Poster Talks (12)

Chairpersons, Thomas van Zanten & Dhananjay Chaturvedi, NCBS

12:45-2:00PM

Lunch for SAB & Invitees (First Floor inStem Canteen)

2:00-4:00PM

3:30-4:00PM

POSTER SESSION-2

Atrium

HIGH TEA (Atrium)

Tissue Inflammation & Homeostasis

Chairperson: Dipayan Rudra, Institute for Basic Science, South Korea

4:00-4:30PM

Srikala Raghavan

Non-Immune Functions of Resident Skin Macrophages

4:30-5:00PM

Colin Jamora

The Molecular Basis of Vascular Defects Driving Tissue Fibrosis

5:05-5:55PM

Plenary Talk-I

Chairperson: Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan, NCBS

Ashok Venkitaraman, University of Cambridge, UK & Collaborative Science Chair, inStem

Insights into human cancer susceptibility from the BRCA2 tumour suppressorPlenary Talk-II

6:10-7:00PM

SAB meetings (Coordinated by Dasaradhi Palakodeti)

Students registered for PhD 150 seater Auditorium, inStem

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Postdocs 100 seater hall, InStem

7:00PM

DINNER – SAB & Invitees, (First Floor inStem Canteen)

Brain Development and Disease Mechanisms

Chairperson: Upinder Bhalla, NCBS

9:00-9:30AM

Shona Chattarji, NCBS

Autism and "Astro"logy

9:30-10:00AM

Vivek Benegal, NIMHANS, ADBS

Clinical insights from the ADBS program

(Accelerator Program on the Discovery of Brain Disorders using Stem Cells)

10:00-10:30AM

Raghu Padinjat, NCBS, ADBS

Disease in a dish models: insights into the cellular basis of brain disorders

10:30-11:00AM

Bhavana Muralidharan

Chromatin regulation of cortical development in health and disease

11:00-11:30AM

REFRESHMENTS

Genetic Interventions for Blood Disorders

Chairperson: Dasaradhi Palakodeti

11:30-12:00PM

Debojyoti Chakraborti,

Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi

Joining the dots between precision and personalized medicines

12:00-12:30PM

RV Shaji

CSCR-inStem, CMC-Vellore

Lentiviral vector based gene therapy for hematological disorders

12:30-12:42PM

Saravanabhavan Thangavel

CSCR-inStem, CMC Vellore

CRISPR-Cas9 based gene editing approaches for gene therapy for hematological disorders

12:42-12:56PM

Mohankumar K. Murugesan

CSCR-inStem, CMC Vellore

12:56- 1:00PM

Q&A for ST and MM

1:10-2:15PM

Lunch for SAB & Invitees (First Floor inStem Canteen)

2:30-5:00PM

4:30-5:00PM

POSTER SESSION-3

Atrium

HIGH TEA (Atrium)

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

VENUE: BOARD ROOM, INSTEM

5:00 -5:30PM

POSTERS AWARDS – 150-seater Auditorium

5:30-6:30PM

Plenary Talk-II

Chairperson: Dimple Notalni, NCBS

Azim Surani, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge, UK.

From genomic imprinting to the human germline and development

6:30-6:35PM

Vote of thanks