Tentative schedule:

02:00 – 04:00 PM

Registration

04:00 – 04:15 PM

Welcome Address by: Dr. Piyali Mukherjee (PU, Kolkata), Organizing secretary, Symposium Committee

04:15 – 04:30 PM

Introduction of DBS by: Prof. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

SESSION 1: Diversity and Dynamics of molecules and system

04:30-05:20 PM

Keynote Speaker: Gaiti Hasan “Drosophila flight: an invertebrate model for motor coordination”

05:20 – 05:50 PM

Speaker 2: Suvendra N. Bhattacharyya (IICB, Kolkata) “The power of a tiny RNA: microRNA-mediated gene regulation in mammalian cells”

05:50- 06:20 PM

Speaker 3: Sandhya P Koushika (TIFR, Mumbai) “Regulation of synaptic vesicle transport”

DINNER

08:00 – 09:30 AM

Registration

08:30 – 09:30 AM

Breakfast

SESSION 2: Basic and Translational Oncology- from Bench to Bedside

09:30 – 10:20 AM

Keynote Speaker: Vaskar Saha (TMC, Kolkata) “Improving Outcomes in Cancer –Translational Lessons from Childhood Lymphoblastic Leukaemia”

10:20 – 10:50 AM

Speaker 6: Samit Chattopadhyay (NCCS, Pune) “Alternative splicing and its implications in cancer metastasis“

10:50 – 11:20 AM

Speaker 7: Lolitika Mandal (IISER, Mohali) “Identification and Characterization of Active Hematopoietic Hub in Drosophila Adult”

TEA BREAK

SESSION 3 The Balance of Nature: system stability

11:30 – 12-20 PM

Keynote Speaker: Raghavan Varadarajan (IISc, Bangalore) “Protein structure, stability and folding analysed using mutational sensitivity derived from deep sequencing”

12:20 – 12:50 PM

Speaker 9: Dipankar Chatterjee (IISc, Bangalore) “Sigma Switching and Transcription”

12:50 – 01:20 PM

Speaker 10: Anuradha Lohia (PU, Kolkata) “The Uncertainty of Survival“

LUNCH

01:20 – 03:00 PM

POSTER Session I

SESSION 4 : Structural Biology & Bioinformatics of molecules and systems

03:00 – 03:50 PM

Keynote speaker: Pinak Chakrabarti (BI, Kolkata) “Analysis of protein structures – identification of a new turn, and redefining the buried surface area in complexes”

03:50 – 04:20 PM

Speaker 12: Arockiasamy Arulandu (ICGEB, New Delhi)"Sexual rivalry among conjugative plasmids“

04:20 – 04:50 PM

Speaker 13: Harsha Gowda (IOB, Bangalore) “Decoding genomes using proteomics and bioinformatics“

SESSION 5: Mechanisms and targets in disease biology

05:00 – 05:50 PM

Keynote Speaker: Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay (CU, Kolkata) “RNA Protein interactions in Chandipura virus life cycle”

05:50 – 06:20 AM

Speaker 15: Kaustuv Sanyal (JNCASR, Bangalore) “Determinants of centromere identity and kinetochore integrity”

06:20 – 06:50 PM

Speaker 16: Debashis Mitra (NCCS, Pune) “HIV-1 Tat protein: From viral transcriptional activator to regulator of cellular gene expression”

DINNER

08:00-09:30 AM

Registration

08:30 – 09:30 AM

Breakfast

SESSION 6: Molecules to system

09:30 – 10-20 AM

Keynote Speaker: L S Shashidhara (IISER, Pune) “Evolution of insect wing morphology: a systems biology approach”

10:20 – 10:50 AM

Speaker 18: Aurnab Ghose (IISER, Pune) “Tuning internal states to behavioural outputs”

10:50 – 11:20 AM

Speaker 19: Benu Brata Das (IACS, Kolkata) “Coupling PARP1 and TDP1 repair pathways: New therapeutic opportunities are on the horizon”

TEA BREAK

SESSION 7: Functional insights of microbial systems

11:30 – 12:20 PM

Keynote Speaker: Alok Bhattacharya (JNU, New Delhi) “Mechanism of phagocytosis in the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica”

12:20 – 12:50 PM

Speaker 21: Sujoy Dasgupta (BI, Kolkata) “Our viral ancestors and the evolution of replication systems”

12:50 – 01:20 PM

Speaker 22: Anand Bachhawat (IISER, Mohali) “ER Stress, Apoptosis and Glutathione degradation ....connecting the dots”

TEA BREAK

01:30 – 02:20 PM

Concluding Note: Sumantra Chatterjee (NCBS, Bangalore) “To be or not to be afraid”

02:20 – 02:30 PM

Vote of Thanks: Abhik Saha, (PU, Kolkata), Convener, Symposium Committee

LUNCH

02:30 – 04:00 PM

POSTER Session II