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PROGRAMME SCHEDULE:

Day 1: 19th February, 2015; Thursday

Registration (8.00-10.00 hrs)

Welcome address (10:00 – 10:05 hrs) Derozio Hall

Key note address 1 (10:05 – 11:00 hrs)

1. Prof. Jitendra P Khurana

Professor and Head of the Department

Department of Plant Molecular Biology

University of Delhi, New Delhi

E. mail: khuranaj@genomeindia.org

Tea break (11:00-11:15 hrs)

Scientific session I (11:15-12:45 hrs) Derozio Hall

Environmental Ecology in the changing world

1. Prof. KNG Ganeshaiah

Department of Forestry and Environmental Sciences

School of Ecology and Conservation

University of Agricultural Sciences

GKVK, Bangalore

E. mail: knganeshaiah@gmail.com

2. Prof. Dipankar Chakraborti

Former Director & Research Director,

School of Environmental Studies

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

E. mail: dcsoesju@gmail.com

3. Prof. Bernard Paul

Professeur de Biologie végétale

Université de Bourgogne, Institut Jules Guyot

Dijon, France

E. mail: bernard.paul@u-bourgogne.fr

Lunch (12:45-13:45 hrs)

Scientific session II (14:00-15:30 hrs) AJC Bose Auditorium

Plant and its interactions with the environment

1. Prof. Narendra Tuteja

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi

E. mail: narendra@icgeb.res.in

2. Prof. Paramjit Khurana

Department of Plant Molecular Biology

University of Delhi, New Delhi

E. mail: param@genomeindia.org

3. Prof. Ashwani Pareek,

JNU, School of Life Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

E. mail: ashwanip@mail.jnu.ac.in

Tea break (15:30-15:45 hrs)

Scientific session II continued

4. Dr. A. C. Anil

National Institute of Oceanography

Dona Paula-Goa

E. mail: acanil@nio.org

5. Prof. Sanjib K. Panda

Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics

Assam University, Silchar

E. mail: drskpanda@gmail.com

Poster Session (16.45-18:30 hrs) Derozio Foyer

Dinner (18.30 onwards)

Day 2: 20th February, 2015; Friday

Key note address 2 (09:30 – 10:20 hrs) Derozio Hall

1. Prof. Anindya Sinha

Professor and Dean, Academic Affairs

National Institute of Advanced Studies

Indian Institute of Science Campus, India

Tea break (10:20- 10:35 hrs)

Scientific session III (10:35-12:35 hrs)

Emerging technologies in plant and the environment

1. Prof. Subhra Chakraborty

National Institute of Plant Genome Research

New Delhi

E. mail: schakraborty@nipgr.ac.in

2. Prof. Santanu Ray

Department of Zoology,

Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan

E. mail: sray@visva-bharati.ac.in

3. Dr. Manoj Prasad

National Institute of Plant Genome Research

New Delhi

E. mail: manoj_prasad@nipgr.ac.in

4. Dr. P.V. Shivaprasad

National Centre for Biological Sciences

GKVK Campus, Bangalore

E. mail: shivaprasad@ncbs.res.in

Lunch + Poster session (12:35-14:30 hrs)

Scientific session IV (14:30-16:30 hrs)

Plant development and cell signaling

1. Prof. Usha Vijayraghavan

Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology

Indian Institute of Science, BangaloreE. mail: uvr@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

2. Prof. Sudip Chattopadhyay

Department of Biotechnology

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

E. mail: sudip.chattopadhyay@bt.nitdgp.ac.in

3. Dr. Anjan K. Banerjee

Biology Division

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

E. mail: akb@iiserpune.ac.in

4. Dr. Sourav Datta

Department of Biological Sciences

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal

E. mail: sdatta@iiserb.ac.in

Concluding remarks

Vote of thanks

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