Annual Talks
PROGRAMME FOR ANNUAL RESEARCH TALKS
JANUARY 5 –7, 2010
Venue: Ground floor lecture hall (LH-1)
Posters in the Tent (near football ground)
Time | Speaker | Title |
9.00-9.05 A.M | S. Mayor | Introduction |
SESSION 1: Shaping and understanding macromolecules. | ||
9.05-9.30A.M | Yamuna Krishnan | Delivery boy to reporter: Unusual DNA’s Journey through a worm-whole. |
9.30-9.55 A.M | Mrinalini Puranik | Direct telecast from the active site-substrates as reporters of conformational changes in enzyme. |
9.55-10.20 A.M | Deepak Nair | Revisiting Mismatch Repair. |
10.20-10.45 A.M | D.Schwudke | Developmental Biology and "Omics" - a newly-married couple |
10.45-11.15 A.M | TEA AND SNACKS IN HERBAL GARDEN | |
SESSION II: Acquiring Function: Computational and experimental approaches to structure function and interactions. | ||
11.15-11.40 P.M | S. Gosavi | Computational protein folding and function using structure based models |
11.40-12.05 P.M | Jayant Udgaonkar | How do proteins unfold? |
12.05-12.30 P.M | R. Sowdhamini | Computational Approach to Protein Science. |
12.30-12.55 P.M. | M.K.Mathew | “Staying Alive (in a Salty World)” |
13.00-16.30 P.M | POSTERS PRESENTATIONS Lunch near the poster area Tea/Coffee/Cold Drinks/Snacks | |
SESSION III: Neurons and behaviour. | ||
16.30-16.55 P.M | Sandhya Koushika | Regulation of synaptic vesicle transport neurons |
16.55-17.20 P.M | M. Panicker | Serotonin and Trace Amines? |
17.20-17.45 P.M. | Sanjeev Jain | Finding the genes for your losing your mind |
17.45-18.00 P.M | REFRESHMENTS (Fresh lime soda/softees on tap outside the lecture theatre) | |
SESSION IV: Facilities | ||
18.00-18.10 P.M | H. Krishnamurthy | Central imaging and flow facility |
18.10 -18.20P.M | Rupasri Ain | The Mouse Genetics facility - an encouraging start to a long journey |
18.20-18.30 P.M. | Sudarslal S. Nair | In the realm of "Omics"....Where do we stand? |
PRE-DINNER TALK | ||
18.30-19.30 | K. VijayRaghavan | Overview of past and looking to the future |
19.30- | SEATED DINNER WITH STUDENTS AND BOARD MEMBERS. Poster sessions will continue after dinner with refreshments. | |
SESSION V: Cellular signalling | ||
9.00-9.25 A.M | S. Mayor | Mechanisms of membrane organization and deformation. |
9.25-9.50 A.M | Madan Rao | Interplay between active cortical actin, composition and shape : active composite membrane |
9.50-10.15 A.M | Padinjat Raghu | Understanding phosphoinositide turnover in vivo. |
10.15-10.40A.M | Gaiti Hasan | Intracellular Calcium signalling in cellular and systematic physiology. |
10.40-11.15 | TEA AND SNACKS AT HERBAL GARDENS | |
SESSION VI: Regulation of Cellular function | ||
11.15-11.40 A.M | Apurva Sarin | Notch signalling in the cytoplasm: A road less travelled? |
11.40-12.05 P.M | S. Krishna | Notch signalling in human epithelial cancer stem like cells and metastasis. |
12.05-12.30 P.M | G.V. Shivashankar | Mechanoregulation of genome function |
12.30-12.55 P.M | Mukund Thattai | Cells, individuality, and statistics |
13.00-16.30 | POSTERS PRESENTATIONS Lunch near the poster area. Tea/coffee/cold drinks/ snacks | |
SESSION VII: Populations, Ecology and Ecosystems | ||
16.30-16.55 P.M. | Uma Ramakrishnan | The roles of geography, ecology and climate in shaping mammalian genetic variation in the Indian subcontinent |
16.55-17.20 P.M | Mahesh Sankaran | Climate change, vegetation dynamics and ecosystem services |
17.20-17.45 P.M. | Suhel Quader | The evolutionary ecology of inducible defences in prey |
17.45-18.00 P.M. REFRESHMENTS | ||
SESSION VIII: Exploring ecosystems for biomaterials | ||
18.00-18.25. | K.S. Krishnan | Prospecting for peptides of Therapeutic value. |
SESSION IX THE WILD LIFE PROGRAM AND ITS NEW INITIATIVES | ||
18.25-18.55 | Ajith Kumar | Building Science into Wildlife Conservation |
SESSION X: A New Neighbour and Progeny | ||
19.00-19.15 P.M | S. Ramaswamy | A Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms |
19.15-19.30 P.M | Jyotsna Dhawan | InStem: The Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine |
19.30- | SEATED DINNER WITH STUDENTS AND BOARD MEMBERS Poster sessions will continue after dinner with refreshments. | |
SESSION XI Neural Principles and Behavior | ||
9.00-9.25 A.M | Sanjay Sane | Positioning the Sensors: Reflexes and Preflexes |
9.25-9.50 A.M | Vatsala Thirumalai | Because I said so: Commanding control of motor pattern generating circuits by descending projections |
9.50-10.15 A.M | Sumantra Chattarji | Postcards from a big and busy area |
10.15-10.40A.M | Upinder Bhalla | How animals track odours: behaviour and neuronal processing. |
10.40-11.15 A.M.: TEA AND SNACKS AT HERBAL GARDENS | ||
SESSION XII: Behaviour and Development | ||
11.15-11.40A.M. | Obaid Siddiqi | Olfactory learning and memory in Drosophila melanogaster |
11.40-12.05 P.M | Veronica Rodrigues | Making an antennal lobe: Notch, Wingless and Neuronal Activity are members of the cast. |
12.05-12.30 P.M | K. VijayRaghavan | Deciphering actin organization during myoblast fusion: from WASps to cheerio |
12.30-14.00 | LUNCH | |
14.00-15.30 | POST-LUNCH GENERAL DISCUSSION Venue Amphitheatre steps. | |
Please note:
Tallks should not exceed 20 minutes. Each talk will be followed by a 5 minute discussion.
Buzzers will ring at 17 mins (warning), 20 mins (stop talking) and 25 mins (all time up). Please heed the buzzers. We have a tight schedule.
- All posters will be up all the time. Posters must be up by the morning of the 4th January. There will be an average of 4 poster per PI.