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)

5th January 2010

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.

 

6th January 2009

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.

 

7th January 2009

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.