Annual Talks

NCBS Management Board Meeting and Annual Talks

January 18-20, 2011


 

 

Board Members/Scientific Advisors/External Advisors

Tuesday 18 Jan. 2011

TimeSpeakerTitle
Session 0: Opening
0900K.VijayRaghavanIntroduction
Session 1: The big picture
0905Mahesh SankaranClimate change, vegetation dynamics and ecosystem services
0930Suhel QuaderTracking ecological change over space and time
0955Uma RamakrishnanHow far do tigers move?
Session 2: Behaving animals
1020Madhusudan VenkadesanDesign and control of the hand, arm and leg
1045COFFEE/TEA
1110Sanjay SaneAssaying flight behavior in insects
1135Sumantra ChattarjiThe Amygdala: In Good Times and Bad
1200Upinder S. BhallaCircuits and coding
1225Vatsala ThirumalaiAn inside look at Spinal Muscular Atrophy
1250Obaid SiddiqiOlfactory Learning in Drosophila
1315-1400LUNCH
1400-1500General poster session
1500-1600Big Picture Posters with presenters
Session 3: Crunchy and Squishy
1600Sandhya KoushikaFerrying synaptic vesicle proteins in neurons: the roles of motors and adaptors
1625K.VijayRaghavanEph-Ephrin signaling regulates terminal arbors of a central modulatory neuron in the Drosophila antennal lobe to modulate courtship behavior
Interaction session 1: Facilities and programmes
1650Awards presentations
1710-1740TEA/COFFEE
Facilities and Programmes
1740H.KrishnamurthyCentral Imaging and Flow Cytometry Facility
1750Rupasri AinMouse facility
1800Sudarslal S.Spectroscopy
1810Upinder S. BhallaCampus facilities
1820Apurva SarinStudent and Postdoc programmes
1830Ajith KumarWildlife programme
1840-2000Dinner for all academic staff and board members
2000-2100Behaving Animal Posters with presenters

 

Wednesday 19 Jan. 2011

Session 3 continued: Crunchy and Squishy
0900-0925Gaiti HasanIntracellular calcium signaling in neuronal function
0925-0950K.S.KrishnanBioactive peptides from Cone snails, wasps and frogs.
Session 4: Wetware
0950-1015M.K.MathewMoving Into and Within a Plant Cell
1015Mitradas M. PanickerA ‘potential’ role for Serotonin in Embryos and Embryonic Stem Cells
1040-1110TEA/COFFEE
1110-1135Raghu PadinjatAnalysis of phosphoinositide signalling in vivo
1135-1200Apurva SarinWalking the Tightrope: Regulation of cell death and survival in mature T-cells
1200-1225Satyajit MayorMembrane Magic: Dynamics of membrane organization at the cell surface and during endocytosis.
1225-1250Sudhir KrishnaNotch signaling in human cancers: from basic biology to the clinic
1250-1315Aswin SeshasayeeGlobal gene regulation in E. coli: we thought we knew everything
1315-1500LUNCH
1500-1600Squishy and Crunchy posters with presenters
Session 5: Teeny Tiny Molly stuff
1600-1625G.V. ShivashankarNuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation
1625-1650Arvind RamanathanMetabolic programs in cancer and differentiation.
1650-1720TEA/COFFEE
1720Dominik SchwudkeLipidomics Tools for Investigations into Developmental Processes
1745Jayant B. UdgaonkarMechanisms of protein aggregation
1810Deepak T. NairNucleic acid metabolizing enzymes: structure and function
1835-2000Wetware Posters with presenters
2000-2130Board + faculty discussions over dinner on 1st floor of canteen, usual canteen dinner for others.

 

Thursday 20 Jan. 2011

 

 

Teeny Tiny Molly continued
0900-0925Mrinalini PuranikLocal structure and dynamics in proteins
0925-0950Yamuna KrishnanNucleic acid based Molecular Devices, Naturally!
Session 6: Deep Thought
0950Shachi GosaviThe folding of beta-grasp proteins
1015R. SowdhaminiComputational Approaches to Protein Science
1040-1110TEA/COFFEE
1110Madan RaoConsequences of Active Clustering : regulation and amplification of information and membrane deformation during endocytosis
1135Mukund ThattaiTeaching cells to blink in sync
1200Sandeep KrishnaDecision-Making and Feedback in Genetic Regulatory Networks
Interaction session 2: Futures
1225S. RamaswamyC-CAMP
1235Jyotsana DhawanINSTEM
1245Vijayakumar/ PoornimaCampus plans
1255Satyajit MayorMeasuring up
1305K. VijayRaghavanFuture tense
1315-1400LUNCH
1400-1630Board meeting
1630-1730Teeny Tiny posters with presenters
1730-1830Deep Thought posters with presenters
1830-Usual canteen dinner + Optional dinner for faculty/board members