Annual Talks
NCBS Management Board Meeting and Annual Talks
January 18-20, 2011
Board Members/Scientific Advisors/External Advisors
Tuesday 18 Jan. 2011
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| Session 0: Opening | ||
| 0900 | K.VijayRaghavan | Introduction |
| Session 1: The big picture | ||
| 0905 | Mahesh Sankaran | Climate change, vegetation dynamics and ecosystem services |
| 0930 | Suhel Quader | Tracking ecological change over space and time |
| 0955 | Uma Ramakrishnan | How far do tigers move? |
| Session 2: Behaving animals | ||
| 1020 | Madhusudan Venkadesan | Design and control of the hand, arm and leg |
| 1045 | COFFEE/TEA | |
| 1110 | Sanjay Sane | Assaying flight behavior in insects |
| 1135 | Sumantra Chattarji | The Amygdala: In Good Times and Bad |
| 1200 | Upinder S. Bhalla | Circuits and coding |
| 1225 | Vatsala Thirumalai | An inside look at Spinal Muscular Atrophy |
| 1250 | Obaid Siddiqi | Olfactory Learning in Drosophila |
| 1315-1400 | LUNCH | |
| 1400-1500 | General poster session | |
| 1500-1600 | Big Picture Posters with presenters | |
| Session 3: Crunchy and Squishy | ||
| 1600 | Sandhya Koushika | Ferrying synaptic vesicle proteins in neurons: the roles of motors and adaptors |
| 1625 | K.VijayRaghavan | Eph-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 | ||
| 1650 | Awards presentations | |
| 1710-1740 | TEA/COFFEE | |
| Facilities and Programmes | ||
| 1740 | H.Krishnamurthy | Central Imaging and Flow Cytometry Facility |
| 1750 | Rupasri Ain | Mouse facility |
| 1800 | Sudarslal S. | Spectroscopy |
| 1810 | Upinder S. Bhalla | Campus facilities |
| 1820 | Apurva Sarin | Student and Postdoc programmes |
| 1830 | Ajith Kumar | Wildlife programme |
| 1840-2000 | Dinner for all academic staff and board members | |
| 2000-2100 | Behaving Animal Posters with presenters | |
Wednesday 19 Jan. 2011
| Session 3 continued: Crunchy and Squishy | ||
| 0900-0925 | Gaiti Hasan | Intracellular calcium signaling in neuronal function |
| 0925-0950 | K.S.Krishnan | Bioactive peptides from Cone snails, wasps and frogs. |
| Session 4: Wetware | ||
| 0950-1015 | M.K.Mathew | Moving Into and Within a Plant Cell |
| 1015 | Mitradas M. Panicker | A ‘potential’ role for Serotonin in Embryos and Embryonic Stem Cells |
| 1040-1110 | TEA/COFFEE | |
| 1110-1135 | Raghu Padinjat | Analysis of phosphoinositide signalling in vivo |
| 1135-1200 | Apurva Sarin | Walking the Tightrope: Regulation of cell death and survival in mature T-cells |
| 1200-1225 | Satyajit Mayor | Membrane Magic: Dynamics of membrane organization at the cell surface and during endocytosis. |
| 1225-1250 | Sudhir Krishna | Notch signaling in human cancers: from basic biology to the clinic |
| 1250-1315 | Aswin Seshasayee | Global gene regulation in E. coli: we thought we knew everything |
| 1315-1500 | LUNCH | |
| 1500-1600 | Squishy and Crunchy posters with presenters | |
| Session 5: Teeny Tiny Molly stuff | ||
| 1600-1625 | G.V. Shivashankar | Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation |
| 1625-1650 | Arvind Ramanathan | Metabolic programs in cancer and differentiation. |
| 1650-1720 | TEA/COFFEE | |
| 1720 | Dominik Schwudke | Lipidomics Tools for Investigations into Developmental Processes |
| 1745 | Jayant B. Udgaonkar | Mechanisms of protein aggregation |
| 1810 | Deepak T. Nair | Nucleic acid metabolizing enzymes: structure and function |
| 1835-2000 | Wetware Posters with presenters | |
| 2000-2130 | Board + faculty discussions over dinner on 1st floor of canteen, usual canteen dinner for others. | |
Thursday 20 Jan. 2011
| Teeny Tiny Molly continued | ||
| 0900-0925 | Mrinalini Puranik | Local structure and dynamics in proteins |
| 0925-0950 | Yamuna Krishnan | Nucleic acid based Molecular Devices, Naturally! |
| Session 6: Deep Thought | ||
| 0950 | Shachi Gosavi | The folding of beta-grasp proteins |
| 1015 | R. Sowdhamini | Computational Approaches to Protein Science |
| 1040-1110 | TEA/COFFEE | |
| 1110 | Madan Rao | Consequences of Active Clustering : regulation and amplification of information and membrane deformation during endocytosis |
| 1135 | Mukund Thattai | Teaching cells to blink in sync |
| 1200 | Sandeep Krishna | Decision-Making and Feedback in Genetic Regulatory Networks |
| Interaction session 2: Futures | ||
| 1225 | S. Ramaswamy | C-CAMP |
| 1235 | Jyotsana Dhawan | INSTEM |
| 1245 | Vijayakumar/ Poornima | Campus plans |
| 1255 | Satyajit Mayor | Measuring up |
| 1305 | K. VijayRaghavan | Future tense |
| 1315-1400 | LUNCH | |
| 1400-1630 | Board meeting | |
| 1630-1730 | Teeny Tiny posters with presenters | |
| 1730-1830 | Deep Thought posters with presenters | |
| 1830- | Usual canteen dinner + Optional dinner for faculty/board members | |