Annual Talks 2014 - Action within Cells

Action within cells

Dates: January 15-17, 2014

Venue: Dasheri (NCBS Auditorium)

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

DAY 1: January 15

Time

Speaker

Title

0900-0905

Dean

Introduction/Welcome

Session 1: Things fatty objects do

0905-0910

P Raghu

Chairperson’s remarks

0910-0940

M Mathew

Reprogramming Endocytic Pathways with a Pinch of Salt

0940-1010

R Malik, DBS, TIFR

Lipolysis in the liver and active transport of lipid: A new connection ?

1010-1040

M Panicker

Pluripotency sings the blues

1040-1110 Tea/Coffee

Session 2: Getting proteins to work

1110-1115

A Seshasayee

Chairperson’s remarks

1115-1145

MS Madhusudhan, IISER, Pune

Using biomolecular 3D comparisons for predicting and designing structures and interactions

1145-1215

R Sowdhamini

Computational design of artificial protein sequences: More highways in sequence space?

1215-1245

S Gosavi

Building and understanding protein scaffolds

 

LUNCH

 

1330-1630 Poster Session

Session 3: Looking at molecules inside and outside a cell

1630-1635

J Udgaonkar

Chairperson’s remarks

1635-1730

W Baumeister, MPI

Electron Cryomicroscopy: From Molecules to Cells

1730-1800 Tea/Coffee

1800-1900

K Wuthrich, Scripps

NMR in Structural Genomics–Exploring the Protein Universe

Dinner

 

DAY 2: January 16

Time

Speaker

Title

Session 4: Membranes and other molecules

0900-0905

M Thattai

Chairperson’s remarks

0905-0935

S Mayor

The skin of a living cell: an active actin-membrane composite

0935-1005

M Rao

Active Mechanics and Information Processing at the cell surface

1005-1035

V Malhotra

Cargo-specific requirements for the COPII-dependent export of secretory cargo from the ER.

1035-1105 Tea/Coffee

Session 5: Manipulating molecules and cells

1105-1110

PV Shivaprasad

Chairperson’s remarks

1110-1140

G Mugesh, IISc

Nanomaterials as Antioxidant Enzyme Mimetics

1140-1210

Y Krishnan

Molecular DNA devices in Living Systems

1210-1240

KS Krishnan

A sting to heal and a smell of future

 

LUNCH

 

1400-1700

Poster Session

 

Session 6: Defending molecules

1725-1730

D Nair

Chairperson’s remarks

1730-1800

A Shenoy, Yale

Host Defence 'On Demand': GBP family GTPases to the Rescue

1800-1900

Raghavan Varadarajan, IISc

HIV-1 and influenza immunogen design

 

DINNER

 

 

 

DAY 3: January 17

Time

Speaker

Title

Session 7: Signaling inside cells

0900-0905

S Krishna

Chairperson’s remarks

0905-0935

P Raghu

How to traverse a hostile environment

0935-1005

S Raghavan, IISc

Cutting and Pasting Game: Insights into DNA repair, Oncogenesis and Cancer Therapeutics

1005-1035

C Jamora

Regulation of inflammation in the wound-healing program by epidermal keratinocytes

1035-1105

Tea/Coffee

 

Session 8: Controlling neuronal function

1105-1110

V Thirumalai

Chairperson’s remarks

1110-1140

Sumantra Chattarji

Erring on the side of caution: one cell at a time

1140-1210

M Ramaswami

mRNP assemblies and neuronal translational control

1210-1240

I Davis, Oxford

Synaptic plasticity: regulating translation in the cellular provinces.

1240-1310

Tony Hyman, MPI

Formation of p-granules

 

LUNCH

 

1400-1700

Poster Session

 

1800

Poster Awards

 

1900-2015

DINNER

 

2030-2230

Pandit Venkatesh Kumar

Hindustani Vocal Music Concert