Annual Talks
 | national centre for biological sciences tata institute of fundamental research | ||
PROGRAMME FOR ANNUAL RESEARCH TALKS
JANUARY 15 – 18, 2009
Venue: Ground floor lecture hall (LH-1)
15 th January 2009 | ||
2.00-6.30PM | POSTERSESSION I | |
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16 th January 2009 | ||
Time | Speaker | Title |
SESSION1: GENETIC NETWORKS AND CELL SIGNALLING | ||
9.00-9.30 | MukundThattai | Designingand evolving genetic networks |
9.30-10.00 | SatyajitMayor | Manipulatingmembranes in living cells: complex formation and deformation |
10.00-10.30 | Madan Rao | Activepatterning and stresses induced by cytoskeletal components |
10.30-11.00 | TEAand POSTERS | |
| SESSIONII: MECHANISMS OF CELLULAR DIFFERENTIATION | |
11.00-11.30 | M. Panicker | Serotoninand the 2A receptor - further explorations. |
11.30-12.00 | G. V.Shivashankar | Mechanobiologyof Genome Assembly & Regulation |
12.00-12.30 | ApurvaSarin | Cellularcorrelates of fate determination: The role of Notch signaling |
12.30-13.00 | SudhirKrishna |
Notch signaling sustains a sub-set of cells with tumor promoting properties induced in human cervical cancers |
13.00-14.00 | LUNCHAND POSTERS | |
| SESSIONIII MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE FUNCTION | |
14.00-14.30 | YamunaKrishnan | Nucleicacids from nano to micro: It's not about size but function. |
14.30-15.00 | Deepak Nair | Preliminarystudies on NgoL-CTD and MsDpo4" |
15.00-15.30 | JayantUdgaonkar | Mechanismsof protein aggregation |
15.30-16.00 | M. K.Mathew | Bordercrossings: Getting to the root of the matter |
16.00-17.30 | POSTERSESSION AND TEA | |
| SESSIONIII FACILITIES | |
17.30-17.45. | H.Krishnamurthy | CIFF |
17.45-18.00 | Rupashri | MouseTransgenic facility |
18.00-18.15 | Ajith Kumar | Thewildlife program |
| MERCKSESSION AND AWARDS | |
18.15-18.45 | D. Schwudke | Lipidomicsof Development |
| 19.00 | DINNER. | |
| 17thJanuary 2009 | |
| SESSIONIV FROM CELLS TO ORGANS | |
9.00-9.30 | P. Raghu | Regulationof cell size and trace metal homeostasis during growth and |
9.30-10.00 | Gaiti Hasan | Intracellularcalcium signaling ? A link between metabolism and |
10.00-10.30 | VeronicaRodrigues | Activityduring neuronal development: working to stay the same. |
10.30-11.00 |
| POSTERSAND TEA |
| SESSIONV | FROMNEURONS TO BEHAVIOR |
11.00-11.30 | Sandhya PKoushika | CargoBinding regulates the stability of the anterograde synapticvesicle motor,UNC-104 |
11.30-12.00 | K. S.Krishnan | Geneticsand cell biology of synaptic vesicle recycling |
12.00-12.30 | K.VijayRaghavan | Mechanismsunderlying the development of muscles, motor neurons |
12.30-13.00 | Sanjay Sane | On fliesand flows: Behavioral and biomechanical |
13.00-14.00 | POSTERSAND LUNCH | |
| SESSIONVI: SYNAPSES, LEARNING AND MEMORY | |
14.00-14.30 | Upinder SBhalla | Switchesand Synapses |
14.30-15.00 | SumantraChattarji | Theseventh sin of memory |
15.00-15.30 | ObaidSiddiqi | Odourlearning in Drosophila |
15.30-16.00 | TEAAND POSTERS | |
| SESSIONVII: POPULATIONS AND DIVERSITY | |
16.00-16.30 | UmaRamakrishnan
| Monkeys in the mountains versus the plateau:Does geography drive |
16.30-17.00 | SuhelQuader | Theevolutionary ecology of anti-predator strategies |
17.00-17.30 | MaheshSankaran | Dynamics,structure and function of savannas: the role of resources |
| SESSIONIX COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES | |
17.45-18.15 | R.Sowdhamini | Computationalapproaches to protein science |
18.15-18.45 | S. Gosavi | Functionalmodulation of the interleukin-1 beta folding landscape |
| 19.00 | Discussion | |
18thJanuary 2009 | |
| 10.00-12.30 | POSTERSESSION II |
12.30-14.00 | LUNCH |
14.00-17.00 | POSTER SESSION II |
Please note:
- All talks will be of 25 minutes duration. Each talk will be followed by a 5 minute discussion.
- Buzzers will ring at 22 mins (warning), 25 mins (stop talking) and 30 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 15th January. There will be an average of 4 poster per PI.