Genes to Olfaction: 60 years in Science

09:30 – 10.00

K. VijayRaghavan

NCBS, Bangalore

Welcome and introduction

Chair:

Shobhona Sharma, DBS-TIFR Mumbai

10.00- 10:40

Chun-Fang Wu

The University of Iowa, USA

Channels, Spike coding, and the Siddiqi Paradox

10: 40-11:20

Eve Marder

Brandeis University, USA

Beyond Optimality to the Variability of the Individual: Insights from a Rhythmic Neuronal Network

11:20- 11:45

TEA

Main Lawn

All

11:45 12:10

Subhabrata Sanyal, Emory University, USA

Rainy and comatose in Bombay: A tale of conditional paralytics

Chair

Satpal Singh,

SUNY-Buffalo

12:10- 12:35

Gaiti Hasan

NCBS, Bangalore

The Genetics of Calcium Signaling in Drosophila

12:35- 13:00

Upinder. S. Bhalla NCBS, Bangalore

Rats smell in my stereo.

13:00 - 14: 00

LUNCH

FF Dining Hall

By Invitation

14: 00 - 14:25

Jing Wang

University of California, USA

Sensors of feast and famine in the olfactory circuit

Chair

Surekha Zingde ACTREC-Mumbai

14:25 - 14:50

Erich Buchner University of Wurzburg, Germany

Synapsin: a strange gene important for learning and memory.

14:50 -15:10

Vivek Jayaraman

HHMI, USA

Sensorimotor integration.

15:10-15:30

TEA

Main Lawn

All

15:30-15:55

Mani Ramaswami Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Habits and Habituation

Chair:

BJ Rao

DBS-TIFR

15:55- 16:20

Mriganka Sur

MIT, USA

Brain wiring and brain disorders.

16:20 -16:35

K. S. Krishnan,

NCBS, Bangalore

Stings and the brain

Chair: Giora Simchen Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel

16:35-17: 00

John Nicholls

SISSA, Italy

Why should one give neuroscience courses in

‘poor’-countries.

17.00-17:30

Obaid Siddiqi

NCBS, Bangalore

Concluding Remarks

17:30-18:00

TEA/CAKE

Outside the New Labs

All

18.00-19:30

Reminiscences

Ten speakers and audience at the NLC. Will be beamed to the colonnade and streaming-video too.

Moderator:

Indira Chowdhury

Science Historian, Shrishti, Bangalore

Mustansir Burma

TIFR, Mumbai

Govind Swarup

NCRA-TIFR,Pune

P. Balaram

IISc, Bangalore

M. S. Raghunathan TIFR, Mumbai

M. S. Narasimhan IISc, and TIFR-CAM Bangalore

P. P. Divakaran

NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore

P. Babu

Bangalore

B. V. Sreekantan

NIAS, Bangalore

R. N. Singh

Mumbai

P. N. Bhavsar

Mumbai

Shobhona Sharma

TIFR, Mumbai

Shahid Jameel

ICGEB, Delhi

19.30

DINNER GALA

Main Lawns

All

Time

Name

Title

Chair/Moderator

09:30-10.00

K VijayRaghavan NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore

The growth of our science.

Chair: Utpal Banerjee UCLA, Los Angeles

10:00-10.20

Utpal Banerjee

UCLA, USA

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10:20-10:50

Anjana Rao

Harvard University and La Jolla Institute, USA

T-Cell and Calcium signaling

10:50- 11: 20

TEA

Main Lawn

All

11:20-11:50

Shin Aizawa

RIKEN, Centre for Cell and Developmental Biology, Kobe Japan

Otx/Emx and the evolution of the vertebrate body plan

11:50-12:20

John Kuriyan

University of California, USA

A mechanism for tunable autoinhibition in the structure of Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent kinase II

12:20-12:45

Satyajit Mayor

NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore

The future of our science

12:45-14:00

LUNCH

FF Dining Hall

By Invitation

14:00-17: 30

17.30-18.00

POSTER SESSION 1

Mixer at posters, NLC Colonnade

Mixer continues as reminiscences start at NLC: Will be beamed to the colonnade and streaming-video

Mathew to compere

18.00-19.30

NCBS Reminiscences in Auditorium

Speakers: Sumantra Chattarji, M.M. Panicker, Gaiti Hasan, Jayant Udgaonkar, Mukund Thattai, T.M.Sahadevan, Krishnamurthy H, U.B.Poornima, Shantha Kumary N.N, Shaju Varghese, Ratnakar, Pradip Pyne, Raghu Padinjat.Yamuna Krishnan, R. Sowdhamini,

Mehrab Modi on behalf of students.

19:30 – 21:30

DINNER

FF Dining for visitors and Invitees. Canteen open for rest.

By Invitation

9:30 – 12:30

POSTER SESSION II

NLC

12:30 – 14:00

LUNCH

Lunch for Board and review committee at Faculty lunch venue.

By Invitation

14:00 – 17.00

POSTER SESSION III

18.00 hrs.

MIXER and POSTER AWARDS

NLC Coffee Counter

All