NCBS Annual Talks - Coming of Age: Transitions in Biological Systems

Time

Speaker

0845-0900am

Welcome Session

Satyajit Mayor and Upinder S. Bhalla

Chair: Maneesha Inamdar, JNCASR, Bangalore

0900-0930am

K. VijayRaghavan, NCBS and DBT, New Delhi

Stem Cells, Myoblast Fusion and the Formation of Muscle Fibres

0930-1000am

Raj Ladher, NCBS

Stretch, Bend, Curl and Touch: Shaping the Inner Ear

1000-1030am

Ramkumar Sambasivan, inStem

Distinct Regulatory Program Governs Vertebrate Head Mesoderm Development

1030-1100am

Coffee

Chair: Deepak T Nair, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, New Delhi

1100-1130am

Shachi Gosavi, NCBS

Understanding the Function of E. coli RNase-H Using its Folding

1130-1200pm

R. Sowdhamini, NCBS

Computational Analysis of Proteins that Undergo Domain Swapping and Prediction in the Human Genome

1200-1230pm

Sandeep Krishna, NCBS

Entrainment and Phase-Locking of Biological Oscillators

1230-0130pm

Lunch (faculty & visitors): First floor cafeteria, Main Canteen

0130-0400pm

POSTERS & Tea, Colonnade SLC

Chair: Anjana Rao, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, USA

0400-0430pm

Mani Ramaswami, NCBS and Trinity College, Dublin

Memory State Transitions Arising from Protein Phase Transitions

0430-0500pm

Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR, Mumbai

Genetic Control of the Formation and Maintenance of Apical Projections in Zebrafish Epithelial Cells

0500-0530pm

Coffee

Chair: Sunil Laxman, inStem, Bangalore

0530-0630pm

Steven McKnight, UT Southwestern Medical Centre, Texas, USA

The Role of Low Complexity Domains in Information Transfer from Gene to Message to Protein

0700-0830pm

Dinner

Time

Speaker

Chair: Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB, Hyderabad

0900-0930am

Mukund Thattai, NCBS

Molecular Archaeology of the Prokaryote-to-Eukaryote Transition

0930-1000am

M. K. Mathew, NCBS

Remodelling Endocytic Pathways and Endomembrane Architecture on Sipping Salt

1000-1030am

Raghu Padinjat, NCBS

Control of Photosensitive Membrane Turnover

1030-1100am

Coffee

Chair: B. Fakrudin, University of Horticultural Sciences, Bangalore

1100-1130am

Subhadeep Chatterjee, CDFD, Hyderabad

Coordination of Social Behavior in Bacteria: How Social are Bacteria?

1130-1200pm

Radhika Venkatesan, NCBS

Chemical Ecology of Plant-Insect-Microbe Interactions

1200-1230pm

Sourav Datta, IISER, Bhopal

A Pulse of RSL4 Transcription Factor Synthesis Determines Cell Size in Arabidopsis Root Hairs

1230-0130pm

Lunch

0130-0400pm

POSTERS & Tea, Colonnade SLC

Chair: Jayashree Ratnam, NCBS

0400-0430pm

Rohini Balakrishnan, IISc

From Unimodal Signalling to Multimodal Duetting: Sex, Flight and Death

0430-0500pm

Krushnamegh Kunte, NCBS

Making of a Butterfly: Major Transitions Through a Complex Lifecycle

0500-0530pm

Coffee

Chair: M K Mathew, NCBS

0530-0630pm

Ajay Sood, IISc

Flocking in Active Matter from a Physicist’s Perspective

0700-0830pm

Campus Dinner

Time

Speaker

Chair: Srikanth Sastry, JNCASR, Bangalore

0900-0930am

Satyajit Mayor, NCBS

Active Phase Segregation in Biological Membranes

0930-1000am

Madan Rao, NCBS and RRI, Bangalore

Actomyosin Pulsation and Flows during Tissue Morphogenesis

1000-1030am

Shashi Thutupalli, NCBS

Phase Transitions in Bacterial Aggregation to Chimera Clocks: Towards Understanding and Building Active Evolvable Matter

1030-1100am

Coffee

Chair: Mani Ramaswami, NCBS, Bangalore and Trinity College, Dublin

1100-1130am

M. M. Panicker, NCBS

5-HT_2A and Antipsychotics: Insights from the Htr2a^-/- Knockout Mouse

1130-1200pm

Sanjeev Jain, NCBS and NIMHANS, Bangalore

Genetics and Cell based Modelling of Neuropsychiatric Disease

1200-1230pm

Hiyaa Ghosh, NCBS

Understanding the Cellular Functioning in the Adult Brain from an E-protein Perspective

1230-0130pm

Lunch

0130-0400pm

POSTERS & Tea, Colonnade SLC

2pm onwards

Board Meeting

5pm

Poster Awards - Colonnade SLC