Annual Talks 2015 - Biology Across Scales

02:30 ‐ 05:30 pm

Posters & Tea

05:30 -­ 06:15 pm

Invited Talk:
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
The Reproductive Plasticity of the Planarian: Schmidtea mediterranea

06:30 pm onwards

Dinner for visitors, speakers & faculty, First Floor Main Canteen

Session: Sensing  and navigating  the  environment    
Chairperson: Sushma Reddy,  Loyola  University, Chicago      

09:15 - 09:45 am

Mahesh Sankaran, NCBS
Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of forest dynamics in India

09:45 - 10:15 am

Shannon Olsson, NCBS
Naturalist-Inspired Chemical Ecology

10:15-10:45 am

Renee Borges,Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc.   
Close Encounters of the Fig Wasp Kind

10:45 - 11:15 am

Coffee – 30 mins

11:15 - 11:45 am

Axel Brockmann, NCBS
Strategies to identify neural and molecular mechanisms involved in honey bee dance communication

11:45 - 12:15 pm

Sanjay Sane, NCBS
Mechanisms of Behavioural Co-ordination in Flying insects

12:15 - 12:45 pm

Uma Ramakrishnan, NCBS
Speciation on islands in the sky

12:45 - 01:30 pm

Lunch

01:30 - 04:30 pm

POSTERS & Tea, Colonnade SLC

Session: Sensing and navigating the environment 
Chairperson: Sanjay Sane, NCBS

04:30 - 05:00 pm

Upinder Bhalla, NCBS
All in a sniff: what, where, when, and how much

05:00 - 05:30 pm

Vatsala Thirumalai, NCBS
Understanding The Cerebellum, One Purkinje Neuron At A Time

05:30 - 06:15 pm

Invited Talk:
R. Kanzaki , University  of  Tokyo, Japan   
Neural basis of odor-source localization in the silkmoth: from genes, neural networks, and behavior to robots.

06:30 pm

Dinner for invited visitors, speakers & faculty: First floor Main Canteen

Session: Sensing nutrients: In and outside the cell
Chairperson: Raghu  Padinjat, NCBS      

09:00 - 09:45 am

09:45 - 10:15 am

Gaiti Hasan, NCBS
A neural circuit for adaptation to nutrient stress in Drosophila larvae

10:15 - 10:45 am

Sunil Laxman, inStem
Amino acid sensors that switch­ metabolism and alter cell fates

10:45 - 11:15 am

Apurva Sarin, NCBS, inStem   
Notch activity  and  nutrient  sensing in  T-­‐regulatory cells

11:15 - 11:30 am

Coffee – 15 minutes

Session: Molecular machines: from structure to function
Chairperson: Jim Spudich, Stanford      

11:30 - 12:00 pm

Ranabir Das, NCBS
Key interactions during ubiquitin modification influence protein homeostatis and bacterial infection.

12:00 - 12:30 pm

Minhaj Sirajuddin, inStem
Regulation of kinesin and dynein mediated transport by tubulin post-translational modifications

12:30 - 01:30 pm

LUNCH (Faculty & Visitors): First floor Main Canteen

01:30 - 04:30 pm

 POSTERS & Tea, Colonnade, SLC      

04:30 - 05:00 pm

Arati Ramesh, NCBS
A bacterial small RNA acts as a signaling hub.

05:00 - 05:30 pm

P. V. Shivaprasad, NCBS
Insight into small RNA biogenesis and their functions in plants

05:30 - 06:15 pm

Invited talk:
Michael Rosbash, Brandeis University, USA
Gene Expression, RNA Editing and RNA Binding Protein Targets Within Discrete Circadian Neurons of Drosophila     

06:30 pm onwards

 CAMPUS DINNER, lawns outside SLC

Session: Pathogen interactions: from single cells to populations
Chairperson: Mukund  Thattai, NCBS      

09:00 - 09:30 am

Jayant Udgaonkar, NCBS
Tuning cooperativity on the free energy landscape of protein folding

09:30 - 10:00 am

Deepa Agashe, NCBS
Spatial and temporal dynamics in the dragonfly gut bacterial community

10:00 - 10:30 am

Aswin SN Seshasayee, NCBS
Xenogene silencing, stress response and chromosome architecture in E. coli

10:30 - 11:00 am

Varadharajan Sundaramurthy, NCBS      
Modulation of  host trafficking  pathways  by intracellular pathogens      

11:00 - 11:15 am

Coffee

11:15 - 11:45 am

Sudhir Krishna, NCBS
Cracking viral cancers and new viruses in India

11:45 - 12:30 pm

Invited talk:
Ravi Iyengar, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, NY, US
Systems Pharmacology: enabling understanding of multiscale mechanisms of drug action

12:30 - 02:00 pm

02:30 - 04:00 pm

 02:00 - 05:00 pm

POSTERS & Tea, Colonnade SLC 

 06:00 pm

Poster Awards, Colonnade    

 06:30 pm 

High Tea