8:40-9:40        M.K. Bhan, Secretary of the Dept. of
Biotechnology, New Delhi
Future of Biology in India

9:40-10:00
    Postdoctoral talk: Madhusudan
Natarajan, Brandeis University and
Pfizer Using Nature's Rules to
Engineer Novel Function in Proteins

10:00-10:20
    Postdoctoral talk: Rituparna Sinha Roy,
Harvard-MIT Peptide-based
detergents

10:20-10:40     Break

10:40-12:20     Panel
Discussion 1 – Writing and
obtaining grants
Moderator: K
VijayRaghavan
Leaders: Anurdha Lohia (CEO, Wellcome Trust-DBT India
Alliance),  
Martin Reddington(HFSP), Keith
Yamamoto (Vice- Dean, UCSF)
 Panelists:
M.K. Bhan, B. Alberts                                                

12:20-2 pm       Lunch

2:00-2:20 pm   
Postdoctoral talk: Kasturi Mitra, NIH
Role of mitochondria in
regulating G1 to S transition of the cell cycle

2:20-2:40 pm    
Postdoctoral talk: Sreekanth Chalasni, Rockefeller University
 A
neural circuit underlying exploratory behavior in C. elegans

2:40-3:10
pm     Shubha Tole, TIFR, Mumbai
 How to build a brain (while
building the lab, the infrastructure, and the collaborations)

3:10-3:30
pm     Break

3:30-4:10 pm     Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT, Boston
 It’s a
small world: tiny technologies and medicine

4:10-5:10           Panel
Discussion 2 Picking problems for a young lab
 Moderator: J Dhawan
 Leaders:
M. Raff, M, Beckerle and O. Siddiqi
 Participants: S. Bhatia, B. De
Groot

5:10-7:00 pm     Posters of Young Investigators and beer

7:00-8:00
pm     Dinner

8:00-9:00 pm     Martin Raff, University College
London with dessert and coffee/tea
Looking back

9:00-10:15 pm
    Margi School of Kathakali Dance

Breakfast

8:00-12:00 pm     Trip to Padmanabhapuram Palace

12:00-1:00
pm     Lunch at Estuary Resort

1:00-1:40              Jitu Mayor, Dean of
Research, NCBS, Bangalore
Curiosity, Cricket and Membranes in Living
cells: the choices we make

1:40-2:00              Postdoctoral talk:
Agnidipta Ghosh, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center Phosphoryl
transfer by an essential CTD
phosphatase, Fcp1 and a
pathogen resistant
cooperative G
protein, GBP1 in three dimensions

2:00-3:00 pm      
Keith Yamamoto, Vice-Dean of Research,
UCSF, San Francisco
Trailing
transcription, hooked on hormones

3:00-3:20 pm       Break

3:20-4:00
pm       Milind Watve, Garware College, Pune
Research in an
undergraduate environment

4:00-5:20 pm      Panel 3: Biotechnology
growth and relations with academia

4:00- 4:40 pm     Vijay Chandru,
Co-founder and CEO of Strand Life Sciences

4:40- 5:20 pm     Discussion
Moderator and Panel Participant: Jim Spudich
Participants:
Leaders: K. VijayRaghavan, K. Yamamoto and above

5:20-6:30 pm     
Posters of Young Investigators and Beer

6:30- 7:30 pm     Dinner

7:30-8:30
pm      Bruce Alberts, UCSF, Editor-in-Chief Science, and
former
President of the US National  
Academy of Sciences, with dessert and
coffee/tea    
Science and the world’s future

8:30-9:30 pm     
Panel Discussion 4 Educating a new generation of scientists
Moderator:
R. Vale
Leaders: LS Shashidhara, M. Watve, B. Alberts
Participants:
O. Siddiqi, M. Raff

9:30 pm               Social and poster time

9:00-9:40          Satyajit Rath, National Institute of
Immunology, New Dehli
India- an interesting place for
pushing and
prodding T cells

9:40-10:00       Postdoctoral talk: Analabha Basu,
UCSF
Admixture Mapping and Related
Ideas: A Tale of Two Ethnicities

10:00-10:40
    Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB, Hyderabad
The benefits of a modest
lifestyle: lessons from quiescent cells

10:40-11:00      Break

11:00-11:40
     Bert DeGroot, Max-Planck, Gottingen
Conformational transitions
in enzyme catalysis and molecular recognition

11:40-12:40      
Panel Discussion 5: Mentoring and Managing Lab Personnel
Panels: M.
Beckerle, M. Raff, K. Yamamoto, B. De Groot, B. Alberts, J. Spudich

12:40-2:10
pm   Lunch

2:10-2:50 pm     L.S. Shashidhara, Director of Biology,
IISER Pune
Making of a flight appendage: an
evolutionary perspective

2:50-3:10
pm     Postdoctoral talk: Mohit Prasad, Johns Hopkins
Border cell
migration: coupling genetics, live-imaging and quantitative analyses

3:10-3:30
pm     Postdoctoral talk: Chetana Sachidanandan,
Mass. General, Harvard
Med School Identifying modifiers of

development and disease using
zebrafish chemical genetics: a
journey with dorsomorphin

3:30-4:00
pm     Break

4:00-5:00 pm     Panel Discussion 6: Issues of starting
a lab in India
Panelists: K. VijayRagahavan,
L.S. Shashidhara,
J.Dhawan, S. Rath, S. Mayor, O. Siddiqi,

5:00-7:00 pm     Posters of
Young Investigators and beer

7:00-8:30 pm     Dinner and Martial Arts
performance

8:30-9:30 pm     Mary Beckerle, University of Utah and
Director,
Huntsman Cancer Institute with dessert and coffee
From
adhesion and motility to homeostasis and metastasis

9:30 pm             
Social

8:30-9:30            Jim Spudich, Stanford University
A
personal perspective: Pursue a vision, let biology
drive technology,
development,maintain curiosity,
optimism and perseverance, and
capitalize on
chance observations

9:30-10:00         Break

10:00-10:30       Obaid Siddiqi, NCBS, Bangalore
Thoughts on the trajectory
of
Indian biosciences

10:30-11:00       K. VijayRagahavan, Director of
the NCBS, Bangalore
Overview and perspective of
the meeting

11:00-12:00
pm   Discussions of future