International Speakers:

Bonnie Bassler,
Princeton University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA;
bbassler@princeton.edu

Ottoline Leyser,
The University of York, York, UK;
hmol1@york.ac.uk

Alejandro Sanchez,
University of Utah, USA;
sanchez@neuro.utah.edu

Trudi Schupbach,
Princeton University, USA;
schupbac@princeton.edu

Peter Walter,
University of California, San Francisco, USA;
peter@walterlab.ucsf.edu

Eric Wieschaus,
Princeton University, USA;
efw@Princeton.edu

Other International Participants:

Patricia Caldera,
Science Education Partnership, UCSF, USA;
patricia.caldera@ucsf.edu

Natalie de Souza,
Senior Editor, Nature Methods;
n.desouza@us.nature.com

Indian Speakers:

M. C Arunan,
Sophia College, Mumbai
mcarunan@gmail.com

Vineeta Bal,
National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi;
vineeta@nii.res.in

Shona Chattarji,
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
shona@ncbs.res.in

Rajesh Gokhale,
Director, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi;
rsg@igib.in

B. Ravindran,
Director, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India;
ravindran8@gmail.com

Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath,
Centre for Neuroscience, IISc, Bangalore
viji@cns.iisc.ernet.in

Shubha Tole,
TIFR, Mumbai
stole@tifr.res.in

Directors/Chairs/Deans:

T. K. Chandrashekar,
Director, NISER, Bhubaneswar;
director@niser.ac.in

V. S. Chauhan,
Director, ICGEB, New Delhi
virander@icgeb.res.in

Jyotsna Dhawan,
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore
jdhawan@ncbs.res.in

B. J Rao,
TIFR, Mumbai;
bjrao@tifr.res.in

Rentala, Madhubala
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi;
madhubala@mail.jnu.ac.in

Jitu Mayor,
NCBS, Bangalore;
mayor@ncbs.res.in

Rakesh K. Mishra,
CCMB, Hyderabad
mishra@ccmb.res.in

Siddhartha Roy,
Director, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata;
sidroykolkata@gmail.com

Dinakar Salunke,
Executive Director, Regional Centre for Biotechnology, National Capital Region, India;
dinakar.salunke@gmail.com, director@rcb.res.in

Sanjeev Galande,
IISER, Pune
sanjeev@iiserpune.ac.in

Avadhesha Surolia,
Director, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
surolia@nii.res.in

K. VijayRaghavan,
Director, NCBS, Bangalore
vijay@ncbs.res.in

Sudhanshu Vrati,
Dean, THSTI, Gurgaon
sudhanshu.vrati@gmail.com

Panelists:

Sengupta, Shiladitya,
Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology, Boston, USA
shiladit@mit.edu

Funding Agencies:
M. K. Bhan,
Secretary, DBT, India;
mkbhan@dbt.nic.in

Felix Kahle,
Max Planck Society
felix.kahle@gv.mpg.de

Anuradha Lohia,
CEO, Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance;
anuradha.lohia@wellcomedbt.org

Megha,
Programme Manager, Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance
megha@wellcomedbt.org

S. Natesh,
DBT, India
natesh.dbt@nic.in

Martin Reddington,
Human Frontier Science Program
mreddington@hfsp.org

Raghavan Sreeshan,
Joint Secretary, DBT
raghavan.s@nic.in

Organizers:

Saima Aijaz,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
s_aijaz@mail.jnu.ac.in, saimaaijaz@hotmail.com

Swati Patankar,
IIT, Bombay, Mumbai
patankar@iitb.ac.in

Mrinalini Puranik,
NCBS, Bangalore
mpuranik@ncbs.res.in

Ron Vale,
University of California, San Francisco, USA;
vale@cmp.ucsf.edu

Young Investigators:

Phalguni Alladi,
National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore
alladiphalguni@yahoo.com, alladiphalguni@gmail.com

Kavita Arora,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
kavitaarora@mail.jnu.ac.in

Ranjana Arya,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
ranjanaa@mail.jnu.ac.in

Chaitanya Athale,
IISER Pune
cathale@iiserpune.ac.in

Birendranath Banerjee,
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
bnbbiotek@gmail.com

Mrinal Kanti Bhattacharyya,
University of Hyderabad
mkbsl@uohyd.ernet.in

Suvendra Bhattacharyya,
Indian Institue of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
suvendra@iicb.res.in

Ani Das,
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram
anivdas@yahoo.com

Kaustuv Datta,
University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
kaustuv.datta@gmail.com

Partha Datta,
IISER, Kolkata
partha_datta@iiserkol.ac.in, partha_datta31@yahoo.com

Deepak Gaur,
ICGEB, New Delhi
dgaur@icgeb.res.in

Ritu Gaur,
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi;
ritugaur31@gmail.com

Yashoda Ghanekar,
InStem, Bangalore;
yashodag@ncbs.res.in

Santanu Ghosh,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
santanughosh@iitb.ac.in

Chandan Goswami,
NISER, Bhubaneswar
chandan@niser.ac.in

Malali Gowda,
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore
malalig@ncbs.res.in

Susan Idicula-Thomas,
National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai
susansherry@gmail.com

Siddhartha Jana,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata
bcssj@iacs.res.in

Renu John,
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad;
renujohn@illinois.edu

Jomon Joseph,
National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
josephj@nccs.res.in

Badireenath Konkimalla,
NISER, Bhubaneswar
badireenath@niser.ac.in

Himanshu Kumar,
IISER, Bhopal
hkumar@iiserbhopal.ac.in

Subbareddy Maddika,
CDFD, Hyderabad
msreddy@cdfd.org.in

Roop Mallik,
TIFR, Mumbai;
roop@tifr.res.in

Sudip Mandal,
IISER, Mohali
sudip@iisermohali.ac.in

Yashwanti Mudgil,
University of Delhi, Delhi
ymudgil@gmail.com

Samrat Mukhopadhyay,
IISER, Mohali
mukhopadhyay@iisermohali.ac.in

Dinesh Nagegowda,
Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
da.nagegowda@cimap.res.in

Aruna Naorem,
University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi
aruna.naorem@south.du.ac.in

Suhel Parvez,
Jamia Hamdard Hamdard University, New Delhi
drsuhelparvez@yahoo.com

Raja Paul,
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata
ssprp@iacs.res.in

Anil Prabhakar,
IIT-Madras, Chennai
anilpr@ee.iitm.ac.in

Abdur Rahaman,
NISER, Bhubaneswar
arahaman@niser.ac.in

Richa Rikhy,
IISER, Pune,
richa@iiserpune.ac.in, richarikhy@gmail.com

Bipin Salunke,
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, Maharashtra
bipin_salunke@yahoo.com

Uttamkumar Samanta,
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
usamanta@kiitbiotech.ac.in

Kavitha Sankaranarayanan,
AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, Chennai
skavitham@yahoo.com

Sudip Sen,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS; New Delhi
sudipsen99@rediffmail.com

Manzoor Shah,
University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India;
mashah75@yahoo.com

Puran Singh Sijwali,
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
psijwali@ccmb.res.in

Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam,
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
mohan@ee.iitm.ac.in, mohan.sivaprakasam@gmail.com

Amol Suryawanshi,
Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar
amolsurya@gmail.com

Raghuvir Tomar,
IISER, Bhopal
rst@iiserbhopal.ac.in, rtomar14@gmail.com

Shweta Tyagi,
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad;
shweta@cdfd.org.in

Pragasam Viswanathan,
VIT University, Vellore
pragasam.v@vit.ac.in, pvishvanath@yahoo.com

Post-doctoral Fellows:

Sabu Abraham,
Institute of Cancer Research, Cancer Research UK
sabu.abraham@icr.ac.uk

Vishal Agrawal,
University of California San Francisco, USA
agrawalv@peds.ucsf.edu

Collins Assisi,
University of California, Riverside;
collinsa@ucr.edu

Krishnamohan Atmakuri,
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA;
katmakur@hsph.harvard.edu

Arpan Banerjee,
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, USA
banerjee2007@gmail.com

Shivakumara Bheemanaik,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
shiv@biochem.iisc.ernet.in

Rachna Chaba,
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
rachna.chaba@ucsf.edu

Sohini Chakrabortee,
University of Cambridge, UK;
sc347@cam.ac.uk

Saibal Chatterjee,
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
saibal.chatterjee@fmi.ch

Chandra Prakash Chaturvedi,
University of Ottawa, Canada;
pchaturvedi@ohri.ca

Tirumala Kumar Chowdary,
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston,
tirumala.chowdary@tufts.edu

Madhumita Dasgupta,
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology,Hyderabad
madhudg@ccmb.res.in

Anjan Debnath,
University of California, San Francisco, USA;
anjan.debnath@ucsf.edu

Dipak Dutta,
New York University School of Medicine, NY, USA
Dipak.Dutta@nyumc.org

Antony Jose,
Harvard University; USA
antonymerlinjose@gmail.com

Joby Joseph,
NIH & University of Hyderabad, India
josephjo@mail.nih.gov

Naveen Kaushal,
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
nuk12@psu.edu

Sharmistha Majumdar,
M.D.Anderson
ssarkar2@mdanderson.org

Mithilesh Mishra,
NUS, Singapore;
mishra@tll.org.sg

Ram Kumar Mishra,
NICHD/NIH, Bethesda, USA;
mishrara@mail.nih.gov

Rashmi Mishra,
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden,
mishra@mpi-cbg.de

Suhita Nadkarni,
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA;
suhita@salk.edu

Athi Naganathan,
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain;
athi.naganathan@irbbarcelona.org

Pravin Nair,
Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA;
nairp@mskcc.org

Komaraiah Palle,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
kpalle@med.unc.edu

Kunal Rai,

M.D. Anderson
krai@mdanderson.org

Vivek Rai,
New York University Medical Center, New York, USA
Vivek.Rai@nyumc.org

Sudha Rajamani,
Harvard University;
srajamani@cgr.harvard.edu

Raghav Rajan,
University of California at San Francisco, USA
raghav@phy.ucsf.edu

Supriya Ray,
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA
supriya@ski.org

Debashis Sahoo,
Stanford, University Medical Center, Stanford, CA, USA;
sahoo@stanford.edu

Adesh Saini,
Eunice K. Shriver NICHHD, National Institutes of Health, USA;
sainiade@mail.nih.gov

Sharmistha Sarkar,
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah,USA
sharmistha_sarkar@dfci.harvard.edu

Sovan Sarkar,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, USA;
sarkar@wi.mit.edu

Durba Sengupta,
University of Groningen, Netherlands
d.sengupta@rug.nl

Deepak Sharma,
National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, USA
deepak@mail.nih.gov

Shailendra Sharma,
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
shail@scripps.edu

Ravi Shukla,
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA;
shuklara@health.missouri.edu

Manvendra Singh,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
masingh@mail.med.upenn.edu

Nikhil Singla,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
singlan@mskcc.org

C.V Srikanth,
University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Srikanth.chittur@umassmed.edu

Thiruneelakantan Srinath,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
sri@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

Ramanujam Srinivasan,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
dbsrs@nus.edu.sg

Gowtham Subbarao,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA
gsubbarao@ucsd.edu

Shobi Veleri,
National Eye Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
veleris@mail.nih.gov

Sailu Yellaboina,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH, USA
bio.sailu@gmail.com