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| Programme | |
| Postdoctoral Fellow Satellite Meeting | |
| February 12, 2011(Saturday) |
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| Afternoon arrival and check in |
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| 02:30-03:30 pm | Welcome tea |
| 03:30-03:45 pm | Welcome and Institute Director Introductions B. Ravindran, Institute of Life Sciences |
| 03:45-04:45 pm | 2 min Postdoc Talks (Chair: Saima Aijaz, JNU) |
| 04:45-05:00 pm | Break |
| 05:00-06:00 pm | 2 min Postdoc Talks (Chair: Swati Patankar, IIT Bombay) |
| 06:00-06:30 pm | Social Hour at Mandap |
| 06:30-08:30 pm | Dinner at Mandap |
| 08:30-09:00 pm | Anuradha Lohia, C.E.O, The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance |
| February 13, 2011 (Sunday) | |
| Breakfast |
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| 08:30-10:00 am | 10 min Director Talks, Part 1 (Chair: B. Ravindran, Institute of Life Sciences) TK Chandrashekar (NISER) VS Chauhan (ICGEB) Jyotsna Dhawan (inStem) Rajesh Gokhale (IGIB) Satyajit Mayor (NCBS) B Ravindran (ILS) BJ Rao (TIFR) |
| 10:00-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 pm | 10 min Director Talks, Part 2 (Chair: Avadesh Surolia, NII) Rentala Madhubala (JNU) Siddhartha Roy (IICB) Dinakar Salunke (RCB) Subrata Sinha (NBRC) Swati Patankar (IITs) Sudhansu Vrati (THSTI) |
| 12:00-02:00 pm | Lunch at Mandap |
| 02:00-03:00 pm | Panel Discussion I: Finding a Job in India (Chair: Siddhartha Roy, IICB) 3 min talks: VS Chauhan, ICGEB Sudhanshu Vrati, THSTI Rentala Madhubala, JNU All Directors Participate as Panelists |
| 03:00-05:00 pm | Informal time for Discussions- PDF and Directors |
| Young Investigator Meeting 2011
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| 05:00-05:30 pm | Ron Vale (UCSF), Introduction to YIM |
| 05:30-06:30 pm |
Keynote Address: MK Bhan (Secretary, DBT) Keynote Address: New Opportunities for the Life Sciences in India
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| 06:30-08:00 pm | Dinner at Mandap |
| 08:00-08:45 pm | Peter Walter (UCSF, HHMI) Unfolding Unfoldedness: The Serendipitous Path of Discovery |
| February 14, 2011 (Monday) (Chaired by Swati Patankar) |
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| Breakfast |
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| 08:45-10:00 am | Panel Discussion 2: Writing and Obtaining Grants Chair: J. Mayor (NCBS) Short Talks: Martin Reddington (HFSP) Felix Kahle (Max Planck) S. Natesh (DBT) Panelists: MK Bhan (DBT) Anuradha Lohia (India Alliance) K VijayRaghavan (NCBS) |
| 10:00-10:45 am | Bonnie Bassler (Princeton, HHMI) A RomanceWith Glow-In-The-Dark Critters |
| 10:45-11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 pm | Work Group: Bridging the Gap between Institutes and Universities Chair: Jyotsna Dhawan (inStem) Short Talks: Rentala Madhubala (JNU) M C Arunan (Sophia College) K. VijayRaghavan (NCBS) Panelists: MK Bhan (DBT) Siddhartha Roy (IICB) Shiladitya Sengupta (MIT) Sudhanshu Vrati, THSTI |
| 12:30-01:30 pm | Lunch at Mandap |
| 01:30-02:15 pm | Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath (IISc) Brain Matters |
| 02:15-02:35 pm | Mrinalini Puranik (Co-Organizer and YI from NCBS) Enzyme Promiscuity: mechanisms of multiple substrate specificity in nucleic acid enzymes |
| 02:35-04:35 pm | Young Investigator Talk 2 |
| 02:30-04:30 pm | Poster Session 1 (All PDFs Present) |
| 04:40-05:00 pm | Roop Mallik (YI from TIFR) Taking Single Molecule Techniques beyond Single Molecules: How Motor proteins work inside Cells
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| 05:00-05:45 pm | Rajesh Gokhale (IGIB) Finding your research niche: a way forward |
| 05:45-06:45 pm | Social |
| 06:45-07:30 pm | Alejandro Sanchez (U. Utah) Dying Young as Late in Life as Possible: Stem Cells, Tissue Renewal & Regeneration |
| 07:30-10:30 pm | Cultural Programme - Flute recital by Pt. Mohini Mohan Patnaik & Troupe at Mandap, followed by Dinner at Mandap |
| February 15, 2011 (Tuesday) (Chaired by Saima Aijaz) |
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| Breakfast |
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| 08:30 - noon | Tour of Bhubaneswar |
| noon -01:00 pm | Lunch at Mandap |
| 01:00-01:40 pm | Shubha Tole (TIFR) Building the brain, building the lab |
| 01:40-02:00 pm | Vineeta Bal (NII) From the clinic to the lab: an endless search for answers |
| 02:00-02:20 pm | M C Arunan (Sophia College) Biology teaching in India: Resourcefulness is the key |
| 02:20-03:30 pm | Panel Discussion 3: Strategies for Publication Chair: Rajesh Gokhale (IGIB) Short Talks: Shona Chattarji (NCBS) Trudi Schupbach (Princeton University) Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado (University of Utah) Panelists: Viji Ravindranath (IISc) Eric Wieschaus (Princeton) Bonnie Bassler (Princeton) |
| 03:30-05:30 pm | Poster Session 2 (All YIs present) |
| 05:30-06:15 pm | Trudi Schupbach (Princeton, HHMI) Control of EGF receptor activity and axis establishment in Drosophila |
| 06:15-06:35 pm | Jomon Joseph (YI from NCCS) Dishevelled protein: a role in disheveling stress granules |
| 06:35-06:55 pm | Saima Aijaz (Co-Organizer and YI from JNU) Tight Junction: The Epithelial Gateway |
| 06:55-07:15 pm | Ron Vale Introduction to web portal-Indiabioscience.org |
| 07:15-08:15 pm | Odissi dance by Rangashala Group at Mandap |
| 08.30 pm |
Social and Dinner at Mandap |
| February 16, 2011 (Wednesday) (Chaired by Mrinalini Puranik) |
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| Breakfast |
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| 09:00-09:45 am | Ottoline Leyser (York University) The hormonal control of shoot branching |
| 09:45-10:05 am | Swati Patankar (Co-Organizer and YI from IIT Bombay) Making the right choices: Translation initiation site choice in P.falciparum & choices in running a lab at IIT Bombay |
| 10:05-10:25 am | Suvendra Bhattacharyya (YI from IICB) Importance of RNA processing bodies (P-bodies) in the differentiation of mammalian neurons |
| 10:25-10:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-12:00 | Panel Discussion 4: Setting up research programs in India Chair: Sanjeev Galande Short talks: R. Gokhale (IGIB) Shubha Tole (TIFR) Panelists: M.C. Arunan (Sophia College) Vineeta Bal (NII) |
| 12:00-01:15 pm | Lunch at Mandap |
| 01:15-02:00 pm | Shona Chatterjee (NCBS) Memories, synapses and disease |
| 02:00-02:45 pm | B. Ravindran (ILS) Go set up your laboratory under a banyan tree! |
| 02:45-03:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 03:00-04:00 pm | Panel Discussion 5: Mentoring and Managing Personnel Chair: Eric Wieschaus (Princeton University) Short Talks: Ottoline Leyser (York University) Vineeta Bal (National Institute of Immunology) Bonnie Bassler (Princeton University) PeterWalter (UCSF) Panelist: Shona Chatterjee (NCBS) |
| 04:00-06:00 pm | YI and PDF Private Session |
| 06:00-07:30 pm | Dinner at Mandap |
| 07:30-08:15 pm | Eric Wieschaus (Princeton) The mechanics of cell shape change |
| 08:15-08:30 pm | Closing Remarks by Ron Vale |
| 08:30 pm | Dance Party |
| February 17, 2011 (Thursday) |
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| Breakfast and Departure |
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