Location:
Biological Science Auditorium
Date: March 23- 24, 2018
Organizers: Biochemical Society & the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore -560012
Venue: Ground Floor Auditorium, Biological Sciences Building, Indian Institute of Science
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SCIENTIFICÂ PROGRAM
23 March 2018
9:15: Welcome by C. Jayabhaskaran, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, IISc
9:20: Introduction by Amaresh Chakrabarti, IISc Press
9:25: Release of G. Padmanaban’s memoir entitled, “Doing Science in India: My Second Innings” by Anurag Kumar, Director, IISc.
9:30: Remarks by Anurag Kumar, Director, IISc
9:35: Short talk about the book by G. Padmanaban, Department of Biochemistry, IISc
9:40: Remarks by Kavitha Harish, IISc Press
9:45: Vote of thanks by Dipankar Nandi, Department of Biochemistry, IISc
First Session Chairperson: Suman Kumar Dhar, JNU, Delhi
9:50 – 10:10: Understanding Malaria -The Disease and Strategies for its Interventions
Namita Surolia, JNCASR, Bangalore
10:10 – 10:30: Metabolism in Plasmodium: cross-talk between AMP metabolism and TCA cycle
Hemalata Balaram, JNCASR, Bangalore
10:30 – 10:50: Dissection of novel signaling cascades in malaria parasite
Pushkar Sharma, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
10:50 – 11:30: HIGH TEA
Second Session Chairperson: Pushkar Sharma, NII, Delhi
11:30 – 11:50:
DNA replication and cell cycle regulation in human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Suman Kumar Dhar
Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
11:50 – 12:10: Elucidating the molecular basis of reticulocyte invasion by Plasmodium vivax
Deepak Gaur
Laboratory of Malaria and Vaccine Research, School of Biotechnology
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
12:10 – 12:30: Metabolomic cues to sexual stage differentiation in malaria
Utpal Tatu
Department of Biochemistry, IISc, Banglaore
12:30 – 12:50: Vaccines for Malaria Liver stages
Agam Prasad Singh
Infectious Diseases Laboratory, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
12:50 – 14:15: LUNCH
Third Session Chairperson: Utpal Tatu, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
14:15 – 14:35: Characterizing the F-type ATP Synthase from Apicomplexan Parasites
Dhanasekaran Shanmugam
Biochemical Sciences Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
14:35 – 14:55: Uniqueness of Plasmodium falciparum Epigenome: Known and unknown
Arumugam Rajavelu
Tropical Disease Biology, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Kerala
14:55 – 15:15: Cellular interactions of Plasmodium with host hepatocytes during liver stage development in vivo
S. Varadharajan
National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
15:15 – 15:35: Autophagy in malaria parasites: an atypical and essential process
Puran Singh Sijwali
CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
15:35 – 16:00: TEA
Fourth Session Chairperson: Hemalata Balaram
16:00 – 16:20: Research needs for malaria elimination in India
S K Ghosh
ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Bengaluru
16:20 – 16:40: Defeating Malaria: Challenges Ahead
V.Arun Nagaraj
Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar
16:40 – 17:00: Challenges of developing malaria vaccine against Plasmodium asexual blood stages
Pawan Malhotra
ICGEB. New Delhi &STATENS SERUM INSTITUT, Denmark
17:00 – 18:00: Fungus to Rodent to Plasmodium- The Heme Connection.
Prof. G. Padmanaban
Department of Biochemistry, IISc, Bangalore
19:15: DINNER FOR INVITED GUESTS at the MAIN GUEST HOUSE, IISc
(Sponsored by Bharat Biotech, Hyderabad)
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Fifth Session Chairperson: C.M. Gupta
9 – 9:15: Reminiscences: A personal talk about my learnings and experiences as a student
Girish Sahni, CSIR
9:15 – 9:30: Growth of Biotechnology in India: The Journey from Discovery to Translation to Commercialization
Renu Swarup
Senior Adviser, DBT and Managing Director, BIRAC, DBT, New Delhi
9:30 – 9:45: Krishna Ella, Bharat Biotec
9:45 – 10 am: Industry – academia partnership
Bakulesh Khamar
Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Ahmedabad
10 – 10:15: Ignition of Inventions In Indian Biotech – Growth of Indian Biotech
B. V. Ravi Kumar
XCyton Diagnostics Bangalore
10:15 – 10:30: India & Biotechnology: what we are innovating to solve local problems
Tathagata Mukherjee & Sanjay Singh, Gennova
10:30 – 11: TEA
Sixth Session Chairperson: P.R. Krishnaswamy
11 – 11:15: Growth of Biotechnology in India as experienced through the development of the Truelab microPCR platform
Chandrasekhar B Nair
Bigtec Labs, Bangalore
11:15 – 11:30: Building an ecosystem for fostering cutting-edge life science/health care innovation
Taslimarif Saiyed
CCAMP, NCBS-TIFR, Bangalore
11:30 – 12 noon: My Tryst with Translation and Biotech Industry
Prof. G. Padmanaban, Department of Biochemistry, IISc
12 noon – 13:00: FELICITATION
Chairman: Prof. MRS Rao, JNCASR
13:00 – 13:10: Remarks by Prof. Padmanaban
13:10: GROUP PHOTO followed by LUNCH
