Schedule

Program Schedule

30 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion

12:00 noon onwards

Departure from RGCB

6:30-6:45 PM

Introductory remarks by the Director, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

6:45-7:30 PM

Dr. Senthil K. Muthuswamy, National Cancer Institute, United states

"Organoids and cell polarity proteins: New models and pathways for translational cancer research"

8:00-10:00 PM

Dinner

9:00-9:40 AM

Dr. Ramasamy Paulmurugan, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, California

"Cancer Neoantigen Vaccines Potentiate Immune Check Point Therapies in Solid Tumors"

9:40-10:20 AM

Dr. Debasree Dutta, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Chaperone shaping mammalian development"

10:20-11.00 AM

Dr. Bushra Ateeq, IIT Kanpur

"Molecular Characterization of Prostate Cancer: prospects of precision medicine in India"

11.00-11:15 AM

TEA BREAK

11:15-11:55 AM

Prof. Muthusamy Thangaraju, Augusta University,Georgia

11:55-12:35 PM

Dr. Devasena Anantharaman, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Vaccine efficacy against persistent HPV16/18 infection: Evidence from an Indian multicentre, prospective, cohort study"

12:35-01.15 PM

Prof. Vineet K. Sharma, IISER Bhopal

"Indian human microbiomes revealed through multiomics approaches"

1.15-2:30 PM

LUNCH

2:30-3:10 PM

Dr. Karthik Subramanian, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Toxic encounter: Host extracellular vesicles transmit bacterial pore-forming toxin and mediate inflammation within the host"

3.10-3:50 PM

Dr. Chandrima Das, Department of Atomic Energy, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

“ Epigenetic regulator UBR7 in Oncoviral Signalling ”

3:50-4:30 PM

Dr. Dileep Vasudevan, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

“ High-resolution cryo-EM structure of a 55 kDa nucleoplasmin domain”

4:30-7:30 PM

Poster Presentation by PhD students
(Tea/Coffee will be served)

8:00-10:00 PM

Dinner

9:00-9:40 AM

Dr. Ryoichiro Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan

"Activation of neural stem cells in the aged/diseased brain improves cognition"

9:40-10:20 AM

Dr. Ananthalakshmy Sundararaman, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Mitochondria-derived Vesicles and Mito-nuclear Trafficking of Proteins in the Heart"

10:20-11.00 AM

Dr. Jayanta Haldar, JNCASR, Bengaluru

"Outwitting antibiotic resistance : A perpetual battle"

11:00-11.15 AM

Tea break

11:15-11:55 AM

Dr. Priya Srinivas, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

“Noval therapeutic options based on cues from tumour micro environment for BRCA1 defective TNBC”

11:55-12:35 PM

Dr. Shailja Singh, Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, JNU, New Delhi

"CRISPR-Cas9 Genome-Editing guided identification and development of the host targetting irristable anti-malarials"

12.35-1.15 PM

Dr. Karthika Rajeeve, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Cellular reprogramming to ensure nutrient acquisition: Identifying new drug targets to defend Chlamydia infection"

1:15 -2:15 PM

Lunch Break

2:15 -5:00 PM

Excursion

5:30 -6:30 PM

Poster Presentation by PhD students

(Tea/Coffee will be served)

6:30-7:10 PM

Dr. Thomas Pucadyil, IISER Pune

"Membrane fission: mechanisms, regulation and physiological relevance"

7.10-7.50 PM

Dr. Manjula S, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Transcriptional and metabolomic reprogramming underpins defence priming in Piper nigrum against Phytophthora capsici"

8:00-10:00 PM

Dinner

9:00-9:40 AM

Dr. Laurent Renia, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore

"New insights in Plasmodium vivax malaria biology"

9:40-10:20 AM

Dr. Harikumar K.B, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Sensitizing of immune unresponsive colorectal cancers to checkpoint inhibitors through Modulation of Sphingolipid signalling"

10:20-11.00 AM

Dr. Minhaj Sirajuddin,InStem, Bengaluru

"Spotlighting cytoskeleton diversity with live cell sensors"

11.00-11:15 AM

Tea Break

11.15-11:55 AM

Dr. Alok Krishna Sinha,NIPGR, New Delhi

"MPK4-mediated phosphorylation of PIF4 controls thermosensing by regulating histone variant H2A.Z deposition"

11.55-12.35 PM

Dr. Debanjan Bhowmik, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Designing of HER2-targeting metal nanoconstructs for therapeutic and diagnostic applications"

12:35-12:45 PM

Concluding remarks

12:45 PM

Lunch
Checkout and departure to RGCB