📅 28th August 2025

 6:am onwards

Departure from RGCB

 6:30-6:45 PM

Introductory remarks by the Director, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

 6:45-7:30 PM

Professor Morten Meldal, University of Copenhagen, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 (online)

"Title-TBA"

 8:00-10:00 PM

Dinner

📅 29th August 2025

9:00-9:40 AM

Professor Raghu Kalluri, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer, USA

"Cancer without Disease: Exploring A Novel and Practical Strategy for Prevention and Control of Malignant Cancer "

 9:40-10:20 AM

Dr. Mahendran K.R., RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 10:20-11.00 AM

Prof. Samir K. Maji, IIT Bombay

"Title-TBA"

 11.00-11:15 AM

TEA BREAK

 11:15-11:55 AM

Prof Shilpee Dutt, JNU, New Delhi

"Title-TBA"

11:55-12:35 PM

Dr. Rakesh S. Laishram, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 12:35-01.15 PM

Dr. Dhandapany Perundurai, InStem, Bengaluru

"Title-TBA"

 1.15-2:30 PM

LUNCH

 2:30-3:10 PM

Dr. Rajesh Chandramohanadas, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 3.10-3:50 PM

Dr. Dhiraj Kumar, ICGEB, New Delhi

"Title-TBA"

 3:50-4:30 PM

Dr. Sreekumar E, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 4:30-5.15PM

Dr. Anjana Badrinarayanan, NCBS, Bengaluru

"Molecular mechanisms of bacterial genome maintenance and repair"

6.30-8:00 PM

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

 8:00-10:00 PM

Dinner

📅30th August 2025

9:00-9:40 AM

Professor Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes,

UC San Francisco, USA

"Cellular Reprogramming in Human Disease."

 9:40-10:20 AM

Dr. Rashmi Mishra, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 10:20-11.00 AM

Dr. Praveen Kumar Verma, JNU, New Delhi

"Fungal secreted effectors: Mechanism of fungi overcoming cell wall defenses to cause infection"

 11:00-11.15 AM

Tea break

 11:15-11:55 AM

Dr. Kathiresan Natarajan, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 11:55-12:35 PM

Dr. Puran Singh Sijwali, CCMB, Hyderabad

"Title-TBA"

 12.35-1.15 PM

Dr. Sunil Martin, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 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

Professor Daniel Huster, University Germany, Germany

"The Interplay of Membrane Proteins and Lipids: Dynamics Regulates Function"

 7.10-7.50 PM

Prof. Kalika Prasad, IISER, Pune

"Title-TBA"

 8:00-10:00 PM

Dinner

📅 31st August 2025

9:00-9:40 AM

Professor Hector Aguilar-Carreño, Cornell University, USA

"Emerging Viral Glycoproteins: From Viral Entry and Assembly to Vaccines and Antivirals"

 9:40-10:20 AM

Dr. Santhosh Kumar, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 10:20-11.00 AM

Dr. Lolitika Mondal, IISER, Mohali

"Title-TBA"

 11.00-11:15 AM

Tea Break

 11.15-11:55 AM

Dr. Gayathri Pananghat, IISER, Pune

"A minimum cell division machinery: Cell division in cell wall less bacteria"

 11.55-12.35 PM

Dr. G. S. Vinod Kumar, RGCB, Thiruvananthapuram

"Title-TBA"

 12:35-1:15 PM

Dr. Ramray Bhat, IISc Bangaluru

"Disentangling complex interactions between cancer cells, the matrix microenvironment and the macroenvironment"

 1.15-1:45 PM

Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana, talk and concluding remarks

 1.45PM onwards

Lunch
Checkout and departure to RGCB