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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW SATELLITE MEETING
Institutes represented in YIM2012
- D. P Kasbekar (CDFD)
- Dinakar M Salunke (Director, RCB, New Delhi)
- Prof. P. Reddanna (Head, NIAB, Hyderabad)
- Partha P. Majumder (Director NIBMG), Bhubaneshwar),
- Roop Kumar Malik (DBS, TIFR Mumbai),
- D. Chatterji (Chair, MBU, IISc, Bangalore),
- Ramaswamy Subramanian (CEO, CCAMP, Bangalore),
- Jyotsna Dhawan (Dean, inStem, Bangalore),
- Satyajit Mayor (Dean, NCBS, Bangalore),
- Srinivasa M Srinivasula (IISER Thiruvananthapuram),
- LS Shashidhara (Chair, IISER Pune),
- Rajan Shankarnarayan (CCMB, Hyderabad),
- S.V Chiplunkar (ACTREC),
- Srikanth Sastry(TIFR – Hyderabad),
- Balasubramaniam Muthuswamy (Diabetes Research Center, Chennai),
- Prem Kalra (IIT Jodhpur),
- Vinay Nandicoori (NII)
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW SATELLITE MEETING ( Download )
| Feb. 9: Afternoon arrival and check in |
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| 4:30-5:00 pm | Check-in and Tea |
| 5:00-5:20 pm | Getting Academic Jobs in India L.S. Shashidhara |
| 5:20-5:35 pm | Perspectives of starting a career in India Kavita Babu (IISER, Mohali) |
| Institute/University Representatives | |
| 5:35 –6:10 pm | Short Talks by Directors/Heads or Representatives of Universities/Institutions |
| 6:15- 6:45 pm | Break |
| 6:45- 7:25 pm | Short Talks by Directors/Heads or Representatives of Universities/Institutions |
| 7:30-8:30 pm | Dinner |
| 8:30- 9:30 pm | Informal postdoctoral fellow introductions |
| Feb. 10: Institute/University Representatives |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 am | Short Talks by Directors/Heads or Representatives of Universities/Institutions |
| 10:30 - 12:30 pm | Poster Session (for PDFs and Institute Directors) |
| 12:30 - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| Institute/University Representatives | |
| 1:40 - 2:40 pm | Short Talks by Directors/Heads or Representatives of Universities/Institutions |
| 2:40 – 4:00 pm | Panel Discussion and Questions: Setting up labs in India |
| (IndiaBioscience Advisory Meeting will take place 9 am- 1 pm) | |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Registration for YI |
| Young Investigator Meeting | |
| 4:30-4:50 pm | Ron Vale (UCSF), Introduction to YIM |
| 4:50-5:10 pm | Athula Murthi (IBS), Introduction to IndiaBioscience |
| 5:10-5:30 pm | Introduction of Attendees |
| 5:30-6:30 pm | Keynote- K. VijayRaghavan New Opportunities for the Life Sciences in India |
| 6:30-8:00 pm | Dinner |
| 8:00-8:45 pm | Martin Chalfie, Columbia University The Joys of an Unpredictable Career Path |
| Feb. 11: | GP Manjunath, presiding |
| Breakfast | |
| 9:00-10:30 am | New Models for Education: 15 min talks followed by discussion (Educational innovation) Urmi Bajpai, ANDC, Delhi University How to make a paradigm shift from didactic teaching to active learning Rich Losick, Harvard University, Engaging Beginning University Students in Science Milind Watve, IISER, Pune Building a Lab without Walls Graham Hatfull, University of Pittsburg Phage discovery and genomics: A platform for integrating research and education |
| 10:30-10:50 am | Geoffrey Hyde, NCBS Grant-writing: a cousin - but a distant one - to paper preparation |
| 10:50-11:10 am | Break |
| 11:10-12:30 pm | Grant Writing- small group discussions (3 groups) |
| 12:30-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 pm | Vivek Malhotra, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Custom Built Transport Carriers |
| 2:00-2:30 pm | Uma Ramakrishna, NCBS Are all Indian mammals from outside? |
| 2:30-2:50 pm | Jaspreet Khurana (PDF) Princeton University Mapping the long non-coding RNA interactome in a eukaryote to understand programmed genome rearrangements |
| 3:00-5:00 pm | YI versus PDF cricket match |
| 5:30 – 7:30 pm | Poster Session- 1 (PDF presenting) |
| 7:30-8:30 pm | Dinner |
| 8:30 – 9:00 pm | Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NIH Perspectives from a cell biologist |
| 9:00 pm | Cultural Performance |
| Feb. 12 | Kavita Babu Presiding |
| 9:00-9:20 am | Bidisha Sinha (YI) IISER- Kolkata Understanding mechanosensing in cells |
| 9:20-9:40 am | Srenivas Chavali (PDF) MRC Cambridge The role of tandem repeats in mRNA and protein homeostasis |
| 9:40-10:10 am | Graham Hatfull, Univ. of Pittsburgh Exploration and Exploitation of Mycobacteriophages |
| 10:10-10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30-11:00 am | Tulle Hazelrigg, Columbia University Unexpected genes |
| 11:00-11:30 am | Anindya Sinha, NIAS A Rolling Stone Does Gather Some Moss: Reflections on a Primate Life |
| 11:30-11:50 am | Farhat Habib (YI) IISER (Pune) Genotype-phenotype correlation with continuous phenotypic characters while considering phylogeny |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch Optional Women in Science Discussion/Lunch (for women and men) |
| 1:00 - 1:20 pm | Tina Mukerjee (PDF) Univ. of California, LA Investigation of stem cell maintenance mechanism and the relationship of stem cell activity and behavior with physiological homeostasis |
| 1:20-1:40 pm | Ritwick Sawarkar (PDF) Dept of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Zurich Hsp90@chromatin.nucleus: an emerging hub of a networker |
| 1:40-2:10 pm | Rich Losick, Harvard University Determining Cell Fate With A Roll Of The Dice |
| 2:10-2:30 pm | Break out groups (rotate sessions at 3:30 pm) Mentoring/personnel management (1 hr) Publishing papers |
| 4:30 – 6:30 pm | Poster Session 2 - YI Presenting |
| 6:30 – 7:30 pm | cocktails |
| 7:30 – 8:30 pm | Dinner |
| 8:30 - 10:00 pm | PDF-YI private session |
| Feb. 13 | Swati Tiwari Presiding |
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Deepak Pental, University of Delhi Science, Technology and Innovation– A perspective from plant sciences |
| 9:30 – 10:00 am | Kanury Rao, ICGEB The Drunken Man’s Walk As A Scientific Career Path in India |
| 10:00 – 10:30 am | Debashisha Mohanty, National Institute of Immunology In silico genome mining for deciphering novel biosynthetic pathways |
| 10:30 – 10:50 am | Break |
| 10:30 - 12:00 pm | Panel Discussion: Becoming a successful teacher Moderator: Milind Watve, IISER Pune Panelists: Urmi Bajpai, Acharya Narendra Dev College Rich Losick, Harvard University Graham Hatfull, University of Pittsburg S. Krishnaswamy, Madurai Kamaraj University Martin Chalfie, Columbia University |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 pm | New Models of Education II 15 min talks followed by questions (Educational innovation) Ron Vale, UCSF iBiology.Org S. Krishnaswamy, Madurai Kamaraj University Flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is — “Birds of a feather flock together” Sree Kumar, (Sophia College, Mumbai) Simple model organisms to answer biological questions – innovation in teaching of neurobiology Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NIH America's “National Biological Laboratory” at Woods Hole |
| 2:45 pm departure | Trip to the Mehrangarh Fort and Jodhpur Bazaar |
| 5:00 - 9:00 pm | Closing Social and Dinner |
| Feb. 14 | Breakfast and Departure |
