The BSBE Department, IIT Kanpur, is organising this annual workshop series to expose budding scientists to advances in contemporary topics in biosciences and bioengineering. The two day workshop includes popular lectures, scientific talks, and a problem-solving session. This year, with the theme "Neural Systems", the workshop aims at bringing experts from diverse disciplines within neuroscience, from circuits to behavior, to discuss the latest research and to expose students from diverse backgrounds to challenging problems. An informal setting will provide students and faculty the opportunity to interact and will help students in developing an interest in neuroscience. For the list of faculty, check here, and for the details of sessions, check here.

Who Can Apply?
Final year students of the undergraduate programs (B.E/B.Tech/MBBS/Intergrated M.Sc, etc.), master programs (M.Sc/M.Tech/ME) or PhD students are eligible to apply for the workshop. Postdoctoral fellows who are early into their work (within one year) are also eligible to apply. This year we plan to accommodate upto 50 students/young investigators. For details on application process and registration. For details on application process and registration,check here.

Important Dates:
Last date for submitting application form: October 28, 2016
Announcement of names of applicants admitted to the workshop: November 3, 2016.
Last date for registration: November 15, 2016
Workshop: December 17-18, 2016

About the Venue:
The workshop will be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Applicants admitted to this workshop are expected stay within the institute campus. Kanpur is well connected to other parts of the country. For more details, check here.

Sponsors: Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance & IIT, Kanpur

27th Mid -Year Meeting of Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru.

Date: 1st and 2nd July 2016.

Venue: Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

http://www.ias.ac.in/public/Resources/Events/27_MY...

The main purpose of this meeting is two-fold: we wish to create collaborations for the burgeoning development of chemical ecology in India, and promote the most forward-thinking and visionary ideas in the field in general.

NCBS and partners such as IISc and UAS in Bangalore as well as several North East institutes are part of a large national effort funded by the Indian Department of Biotechnology to increase capacity in chemical ecology on the Indian subcontinent (http://news.ncbs.res.in/story/exploring-diversity-chemical-signals-nature). In 2014 and 2015, NCBS held a School on Chemical Ecology for young Indian scientists, now known as the KS Krishnan School. As a follow up to this educational event, we will hold the first Collaborations in Indian Chemical Ecology Workshop from September 10-13, 2016 here at NCBS in Bangalore. Unlike the Krishnan school, which was created to stimulate and educate young researchers, this will be a purely scientific, and intimate meeting of PI-level scientists designed to:

1. Expose international experts to current projects as well as the amazing opportunities for Indian chemical ecology.
2. Expose Indian scientists to cutting edge research in the field of chemical ecology

Rather than simply presenting research results, this will be a "visionary"meeting. We ask that invitees discuss not where they have been, but rather where they are going in their research. What new avenues are they most excited about? What is the future of chemical ecology? How does Indian biodiversity fit into that vision?

Nearly 20% of our world’s biodiversity hotspots are in India. We plan for a small gathering of highly motivated individuals with lots of brainstorming and knowledge transfer. As one of its outcomes, we plan to compile a vision statement on Indian Chemical Ecology for publication, as well as stimulate new collaborative projects.

For details about application procedure, click here.

The 6th International Symposium entitled Current Trends in Drug Discovery & Research "CTDDR-2016" is being organized in the spirit of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th CTDDR symposia (2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013) from 25th to 28th February 2016.

The 6th CTDDR will highlight cutting-edge advances in Drug Discovery and Development for infectious diseases (malaria, filaria, leishmania, HIV, tuberculosis), life style disorders (neurodegenerative, diabetes, obesity, CNS & CVS related disorders), cancer and reproductive/bone disorders. The four days event will include keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations by a number of international/national scientists and academicians featuring both basic sciences and translational biomedical research. Thus 6th CTDDR 2016 will provide a single platform for in-depth assessment of the challenges associated with drug design and development in these areas.

The British Council in collaboration with IISER Pune brings to you a lecture series of eminent writers, scholars and historians of science from the UK. The second speaker in the series is well known science writer Professor Jon Agar, who will speak in four different cities across the country from January 4-8.