Programme

Bangalore

  • 2nd February 2016

  • 2:00-2:10

    Welcome note

    Satyajit Mayor, Director NCBS andinStem

  • 2:10 pm – 2:30 pm

    30 years of DBT and introduction

    K VijayRaghavan, DBT secretary

  • 2:30 pm – 3.00 pm

    EMBO presentations

    Anne-Marie Glynn and Luis Valente, EMBO

  • 3:00 pm – 3.40 pm

    Identification of context-dependent tumor suppressor genes using genetic models of cancer

    Stephen Cohen

  • 3.40 pm – 4:20 pm

    Cellular and Molecular Logic of Spinal Cord Development

    James Briscoe

  • 4:20 pm – 5.00 pm

    Cell biology of signalling

    Matthew Freeman

  • 5.05 pm – 5:30 pm

    High Tea on the lawns

  • 5:30 pm – 6:15 pm

    The development of colour patterns in fishes-Towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty

    Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Pune

  • February 5, 2016

  • 2.30 pm

    Welcome Remarks

    K.N. Ganesh, Director, IISER Pune and Shekhar Mande, Director, NCCS

  • 2.45 pm

    Biology Research@Pune

    Sanjeev Galande, IISER Pune

  • 3.00 pm

    EMBO-India Partnership: New Opportunities

    Anne-Marie Glynn, EMBO

  • 3.30 pm

    Cellular and Molecular Logic of Spinal Cord Development

    James Briscoe

  • 4.00 pm

    Identification of context-dependent tumor suppressor genes using genetic models of cancer

    Stephen Cohen

  • 5.00 pm

    Cell biology of signalling

    Matthew Freeman

  • 5.30 pm

    The development of colour patterns in fishes-Towards an understanding of the evolution of beauty

    Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

  • 6.30 pm

    Panel Discussion

    Panelists: M. Freeman, J. Briscoe, S. Cohen, C. Nüsslein-Volhard,
    L.S. Shashidhara, A. Glynn

NII, New Delhi

  • February 4, 2016

  • 3:00 pm - 15:30 pm

    Warm up Mixer Tea/ Coffee

  • 15:30 pm - 15:40 pm

    Welcome address

    Chandrima Shaha, Director, National Institute of Immunology

  • 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm

    Overview of EMBO

    Maria Leptin, EMBO

  • 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm

    Overview of Life Sciences and Biotech

    K. VijayRaghavan, Secretary, DBT

  • 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm

    Perspective on Interdisciplinary Sciences

    Kevin Moses, Director- Science, Wellcome Trust

  • 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

    Panel discussion: “Future directions in life sciences research: Are basic and applied research in Life Sciences focused too much on human health?”

    Panelists:
    Maria Leptin, Ada Yonath, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, K.VijayRaghavan, Satyajit Mayor || Moderator:
    Matthew Freeman

  • 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

    Dinner