About
IndiaBioscience has been organizing Young Investigators’ Meetings (YIM) over the past 11 years to enable and provide a platform for intellectual exchange among young scientists across different scientific disciplines. In order to allow more such interactions to happen at a local level, Regional Young Investigator meetings were begun in 2018. The first two Regional YIMs in Hyderabad and Kolkata were highly successful and allowed researchers from across disciplines to come together to collaborate and share their expertise.
The present meeting will be organized in Delhi-NCR and will be conducted for two days (6 — 7 August 2019) at National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi. This meeting will include keynote/plenary talks, lectures, and poster sessions on advanced and emerging themes, as well as invigorating panel discussions on various trends in life sciences research, which will help boost the career of the young investigators. The meeting will also have group discussions and mentor talks. This meeting will serve as a great networking platform where young scientists and researchers can share their experiences, approaches, contacts, activities outside the lab etc. and build new collaborations. Therefore, we hope that this interactive meeting will enhance knowledge, networking opportunities, and career guidance for young scientists in the Delhi-NCR region.
On behalf of IndiaBioscience and the local organizing committee, we would like to invite all active researchers (Academia and Industry) and science professionals across the life-science sector from the Delhi-NCR region to attend a productive two-day meeting for the advancement of science.
Event Details
Meeting Highlights
- Enhancing Interaction of Young Investigators (YI) engaged in life science research across Delhi and NCR.
- Helping each other by sharing resources and platforms
- Accelerating collaboration among researchers
- Enhancing institutional strengths
- Translating ideas into products
Meeting Format:
- Mentor talks
- Networking sessions
- Poster Presentations
- Panel Discussions
- Special Talk on Science Communication
Programme
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Day 1: August 6th, 2019 | |
8:30 am — 9:15 am | Registration |
9:15 am — 9:25 am | Welcome address: Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti, NIPGR, New Delhi |
9:25 am — 9:30 am | Opening remarks: Ramesh V Sonti, Director, NIPGR |
9:30 am — 9:40 am | Engaging Communities Enabling Change: Smita Jain, Executive Director, IndiaBioscience |
9:40 am — 10:10 am | Keynote address 1: The Scientific Enterprise in India, Successes, Challenges and The Way Forward by K VijayRaghavan, Principal scientific advisor to Govt. of India |
10:10 am — 10:35 am | Plenary Talk 1: Biotechnology in India and New Initiatives by Renu Swarup, Secretary, DBT |
10:35 am — 11:00 am | Plenary Talk 2: SERB research programs for young scientists by Sandeep Verma, Secretary SERB |
11:00 am — 11:30 am | Group photograph and tea/coffee break |
11:30 am — 12:00 pm | Plenary Talk 3: DBT research programs for Young Investigators by Meenakshi Munshi, Advisor, DBT |
12:00 pm — 1:00 pm | Introduction by participants |
1.00 pm — 2.00 pm | Lunch Break and setting up of posters |
2:00 pm — 3:00 pm | Panel Discussion 1: The art of establishing and maintaining collaboration Amulya K. Panda, NII (Chair), Ashwani Pareek JNU, Deepak Gaur, JNU, Snehlata Pareek, ICGEB and Suman Govil, DBT |
3:00 pm — 3:30 pm | Plenary Talk 4: Importance of Science Communication by Sarah Iqbal, The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance |
3:30 pm — 4:00 pm | Tea/Coffee Break |
4:00 pm — 5:00 pm | Panel Discussion 2: Emerging trends in life science research Dinakar Salunke, ICGEB (Chair), Neeraj Jain, NBRC, Sujata Mohanty, AIIMS, Anurag Agrawal, IGIB, Sudhanshu Vrati, RCB and Ramesh V. Sonti, NIPGR |
5:00 pm — 6:30 pm | Poster session & Networking |
6:30 pm — 7:30 pm | Cultural Program by Suresh Bhawai Balancing Art team |
7: 30 pm onwards | Gala Dinner |
Day 2: August 7th, 2019 | |
9:30 am — 10:00 am | Keynote address 2: CSIR in the service of the nation by Shekhar C. Mande, Director General, CSIR |
10:00 am — 10.30 am | Plenary talk 5: Science, Scientific Methods & Applications by Rajesh S.Ghokale, NII |
10.30 am — 11:00 am | Plenary talk 6: Serendipity and Chemistry by Satyajit Mayor, Director, NCBS |
11:00 am — 11:30 pm | Tea/Coffee Break |
11:30 am — 12:00 pm | Plenary talk 7: Nevertheless, we persist by Gagandeep Kang, Executive Director, THSTI |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Panel Discussion 3: Women In Leadership Chandrima Saha, INSA (Chair), Gagandeep Kang, THSTHI Satyajit Mayor, NCBS and Subhra Chakraborty, NIPGR |
1:00 pm — 2:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00 pm — 2:30 pm | New facilities at Delhi-NCR 1. RCB Advanced Technology Platform Centre (ATPC) by Nirpendra Singh 2. Genomics and Genotyping Facility by Sabhyata Bhatia |
2:30 pm — 3:00 pm | Talk: Patenting by Vijaya Choudhary, LexOrbis |
3:00 pm — 3:30 pm | Opportunities for Young Researchers 1. IndiaAlliance, Wellcome DBT programs by Sachin Sharma 2. Indo-German programs and opportunities by Matthias Kiesselbach, Director, DFG Office, India |
3:30 pm — 4:00 pm | Platforms for start-ups 1. BSC BioNEST Bio-Incubator, RCB by Suman Gupta 2. Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT-Delhi by Ashutosh Pastor |
4:00 pm — 4:30 pm | Concluding remarks and Award ceremony: Satyajit Mayor and Ramesh V. Sonti |
4:30 pm — 4:40 pm | Vote of Thanks: Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti |
4:40 pm — 5:10 pm | High Tea and departure |
Registration
Registration Fee: INR 3000 (Includes Refreshments, Lunch and Dinner)
- Fill in the registration form by clicking on the link below.
- Submit the registration form.
Participants will be informed about the selection status on or before 9th July 2019. Only the selected candidates should pay the registration fee after 9th July 2019.
For any queries, please contact yim2019delhi@gmail.com
Note:The last date for registration has been extended till 5th July 2019.
