About

Since 2009, IndiaBioscience has been organizing the Young Investigators’ Meeting (YIM) to bring together exceptional young scientists, senior researchers, heads of institutes, and representatives from funding agencies for discussions and interactions focusing on science and careers in a broad range of biological disciplines. Over the past ten years, this has resulted in the formation of a strong-knit community spread across the country. 2018 marked the tenth year of YIM, where alumni from previous years returned to revisit old friendships, start new collaborations, and share fresh ideas for developing their laboratories. At the same meeting, a need was felt for the existence of similar networks within regions which have a large number of science institutions, universities and industries doing cutting-edge research, in order to facilitate collaborations and encourage the formation of stronger local networks. Thus, the Hyderabad chapter of Regional YIM 2018 was born. The format of this meeting will be different from the national YIM, which will continue in its usual format.

On behalf of IndiaBioscience and local organizing committee, we would like to invite all active PIs across the life-science sector from Hyderabad (Academia and Industry) to attend a two-day meeting to “Congregate — Collate — Collaborate” on the common cause of scientific advancement.

The report from the meeting can be read here.

Event Details

Meeting Highlights

Interact with young investigators engaged in life science research across Hyderabad
Share your scientific interests and identify potential collaborators
Explore Institutional strengths and shortfalls
Identify common goals and platforms for Scientific and Infrastructure advancement

Meeting Format

Short presentations
Breakout sessions followed by panel discussions

Programme

Day 1: 18^th August 2018

8:30 am — 9:00 am	Registration
9:00 am — 9:15 am	Welcome and Genesis of RYIM
9:15 am — 9:25 am	Engaging Communities, Enabling Change” by Smita Jain, IndiaBioscience
9:25 am — 9:45 am	“The research dilemma — a perspective” by Muralidhara Kambadur, Emeritus Professor, UoH
9:45 am ‑10:45 am	Introduction by participants (1−45)
10:45 am ‑11:15 am	Tea Break & Setting up posters
11:15 am ‑12:15 pm	Introduction by participants (45−92)
12:15 pm — 1:00 pm	Poster Session 1 (S. No 1 – 30)
1:00 pm — 2:00 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm — 3:30 pm	Breakout Session 1 : Building Research Collaborations
3:30 pm — 4:15 pm	Tea Break / Poster Session 2 (S. No 31 – 60)
4:15 pm — 5:15 pm	Showcasing Institutional Infrastructure Swasti Raychaudhuri, CSIR-CCMB Rashna Bhandari, CDFD Rajagopal Subramanyam, UoH Aprotim Mazumder, TIFR Hyderabad Someswar R. Sagurthi, OU Vikas Sahu, MNR Hospital
5:15 pm — 7:00 pm	Panel discussion on Bottlenecks in high-end life science research: Moderator : Uday Saxena, Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences Members: Appa Rao Podile, Vice Chancellor, UoH Rakesh K. Mishra, Director, CSIR-CCMB Debashis Mitra, Director, CDFD Shashi Bala Singh, Director, NIPER-Hyd Reddanna Pallu, President, FABA & Prof. UoH Subeer S. Majumdar, Director, NIAB Shivaji Sisinthy, Director-Research, LVPEI Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, CEO, IKP Knowledge Park
7:00 pm onwards	Dinner
Day 2: 19^th August 2018
9:00 am — 9:15 am	Ron Vale, UCSF (via Skype)
9:15 am — 10:45 am	Funding for collaborative research and technology development Viswanadham Duppatla, IKP Knowledge Park Ramjee Pallela, Atal Incubation Centre, CSIR-CCMB Chandra Shekhar Sharma, IIT‑H Suman Kapur, BITS Pilani (Hyderabad campus)
10:45 am ‑11:30 am	Tea Break / Poster Session 3 (S. No 61 – 92)
11:30 am — 1:00 pm	Breakout Session 2 Public Outreach / Consortium Projects / Start-up Myths
1:00 pm — 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm — 3:00 pm	Open discussion on Collate & Collaborate
3:00 pm — 3:30 pm	Conclusions and Feedback
3:30 pm — 3:40 pm	Vote of Thanks
3:40 pm — 4:00 pm	High Tea