Programme

6th March

DAY 1: Young Investigators’ Meeting 2019 

  • 12.00 - 14.00

    Lunch

  • 14.00 - 14.15

    Welcome Note: B Anand, IIT Guwahati

  • 14.15 - 14.45

    Keynote address by Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India, New Delhi

  • 14.45 - 15.15

    Mentor Talk 1: Building Local, National and Global Scientific Communities by Ron Vale, UCSF, USA

  • 15.15 - 15.45

    Mentor Talk-2: Meandering of an enzymologist through genomes, methylomes and acetylomes by DN Rao, IISc, Bangalore, India

  • 15.45- 16.15

    Tea/ Coffee

  • 16.15 - 16.45

    Engaging communities, enabling change - Smita Jain, IndiaBioscience, Bangalore

  • 16.45 - 16.55

    Talk by DBT, Sahaj Ahmad, DBT

  • 16.55 - 18.25

    Panel Discussion - 1 Direction of Indian research, Collaborations, Publishing in science | Moderator: Dipyaman Ganguly | Panelists: Dominique Bergmann, Ron Vale, B Ravindran, DN Rao, Satyajit Mayor

  • 18:25 - 19.45

    YI Poster session (YIs with even numbers present)

  • 20.00 onwards

    Dinner on the lawn

7th March

DAY 2: Young Investigators’ Meeting 2019 

  • 09.00 - 09.30

    Special Talk: Why and how to integrate research and education? by LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune

  • 09.30 - 10.00

    Mentor Talk-3 Making a difference: stem cells, asymmetries and stomata by Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University, CA, USA

  • 10.00 - 10.30

    Mentor Talk-4 Experimental Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the Laboratory by Amitabh Joshi, JNCASR, Bangalore, India

  • 10.30 - 11.00

    Tea/Coffee

  • 11.00 - 11.30

    Mentor Talk-5 Accidental Translation of Science by B. Ravindran, ILS, Bhubaneshwar, India

  • 11.30 - 13.00

    Panel Discussion - 2 Funding for science in India | Moderator: B Anand | Panelists: Funders - Shahid Jameel, IA; Srini V. Kaveri, CNRS; Vaishali Punjabi, DBT | Researchers: LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune; BK Thelma, DU; Rashna Bhandari, CDFD

  • 13.00 - 13.45

    Lunch

  • 13.45 - 15.00

    Break out session: Setting up labs and lab management

  • 15.00 - 16.30

    YI Poster session with Tea/Coffee (YIs with odd numbers present)

  • 16.30 - 17.00

    Mentor Talk-6 Retracing the steps of my scientific pursuit by BK Thelma, Delhi University, New Delhi, India

  • 17.00 - 17.30

    Outreach in science, a special session: Fun of doing Science by Arvind Gupta, IUCAA, Pune

  • 17.30 - 19.00

    Transport to River Cruise

  • 19.00 onwards

    Dinner on the Cruise

8th March

DAY 3: Young Investigators’ Meeting 2019 

  • 09.00 - 09.30

    YIM2018 Report Discussion - Satyajit Mayor, Rashna Bhandari and Roop Mallik

  • 09.30 - 10.00

    Mentor Talk-7 From immune cell development to function and back by Boris Reizis, NYU, NY, USA

  • 10.00 - 11.15

    Panel Discussion 3 Science communication | Moderator: Richa Rikhy | Panelists: Vasudevan Mukunth, The Wire; Aashima Dogra, The Life of Science; Sarah Iqbal, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance; Leslee Lazar, IIT Gandhinagar; Chitra Ravi, APU; Amitabh Joshi, JNCASR

  • 11.15 - 11.45

    Tea/Coffee

  • 11.45 - 12.15

    Mentor Talk-8 After the malaria parasite turned out to be a plant by Saman Habib, CDRI, Lucknow, India

  • 12.15 - 12.45

    Keynote by K VijayRaghavan, PSA, Govt. of India

  • 12.45 - 13.45

    Lunch

  • 13.45 - 15.00

    Panel discussion 4 Mentoring | Moderator: Rashna Bhandari | Panelists: Roop Mallik, Saman Habib, Boris Reizis + 3 YIs

  • 15.00 - 17.00

    PDF poster session with Tea/Coffee

  • 17.00 - 18.00

    Session on Women in Science: Institutional Diversity, Women and Science in India and discussion coordinated by Anitha Kurup

  • 18.00 - 18.15

    Closing remarks by Satyajit Mayor, NCBS, Bangalore, India

  • 18.15 - 19.30

    YI + PDF Private Session

  • 19.30 onwards

    Banquet Dinner on the lawn

9th March

DAY 4: PDF Satellite Meeting

  • 09.00 - 09.05

    Introduction to The PDF Satellite Meeting - Rashna Bhandari

  • 09.05 - 10.00

    Institutional Talks (Session 1): Apurva Sarin, inStem; Rajaram Nityananda, Azim Premji University; Debashis Mitra, CDFD; Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University; Tushar Vaidya, CCMB; Saman Habib, CDRI

  • 10.00 - 10.50

    PDF Lightning Talks Session 1 (10 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

  • 10.50 - 11.20

    Tea/Coffee

  • 11.20 - 12.10

    Institutional Talks (Session 2): Samit Chattopadhyay, IICB; BJ Rao, IISER Tirupathi; Satyajit Mayor, NCBS and TIFR-Hyderabad; S. Vadera, IIT Jodhpur; Kandala V Chary, IISER Behrampur

  • 12.10 - 13.00

    PDF Lightning Talks Session 2 (10 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

  • 13.00 - 14.00

    Lunch

  • 14.00 - 14.50

    PDF Lightning Talks Session 3 (10 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

  • 14.50 - 15.40

    Institutional Talks (Session 3): Sujoy Kumar Das Gupta , Bose Institute; Gautam Biswas, IIT Guwahati; LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune and Ashoka University; Tapas Chakraborty, IACS

  • 15.40 - 17.00

    PDF Poster Session with Tea/Coffee

  • 17.00 - 18.00

    PDF-Institutional Heads Open Session (Moderated by Roop Mallik/Rashna Bhandari)

  • 18.00 - 19.00

    Discussion around YIM2018 Theme report (Moderated by Satyajit Mayor/LS Shashidhara)

  • 19.30 onwards

    Dinner and informal discussions

10th March

DAY 5: PDF Satellite Meeting

  • 09.00 - 09.40

    Institutional Talks (Session 4): Narayan Banerjee, IISER Kolkata; Gopal C. Kundu, NCCS; Abhijit Chakrabarti, SINP; Sharmila Sengupta; NIBMG

  • 09.40 – 10.30

    PDF Lightning Talks Session 4 (10 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

  • 10.30 - 11.00

    Tea/Coffee

  • 11.00- 11.40

    Institutional Talks (Session 5): D N Rao, IISc; Dinabandhu Sahoo, IBSD; N.C Talukdar, IASST; Roop Mallik, TIFR-Mumbai

  • 11.40 - 12.00

    Closing remarks to the PDF Satellite Meeting by Roop Mallik and open discussion

  • 12.00 onwards

    Interaction with Institutional heads, lunch and departure