Lunch

Welcome Note by Athi Narayanan N (YIM 2020 Organiszer)

Keynote address by Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi + Launch of Disha - A Career Resource Book for Life Science and Biotechnology Students

Mentor Talk-1/ EMBO Global Lecture: Microtubule organisation and dynamics: from cells to single molecules by Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Mentor Talk-2/ EMBO Global Lecture: A little fly and big questions can keep you busy throughout your career by Elisabeth Knust, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Tea/Coffee

Special Talk: Engaging Communities, Enabling Change by Smita Jain, IndiaBioscience, Bangalore

Panel Discussion-1: Translational Research (Moderator: Taslimarif Saiyed, C-CAMP and Panelist: Jugnu Jain, Sapien Bio; Guhan Jayaraman, IIT-M; Anil Prabhakar, IIT-M)

YI Poster Session (20 YIs with even numbers)

Dinner on the lawn

Mentor Talk-3: Codes for the making of a rice flowering stem by Usha Vijayraghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Mentor Talk-4: What I talk about when I talk about biology by Gautam Menon, Ashoka University, Sonipat & The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai

Mentor Talk-5: Adaptive Evolution of a Researcher in Indian Academia by Guhan Jayaraman, Indian Institutes of Technology Madras, Chennai

Tea/Coffee

Mentor Talk-6: The Chaos between the intention of becoming a scientist and being one by Maitrayee DasGupta, University of Calcutta, Kolkata

Panel Discussion-2: Funding for Science in India (Moderator: Aravindhan Vivekanandhan, University of Madras and Panelist: Meenakshi Munshi, DBT; Shahid Jameel, Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance; Balachandar Venkatesan, SERB; Maitrayee DasGupta, University of Calcutta)

Lunch

Breakout Session-1: Getting started Part 1 (Setting up labs and lab management, Picking up the right research question)

YI Poster Session with Tea/Coffee (YIs with odd numbers)

Mentor Talk-7/ EMBO Global Lecture: Centrosomes in Development, Disease and Evolution by Monica Bettencourt-Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Keynote: Biology across scale- should we reconfigure our approach by K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, New Delhi

EMBO Grants Awareness Workshop (Moderator: Shantala Hari Dass, IndiaBioscience and Panelists: Shahid Jameel, Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance; Gerlind Wallon, EMBO; Vaishnavi Ananthanarayan, IISc; Santosh Chauhan, ILS; Satyajit Mayor, NCBS)

Banquet Dinner on the lawn

Special Talk: Why and how to integrate research and education by LS Shashidhara, Ashoka University, Sonipat & Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, Pune

Mentor Talk-8: Balancing act of modern age women by Shakila H, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai

Panel Discussion-3: Science Outreach & Communication (Moderator: Gautam Menon, Ashoka University & IMSc and Panelist: Shakila H, MKU; Elisabeth Knust, MPI-CBG; Kollegala Sharma, CFTRI; Dinabandhu Sahoo, University of Delhi; Priyanka Pulla, Freelance Journalist)

Tea/Coffee

Mentor Talk-9: Joys and Confusions of Being a Scientist at the ‘Interface’ by Sudipta Maiti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Mentor Talk-10: Revisiting the journey towards an independent researcher by AK Munirajan, University of Madras, Chennai

Lunch

Breakout Session-2: Getting started Part 2 (Research ethics, Research output, Peer recognition)

PDF Poster Session with Tea/Coffee

Scientific Publishing - An informal discussion by led by Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Panel Discussion-4: Breaking Barriers in Science (Moderator: Rashna Bhandari, CDFD and Panelist: Sudipta Maiti, TIFR; AK Munirajan, University of Madras; Anna Akhmanova, Utrecht University; Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência; Usha Vijayraghavan, IISc

Special Talk: Special Talk: A decade of recognizing the best contemporary research and science by Bhavna Mehra, Infosys Science Foundation, Bangalore

Summary by Aravindhan Vivekanandhan (YIM 2020 Organiser)

Closing remarks by Satyajit Mayor, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Dinner

Introduction to The PDF Satellite Meeting by Rashna Bhandari, CDFD, Hyderabad

Institutional Talks Session 1 (LS Shashidhara, Ashoka University; Raghu Padinjat, NCBS; Subhash Lakhotia, BHU; Saikrishnan Kayarat; IISER Pune; V Aravindhan, University of Madras; Rashna Bhandari, CDFD)

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

Tea/Coffee

Institutional Talks Session 2 (Govindan Rangarajan, IISc; Ranjith Padinhateeri, IIT Bombay; Pragasam V, VIT; R. Sankar, IIT Kanpur; BJ Rao, IISER Tirupati)

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

Lunch

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

Institutional Talks Session 3 (Apurva Sarin, InStem;Pushkar Sharma, NII; Pennathur Gautam, Anna University; Guhan Jayaraman, IIT Madras; Himanshu Sinha, IBSE IIT Madras)

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

PDF Poster Session with Tea/Coffee

Dinner and informal discussion

Institutional Talks Session 4 (Yogendra Sharma, IISER Berhampur; Neeraj Jain, NBRC; Chandan Goswami, NISER; Vivek Tanavde, Ahmedabad University; Roop Mallik, TIFR)

PDF Poster Session with Tea/Coffee

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

Closing remarks to the PDF Satellite Meeting by Roop Mallik, TIFR

Interaction with Institutional Heads, lunch and departure