Lunch | Registration (Check in to Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal)

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

Welcome Note

L S Shashidhara, Board Member, IndiaBioscience

Keynote address

Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, GoI, New Delhi

Engaging communities, enabling change

Karishma Kaushik, Executive Director, IndiaBioscience

Seeking form and patterns in cancer; trials, twirls, and thrills

Ramray Bhat, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

Life science funding in India

Sanjay Mishra, Senior Advisor, Department of Biotechnology, GoI

Digital footprint at YIM 2024

Arushi Batra, IndiaBioscience

The icebreaker at YIM 2024

Ankita Rathore, Arushi Batra, Karishma S Kaushik and Rohini Karandikar, IndiaBioscience

My dog diaries and silver linings

Anindita Bhadra, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

From a non-model organism to models and back: How to ignore misleading top-down strategies from funding agencies

Frederic Berger, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology GmbH, Austria

Networking mixer | Light refreshments

Bayleaf, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal (outdoor)

Dinner

Marigold terrace, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal (outdoor)

Breakfast at Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

MoMo Café, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

Travel to IISER Bhopal (three shuttle buses at 8:30 am, 8:45 am and 9:00 am)

YIs to carry posters.
YIs and PDFs to carry laptops.

Bridging boundaries: Surprises and triumphs in navigating interdisciplinary terrain

Abhijit Majumder, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Advancements in microscopy imaging

Sujoy Dey, Zeiss Technologies

Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Ground floor (CS2 building)

International funding for scientists in India

Sayam Sen Gupta, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvH)

Leonor Teles-Grilo Ruivo, The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

iGAP: How can YIs and PDFs leverage this program? 
Rohini Karandikar, IndiaBioscience

Move from CS2 building to Visitor Hostel

Walk or bus

Poster session for 40 YIs

Visitor Hostel (poster section)

Group photo | Lunch at IISER Bhopal

Visitor Hostel (lunch on first floor)

Workshops at YIM 2024

Visitor Hostel (seminar rooms 1 and 2)

Mini-workshop: 'How can YIs engage with science journalism in India'

Dinsa Sachan and Shakoor Rather, Science Journalism Association of India (SJAI)

Mini-workshop: 'Research ethics for PDFs'

Madhurima Kahali, Taylor and Francis

Move from Visitor Hostel to CS2 building

Walk or bus

Rediscovering school science

Vijeta Raghuram, IndiaBioscience

Novel pedagogical practices for science educators

Tamralipta Patra, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Ground floor (CS2 building)

Wandering the landscapes of research and academia starting from the end of the world

Cesar A. Ramirez-Sarmiento, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Ask Us Anything (interactive panel): 'Starting and building a research group in India’

Abhijit Majumder (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Andrew Lynn, (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) Anindita Bhadra (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata), K. VijayRaghavan, Former PSA to the Government of India, Ramray Bhat (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru), Ritu Trivedi (CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow), Roop Mallik (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) and Sunando Datta (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal)

Moderator: Varun Chaudhary, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

Walking tour of IISER Bhopal: Starts from: CS2 building and returns to Auditorium

Ram Kumar Mishra, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

Mehfil-e-yim: Cultural program

LHC, L5 auditorium

Walk to VH lawns and Dinner

VH lawns (outdoor)

Return to Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal (three shuttle buses at 20:30, 20:45 and 21:00)

Breakfast at Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

MoMo Café, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

Aspiring minds: Journey as an academic scientist pioneering meaningful innovations in bone health

Ritu Trivedi, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow

Sequences, structures, systems and data science: My journey through the evolution of bioinformatics

Andrew Lynn, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Science Communication at IndiaBioscience

Ankita Rathore, IndiaBioscience

IndiaBioscience Outreach Grants at 5 years

Manjula Harikrishna, IndiaBioscience

CARBON Exhibition-in-a-Box

Ahalya Acharya and Shelwyn James, Science Gallery Bengaluru

Group Photo | Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

Membrane protein barrels: Biophysical and functional studies

Mahalakshmi Radhakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

Bringing biotech and public health under one umbrella: Breaking barriers

Senjuti Saha, Child Health Research Foundation, Bangladesh

The road towards making research human-relevant: Status quo and challenges in India

Surat Parvatam, Humane Society International

Lunch

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

Design thinking for life science research environments

Vikash Kumar, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida

American Chemical Society (India): Enabling science for everyone

Ajay Kumar Jha, American Chemical Society (India)

Exploring perspectives: The influence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in research and publishing

Rajalakshmi Karat, TNQ Technologies

Power of translation in science: Inventions to profitable technologies

Ramjee Pallela, Atal Incubation Centre — Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

YIM: 15 years on

Ron Vale, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, US

Summary of YIM 2024 and the year ahead for IndiaBioscience

Karishma Kaushik and Shwetha C, IndiaBioscience

Closing remarks

Roop Mallik, Board Member, IndiaBioscience

Free time

YI-PDF mixer with institutional representatives (light refreshments)

Marigold terrace, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal (outdoor) + Drink coupons

Dinner

Marigold terrace, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal (outdoor)

Breakfast at Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

MoMo Café, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

Networking break

Introduction to the PDF Satellite Meeting

L S Shashidhara, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru

Institutional Talks Session 1

L S Shashidhara ( National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru), Aprotim Mazumder (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad), Usha Vijayraghavan (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru), Vasudevan Seshadri (National Centre for Cell Science, Pune), and Vinay K. Nandicoori, (CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad)

Group photo | Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

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PDF Talks Session 1

10 PDF talks — 5 mins each

Institutional Talks Session 2

Divya Uma (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru), K Uma Maheswari (SASTRA Deemed to be University, Thanjavur), Maneesha Inamdar (Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru), Rajesh Singh (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi) and Rakesh Mishra (Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bengaluru)

Lunch

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

PDF Talks Session 2

10 PDF talks — 5 mins each

Institutional Talks Session 3

Deepak Sharma, (CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh), Kamlesh Jangid (Agharkar Research Institute, Pune), Murali Dharan Bashyam (Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad) Prasanna Venkatraman (ACTREC — Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai), and Sanjeev Galande (Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida)

PDF Talks Session 3

10 PDF talks — 5 mins each

Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

Live interactions - PDFs and institutional heads on start-up funding and faculty fellowships in life science in India

Lotus Ballroom, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

Free time

Dinner and informal discussion

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

Breakfast at Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

MoMo Café, Courtyard by Marriott, Bhopal

Networking break

Institutional Talks Session 4

Balaji P.V (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Gobardhan Das (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal), Imroze Khan (Ashoka University, Sonepat), Sagar Sengupta (National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani)

Tea | Coffee | Light refreshments

Pre-function area, Lotus Ballroom

PDF Talks Session 4

10 PDF talks — 5 mins each

Live interactions - PDFs and institutional heads on project administration and grant management in life science in India

Lotus Ballroom

Closing remarks to the PDF Satellite Meeting

Rashna Bhandari, Board Member, IndiaBioscience

End of PDF Satellite Meeting + Lunch

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