Lunch

LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune - Opening Remarks

Ron Vale, UCSF - Introduction to YIM

Sumit Biswas, BITS Goa - Drawing battle lines: Our fight against cholera and the paraphernalia

Keynote by K VijayRaghavan, DBT Secretary

The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Anthony Hyman, MPI-CBG - From zoology to physics-how to avoid staying in your comfort zone

Tea/Coffee

Vineeta Bal, NII - Diversity of questions driven by curiosity: a low-flying career with exciting life

Panel Discussion on "Collaborations" - LS Shashidhara, Sudha Bhattacharya, Anthony Hyman, Jody Rosenblatt, Judith Kimble, Ueli Grossniklaus

YI Poster session (all YIs put up the posters for 2 days)

Dinner on the lawn

Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB: The Cell Sublime

Judith Kimble, UW Madison - Of niches and networks

YI Talk 1: Chetana Sachidanandan, IGIB - The Tale of a Fish inCHARGE

YI Talk 2: Arvind Rengan, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad - The Road Not Taken” – Brachistochrone in Biomedical Research!

Tea/Coffee

Sudha Bhattacharya, JNU - Interesting molecular biology in a protozoan parasite: Big hurdles and small triumphs

Panel Discussion on "Women in Science" - Jyotsna Dhawan, Gagandeep Kang, Vineeta Bal, Pradeep Sinha, Ron Vale and Anindya Rana Sinha

Lunch

Jody Rosenblatt, University of Utah - Epithelial apoptosis: death by extrusion

Karen Dell, iBiology - iBiology, an Open Access Scientific and Educational Resource

Smita Jain, IndiaBioscience - Engaging Communities, Enabling Change

YI Talk 3: Sourav Datta, IISER Bhopal - Similar yet so different: Opposing roles of BBX proteins in light signal transduction

YI Talk 4: Subbulakshmi Chidambaram, Pondicherry University - Piwi-like proteins and somatic cells: A missing link

YI Panel Discussion 1: Setting up labs and lab management - Ramakrishnan Kannan, Aravind Kumar Rengan, Ashwini Godbole

Tea/Coffee

YI Poster session

Dinner on the lawn

YI + PDF Private Session

Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich

Gagandeep Kang, THSTI: Sticking it out when nothing works

YI Panel Discussion 2: Getting and managing grants - Benu Brata Das, Subbulakshmi Chidambaram, Amita Joshi

Tea/Coffee

Funding Session - Shahid Jameel, IndiaAlliance; Suman Govil, DBT; Savita Ayyar, NCBS; G Harish Kumar, DST; Luis Valente, EMBO

Lunch

Anindya Rana Sinha, NIAS - A Rolling Stone Does Gather Some Moss: Reflections on a Primate Life

Pradip Sinha, IIT Kanpur - Finding one’s own niche: A point of view from a homegrown researcher

Dinabandhu Sahoo, IBSD, Imphal - Antarctic to Arctic- setting up Lab in a remote place

PDF poster session with Tea/Coffee

Breakout session on Mentoring

On the beach!!

Banquet Dinner on the beach

Satyajit Mayor, NCBS - Introduction to The PDF Satellite Meeting

Panel Discussion on "Academia - Industry collaborations and cross career opportunities" - Satyajit Mayor, NCBS; S Ramaswamy, inStem; Sharmila Mande, TCS; Vilas Sinkar, NCCS; D S Reddy, NCL; Taslimarif Saiyed, C-CAMP

Tea/Coffee (YIs leave)

PDF Talks Session 1 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

Directors Talks Session 1 (Satyajit Mayor, NCBS & InStem; G Raghurama, BITS Goa; Umesh Varshney, IISc; Gagandeep Kang, THSTI)

Lunch

PDF Talks Session 2 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

Directors Talks Session 2 (Pankaj Chandra, Ahmedabad Univerity; Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Ashoka University; Sharmila Mande, TCS; Rakesh Mishra, CCMB; LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune)

PDF Poster Session with Tea/Coffee

PDF Talks Session 3 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

Directors Talks Session 3 (Sudhanshu Vrati, RCB; Dinakar Salunke, ICGEB; Subeer Majumdar, NIAB; Dinabandhu Sahoo, IBSD; Rupinder Kaur, CDFD; Sandhya Sitaswad, NCCS )

Dinner

Directors Talks Session 4 (Roop Malik, TIFR; Tapas Kumar Kundu, JNCASR; Pratik Mutha, IIT Gandhinagar; Samit Chattopadhyay, IICB; CVR Murthy, IIT Jodhpur; Rahul Mohan, NCAOR)

PDF Talks Session 4 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)

Tea/Coffee

PDF-Directors Session

LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune - Closing remarks to the PDF Satellite Meeting

Interaction with Directors, lunch and departure