12.30 - 14.30
Lunch
Programme
Like the earlier editions, this meeting will be divided into two parts but with a switch. The first part — Young Investigators’ Meeting will commence from the afternoon of 6th March 2017. This will feature PDF and YI poster presentations, scientific presentations by internationally renowned scientists, panel discussions and group activities. The Postdoctoral Fellows Satellite Meeting begins from 9th March for all Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) attendees and recruiters from various Institutions and Universities. For a day and a half, there will be networking sessions, short talks from the recruiters and talks by PDFs.
PDF participants are expected to stay for the complete duration of the meeting (Satellite and YIM), and YI participants to attend the entire duration of the main YI meeting.
6th March
DAY 1: Young Investigators’ Meeting 2017
14.30 - 14.45
LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune - Opening Remarks
14.45 - 15.00
Ron Vale, UCSF - Introduction to YIM
15.00 - 15.15
Sumit Biswas, BITS Goa - Drawing battle lines: Our fight against cholera and the paraphernalia
15.15 - 16.00
Keynote by K VijayRaghavan, DBT Secretary
16.00 - 16.30
The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Anthony Hyman, MPI-CBG - From zoology to physics-how to avoid staying in your comfort zone
16.30 - 17.00
Tea/Coffee
17.00 - 17.30
Vineeta Bal, NII - Diversity of questions driven by curiosity: a low-flying career with exciting life
17.30 - 18.30
Panel Discussion on "Collaborations" - LS Shashidhara, Sudha Bhattacharya, Anthony Hyman, Jody Rosenblatt, Judith Kimble, Ueli Grossniklaus
18.30 - 20.00
YI Poster session (all YIs put up the posters for 2 days)
20.00 onwards
Dinner on the lawn
7th March
DAY 2: Young Investigators’ Meeting 2017
9.00 - 9.30
Jyotsna Dhawan, CCMB: The Cell Sublime
9.30 - 10.00
Judith Kimble, UW Madison - Of niches and networks
10.00 - 10.15
YI Talk 1: Chetana Sachidanandan, IGIB - The Tale of a Fish inCHARGE
10.15 - 10.30
YI Talk 2: Arvind Rengan, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad - The Road Not Taken” – Brachistochrone in Biomedical Research!
10.30 - 11.00
Tea/Coffee
11.00 - 11.30
Sudha Bhattacharya, JNU - Interesting molecular biology in a protozoan parasite: Big hurdles and small triumphs
11.30 - 13.00
Panel Discussion on "Women in Science" - Jyotsna Dhawan, Gagandeep Kang, Vineeta Bal, Pradeep Sinha, Ron Vale and Anindya Rana Sinha
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.30
Jody Rosenblatt, University of Utah - Epithelial apoptosis: death by extrusion
14.30 - 14.45
Karen Dell, iBiology - iBiology, an Open Access Scientific and Educational Resource
14.45 - 15.00
Smita Jain, IndiaBioscience - Engaging Communities, Enabling Change
15.00 - 15.15
YI Talk 3: Sourav Datta, IISER Bhopal - Similar yet so different: Opposing roles of BBX proteins in light signal transduction
15.15 - 15.30
YI Talk 4: Subbulakshmi Chidambaram, Pondicherry University - Piwi-like proteins and somatic cells: A missing link
15.30 - 16.30
YI Panel Discussion 1: Setting up labs and lab management - Ramakrishnan Kannan, Aravind Kumar Rengan, Ashwini Godbole
16.30 - 17.00
Tea/Coffee
17.00 - 19.00
YI Poster session
19.00 onwards
Dinner on the lawn
20.30 - 21.30
YI + PDF Private Session
8th March
DAY 3: Young Investigators’ Meeting 2017
9.00 - 9.30
Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich
9.30 - 10.00
Gagandeep Kang, THSTI: Sticking it out when nothing works
10.00 - 11.00
YI Panel Discussion 2: Getting and managing grants - Benu Brata Das, Subbulakshmi Chidambaram, Amita Joshi
11.00 - 11.30
Tea/Coffee
11.30 - 13.00
Funding Session - Shahid Jameel, IndiaAlliance; Suman Govil, DBT; Savita Ayyar, NCBS; G Harish Kumar, DST; Luis Valente, EMBO
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.30
Anindya Rana Sinha, NIAS - A Rolling Stone Does Gather Some Moss: Reflections on a Primate Life
14.30 - 15.00
Pradip Sinha, IIT Kanpur - Finding one’s own niche: A point of view from a homegrown researcher
15.00 - 15.30
Dinabandhu Sahoo, IBSD, Imphal - Antarctic to Arctic- setting up Lab in a remote place
15.30 - 17.30
PDF poster session with Tea/Coffee
17.30 - 18.30
Breakout session on Mentoring
18.30 - 19.30
On the beach!!
19.30 onwards
Banquet Dinner on the beach
9th March
DAY 4: PDF Satellite Meeting
8.45 - 9.00
Satyajit Mayor, NCBS - Introduction to The PDF Satellite Meeting
9.00 - 10.30
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
10.30- 11.00
Tea/Coffee (YIs leave)
11.00 - 11.50
PDF Talks Session 1 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)
11.50 - 12.40
Directors Talks Session 1 (Satyajit Mayor, NCBS & InStem; G Raghurama, BITS Goa; Umesh Varshney, IISc; Gagandeep Kang, THSTI)
12.40 - 13.30
Lunch
13.30 - 14.20
PDF Talks Session 2 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)
14.20 - 15.10
Directors Talks Session 2 (Pankaj Chandra, Ahmedabad Univerity; Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Ashoka University; Sharmila Mande, TCS; Rakesh Mishra, CCMB; LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune)
15.10 - 17.00
PDF Poster Session with Tea/Coffee
17.00 - 17.50
PDF Talks Session 3 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)
17.50 -18.50
Directors Talks Session 3 (Sudhanshu Vrati, RCB; Dinakar Salunke, ICGEB; Subeer Majumdar, NIAB; Dinabandhu Sahoo, IBSD; Rupinder Kaur, CDFD; Sandhya Sitaswad, NCCS )
19.30 onwards
Dinner
10th March
DAY 5: PDF Satellite Meeting
09.00 - 10.00
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)
10.00 - 10.50
PDF Talks Session 4 (9 PDFs talk for 5 mins each)
10.50 - 11.15
Tea/Coffee
11.15 - 12.00
PDF-Directors Session
12.00 - 12.15
LS Shashidhara, IISER Pune - Closing remarks to the PDF Satellite Meeting
12.15 onwards
Interaction with Directors, lunch and departure
