46th All India Cell Biology Conference (AICBC2024)
Theme
'Cell Biology at the Crossroad of Interdisciplinary Sciences'
Open to Students, Post-Docs, Faculties from Academia and Industry
JANUARY 10 – 12, 2024
Venue: ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre,
Navi Mumbai INDIA
Scientific Program
Day 1: January 10, 2024; Wednesday
Registration & Breakfast 8:30 - 9:10AM
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM INAUGURAL SESSION
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM Welcome Address
9:25 AM - 9:50 AM Presidential Address Surendra Ghaskadbi, President, ISCB
9:50AM - 10:35 AM Keynote Address Session Chair -
Vidyanand Nanjundiah, CHG, Bangalore - 'Evolution without natural selection?'
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM TEA BREAK
11:00 AM – 12:50 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION I – Biomolecular network in Cellular Function Chairperson – Surekha Zingde & S.C. Lakhotia
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Deepak Nagrath Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA – Metabolic systems biology of tumor microenvironment
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Prasanna Venkatraman ACTREC, Navi Mumbai - Beyond Proteasome defined by domain motif interaction of PSMD9
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Shantanu Sengupta IGIB, New Delhi - Parental vitamin B12 deficiency increases cardiometabolic risk in the offspring
12:30 PM – 12:50 PM Rohini R Nair Gujarat Biotechnology University, Gandhinagar – Transperons: RNA operons as effectors of coordinated gene expression
12:50 PM - 13:50 PM LUNCH BREAK
13:50 PM - 15:55 PM POSTER PRESENTATION SESSION - I
15:55 PM - 16:15 PM TEA BREAK
16:15 PM - 17:50 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - II Cell Organelle and Architectural Framework
Chairperson – Jyotsna Dhawan & Sathees Raghavan
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16:15 PM – 16:45 PM Oishee Chakrabarti SINP, Kolkata - The mitochondrial "fusion-hyperfusion" conundrum – an interplay between post-translational modifications
16:45 PM – 17:15 PM Nagaraj Balasubramanian IISER-Pune – Cell adhesion mediated regulation of cell organelles. A Golgi story
17:15 PM – 17:35 PM Krishnaveni Mishra University of Hyderabad - Regulating size and shape of organelles: Lessons from a genome-wide screen in yeast
17:35 PM – 17:50 PM Rishi Kant Zeiss Ltd. – Introduction to Super-resolution Microscopy: Going beyond the diffraction limit (SR SIM and Airyscan)
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17:50 PM – 19:00 PM ORAL AWARD PRESENTATION SESSION - I [8 min Talk + 2 min discussion]
Chairperson – Bhupen N. Singh & Pritha Ray
Oral abstract 1- AICB/2023/6 Rumpa Mahata
Oral abstract 2- AICB/2023/126 Siranjeevi R
Oral abstract 3- AICB/2023/227 Shivali Ravindra Mishra
Oral abstract 4- AICB/2023/244 Lipsa Sahoo
Oral abstract 5- AICB/2023/256 Diksha Pathak
Oral abstract 6- AICB/2023/287 Bhupendra Kumar
Oral abstract 7- AICB/2023/303 Stuti Gupta
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19:00 PM – 19:45 PM Cultural Program - 'Swar Sandhya'
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19:45 PM – 20:30 PM EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
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19:45PM – 21:00 PM Conference Dinner
Day 2 : January 11, 2024; Thursday
8:30 AM To 9:15 AM BREAKFAST
09:15 AM - 10:45 AM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - III Regulatory Biology at the ‘Core of the Cell’
Chairperson – Raj Kamal Tripathi & Sharad Sharma
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09:15 AM – 09:45 AM Sachin Kotak IISc Bangaluru - Dissecting the mechanisms of nuclear envelope breakdown during mitosis in animal cells
09:45 AM – 10:15 AM Mridula Nambiar IISER-Pune - Diversity among cohesin complexes: roles in DNA repair and chromosomal segregation
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Sorab Dalal ACTREC, Navi Mumbai - Regulation of centrosome duplication by 14-3-3 proteins
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM TEA BREAK
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ISCB Award - ​​PROF. J. DAS MEMORIAL LECTURE (to be announced by ISCB)
Chairperson – Surendra Ghaskadbi
12:00 PM - 13:10 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - IV Membrane and Organelle Biogenesis
Chairperson – Jagat Roy & XX
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12:00 PM – 12:30 PM Manjula Reddy CCMB, Hyderabad - Dynamics of the bacterial cell wall
12:30 PM – 13:00 PM Mahak Sharma IISER-Mohali - Small GTP-binding protein Arl8 regulates lysosome positioning, function and biogenesis
13:00 PM – 13:10 PM Seema Grewal Journal of Cell Science, UK – TBD
13:10 PM - 14:00 PM Lunch BREAK
14:00 PM - 16:00 PM POSTER PRESENTATION SESSION - II
16:00 PM - 16:20 PM TEA BREAK
16:20 PM - 17:50 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - V Cell Signalling in Development
Chairperson – Neelam Shirsat & Nandini Verma
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16:20 PM – 16:50 PM Sanjeev Waghmare ACTREC, Navi Mumbai - Dab2 (Disbabled-2) in epidermal homeostasis and stem cell regulation
16:50 PM – 17:20 PM Madhu G Tapadia BHU, Varanasi – Non-lethal role of Caspase 3 in Drosophila malpighian tubules: No longer an oddity!
17:20 PM – 17:40 PM Rupasri Ain IICB, Kolkata- Invasive trophoblast cells: Guardian of cell-cell communication in placental morphogenesis
17:40 PM – 17:50 PM Dina Mukherjee, CACTUS presentation – TBD
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17:50 PM – 19:00 PM ORAL AWARD PRESENTATION SESSION - II [8 min Talk + 2 min discussion]
Chairperson – PK Singh & Amir Nazir
Oral abstract 1- AICB/2023/4 Sourav Ghosh
Oral abstract 2- AICB/2023/31 Lizanne Anasthasius Oliveira
Oral abstract 3- AICB/2023/142 Sourav Chakraborty
Oral abstract 4- AICB/2023/162 Priyanka Jaiswal
Oral abstract 5- AICB/2023/242 Justus Francis
Oral abstract 6- AICB/2023/248 Antara Chakraborty
Oral abstract 7- AICB/2023/332 Kuheli Adhikary
19:00 PM - 19:40 PM General Body Meeting
19:40 PM - 21:00 PM Conference Dinner
Day 3 : January 12, 2024; Friday
8:30 AM To 9:00 AM BREAKFAST
09:00 AM - 10:10 AM ORAL AWARD PRESENTATION SESSION - III [8 min Talk + 2 min discussion]
Chairperson – Ashok Varma & C Murali Krishna
Oral abstract 1- AICB/2023/83 Astik Kumar De
Oral abstract 2- AICB/2023/151 Neha Agrawal
Oral abstract 3- AICB/2023/188 Uzma Salim
Oral abstract 4- AICB/2023/229 Deepak Maurya
Oral abstract 5- AICB/2023/327 Vignesh Ganesan
Oral abstract 6- AICB/2023/358 Micky Anand
10:10AM - 10:55 AM Keynote Address Session Chair - Rita Mulherkar
Subhas C. Lakhotia, BHU, Varanasi - 'What can a cell do without microscope?'
10:55 AM - 11:15 AM TEA BREAK
11:15 PM - 12:15 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - VI Mathematical model and Data Science in Cell Biology
Chairperson – Vidyanand Nanjundiah & XX
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM Biplab Bose IIT, Guwahati - Data-Driven analysis of morphological state transition of cells
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM Sangram Bagh SINP, Kolkata - Building computers and AI with genetically engineered cells
12:15 PM - 13:15 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - VII Material Science and Chemistry in Cell Biology
Chairperson – Shamik Sen & Vikram Gota
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM Deepthy Menon Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi - Does nanoscale topography modulate cellular interactions?
12:45PM – 13:15 PM Mahipal Ganji IISc, Bangaluru - Single molecule analysis of base-stacking energies and their applications
13:15 PM - 14:10 PM Lunch BREAK
14:10 PM - 16:10 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - VIII Curative Approaches in Disease Biology
Chairperson – Abhijit De & XX
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14:10 PM – 14:40 PM Sivaprakash Ramalingam IGIB, New Delhi - Rewinding the internal clock of hemoglobin synthesis for gamma-globin reactivation
14:40 PM – 15:10 PM Ajit Chande IISER-Bhopal - Chemical genetics approach identifies stimulators of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing
15:10 PM – 15:30 PM Bhavana Tiwari IISER-Berhampur – Learning from human endogenous retroviruses transposons to eliminate HIV
15:30 PM – 15:50 PM Debasmita P. Alone NISER, Bhubaneswar - Novel Genetic and Epigenetic regulators in the Pathogenesis of Pseudoexfoliation Glaucoma
15:50 PM – 16:10 PM Arnab Ghosh Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh – Targeting triple-negative breast cancer progression: The Vital role of CCN5 activation by free and encapsulated EGCG Role of CCN5 Activation by Free and Encapsulated EGCG
16:10 PM - 16:30 PM TEA BREAK
16:30 PM - 17:50 PM SCIENTIFIC SESSION - IX Faculty Short Talks [15 min Talk +5 min discussion]
Chairperson – XX
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16:30 PM – 16:50 PM Supreet Saini IIT, Bombay - How do genes move across a species’ barrier?
16:50 PM – 17:10 PM Simran Bhullar University of Delhi (South) - Looking Beyond the Obvious: Paramecium tetraurelia, a unicellular eukaryote that defies the norm
17:10 PM – 17:30 PM Rohan Khadilkar ACTREC, Navi Mumbai - Modulation of cellular clock of ageing impacts stem cell and organ homeostasis Drosophila models
17:30 PM – 17:50 PM Sarmistha Mahanty IISc, Bangalore - Enlightening the role of lysosome specialization in skin homeostasis
17:50 PM -18:15 PM VALEDICTORY FUNCTION - Award distribution and Vote of Thanks