27 January 2025 Event Venue
0945-0950 Prof. V. Ravindran (Director, IMSc, Chennai)
Welcome address 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
0950-0955 Prof. V.R. Prabavathy (Director Biotechnology, MSSRF, Chennai)
Welcome address 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
0955-1035 Prof. Soumya Swaminathan (Chairperson, MSSRF, Chennai)
One Health: Research priorities 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
1035-1115 Prof. Subhra Chakraborty (Former Director, NIPGR, New Delhi)
Beyond a bird's eye view towards One Health: Demystifying proteogenomic landscape and organeller control of health to disease linking multi-host response 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
1115-1130 Coffee Break IMSc Chennai
1130-1210 Prof. Ajit Kumar Shasany (Director, CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow)
Internal Immunity and Secondary Metabolites 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
1210-1250 Prof. Pradip Dey (Director, ICAR-ATARI, Kolkata)
Managing soil health and food security through biointensive plant nutrient management strategies 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
1250-1400 Lunch Break IMSc Chennai
1400-1440 Prof. Usha Vijayraghavan (Dean Biological Sciences, IISc, Bengaluru)
Genomics studies of rice floret development transcription factors unravels functional diversification of evolutionarily conserved regulators 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
1440-1520 Prof. R. Sowdhamini (Senior Professor, NCBS, Bengaluru)
How do plants defend against fungal attack? - early glimpse and future directions 		Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai
1520-1600 Coffee Break IMSc Chennai
1600-1800 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - I 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
28 January 2025 Event Venue
0930-1100 Dr. Jegan Sekar (MSSRF, Chennai)
Hands on wet lab session 		MSSRF Chennai
1100-1115 Coffee Break MSSRF Chennai
1115-1245 Dr. Jegan Sekar (MSSRF, Chennai)
Hands on wet lab session 		MSSRF Chennai
1245-1400 Lunch Break IMSc Chennai
1400-1600 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - II 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
1600-1615 Coffee Break IMSc Chennai
1615-1800 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - III 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
29 January 2025 Event Venue
0930-1100 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - IV 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
1100-1115 Coffee Break IMSc Chennai
1115-1245 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - V 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
1245-1400 Lunch Break IMSc Chennai
1400-1545 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - VI 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
1545-1600 Coffee Break IMSc Chennai
1600-1800 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - VII 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
30 January 2025 Event Venue
0930-1100 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - VIII 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
1100-1115 Coffee Break IMSc Chennai
1115-1245 Dr. Vipin Singh
Computational Genomics Course - IX 		E.C.G. Sudarshan Hall, IMSc Chennai
1245-1400 Lunch Break IMSc Chennai
1415-1445 Prof. Smita Srivastava (Professor, IIT Madras)
Rational metabolic engineering of Nothapodytes nimmoniana plant cells for enhanced production of Camptothecin 		Sambasivan Auditorium, MSSRF Chennai
1445-1515 Prof. K. Ramu (Scientist F, NCCR Chennai)
Genomic approach for characterization of microbial communities in coastal waters 		Sambasivan Auditorium, MSSRF Chennai
1515-1545 Coffee Break MSSRF Chennai
1545-1615 Prof. Aundy Kumar (Principal Scientist, ICAR-IARI New Delhi)
Plant Microbiomes for climate resilient agriculture 		Sambasivan Auditorium, MSSRF Chennai
1615-1630 Closing & Valedictory Session Sambasivan Auditorium, MSSRF Chennai

Organisers

Funding

The organisers gratefully acknowledge funding from Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India via Apex project to The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) to organise this meeting.


Poster


Targeted Participants

The selected participants are expected to have a keen interest in the research topic and a beginner-level knowledge of computation. The computational course at the workshop will also introduce basic programming skills to participants with a background in life sciences.


Registration

There is no registration fee to attend this meeting. However, the meeting is only open to selected participants. If you wish to participate in the meeting, you may submit your request using the application form.

Due to space constraints, it may not be possible to accommodate all applicants, in which case the organisers may have to shortlist among applications received until the registration deadline. Moreover, the organisers are not in a position to provide accommodation or travel support to the selected participants to attend this meeting.

Registration deadline: 20 January 2025.
In case you have any queries please contact aslab.conferences@gmail.com