

The computational biology group at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, is organising a short, informal meeting on "Aspects of Gene and Cellular Regulation" on August 25 (afternoon) and 26, 2016.
Venue: Chandrasekhar Hall, first floor of main institute building
Talks will start at 14:00 on 25th and 09:15 on 26th.
SCHEDULE
NOTE CHANGE: The first originally scheduled speaker on Friday 26th (Supreet Saini at 9:15am) can't make it. Rather than rearrange the schedule we will start at 9:55 am.
| 25 August 2016 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Rahul Siddharthan, IMSc Chennai | Clustering short DNA sequences: hidden complexity | abstract |
| 14:40 | Karthik Raman, IIT Madras | Understanding the Design Principles of Circadian Oscillators | abstract |
| 15:20 | Ankit Agrawal, IMSc Chennai | A model for large-scale nuclear architecture | abstract |
| 16:00 | Tea/coffee break | ||
| 16:15 | Jonas S�gaard Juul, NBI Copenhagen | The presomitic mesoderm: Minimal models and the consequences of period gradients | abstract |
| 16:55 | Mukund Thattai, NCBS Bangalore | Possible and impossible cells | abstract |
| 17:35 | Ankit Shukla, NCBS Bangalore | Graph-theoretic properties of Biological Intra-cellular Vesicular Traffic Systems | abstract |
| 18:05 | Close | ||
| 19:00 | Dinner | ||
| 26 August 2016 | |||
| 09:55 | Madhulika Dixit, IIT Madras | Dysfunctional endothelium and vascular progenitors: A legacy of impaired glucose metabolism | abstract |
| 10:35 | Leelavati Narlikar, NCL Pune | Machine learning to understand diversity in transcriptional regulation | abstract |
| 11:15 | Tea/coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Himanshu Sinha, IIT Madras | Decoding genotype-phenotype relationships using temporal gene expression profiling | abstract |
| 12:10 | Arati Ramesh, NCBS Bangalore | Structure to signaling: Understanding biological roles and mechanisms of non-coding RNAs in bacteria. | abstract |
| 12:50 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00 | Mathias Heltberg, NBI Copenhagen | Attenuation of co-transcriptional-translation density in Escherichia coli reveals crucial determinants of protein synthesis | abstract |
| 14:40 | Areejit Samal, IMSc Chennai | Protein secretion machinery in Neurospora crassa | |
| 15:20 | Tea/coffee break | ||
| 15:40 | Vishaka Datta, NCBS Bangalore | Detecting cooperatively bound transcription factor pairs on the genome from high throughput data | abstract |
| 16:20 | Sandeep Krishna, NCBS Bangalore | Effects of Four Different Regulatory Mechanisms on the Dynamics of Gene Regulatory Cascades | abstract |
| 17:00 | Close |
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