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 January 12 and 13, 2018.
Venue: Chandrasekhar Hall, first floor of main institute building (enter through the portico in the photo above, and take the stairs behind the reception)
Tentative schedule of talks+posters:
| Friday, January 12, 2018 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 09:30 | Sridhar Hannenhalli (University of Maryland, College Park / IISc, Bengaluru) | Contextual inference of gene function (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Farhan Ali (NCBS, Bengaluru) | Diversity of Transcription Factors in Escherichia coli (abstract) |
| 10:30 | Nagasuma Chandra (IISc, Bengaluru) | Strategic 'control' points in pathways and exploring their potential as drug targets |
| 11:00 | Tea/coffee | |
| 11:15 | Rohit Suratekar (NCBS, Bengaluru) | Evidence of sinks and sources in the PLC activated PIP2 cycle (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Akshit Goyal (NCBS, Bengaluru) | Cross-feeding: a productivity hack for metabolic networks |
| 12:05 | Dibyendu Dutta (IIT Bombay) | Modelling Microbial Cells as Stochastic Enzyme Cascades (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Swagatika Sahoo (IIT Madras) | Predicting the role of diet and gut bacteria in Autism |
| 13:00 | Lunch (venue: institute canteen, 1st floor) | |
| 14:00 | Leelavati Narlikar (CSIR-NCL, Pune) | Learning diverse regulatory programs from biochemically active DNA regions |
| 14:30 | Sucheta Gokhale (CSIR-NCL, Pune) | Exploring the functional aspects of mammalian promoter architectures |
| 15:00 | Dolly Mehta (NCBS, Bengaluru) | RNA secondary structure predictions using covariance models (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Poster session and tea/coffee | |
| 16:30 | Hiyaa Ghosh (NCBS, Bengaluru) | Inside the mammalian brain: of the old and the new neurons |
| 17:00 | Divya Tej Sowpati (CCMB, Hyderabad) | Mysterious, taxon-specific enrichment bias of Simple Sequence Repeats (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Rakesh Mishra (CCMB, Hyderabad) | Elements of gene regulatory mechanisms: genomic and epigenomic perspective (abstract) |
| 18:00 | Close | |
| 19:00 | Dinner (venue: institute canteen, 1st floor) | |
| Saturday, January 13, 2018 | ||
| 09:15 | Krishanpal Karmodiya (IISER, Pune) | Plasmodium falciparum epigenome: A distinct dynamic epigenetic regulation of gene expression (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Rajalakshmi S (INSTEM, Bengaluru) | Deciphering amino acid starvation responses using yeast (abstract) |
| 10:15 | Sreenivasulu Kurukuti (University of Hyderabad) | Dynamic reorganization of intra-chromosomal domains accompanies signal induced lactogenic differentiation of mouse mammary epithelial cells (abstract) |
| 10:45 | Ranjith Padinhateeri (IIT Bombay) | Nucleosome organization, DNA-bending proteins and chromatin assembly (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Tea/coffee | |
| 11:30 | Dimple Notani (NCBS, Bengaluru) | Role of Transcriptional enhancers in chromatin organization (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Savita Chib (NCBS, Bengaluru) | Genetics of adaptation in E. coli: A "tail" of stationary-phase sigma factor RpoS |
| 12:30 | Rahul Siddharthan (IMSc, Chennai) | Extended sequence features in DNA (abstract) |
| 13:00 | Lunch (venue: institute canteen, 1st floor) | |
| 14:00 | Discussion | |
| POSTERS (January 12, 15:30-16:30) | ||
| Ankit Agrawal (IMSc, Chennai) | A Computational Model of Large-scale Nuclear Architecture | |
| M Karthikeyan, B S Karthikeyan (IMSc, Chennai) | IMPPAT: A curated database of Indian Medicinal Plants, Phytochemistry And Therapeutics | |
| Soumen Khan (IISER, Pune) | Transcription factor signatures and their role in Ultrabithorax mediated Haltere specification in Drosophila | |
| Pradeep Natarajan, Saransh Umale (IIT Madras) | ||
| R P Vivek-Ananth (IMSc, Chennai) | Comparative systems analysis of the secretome of the opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus and other Aspergillus species |
If you would like to participate, please send an email to rsidd at imsc dot res dot in.
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