Aspects of Gene and Cellular Regulation, 2025

Date/time	Speaker	Affiliation	Talk title	Abstract
27/03/2025
09:55	Rahul Siddharthan	IMSc Chennai	Brief intro to AOGCR
10:00	Dimple Notani	NCBS Bengaluru	Transcription Factor Redundancy at Enhancer Clusters Shapes Cyclic Hormone Signaling	abstract
10:25	Mahipal Ganji	IISc Bengaluru	Genome compaction and gene regulation mechanism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
10:50	Micky Anand	IISc Bengaluru	Functional genome organisation in single cells
11:15	Coffee
11:45	Annapurna Allu	IISER Tirupati	Orchestrated transcriptional programs drive acquired stress tolerance in plants	abstract
12:10	Palok Aich	NISER Bhubaneswar	Phase-dependent circadian linking of metabolome and microbiome in a high-fat diet-induced NAFLD model	abstract
12:35	Shanmuga Priya B	IMSc Chennai	UVREK: A Knowledgebase of Biomolecular Expression Profiles Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation	abstract
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Ramesh Yelagandula	CDFD Hyderabad	Decoding Transcriptional Repressors Role in Cell Fate Specification and Disease	abstract
14:25	N Aniruddha	IMSc Chennai	Surface heterogeneity dictates condensation of Tau on microtubules	abstract
14:50	Pinaki Swain	IMSc Chennai	Role of protein-protein interactions on organization and dynamics of a model chromatin	abstract
15:15	Devyani Haldar	CDFD Hyderabad	Understanding mechanism of DNA replication fork stalling in chromatin	abstract
15:40	Coffee
16:10	Leelavati Narlikar	IISER Pune	Jointly detecting cell-subtypes and regulators from single cell epigenetic data
16:35	Ranjith Padinhateeri	IIT Bombay	Polymer simulations exploring the interplay between loop extrusion kinetics and intra-chromatin interactions	abstract
17:00	Anagha Joshi-Michoel	University of Bergen	Sex and gender differences in the human brain at transcription level during development and disease	abstract
17:35	Close
19:00	Dinner (venue: 1st floor, canteen)
28/03/2025
09:35	Prasanna Venkatraman	ACTREC Navi Mumbai	Many ways of constructing and Interpreting PPI and Co-expression Networks	abstract
10:00	Manikandan Narayanan	IIT Madras	Causal surgery meets linear optimization - an integrative model of gene regulation and metabolism
10:25	Anita Banerjee	IISER Tirupati	Retinoic acid gates the response to Wnt/β -catenin signal to drive early mesoderm patterning	abstract
10:50	Ramkumar Sambasivan	IISER Tirupati	Constructing the animal body: Mechanisms patterning the early mammalian embryo	abstract
11:15	Coffee
11:45	Samarth Herur	IISER Pune	Sequence-to-Function: Understanding the Role of the CTCF Binding Sequence in Chromatin Organisation
12:10	Nishana Mayilaadumveettil	IISER Thiruvananthapuram	Altered three-dimensional chromatin organization as a driver of tumorigenesis	abstract
12:35	Yathish Achar	CDFD Hyderabad	Genome folding and supercoiling: structural dynamics in cell development
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Tom Michoel	University of Bergen	Causation from correlation in fluctuation analysis of gene expression	abstract
14:25	Saket Choudhary	IIT Bombay	Towards comparative single-cell multi-omics	abstract
14:50	Madhumita Mondal	IMSc Chennai	Node persistence from topological data analysis can reveal changes in human brain functional connectivity networks	abstract
15:15	Adwaith PP	IIT Bombay	Connecting folding properties from nucleosome scale to whole-chromosome scale	abstract
15:40	Coffee
16:10	Nikhil Chivukula	IMSc Chennai	Toxicogenomics-driven Insights into Plastic Additives-induced Toxicity through Stressor-centric Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) Networks	abstract
16:35	Rahul Siddharthan	IMSc Chennai	Using neural networks to study regulatory DNA sequence
17:00	Discussion
17:30	Close