Programme Schedule

6th November 2020 (Friday)

Session 1A: Presidential Address
1000 - 1100
Partha P. Majumder, NIBMG, Kalyani
Selective sweep of a SARS-CoV-2 mutant, with some hiccups
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1100 - 1130
Short Break
Session 1B: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
1130 -1150
Vikram Mathews
CMC, Vellore
Acute promyelocytic leukemia: A bench to bedside journey
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1155 - 1215
Sushmee Badhulika
IIT, Hyderabad
Nanomaterials based low cost, flexible devices for point of care diagnostics
1220 - 1240
Ravi S. Nanjundiah
IITM, Pune
A possible cause for change in Indian monsoon & El-Nino relationship
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1245 - 1305
Justin R. David
IISc, Bengaluru
Entanglement entropy and holography
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1305 - 1400
Lunch Break
Session 1C: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
1400 - 1420
Vishvanath Tiwari
Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer
Strategies for combating carbapenem resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
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1425 - 1445
Amritanshu Prasad
IMSc, Chennai
Polynomials as characters
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1450 - 1510
A Sundaresan
JNCASR, Bengaluru
Magnetoelectrics and multiferroics
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1515 - 1530
Short Break
Session 1D: Symposium: “Quantum Technology” organized by Urbasi Sinha and Vibhor Singh
1530 - 1600
Kavita Dorai
IISER, Mohali
Nuclear magnetic resonance as a testbed quantum processor
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1600 - 1630
Madhu Thalakulam
IISER, Thiruvananthapuram
Charge amplification approaching the quantum limit
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1630 - 1700
Vibhor Singh
IISc, Bengaluru
Electromechanical device with a transmon qubit
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1700 - 1730
Urbasi Sinha
RRI, Bengaluru
Photonic quantum science and technologies
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1730 - 1800
Short Break
Session 1E: Public Lecture
1800 - 1900
Martin Rees
University of Cambridge, UK
The World in 2050 and beyond
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1915 - 2000
Cultural Programme - Gaash band
By SARHAD, Pune

7th November 2020 (Saturday)

Session 2A: Special Lecture
0900 - 0940
M. Rajeevan
Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi
Recent advances in weather and climate prediction in India
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Session 2B: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
0940 - 1000
Riddhi Singh
IIT, Mumbai
On the use of hydrological models to estimate future surface water availability
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1005 - 1025
Aloke Paul
IISc, Bengaluru
Solving the issues of multicomponent diffusion
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1030 - 1100
Short break
Session 2C: Symposium: “Rare Genetic Disorders” organized by Sudha Bhattacharya
1100 - 1110
Sudha Bhattacharya
Ashoka University, Sonepat
Introduction
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1110 - 1135
V.M. Katoch
JIPMER, Puducherry
Rare Genetic Diseases in India : Unmet Needs, Challenges and Opportunities
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1135 - 1200
Meenakshi Bhat
Centre for Human Genetics, Bengaluru
Rare Genetic Diseases in India: an overview and experiences from one centre
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1200 - 1225
Souvik Maiti
Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Delhi
FELUDASCDscd - FnCas9 editor linked uniform detection assay for sickle cell disease
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1225 - 1250
Krishna M. Ella
Bharat Biotech Limited, Hyderabad
Translational and Manufacturing of Viral Vectors for Gene Therapy to Correct Genetic Disorders
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1250 - 1300
V. M. Katoch
Concluding Remarks
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1300 - 1400
Lunch break
Session 2D: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
1400 - 1420
Mahesh Sankaran
NCBS, Bengaluru
The paradox of forest-grassland mosaics: revisiting the ‘one climate-one biome’ paradigm
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1425 - 1445
Purvi Gupta
IISc, Bengaluru
The role of topology in certain analytic problems
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1450 - 1510
Ruta P. Kale
NCRA, Pune
Plasma laboratories on megaparsec-scales
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1515 - 1535
Manjula Reddy
CCMB, Hyderabad
Break before make - how do bacteria make their cell walls
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1540 - 1710
Business Meeting of Fellows
1710 - 1730
Virtual Group Photograph Session for Fellows
Session 2E: Public Lecture
1800 - 1900
Jairam Ramesh
Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Parliament's Standing Committee on S&T, Environment, Forests and Climate Change & former Union Minister
Science & Technology in Post-Covid19 World
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8th November 2020 (Sunday)

SESSION 3A: Lectures by Fellows/Associates
0900 - 0920
Yogita K. Adlaka
THSTI, Faridabad
Understanding post transcriptional mechanisms in neural development: Implications of induced pluripotent stem cells and organoids
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0925 - 0945
Debashree Chakraborty
NIT, Suratkal
Structural and dynamical properties of water near surfactant like peptide nanotubes
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0950 - 1010
Arnab Bhattacherjee
JNU, New Delhi
Understanding protein transport on DNA track
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1015 - 1030
Short Break
SESSION 3B: Special Lecture
1030 - 1110
C.Jagadish
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronics, energy and neuroscience applications
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