DAY - 1

Day 1: March 10th, 2023

08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Guest Registration

09:00 AM - 09:40 AM Inauguration Ceremony 

09:45 AM - 10:30 AM Presidential Lecture by Prof. Toomas Kivisild (Approaches to reveal Genetic Ancestry and Relatedness from Genomic Data)

10:30 AM - 11:10 AM High Tea

Session 1: The Prehistoric DNA Revolution & Journey of our ancestors

 Chair - Prof. G.N.N. Sultana & Prof. SC Lakhotia

11:10 AM - 11:35 AM Keynote Lecture 1: Prof. A. Achilli (The genetic history of Indigenous Americans on the Isthmus of Panama: from modern mitogenomes to archaeogenomics)

11:35 AM - 12:00 AM Keynote Lecture 2: Prof. Luca Pagani (Some 20,000 years of human presence out of Africa that went unnoticed: where were my genetic ancestors between 60 and 40 kya?)

12:00 PM - 12:25 PM Lecture 1: Dr. Eaashwarkhanth Muthukrishnan (Decoding the evolutionary roots of metabolic syndrome susceptibility in an Arabian  population)

12:25 PM - 12:30 PM                                                       Summary by Chairs

Session 2: Evolution and Epidemiology 

Chair - Prof. Rajiva Raman & Prof. MS Mustak 

12:30 PM - 12:55 PM Keynote Lecture 4: Prof. PP Majumder (Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Giigivo-Buccal Oral cancer reveals Two Dominant Cellular Programs)

12:55 PM - 01:20 PM Lecture 2: Dr. Moinak Banerjee (Dilemma in Epigenetics of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and the way to resolve)

01:20 PM - 01:45 PM Lecture 3: Dr. Prashanth Suravajhala (Prostate Cancer Evolution in the Realm of Systems Genomics: Myths and Challenges)

01:45 PM - 01:50 PM                                                       Summary By Chairs

01:50 PM - 02:40 PM              Lunch & Poster Session (Odd numbers)

Session 3: The Modern DNA Evolution 

Chair - Prof. George van Driem & Dr Sonam Spalzin 

02:40 PM - 03:05 PM              Lecture 4: Dr. Neeru Gandotra (Improving diagnosis of newborn screening: a precision public health initiative) 

03:05 PM - 3:30 PM        Lecture 5: Dr. Monika Karmin (Cases of many chromosome Y sequences from modern men)

03:30 PM - 03:55 PM      Lecture 6: Dr. Aashish Jha (Pervasive Genetic Admixture Between East and South Asians in Himalaya Predating Ancestral North Indian  Expansion)

03:55 PM - 04:20 PM Lecture 7: Dr. Rakesh Tamang (Genetic diversity among the ethnic tribal populations inhabiting the Indian Himalayas region) 

04:20 PM - 4:45 PM Lecture 8: Dr. Mircea Iliescu (Unravelling the evolution of human diversity in admixed populations)

04:45PM - 04:50PM                                                 Summary By Chairs

04:50 PM- 05:30 PM             Coffee Break & Speakers Meet

Desk 1 Dr. Luca Pagani & Dr. Monika Karmin

Desk 2 Prof. Toomas Kivisild & Dr. Mircea Iliescu

Desk 3 Dr. Rakesh Tamang, Dr, Aashish Jha & Dr. Mukesh Thakur

Desk 4 Dr. Neeru Gandotra

Session 4: Student’s Flash Talks  (Moderated by Dr. Sada Nand Pandey & Dr. Amresh Singh)

05:30 PM - 05:35 PM Kusum Ghosh (Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta)

05:35 PM - 05:40 PM Ashish Kulkarni ( Independent Researcher)

05:40 PM - 05:45 pm Richa Rajpal (Department of Biological Science, Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleoscience Lucknow )

05:45 PM - 05:50 PM Souradip Basu ( Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata )

05:50 PM - 05:55 PM Praveen Tiwari (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)

05: 55 - 06:00 PM         Summary by Moderators

06:30 PM - 08:30 PM      Cultural Event 

08:30 PM onwards         Gala Dinner