Schedule

DBS Symposium 2025- Programme Schedule

Day 1 – Sunday, 2 November 2025

09:00-10:00  Registration

Pre-Lunch Session (10:00–13:00)

10:00–10:05 Welcome address by HoD, DBS IISER Berhampur

10:05–10:15 Lamp lighting by Prof. Roop Mallik, IIT-Bombay & Prof. Ashok Kumar Ganguli,                         Director IISER Berhampur

10:15–10:25   Brief remarks by Prof. Ashok Kumar Ganguli, Director IISER Berhampur

10:25–11:10 Plenary Lecture- Prof. Roop Mallik, IIT-Bombay

  Title" Unexpected and Unwanted : Cell Biological Effects of Anti-Cancer                  Drugs and Anti-Depressants in the Liver "

11:10–11:30 Tea Break

11:30–12:00 Dr. Mainak Bose, IIT-Kharagpur

Title" A journey to the pole: RNP granules, phase separation & germline development "

12:00–12:30 Prof. Prosenjit Mondal, DBS IISER Berhampur

  Title" Exploring inter-organ crosstalk to uncover mechanisms that regulate 

  β-cell function and metabolically-dysfunction associated Steatohepatitis"

12:30–01:00 Dr. Ruthrotha Selvi Bharathavikru, DBS IISER Berhampur

   Title" Role of RNA methylation associated modifiers in Diabetic Kidney 

   Disease"

Post-Lunch Session (14:00–18:30)

14:30–15:00 Dr. Vivek Tiwari, DBS IISER Berhampur

Title" From Aging Circuits to Malignant Networks: Decoding Structure

Function Complexity and Metabolic Chemistry as a Universal Language of 

Brain Health and Disease"

15:00–15:30 Dr. Tanweer Hussain, IISc. Bangalore

Title" Structural insights into how viral mRNA hijacks host ribosomes for  

protein synthesis"

15:30–16:00 Dr. Vinay Bulusu, DBS IISER Berhampur

Title" Glycolytic compartmentalisation across cellular scales"

16:00–16:30 Dr. Nagarjun Vijay, IISER Bhopal

Title" Unraveling the Tasmanian Tiger’s Demise: Gene Loss and the Genetics  

of Extinction"

16:30–17:30 Tea+ Networking/ Poster Session

17:30–18:30 Alumni - Student Interaction

19:00–21:30 Cultural Event

Day 2 – Monday, 3 November 2025

Final Session (10:00–13:00)

10:00–10:30 Dr. Shashank Sekhar, CBMR, Lucknow

 Title" Cytosolic condensates of ISR effectors; a mechanism to attenuate 

 chronic stress in Drosophila and mice" 

10:30–11:00 Dr. Bodhisatta Nandy, DBS IISER Berhampur

Title "Life history modulates the evolution of sexually selected traits and 

sexual conflict" 

11:00–11:20 Tea Break

11:20–11:50 Dr. Jose Sebastian, DBS IISER Berhampur

Title "Root system dynamics under a combinatorial stress environment" 

11:50–12:00 Presentation by "La Vida" Official Biology Club of IISER Berhampur

Title "La Vida: Engaging Across the Dimensions of Biological Science and Its Researchers" 

12:00–12:15 Neha Yadav, Ph.D. Scholar, DBS IISER Berhampur

  Title "One Geometry, One Code: Brain Metastases Converge on a Distinct Structural and Molecular Signature from Gliomas" 

12:15–12:30 Arun Kumar, Ph.D. Scholar, DBS IISER Berhampur

  Title "From Breaks to Boosters: LINE1 Endonuclease Fuels Genome Instability and Enhancer Activation" 

12:30–12:45 Rakesh Siuli, Ph.D. Scholar, DBS IISER Berhampur

  Title "Modular innovation in multi-component Dnd and BREX prokaryotic immune systems" 

12:45–13:00 Award Distribution and Closing Remarks