DAY 1

Inaugural Ceremony (10:00-11:00 Hrs)

10:00 AM: Welcome of Honourable guests by Dr. Chandana Basu, Director of the Institute, Dean, HOD, Founder BioClues, ADNAT President and Chief Guest), and request for Deep Prajwalan and offering garland to Mahamana.

10:05 AM: ‘Deep Prajwalan’ and ‘Malyarpan’ (assisted by Audditiya, Debashruti) followed by ‘Kulgeet’.

10:10- 10:15 AM: Address by Founder Bioclues

10:15- 10:20 AM: Address by President of ADNAT

10:20-10:45 AM:  Keynote address by the Chief Guest (Prof. Bhallamudi V. Sharma-Director, Anthropological Survey of India). “AnSI and Paleoanthropological research: Achievement and current endeavor”. 

10:45-10:50 AM: Thank you note by Dr K Sri Manjari and e-inauguration of the Abstract Book by the Chief Guest

• Session 1: Diseases & Evolutionary Selection (12:00- 14:00 )

Chair: Prof. Rajiva Raman & Prof. Madhu G. Tapadia 

12:00-12:25- Keynote Talk1 Dr. Iain Mathieson: Special cases and general principles of natural selection in humans

12:25- 12:50- Keynote Talk2 Dr. Irene Galego Romero: Lessons from building an atlas of immune cell diversity across Indonesian populations

12:50-13:15- Keynote Talk3 Dr. Arindam Maitra: Our Journey into the Oral Tumour Ecosystem: Novel Insights and New Horizons

13:15-13:40- Talk1  Dr. Gaurav Sharma:  Tracing the evolutionary threads of mycobacterial flagella

13:40-13:55- Talk2 Dr. Vikas Bansal: Decoding Cell-Type Specific Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Multi-Omics Approach

13:55-14:00- Summary of the session by the Chairs

• Session 2: Linguistic Evolution (Parallel Session 12:00 - 14:00)

Chair: Prof. Shailendra Mohan & Prof. V. Ramanathan 

12:00-12:25- Keynote Talk4 Prof. George van Driem: Nicobarese and Austroasiatic: Together linguists and geneticists unravel the past 

12:25- 12:50- Talk3 Prof. Tanmoy Bhattacharya: how to linguistically (un)map a nation: A hiatus in the Northeast

12:50-14:00- Panel Discussion: “Past, Present and Future of Linguistics in Indian Subcontinent” Moderator: Prof. V. Ramanathan

(Prof. George van Driem, Prof. Shailendra Mohan & Prof. Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Prof. VR Rao, Prof. Arup Bandyopadhyay)

• Session 3: Bioclues Award Session (BIRD and LTA) (15:00-17:25)

15:00-17:25 Session3: Bioclues Award Session (BIRD and LTA)

Chair: Dr. Raghav Mishra, Dr Vijay Sundar 

15:00-15:35:  Bird Award Talk: Dr. Manjari Kiran 

15:35-16:00- Talk LTA1 award Bioclues: Prof. NK Lohiya

16:00- 16:25 Talk  LTA2 award Bioclues: Prof. GPS Raghava

16:25- 16:50 Talk LTA3 award Bioclues: Prof.  G. Narahari Sastry 

16:50- 17:25 Talk4  Dr. Rajaguru Aradhya: Drosophila, a favourite invertebrate model to study cancer biology - An update in the era of genomics 

• Session 4: Oral Presentation (Parallel Session 15:00-17:15)

Moderators: Dr Gaurav Pandey & Dr Devanjan Sinha

15:00-15:10- Oral Talk 1 Dr Barka Khilwani: Herbal Insights: The role of papaya seed extracts in male contraception  

15:10-15:20- Oral Talk 2  Chhavi Choudhary: Identification of female specific waprin homologue linked to embryonic development in Tribolium castaneum via sex-specific transcriptomics 

15:20-15:30- Oral Talk 3 Anjana Welikala: Phylogeographic Insights into Mitochondrial DNA Variation among the Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Tamils, and Indigenous Vedda Populations of Sri Lanka 

15:30- 15:40- Oral Talk 4  Piyush Gupta: Identification of female specific waprin homologue linked to embryonic development in Tribolium castaneum via sex-specific transcriptomics

15:40-15:48- Oral Talk 5 Vandana : Spatial and temporal distribution of viral loads and epidemiological dynamics of COVID-19 

15:48-15:56- Oral Talk 6  Ranjit Reddy : The Blueprint of Life 

15:56-16:04- Oral Talk 7  Ranojit Sarkar: AI-Driven Optimization of Phytochemical-Antibiotic Synergy for Targeting MRSA Biofilms and Enhancing ROS-Mediated Disruption. 

16:04-16:12- Oral Talk 8  Venkata Sai Lankesh Karuturi: Clustering and Visualizing Protein Images for Molecular Analysis 

16:12-16:20- Oral Talk 9 Subhajit Ghosh : Integrated network pharmacology approach to uncover the therapeutic mechanisms of Kachnar Guggulu in the treatment of PCOS 

16:20- 16:28- Oral Talk 10 Neha Singh :  Rajghat: A post-Acheulean site in the middle son valley 

16:28-16:31- Oral Talk 11 Padmanaban Venkatesan : Association of organ iron levels with type 2 diabetes mellitus and glycemic traits: A bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study 

16:31-16:39- Oral Talk 12 Maheswari Dasgupta: Exploring the salt stress-responsive microRNA-centered regulatory network in Vigna radiata (mungbean) by small RNA deep sequencing

16:39-16:47- Oral Talk 13 Rayah Leboo: 

16:47-16:55- Oral Talk 14 Arbaz Attar: 

16:55-17:03- Oral Talk15 Thermo Talk 

17:03-17:11- Oral Talk16 Ashish Dubey 

17:11-17:19- Oral Talk 17 Neeraj Arora 

• Session 5: Prostate Cancer (Bioclues Only)

17:30-18:30- SPRC Hall Department of Zoology