DAY 2

• Session 5: Engineering Biology & Genomics (09:00-11:20)

Chair: Prof. VR Rao, Prof. M.S. Mustak

9:00-9:50: Presidential Talk Prof. Bruce Whitelaw: Engineering Biology – the application of bioscience

9:50- 10:25- Keynote Talk Dr. Moinak Banerjee: Dissecting the double edge sword of therapeutics: A link between common and rare disease

10:25- 10:50- Talk5 Dr. Manjari Jonnalagadda: Implications of research in skin pigmentation studies on human health

10:50- 11:15- Talk6 Dr. Kartik Sunagar: Evolutionary Venomics

11:15-11:20- Session Summary by Chair

• Session 6: Multiomics (12:00-14:00)

Chair: Dr. Charu Sharma & Dr. Mini Kariappa 

12:00-12:25- Talk7 by Prof. Sajitha Lulu S:  Decoding the Tumor Microenvironment through Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics

12:25- 12:50- Talk8 Dr. Rakesh Tamang: The Indian Himalayan and adjoining‬ populations: A genomic perspective‬

12:50-13:15- Talk9 Dr. Ranajit Das: Individuals’ unique genetic makeup influences their susceptibility towards infectious diseases: COVID-19 as a case study 

13:15-13:40- Talk10 Dr Renuka Suravajhala: In silico Approaches to Identify potential Biomarkers and phytochemicals for Prostate Cancer

13:40-13:55- Talk11 Sona Charles: An R Shiny-Based Toolkit for Interactive‬ Downstream Analysis and Visualization of NGS Data‬

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

• Session 7: Archaeology & Prehistory  (Parallel Session 11:30-14:00)

Chairs: Prof. Vasant Shinde & Prof. Vibha Tripathi

11:30-11:55- Keynote Talk6 Prof. Sheila Mishra: Reconciling the Palaeolithic Archaeological and aDNA records. 

11:55- 12:20- Talk12 Dr. Vinay Gupta: Archaeological Excavations at Bahaj, District Deeg and Bewan, District Neem Ka Thana and the Emerging Archaeological Scenario

12:20-12:45- Talk13 Dr. Anil Suri: Metals and Men: An Overlooked Conundrum at the Heart of the Indo-European Migration Debate

13:10-14:00- Panel Discussion Moderator: Dr. Jose Tom Rapheal

(Prof. Sheila Mishra, Prof Vibha Tripathi, Dr Anil Suri, Prof. Alok Kumar Kanungo)

• Session 8: Integrative Genomics (15:00-16:20)

Chair:  Prof. Arup Bandyopadhyay & Prof. Rajnikant Mishra

15:00-15:25: Keynote Talk7 Dr. Shrikant Mane: Increasing diagnostic rate in rare‬ ‭diseases- lessons learnt and defining variants of unknown significance‬

15:25-15:50- Talk15 Dr. Pankaj Khurana: Computational Approaches for High Altitude Health and Performance Optimization

15:50-16:15- Talk16 Dr. Manvendra Singh: HERITED: Human Endogenous Retroelements at the Interface of Translational Epigenetics & Diseases 

16:15-16:20- Summary of the session by Chair

• Session 9: Functional Genomics (Parallel Session 15:00-16:20)

Chairs: Prof. Parimal Das,  Prof Rajesh Sharma

15:25-15:50- Talk17 Dr. Jayendra Shukla: Screening for plastic degrading pathway genes in the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)

15:50-16:15- Talk18 Prof. Manjunath B. Joshi: Exploring Integrated-Omics Strategies to Identify Disease Mechanisms

16:15-16:20- Summary of the session

• Parallel session: BioClues Meeting

15:00-16:00- GCCI Meeting at SPRC Department of Zoology