Conferences and Seminars

Presentations at Academic Conferences 

1. Invited speaker in International Symposium on “Mitochondria, Cell Death, and Human Diseases” on 18-19 Feb 2023, topic “Gastric epithelial cells infected with Helicobacter pylori utilize host oncoprotein Gankyrin to escape the cell death pathway” at Jawahar Lal Nehru (JNU) University, New Delhi, India.

2. Invited speaker in MICON (Microbes, Innovations & Technology) topic “Infection and Co-infection Models of Pathogens in Chronic Diseases” on March 3, 2023, at YENEPOYA University Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

3. Invited speaker in “Two days National Seminar on Recent trends in Drug Discovery” on the topic “Screening of small molecules for the inhibition of host and pathogens associated proteins” on March 16, 2023, Regional Ayurvedic Research Institute, Gwalior, India.

4. Invited speaker in "2nd Coloquium on Immunology, Infection Biology & Vaccine Research" at Bapubhai Desaibhai Patel Institute of Paramedical Sciences-CHARUSAT- Anand Gujarat, on 2d-3, March 2023, on title “Infection and Co-infection Models of Pathogens in Chronic Diseases”.  

5. Invited speaker at Refresher Course in Life Science (Core) organized by UGC-HRDC DAVV Indore title “Redefining lobe-wise ground-glass opacity in COVID-19 through deep learning and correlation of biochemical parameters, with respect to SARS-CoV-2 Variants of concern and different population” at Devi Ahilya University on March 20, 2023.

6. Invited speaker at Refresher Course in Life Science (Core) organized by UGC-HRDC DAVV Indore title “Understanding Epstein Barr Virus-mediated neurological modalities and deciphering its role in neuroinflammation” on May 16, 2023.

7. Invited speaker at Refresher Course in Life Science (Core) organized by UGC-HRDC DAVV Indore title “Co-infection of Helicobacter pylori and Epstein-Barr Virus promotes the aggressiveness in Gastric cancer” on May 15, 2023.

8. Invited speaker at Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) Bhubaneshwar and delivered talk on “Infection and co-infection models of pathogens in chronic diseases” on May 14, 2022.

9. Invited speaker at Swami Rama Himalayan University and delivered talk on “Infection and co-infection models of pathogens in chronic diseases” on May 19, 2022.

10. Keynote speaker in Two Day National Conference, “Recent Trends in Biomedical Sciences-2021” being hosted by the Lovely Professional University, India on 2nd-3rd, July 2021.

11. Deliver talk as resource person on the topic “Genomics and Proteomics" at Uka Tarsadia University, Surat, Gujarat in Aug 16, 2021.

12. Key note speaker on the topic “Emotional Health and Immunity” at Govt Holkar Science College, Indore MP on April 16, 2021.

13. Guest speaker on the topic Virtual Symposium on “An immunological insights to SARS-CoV-2 and host interactions” scheduled for April 29, 2021 at IIT Roorkee India.

14. Key note speaker on the topic “An Insight into COVID 19 Biology - Labs to Clinic” at Govt. College Timarni, Harda, MP on March 22, 2021.  

15. Guest speaker on the topic “Helicobacter pylori and Epstein Barr Virus coinfection in gastric cancer progression” at UGC- Human Resource Development Center, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, MP on 22nd Dec 2020.

16. Guest speaker on the topic “Helicobacter pylori and Epstein Barr Virus coinfection in gastric cancer progression” at UGC- Human Resource Development Center, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, MP on 22nd Dec 2020.

17. Guest speaker on topic “Raman Spectroscopy: A tool to study biomolecular alterations happening in a cell on virus infection” at UGC- Human Resource Development Center, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, MP on 22nd Dec 2020. 

18. Guest speaker on the topic “COVID-19: trends and recent updates” at CONIAPS -XXVI, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Science, Prayagraj, UP on 19th Dec 2020.

19. International conference on the topic “COVID-19: trends and updates” at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, MP on 2nd Nov 2020.

20. International webinar on the topic “Immune warriors: Role of interferons, B-cell and T-cell against viral infection” at St. Philomena’s College, Mysore, Karnataka on 11th Sep 2020

21. Guest speaker “COVID-19 diagnostic; current status and challenges” at SAGE University Indore, MP on 29th Aug 2020. 

22. Guest speaker on topic “COVID-19 Diagnosis: Current Status and Challenges” at Birla institute of technology Ranchi, Jharkhand on 18th July 2020.

23. Guest speaker on topic “CORONAVIRUS STATUS and CHALLENGES: A SCIENCE AND    ENGINEERING APPROACH” at Swami Vivekanand Group of Institution, Indore, MP on 15th June 2020.

24. Guest member at Chameli Devi Group of Institute, Indore, MP on 1st Feb 2020.

25. Tiwari D., Jakhmola S., Jha HC., Epstein Barr Virus as an inducer of neurodegeneration. Poster presentation in international conference “Emerging Areas in Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (eBBT) 2018 organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Indore from January 5-6, 2018. Received Best Poster Award.

26. Sonkar C, Kashyap D, Indari O, Singh S, Jha HC, Role of Kinases in Epstein Barr Virus and Helicobacter Pylori Coinfected Gastric Cancer. Poster presentation in international conference “Emerging Areas in Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering (eBBT) 2018 organized by Indian Institute of Technology, Indore from January 5-6, 2018.

27. Jha HC, Jhakhmola S, Indari O, Tiwari D. Potential Roles of Bacteria and Virus in Gastric Cancer and Multiple Sclerosis. 10th Young Investigator Meeting, 5-8 March 2018 at Trivandrum, India.

28. Jha HC, Jhakhmola S. Differential Epstein Barr Virus expression in B cells and neuronal cells. Keystone Symposia Conference Z3: Advances in Neurodegenerative Disease Research and Therapy.June 17 - June 21, 2018, Colorado, USA.

29. Singh S, Jha HC. Optical Imaging with Signal Processing for Non-Invasive Diagnosis in Gastric Cancer: Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Modalities. Oral presentation in International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP) 2017 at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from Dec 22-24, 2017. * Corresponding Author

30. Jakhmola S, Jha HC. Reduce the risk of Dementia; Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Oral presentation in International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP) 2017 at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from Dec 22-24, 2017. *Corresponding Author

31. Tiwari D,Jha HC. Detection and Analysis of Human Brain Disorders. Oral presentation in International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP) 2017 at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from Dec 22-24, 2017. * Corresponding Author

32. Sonkar C,Jha HC. Diagnosis of tumorigenesis and cancer. Oral presentation in International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing (MISP) 2017 at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from Dec 22-24, 2017. * Corresponding Author

33. Shukla SK, , Sahu SK, Robertson ES. facilitates EBV infection in gastric cancer cell line. Poster  presentation in 16th Annual Symposium “Innovative perspectives on pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer", University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA on June 17, 2015.

34. Jha HC, Nakagawa H, Robertson ES, Cell Culture Core of the Centre for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases.  Poster presentation in 16th Annual Symposium “Innovative perspectives on pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer", University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA on June 17, 2015.

35. Jha HC, Lu J, Yang K, El-Naccache DW, Sun Z, Saha A, Cai Q, Banerjee S, Prasad M, Robertson ES. EBV essential antigen 3c  deregulates tumor suppressors and pro-apoptotic targets through induction of mitotic protein Aurora Kinase B in EBV-mediated    oncogenesis. Poster presentation at Young Investigator Meeting (YIM), Srinagar on March 27-APril1, 2015, organized by India Biosciences.

36. Jha HC, Upadhyay SK, Shukla S, Sun Z, Robertson ES. KSHV-mediated regulation of Par3 and SNAIL contributes to B-cell transformation. Poster Presentation in 13th annual Biomedical Postdoctoral Research Symposium at University of Pennsylvania,     Philadelphia, PA, USA on November 18, 2014.

37. Jha HC, Banerjee S, Saha A, Robertson ES. Molecular aspects of Epstein-Barr virus pathogenesis: A focus on Nuclear Antigen 3C. Oral presentation in "16th International Symposium on EBV and associated diseases", Brisbane, Australia, July 16-19, 2014.

38. Jha HC, Robertson ES, Cell Culture Core of the Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases. Poster presentation in "7th Annual conference of GI and stem cell therapy", UPENN Medical School, 2013.

39. Banerjee S, Lu J, Cai Q, Saha A, , Robertson ES. EBNA3C stabilizes IRF4 to promote B cell transformation by downregulating IRF8. Poster presentation in 1st Biomedical postdoctoral symposium in Philadelphia region at University of  Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on 27th June, 2013. 

40. Jha HC, Yang K, Lu J, Prasad M, Robertson ES. p53 modulation through AK-B and EBNA3C in EBV-mediated oncogenesis. Poster presentation in "1st Biomedical postdoctoral symposium in Philadelphia region" at University of Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia on 27th June, 2013.

41. Jha HC, Upadhyay SK, Saha A, Cai Q, Banerjee S, Lu J, MPAJ, Robertson ES. EBNA3C mediated stabilization of Aurora Kinase B contributes to oncogenesis. Poster presentation “The 9th Annual Biomedical Postdoctoral Research Symposium” at UPENN, Philadelphia, PA, USA. October 9th, 2012.

42. Banerjee S, Lu J, Saha A, Cai Q, , Dzeng RK, Robertson ES. EBNA3C stabilizes IRF4 to promote B cell transformation by downregulating IRF8. Poster presentation “International Congress on Oncogenic Herpesviruses and Associated Diseases” at Philadelphia, PA, USA. 1-4th August, 2012.

43. Jha HC, SK Upadhyay, Saha A, Cai Q, Banerjee S, Lu J, MPAJ, Robertson ES. EBNA3C mediated stabilization of Aurora Kinase B contributes to oncogenesis. Poster  presentation in “International Congress on Oncogenic Herpesviruses and Associated Diseases” at Philadelphia, PA, USA. 1-4th August, 2012

44. Jha HC, Upadhyay SK, Shirley M, Robertson ES. Helicobacter pylori. Canfield S, facilitates EBV infection of gastric cancer cell line. Poster presentation in "6th Annual conference of GI and Ball diseases", UPENN Medical School, 2012.

45. Canfield S, , Nakagawa H, Robertson ES. Cell Culture Core of the Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases. Poster presentation in "6th Annual conference of GI and Ball diseases", UPENN Medical School, 2012.

46. Simbiri KO, , Robertson ES. Cytokine and Chemokines Expression Profiles in HIV-1 Infected Patients with Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia from Botswana. Poster presentation in "PENN-CFAR symposium". Philadelphia, USA, 2011.

47. Simbiri KO, , Robertson ES. Cytokine and Chemokines Expression Profiles in HIV-1 Infected Patients with Ocular Surface Squamous Neoplasia from Botswana. Poster presentation in "International AIDS symposium". NIH, USA, 2011.

48. Jha HC, Divya A, Prasad J, Mittal A. Coronary artery disease patients first degree relatives and atherosclerosis in India. Poster  presentation in "3rd International Congress on Prediabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome" in Nice, France, April 1-4, 2009.

49. Jha HC Sarkar R, Divya A, Prasad J, and Mittal A. Stress derived risk factors, Chlamydia pneumoniae and high sensitive C- reactive protein in Coronary Artery Disease patients of India. Poster presentation in "Joint International Conference on  International Society for heart research & International academy for cardiovascular sciences", Surat, India, December 13th-15th, 2008.

50. Gupta R, Srivastava P, Bhengraj AR, , Vardhan H, Salhan S, Mittal A. heat shock protein 60-specific antibody and cell-mediated responses can predict tubal factor infertility in infected women. Poster presentation in "Sixth Meeting of the European Society for Research", Aarhus – Denmark, July 1-4, 2008.

51. Srivastava P, Sarkar R, Prasad J, Mittal A, . Persistent infection of and Interleukin-6 may enhance severity and pathogenesis of coronary artery disease. Poster presentation in "Sixth Meeting of the European Society for Research", Aarhus–Denmark, July 1-4, 2008.

52. Jha R. , Vardhan H, Gupta R, Srivastava P, Bhengraj AR, Mittal, A. “Three-dimensional Structure of Heat Shock Protein 60 Reveals Cross Presentation of Epitopes in Infected Women Causing Infertility” Poster presentation in "International Conference in Structural Biology", 19th-22nd November, 2007, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

53. Jha R, , Gupta R, Vardhan H, Srivastava P, Bhengraj AR, Mittal, A. Similarity in domains of HSPs in humans and are suggestive of their role in causation of damaging sequalae in infertile women. Poster presentation in "11th ADNAT Convention". CCMB, Hyderabad, 2007.

54. Jha HC, Srivastava P, Jha R, Gupta R, Vardhan H, Bhengraj AR, Prasad J, Mittal A. Role of Chlamydia pneumoniae and its association with other risk factors in coronary artery disease. Poster presentation in "Biosparks 07, 5th Annual Research Festival", SLS, JNU, New Delhi, 23-24th Feb. 2007. (Awarded second prize in poster presentation).

Other Conferences/workshop Attended

1. One day symposium "Epigenetics Infection Immunity" organized by University of Pennsylvania and Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA on June 18, 2015.

2. One day Symposium "Herpesviruses: Pathogenesis and Cancer" organized by University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine on June 2, 2015.

3. Genomics interface from proteome to transcriptome organized by the University of Pennsylvania on 16th May, 2013.

4. 13th Gammaherpesvirus Symposium at PENN, Philadelphia, USA, 2012.

5. 12th Gammaherpesvirus symposium at PENN, Philadelphia, USA, 2011.

6. 11th Gammaherpesvirus symposium at PENN, Philadelphia, USA, 2010.

7. International advanced school in Biotechnology "Biologics: from Discovery to Development" at Manesar Gurgaon, India organized by ICGEB-India, from October 27-November 3, 2009.

8. National workshop on “Molecular Cytogenetic: Cancer (solid tissue) Cytogenetic by FISH” at Dept of Reproductive Biology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, from August 27-29, 2009.

9. Basic Flow Cytometry training conducted by “The Cytometry Society of India” at CDRI, Lucknow, India, from 10th to 13th November, 2008.

10. 9th Indo-US Cytometry Workshop on “The application of Flow cytometry in Stem cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine” at National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India from July 20-25, 2008.

11. Training on “Microarray- Hybridization to Analysis” at Ocimum Biosolution, Hyderabad, AP, January 7th -11th, 2008.

12. World Congress on Clinical & Preventive Cardiology (WCCPC 2007) and World Public Conference on Heart Care (WPCHC 2007) at Shantivan, Abu Road, Rajasthan, September 28th-30th, 2007.

13. National symposium on “Immunity to Infection” organized by Society of Young Scientists at All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi. October 8th, 2007.

14. Workshop on “IHC– A Diagnostic Tool” Principles and training in immunohistochemistry for pathologists and technicians” at DAKO & DSS Imagetech Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, September 20 – 22nd, 2007.

15. Medicine Update 2007, organized by Department of Medicine, All India Institute of  Medical Sciences New Delhi. August 5th, 2007.

16. Workshop on Introduction to Bioinformatics: Biomedical Informatics Centre, Department of Biophysics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. June 4th-8th, 2007.

17. Advances in Protein Sciences Research: From Sample Preparation to Protein Analysis, this seminar will highlight latest technologies in protein sciences research including DIGE, advances in ECL and SPR technology. Organized by GE Healthcare New Delhi, May 21st, 2007.

18. International symposium on Recent advances in cardiovascular sciences (RACS). “Global conference on heart disease”. DIPSAR, New Delhi, Feb 14th-15th, 2007.

19. Interactive Meet with European and Indian Science Icons. Department of Science  & Technology (Host: Department of Science & Technology, Embassy of Germany in New Delhi, EU Delegation of EC in India) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, February 8th, 2007.

20. International Winter School Training in Bioinformatics at HCU, Hyderabad, AP, from December 8th–16th, 2006.

21. International Symposium in Proteomics and Genomic Sciences, at IRRH, Mumbai, October 15-18th, 2006.

22. 21st Annual Conference, Indian Association of Pathologists & Microbiologists at Institute of Pathology (ICMR), New Delhi, April 16th, 2006.

23. Attended “2-D–Clinic” information and troubleshooting meet with Dr. Reiner Westermeir, organized by GE healthcare at Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi on January 23-24th, 2006.

24. Symposium on Molecular Aspects of Atherosclerosis and Related Metabolic Disorders at AIIMS, New Delhi, October 24th, 2005.

25. Seminar on “Post-independence progress of Indian Pathology-perspective for the Future” at Institute of Pathology, New Delhi, July 27th, 2005.

26. Talk on “National Biotechnology Development Strategy” at Gurgaon, India organized by Lab India, May 27th, 2005.

27. Retrieval of Bioinformatics and Database creation from 10th-11th January 2003. (Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and held at Bioinformatics Sub center, School of Biotechnology, DAVV, Indore).

28. Application of computers in biological science from 11th to 13th November 2002. (Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and held at Bioinformatics Sub center, School of Biotechnology, DAVV, Indore).

29. Proteomics and genomics from 10th-11th January 2002. (Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and held at Bioinformatics Sub center, School of Biotechnology, DAVV, Indore).

30. Application of computers in biological science from 8th-10th November 2001. Proteomics and genomics from 10th - 11th January 2002. (Sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi and held at Bioinformatics Sub center, School of Biotechnology, DAVV, Indore).