7:15 - 9:00 : Breakfast at VFR
Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:00
VIJAY JAYARAMAN & YASHRAJ CHAVHAN
Welcome Address, DIRECTOR, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Microbial Adaptation I :
10:00 - 10:25 :
DEEPA AGASHE, NCBS
Mutating mutators and how they change evolution
10:25 - 10:50 :
NISHAD MATANGE, IISER Pune
Mitigating gene expression demand in the short and long term
10:50 - 11:15 :
YASHRAJ CHAVHAN, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Multilevel evolution in the "genes-as-followers" mode
11:15 - 11:45 : Coffee Break
Organismal Evolution I :
11:45 - 12:10 :
KRUSHNAMEGH KUNTE, NCBS
Genetic Architecture and Sex-specific Selection Govern Molecular Evolution of a Master Regulator
12:10 - 12:35 :
NISHA N KANNAN, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Evolution of precise circadian clocks in Drosophila melanogaster populations selected for adult emergence in a narrow window of time
12:35 - 13:00 :
SIDDHARTH KULKARNI, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Evolutionary history and asymmetric diversification in Arachnida
13:00 - 14:30 : Lunch at CDH3
Metabolic Adaptation :
14:30 - 14:55 :
RIDDHIMAN DHAR, IIT Kharagpur
Metabolic remodeling in yeast populations over a 1000 generations
14:55 - 15:20 :
AMITESH ANAND, TIFR Mumbai
Bioenergetics at the core of bacterial adaptability
15:20 - 15:45 :
VIJAY JAYARAMAN, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Antagozymes in metabolism
15:45 - 16:15 : Coffee Break
Evolutionary Genetics :
16:15 - 16:40 :
KAVITA JAIN, JNCASR
Stochastic models of genetic diversity
16:40 - 17:05 :
ARUNKUMAR KRISHNAN, IISER Berhampur
Decoding the mysteries of Dnd defense systems
17:05 - 17:30 :
NAGARJUN VIJAY, IISER Bhopal
Treasure your exceptions: Structural rearrangements at Fm and Id loci shape the black-bone chicken phenotype
17:30 - 17:55 :
SABARI SANKAR THIRUPATHY, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Mutations and bacterial genome organization
19:00 - 23:00 : Dinner at CDH3
7:15 - 9:00 : Breakfast at VFR
Tools of the trade I :
09:15 - 09:45 :
KAVITA JAIN, JNCASR
Evolutionary Simultations
09:45 - 10:15 :
SHRADDHA KARVE, Ashoka University
Directed Evolution
10:15 - 10:45 :
KRUSHNAMEGH KUNTE, NCBS
Phylogenomics
10:45 - 11:15 : Coffee Break
Tools of the trade II :
11:15 - 11:45 :
NISHAD MATANGE, IISER Pune
Experimental Evolution
11:45 - 12:15 :
DEEPA AGASHE, NCBS
Mutation Accumulation and Fitness
Flash Talks :
12:30 - 12:40 :
SALVE BUDDHABHUSHAN GIRISH, IISER Bhopal
12:40 - 12:50 :
ADRITA CHAKRABORTY, NCBS
12:50 - 13:00 :
RAKESH SIULI, IISER Berhampur
13:00 - 13:10 :
NAZNEEN GHEEWALLA, Ashoka University
13:10 - 13:20 :
MUHAMMED HADI, IISER Thiruvanathapuram
13:30 -14:30 : Lunch at CDH3
14:30 - 17:00 : Meenmutty Falls Hike
19:00 - 23:00 : Gala Dinner at Forest Inn
06:00 - 07:30 : Nature Walk
07:15 – 09:00 : Breakfast at VFR
Microbial Adaptation II :
09:30 - 09:55 :
LAASYA SAMHITA, Ashoka University
E. coli gains phage resistance by manipulating the error of its ways
09:55 -10:20 :
KRISHNA SWAMY, Ahmedabad University
Unraveling the importance of chromosomal combinatorics to condition-specific heterosis in hybrids
10:20 - 10:45 :
SHRADDHA KARVE, Ashoka University
Genomic underpinnings of antimicrobial resistance
10:45 - 11:15 : Coffee Break
Organismal Evolution II :
11:15 - 11:40 :
ULLASA KODANDARAMAIAH, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
How best to teach evolution?
11:40 -12:05
HEMA SOMANATHAN, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Collective behaviours in social spiders
Closing Remarks
12:05 - 12:15
SIDDHARTH KULKARNI, SABARI SANKAR THIRUPATHY
NEMO4 AND VALEDICTION
12:30 - 14:00 : Kerala Sadhya at CDH3 & Departure