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| Day 1, 4th September, 2014 (Thursday) |
| Theme | Time | Description |
| | 8:00-9:00 | Registration |
| | 9:00-9:15 | Inauguration |
| | 9:15-10:30 | Informative sessions for young researchers from AvH (Dr. Rekha Vaidya Rajan), DAAD (Shikha Sinha/Shilpa Pandeshwar), DFG, etc officials |
| | 10:30-11:00 | Tea Break |
| I | 11:00-11:45 | Keynote 1 (Chemical Biology): "Thyroid Hormones for Health - Impact of trace elements and endocrine disrupters on their synthesis, metabolism and action" by Josef Köhrle, Humboldt University, Berlin |
| I | 11:45-12:15 | Invited Lecture 1: "Glycochemical Synthesis and its Significance in Mycobacteriology" by Srinivas Hotha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune |
| I | 12:15-12:45 | Invited Lecture 2: "Interfering with Interference: targeting the microRNA using small molecules" by Souvik Maiti, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi |
| | 12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
| I | 14:00-14:30 | Invited Lecture 3: "In search of potential inhibitors of human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and in vivo: a Chemical Biology approach" by Suman Kumar Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| I | 14:30-15:00 | Invited Lecture 4: "Phytohormone ABA signaling controls intracellular calcium-mediated secretion and egress of merozoites in P. falciparum and a good target for limiting parasite growth" by Shailja Singh, Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh |
| I | 15:00-15:30 | Invited Lecture 5: "Interaction between Aβ and Aβ-inhibitor peptide with tubulin/microtubule" by Surajit Ghosh, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata |
| | 15:30-16:00 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| V | 16:00-16:45 | Keynote Lecture 2 (Computational Biology): "Brain function across scales" by Upinder Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore |
| | 16:45-17:00 | Junior Researcher Lecture 1 |
| | 17:00-17:15 | Junior Researcher Lecture 2 |
| All | 17:15-19:00 | Poster Session (Contributed by Junior Researchers, Post-docs, Ph.D students etc.) |
| | 18:00-19:00 | Meeting of the Indian Humboldt Club Presidents |
| | 19:00 | Dinner at NIAS |
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| Day 2, 5th September, 2014 (Friday) |
| II | 9:00-9:45 | Keynote 3 (Medicine and Technology): "Nematodes and Sepsis: A relationship waiting to be harnessed?" by Balachandran Ravindran, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneshwar |
| II | 9:45-10:15 | Invited Lecture 6: "Hemoglobin structure function correlation in living human Red Blood Cells probed by isotope exchange based Mass Spectrometry" by Amit Mandal, St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore |
| II | 10:15-10:45 | Invited Lecture 7: "Spectrum of GALNS Mutations in India" by Girisha KM, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal |
| | 10:45-11:15 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| II | 11:15-11:45 | Invited Lecture 8: "Translating experimental approach to clinical practice to improve Infertility success" by Pratap Kumar, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal |
| III | 11:45-12:20 | Invited Lecture 9 (Interdisciplinary Thinking): "Interdisciplinary thinking: Perspectives from the History of Life Sciences" by Christina Brandt, Ruhr-University, Bochum
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| III | 12:20-12:55 | Invited Lecture 10: "Cross Disciplines: Exciting Possibilities" by Ashok Sahni, INSA Emeritus |
| 12:55-13:50 | Lunch |
| III | 13:50-14:25 | Invited Lecture 11: "Music and Technology" by Vikram Sampath, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts |
| III | 14:25-15:00 | Invited Lecture 12: "Language Studies: Through the lens of Rashomon" by Vanamala Vishwanatha, Azim Premji Univ., Bangalore |
| IV | 15:00-15:45 | Keynote Lecture 4 (Computational Science): "Turbulent Flows and their Numerical Simulation" by Volker John, WIAS Berlin |
| | 15:45-16:15 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| IV | 16:15-16:45 | Invited Lecture 13: "Challenges in Computing Hyperbolic Conservation Laws" by J. C. Mandal, IIT Bombay |
| IV | 16:45-17:15 | Invited Lecture 14: "Meshless CFD in Aerospace Engineering" by N. Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore |
| IV | 17:15-17:45 | Invited Lecture 15: "A Generalized analysis for wave and energy balance equations during microwave propagations within food dielectrics of various shapes" by T. Basak, IIT Madras |
| | 18:00-19:00 | Cultural Program |
| | 19:00 | Banquet Dinner |
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| Day 3, 6th September, 2014 (Saturday) |
| | 9:00-10:00 | Plenary Lecture: "What Can We Learn From Insect Societies?" by Raghavendra Gadagkar, President, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi |
| V | 10:00-10:30 | Invited Lecture 16: "Combining Biology and Computing: Challenges and Opportunities" by Ramesh Hariharan, Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore |
| | 10:30-11:00 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| V | 11:00-11:30 | Invited Lecture 17: "Analysis of protein structures - identification of a new turn, and redefining the buried surface area in complexes" by Pinak Chakrabarti, Bose Institute Kolkata |
| V | 11:30-12:00 | Invited Lecture 18: "Microscopic Structure of DNA Nanotubes" by Prabal Maiti, IISc Bangalore |
| | 12:00-12:15 | Junior Researcher Lecture 3 |
| | 12:15-12:30 | Junior Researcher Lecture 4 |
| | 12:30-12:45 | Junior Researcher Lecture 5 |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch |
| VI | 13:45-14:30 | Keynote Lecture 5 (Materials and Energy) "Electrochemical Energy Systems: Materials Challenges" by S. Sampath, IISc Bangalore |
| VI | 14:30-15:00 | Invited Lecture 19: "Tailored light emitting organic nanoaggregates
from π-conjugates oligomers" by Arne Luetzen, University of Bonn |
| VI | 15:00-15:30 | Invited Lecture 20: "H2O → H2 + O2" Abhishek Dey, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata |
| VI | 15:30-16:00 | Invited Lecture 21: "Light Harvesting Soft-Hybrids" by Subi J. George, JNCASR Bangalore |
| | 16:00-16:30 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| VI | 17:00-17:30 | Invited Lecture 23 (Subsession: Water): "Sustainable Wastewater Management: Challenges and Way Forward" by Ligy Philip, IIT Madras |
| VI | 16:30-17:00 | Invited Lecture 22 (Subsession: Water): "Climate Change and its Impact on Water Resources of a River Basin" by D Nagesh Kumar, IISc Bangalore |
| 17:30 | Discussion and Closing Remarks |
