EVENT SCHEDULE
13 - 15 January, 2024
Faculty Hall, Main Building
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Time mentioned here is as per Indian Standard Time (IST)
DAY 1: 13th of January 2024 | Saturday
08:00 - 09:00: Registration
09:00 - 09:10: Welcome address by the Dean of Biologicanl Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore:
Usha Vijayraghavan
09:10 - 09:30: An introduction about Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay by his student Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar
“The Master as I saw him”
SESSION – I Chair: Kaustuv Sanyal
09:30 - 10:15: Shiv Grewal (Keynote), National Institutes of Health; USA
Unraveling the Mysteries of Epigenetic Genome Control
10:15 - 10:45: Naoko Irie, Central Institute for Experimental Animals; Japan
Molecular ontogeny of human germline development and epigenetic programming
10:45 - 11:15: Joshua Brickman, University of Copenhagen; Denmark
It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well - transcription factor persistence encoding cellular memories and future dreams
11:15 - 11:35:
SESSION – II Chair: Annapoorni Rangarajan
11:35 - 12:05: Maneesha S Inamdar, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine; India
Energy metabolic reprogramming regulates blood stem cell emergence during embryogenesis
12:05 - 12:35: Sanjeev Galande, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR; India
Satb1-mediated genome looping regulates TCR signal-dependent transcription network in thymocytes
12:35 - 13:05: Shankar Srinivas, University of Oxford; United Kingdom
Behavioral and mechanical heterogeneities underpin the cell migratory activity essential for mouse anterior patterning
13:05 - 14:35:
SESSION – III Chair: Ramray Bhat
14:35 - 15:05: Hiroshi Hamada, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research; Japan & Visiting Faculty at National
Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore; India
Diverse mechanisms for left-right symmetry breaking among animals
15:05 - 15:35: Susan Gasser, Fondation ISREC; Switzerland
Germline maintenance, tissue integrity and the role of H3K9 methylated heterochromatin.
15:35 - 16:05: Shubha Tole, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; India
How to make a hippocampus
16:05 - 16:35: Sundeep Kalantry, University of Michigan; USA
Tracing the Evolutionary Origins of X-chromosome Inactivation
16:35 - 17:00:
SESSION – IV Chair: Sanjeev Galande
17:00 - 17:30: Kundan Sengupta, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune; India
Nucleoporins regulate functional organization and dynamics of the HOXA gene locus during differentiation
17:30 - 18:00: Simon J Elsässer, Karolinska Institutet; Sweden
Epigenetic regulation of early cell fate decisions
18:00 - 18:30: Nobuhiko Hamazaki, University of Washington; USA
Direct conversion to mouse oocyte-like cells with defined transcription factors
18:30 - 18:40: Short talk: Sudeshna Majumdar, IISc Bangalore
Xist upstream deletion impairs topological contacts of Xist locus, affects Xist coating/expression and autosomal gene
expression
18:40 - 18:45: Deepak K Saini, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; India
Announcement of EMBO Longevity Summit 2025
18:45 - 21:00:
​
DAY 2: 14th of January 2024 | Sunday
08:30 - 09:00: Registration
SESSION – I Chair: Sundeep Kalantry
09:00 - 09:30: L S Shashidhara, National Centre for Biological Sciences; India
Immune cell subtyping in Indian Triple-negative breast cancer tumor microenvironment with variable treatment response
09:30 - 10:00: Bernhard Payer, Centre for Genomic Regulation; Spain
Exploring epigenetic reprogramming mechanisms
10:00 - 10:30: Arnab Mukhopadhyay, National Institute of Immunology; India
Interactions of a nutrient sensing pathway with cell cycle proteins in regulation of reproductive aging.
10:30 - 11:00: Kavitha Sarma, Wistar Institute, University of Pennsylvania; USA
Regulation of genome folding by R-loops and G-quadruplexes
11:00 - 11:20:
​
SESSION – II Chair: Kundan Sengupta
11:20 - 11:50: Kaustuv Sanyal, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore; India
Heterochromatin ensures kinetochore integrity and 3D genome assembly in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
11:50 - 12:20: Mo Ebrahimkhani, University of Pittsburgh; USA
Modeling post-implantation human development to yolk sac blood emergence
12:20 - 12:50: Vincent Pasque, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Belgium
Modelling Early Mammalian Embryogenesis with Naïve Pluripotent Stem Cells
12:50 - 14:20:
​
SESSION – III Chair: Maharshi Krishna Deb
14:20 - 14:50: Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Helmholtz Zentrum München; Germany
Epigenetic mechanisms of cell fate and reprogramming to totipotency
14:50 - 15:20: Sanjeev Shukla, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal; India
Cancer in the Shadows: Hypoxia's Twisted Control of Gene Expression and Splicing
15:20 - 15:50: Dimple Notani, National Centre for Biological Sciences; India
Epigenetic inheritance of gene regulatory landscape
15:50 - 16:00: Short talk by Amritesh Sarkar, IISc Bangalore
Global warming and embryogenesis: Perspective from a mouse model
​
16:00 - 17:00: Poster session /
SESSION – IV Chair: Dimple Notani
17:00 - 17:30: Deepa Subramanyam, National Centre for Cell Science; India
Traffic in stem cells: to go or not to go
17:30 - 18:00: Ryan Lister, University of Western Australia; Australia
Epigenetic Memory in Human Cell Reprogramming
18:00 - 18:30: Pradeepa Madapura Marulasiddappa, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Histone acetylation mediated regulation of transposable elements in the genome regulation in embryonic stem cells and placenta
18:30 - 18:40: Short talk: Diya Binoy Joseph, inStem Bangalore
Identification of distinct epithelial and mesenchymal factors in the developing bladder and urethra
18:40 - 21:00:
DAY 3: 15th of January 2024 | Monday
08:30 - 09:00: Registration
SESSION – I Chair: Ganesh Nagaraju
09:00 - 09:30: Steven Cappell, National Institutes of Health; USA
Molecular mechanisms underlying cell cycle dynamics and heterogenous cell fates.
09:30 - 10:00: Nitika Taneja, Erasmus University Medical Center; Netherlands
Unveiling the Multifaceted Role of Heterochromatin: Beyond Epigenetic Silencing to Guardian of DNA Integrity
10:00 - 10:30: Kumaravel Somasundaram, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; India
PITAR is a p53 inactivating long noncoding RNA: Identification, Mechanism and Therapeutic implications
​
10:30 - 10:50:
SESSION – II Chair: Deepa Subramanyam
10:50 - 11:20: Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institutet; Sweden
Comprehensive Human Embryogenesis Reference Tool for Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data.
11:20 - 11:50: Annapoorni Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; India
Stem cells in mammary gland development and breast cancer: an AMPK perspective
11:50 - 12:20: James Turner, Francis Crick Institute; United Kingdom
The Y chromosome and male fertility
12:20 - 12:50: Ramray Bhat, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; India
Matrix dynamics in cancer progression
12:50 - 14:20:
SESSION – III Chair: Pradeepa Madapura
14:20 - 14:50: Mahipal Ganji, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; India
Understanding stabilizing energetics of DNA and their applications in DNA nanotechnology and super-resolution imaging
14:50 - 15:20: Bhavana Muralidharan, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine; India
Probing the mechanisms of chromatinopathies in brain development using human in-vitro disease model
15:20 - 15:50: Meetali Singh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; India
Navigating the balance between translation and germline small RNA biogenesis
15:50 - 16:00: Short talk by Jui Bhattacharya, IISER Mohali
Adaptive significance of genomic rearrangements in mammals
16:00 - 16:15: Vote of thanks by the Organizers
16:15 - 16:40:
16:40 - 16:50: Distribution of certificates
​
