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ABOUT US

The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), founded on July 29, 1876 by renowned medical practitioner and philanthropist, Dr Mahendra Lal Sircar, is an autonomous Institute. It is the oldest research institute in India. The institute is devoted to the pursuit of fundamental research in the frontier areas of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Energy, Polymer and Materials. In each field, IACS nurtures young and innovative research fellows in their doctoral programs.

Sir C. V. Raman worked at IACS during 1907 to 1933 on various topics of Physics making discovery of the celebrated effect on scattering of light in 1928, which bears his name and that brought many accolades including the Nobel Prize (Nobel Lecture by Sir C V Raman and Presentation Speech by Professor H. Pleijel, Chairman of the Nobel Committee) in 1930. The American Chemical Society designated the Raman Effect as an International Historic Chemical Landmark in 1998.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

  • Prof. Tapas Chakraborty, Director and Senior Professor, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata
  • Prof. Umesh Varshney, J. N. Tata Chair Professor, Dean, Faculty of Science,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  • Prof. J Gowrishankar, Director, IISER Mohali.
  • Prof. Sudhanshu Vrati, Executive Director, Regional Centre for Biotechnology.
  • Prof. Arun Bandyopadhyay, Director, CSIR - Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (CSIR-IICB), Kolkata
  • Prof. Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay, Vice Chancellor, SNU, Kolkata
  • Prof. Uday Bandyopadhyay, Director, Bose Institute Kolkata
  • Prof. Arindam Maitra, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani

OBJECTIVE

Rules governing our living world cannot be compartmentalized in a particular discipline of science. Of late, research in biological sciences is increasingly becoming interdisciplinary. Specifically, in recent times, biological research has emerged as a highly dynamic field of investigation resulting from the combined interests of physicists, chemists, statisticians, and biologists. The physical and chemical activity which manifests itself as life is remarkably complex ranging from near equilibrium to very far from defined equilibrium and from sub-micron level to macroscopic level of collective behavior. Efforts to understand each of these aspects have resulted in newer interpretations of various novel mechanisms that not only provide a better understanding of the living systems but also may lead to designing and controlling the living world in a better way. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide a platform to facilitate interaction between the motivated and fast-growing Indian community interested in different areas of science related to biology and leading scientists across the world. With a vision of exchanging ideas for interdisciplinary aspects of biology like biological physics, mathematical biology, systems biology, bioengineering, and chemical biology for fruitful advancement of biology research, we propose to hold this meeting named IABS 2023. Such endeavors contribute to reducing intellectual barriers and encourage interdisciplinary research.


TOPICS

  •   Host and Microbes
  •   Cell Signaling and Mechanobiology
  •   Chromatin Biology and DNA damage response
  •   Drug design and in silico and in vitro approaches.




LIST OF SPEAKERS

Prof. Yves pommier

Prof. Yves pommier

National Cancer Institute
NIH, USA

Prof. Ilan Rosenshine

Prof. Ilan Rosenshine

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Prof. Dr. Pavel Janscak

Prof. Dr. Pavel Janscak

University of Zurich,
Institute of Molecular Cancer Research
Winterthurerstrasse 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Dennis E. Discher

Prof. Dennis E. Discher

University of Pennsylvania,
USA

Prof. Sherif El-Khamisy

Prof. Sherif El-Khamisy

Chair in Molecular Medicine, University of Sheffield,
UK

Prof. Erez Raz

Prof. Erez Raz

University of Munster,
Germany

Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich

Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA

Prof. Sigal Ben-Yehuda

Prof. Sigal Ben-Yehuda

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel

Dr. Matthew J. Schellenberg

Dr. Matthew J. Schellenberg, Ph.D

MAYO CLINIC, Rochester,
USA

Dr. Matthew J. Schellenberg

Dr. James Robert Sellers

Laboratory of Molecular Physiology,
NHLBI, NIH, USA

L. Vijay Mohan Rao

DR. Vijaya Mohan Rao

Professor of Biochemistry
UTHSCT, USA

Prof. Umesh Varshney

Prof. Umesh Varshney

Indian Institute of Science,
India

Dr. Shantanu Chowdhury

Dr. Shantanu Chowdhury

IGIB, Delhi,
India

Prof. V Nagaraja

Prof. V Nagaraja

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
India

Dr. Shweta Tyagi

Dr. Shweta Tyagi

CDFD, India

Prof. Kaustuv Sanyal

Prof. Kaustuv Sanyal

JNCASR
Professor

Prof. Suman Kumar Dhar

Prof. Suman Kumar Dhar

Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Professor

Dr. Arun K. Shukla

Dr. Arun K. Shukla

IIT, KANPUR
Associate Professor

Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty

Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty

Principal Scientist
CSIR-IGIB

Dr. Suvendra N Bhattacharyya

Dr. Suvendra N Bhattacharyya

Chief Scientist & HOD, Professor of Molecular Biology
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology,

Prof Ganesh Nagaraju

Prof Ganesh Nagaraju

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Professor

Prof. Prabal K Maiti

Prof. Prabal K Maiti

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Professor

Dr. Malancha Ta

Dr. Malancha Ta

IISER, KOLKATA
Associate Professor

Prof. Krishanu Ray

Prof. Krishanu Ray

TIFR, Mumbai
Professor

Dr. Sachin Kotak

Dr. Sachin Kotak

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Assistant Professor

Prof. Chandrima Das

Prof. Chandrima Das

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP)
Associate Professor

Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan

Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan

SRM University
Assistant Professor

Prof. Chaitanya Athale

Prof. Chaitanya Athale

IISER, PUNE
Professor

Dr. Fayaz A Malik

Dr. Fayaz A Malik

CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Sanat Nagar Srinagar(IGIB) ,India
Sr. Principal Scientist

Dr. Bhabatosh Das

Dr. Bhabatosh Das

Translational Health Science and Technology
Institute(THSTI),India
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Prof. Pramod A Pullarkat

Prof. Pramod A Pullarkat

Raman Research Institute(RRI),India
Professor

Prof Surajit Sinha

Prof Surajit Sinha

IACS, Kolkata

Dr. Sivaram V S Mylavarapu

Dr. Sivaram V S Mylavarapu

Regional Centre for Biotechnology,
India

 Dr. Suman Chakrabarty

Dr. Suman Chakrabarty

S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences,
India

 Dr. Rumi De

Dr. Rumi De

IISER, Kolkata

ORGANIZERS

Prof. Siddhartha Sankar Jana

Prof. Siddhartha Sankar Jana

Prof. Benu Brata Das

Prof. Benu Brata Das

Prof. Prosenjit Sen

Prof. Prosenjit Sen

Dr. Ritesh R Pal

Dr. Ritesh R Pal

Prof. Deepak K Sinha

Prof. Deepak K Sinha

Prof. Raja Paul

Prof. Raja Paul

Registration

We invite abstracts for poster presentation from interested participants including PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. Please send an application to the conference email: iabs@iacs.res.in according to the prescribed format given below. All applications must be accompanied by an abstract and a brief CV. The abstract should be of less than 200 words, written in plain ASCII, in latex format or in MS Word attached with the e-mail.

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An email notification will be sent to all selected participants. They are requested to register as per the instructions given below.

The outstation participants are requested to arrange for their own travel fund and accommodation.

Registration fee

Students/postdoctoral fellows: Rs 6000 without accommodation.
Faculty: Rs 8000 without accommodation.
Industry: Rs 50000 without accommodation.

Contact

Director's office, IABS 2023
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
2A & 2B Raja S C Mullick Road, Jadavpur
Kolkata 700032
India
Email: iabs@iacs.res.in

The Registration Fee can be sent directly to

(1) the Symposium account through direct Bank Transfer; the details for bank transfer are given below

Bank Account Name: IACS A/C RITESH RANJAN PAL
Bank Account Number: 40390996083
Bank Name: STATE BANK OF INDIA
Branch Name: Jadavpur
Branch Number: 93
Address: 188 Raja SC Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata: 700032
IFSC Code: SBIN0000093
MICR Code: 700002048

(3) Spot registration (Rs. 8000/- for student/faculty) without accommodation

Participants who wish to pay the registration fee at the conference venue (spot registration) must pre-registrar following standard registration guidelines. * The invited participants need not apply and need not pay any registration fee.

Format for application:
• Name:
• Designation:
• Affiliation:
• Title of the Poster:
• Accommodation: (Yes or No)
• IACS, is located in south of Kolkata and are connected with metro and local transport. Convenient hotels to conference sites will be suggested to the applicants from out side Kolkata.

Poster Presentation

Posters can be portrait/landscape orientation, with maximum dimensions of 85 cm wide (33 inch) x 110 cm high (43 inch). Please verify poster dimensions before printing your poster.

A poster number will be displayed at the top left corner of the board. The poster boards will be kept ready and pushpins will be supplied at each poster board.

The two best posters will be awarded.



Programme details

Day 1 – Wednesday 1 February 2023

Time SPEAKER/SESSION TITLE/TOPIC
8:00-9:00 Registration/Poster set up (In front of MLS Hall)
9:00-9:30 Inaugural Session: by IACS Director, Prof Tapas Chakraborty (MLS HALL)
Session1: Mechanobiology, Chairs: Profs. M J. Schellenberg and R. Mukhopadhyay
9:30-9:55 (L1) Mechanobiology of the Nucleus: from Matrix & Development to Cancer Dr. Dennis E. Discher
9:55-10:20 (L2) Mechanical responses of axons Dr. Pramod A Pullarkat
10:20-10:45 (L3) Faithfully promiscuous - a twist in the tail for dynein function during mitosis Dr. Sivram V S Mylavarapu
10:45-11:00 (L4) Understanding the role of macromolecular crowding and TNFR1 clustering in cell volume regulation Dr. Deepak Sinha
11.00-11.20 Tea/ coffee Break (Adjacent to MLS Hall)
Session 2: Cell Signalling 1, Chairs: Profs. P Janscak and A. Bandopadhyay
11:20-11:45 (L5) Molecular Basis of Allosteric Regulation and Isoform Specificity of Protein Kinase C Beta Dr. Matthew J. Schellenberg
11:45-12:10 (L6) Disruption of chromatin remodelling leads to chemosensitivity and adjunct therapy in colon cancer Dr. Sagar Sengupta
12:10-12:35 (L7) RTEL1 helicase regulates homologous recombination during DNA replication Dr. Ganesh Nagaraju
12:35-13:00 (L8) Non-Duplex DNA Structure takes Centrestage: Telomere-dependent Tumor Immunosuppression Dr. Shantanu Chowdhury
13:00-13:15 (L9) Immunomodulatory potential of coagulation factors in cancer immune evasion Dr. Prosenjit Sen
13:15-15:00 Lunch (Food Court)
15:00-17:30 POSTER SESSION I + Tea/coffee (Centenary Building 1st floor)
Session 3: Cell Signalling 2, Chairs: Profs. I. Rosenshine and D. Chattopadhyay
17:30-17:55 (L10) Clotting proteases facilitate intercellular communication via the release of extracellular vesicles Dr. L. Vijaya Mohan Rao
17.55-18:20 (L11) Emerging roles of vitronectin in human MSCs under different microenvironment stress conditions Dr. Malancha Ta
18:20-18:45 (L12) MLL regulates transcription of non-coding RNA in repeat regions Dr. Sweta Tyagi
18.45-19:10 (L13) Engineered genome editors for therapeutic correction Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty
19:10-22:00 Dinner (Food Court)

Day 2 – Thursday 2 February 2023

Time SPEAKER/SESSION TITLE/TOPIC
Session 4: Chromatin Biology, Chairs: Profs. P K Maiti and S Ben-Yehuda
9:00-9:25 (L14) Mechanistic insights into resolution of transcription-induced replication stress Dr. Pavel Janscak
9:25-9:50 (L15) Meddling with topology modulators of the pathogen and reprogramming of host epigenetics impact intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Dr. V. Nagaraja
9:50-10:15 (L16) Cracking the secondary DNA code of supercoiling, looping, and counterions Dr. Lynn Zechiedrich
10:15-10:40 (L17) Extracellular Vesicles associated miRNAs in action: Mechanism of packaging, transport, and delivery Dr. Suvendra Bhattacharyya
10:40-10:55 (L18) Mito-targeted Irinotecan induced selective poisoning of mitochondrial Topoisomerase 1 (Top1mt) promotes tumor regression through nuclear perturbation Dr. Benu Brata Das
10.55-11.20 Tea/ coffee Break (Adjacent to MLS Hall)
Session 5: Host and microbes, Chairs: Prof. S. Roy and U. Bandyopadhyay
11:20-11:45 (L19) Adaptation of enteropathogenic E. coli to life on the epithelium surface Dr. Ilan Rosenshine
11:45-12:00 (L20) Discovery of a novel phylogenetically restricted mitotic progression factor in the human pathogen Candida albicans Dr. Kaustuv Sanyal
12:00-12:25 (L21) Dormant bacterial spores encrypt a long-lasting transcriptional program to be executed during revival Dr. Sigal Ben-Yehuda
12:25-12:50 (L22) The enigmatic lifestyle of jumbo bacteriophages and their evolution Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan
12:50-13:05 (L23) Novel regulator of bacterial motile sessile transition Dr. Ritesh R Pal
13:05-14:30 Lunch (Food Court)
Session 6: In silico, Chairs: Profs. L. Zechiedrich and V. Nagaraja
14:30-14:55 (L24) In vitro Reconstitution and Computational Modeling of Oscillatory wavelike Patterns in Microtubules driven by Collective Dynein Mechanics Dr. Chaitanya A. Athale
14:55-15:20 (L25) Electrical conductance of DNA/RNA: a marker to detect intercalators, Oxidative damage and conformational changes Dr. Prabal K. Maiti
15:20- 15:45 (L26) Growth kinetics of cellular aggregation process Dr. Raja Paul
15:45-16.00 (L27) Modeling mitosis under confinement Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan
16.00-16:20 Tea/ coffee Break (Adjacent to MLS Hall)
16:20-16:45 (L28) Importance of Metastable Conformational States in Proteins: From Function to Drug Discovery Dr. Suman Chakrabarty
16:45-17.00 (L29) How prepared are we for the next pandemic? Aiding computational drug discovery with deep learning methods Dr. Partha Basuchowdhuri
17.00-22:00 Conference Dinner (Outside IACS)

Day 3 – Friday 3 February 2023

Time SPEAKER/SESSION TITLE/TOPIC
Session 7: Drug design and delivery, Chairs: Profs. P. K. Das and LVM Rao
9:00-9:25 (L30) Regulation of cysteine synthesis in Mtb Dr. Vinay Nandicoori9:25- 9:50 (L31) Genome plasticity and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens Dr. Bhabatosh Das
9:25- 9:50 (L31) Genome plasticity and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens Dr. Bhabatosh Das/td>
9:50-10:15 (L32) Knocking Down Barriers: Advances in Morpholino Antisense Delivery In vitro and In vivo Dr. Surajit Sinha
10:15-10:40 (L33) A dysregulated PTEN/AKT signalling is allied with stemness and poor therapeutic response in the subtypes of Breast Cancer Dr. Fayaz Malik/td>
10:40-10:55 Tea/ coffee Break (Adjacent to MLS Hall)
Session 8: Gene regulation, Chairs: Profs. A. Banerjee and Dr SS Roy
11:15-11:40 (L35) Membrane compartmentalization of NuMA/dynein/dynactin and Ect2/Cyk4/Mklp1 regulates chromosome segregation and cleavage furrow formation Dr. Sachin Kotak
11:40-12:05 (L36) Molecular insights on the extracellular matrix remodelling by epigenetic regulator UBR7 in triple negative breast cancer Dr. Chandrima Das
12:05-12:30 (L37) Mechanistic understanding of dynamic regulation of Super Elongation Complex (SEC) functions for global transcriptional downregulation during genotoxic stress Dr. Debabrata Biswas
12:30-12:55 (L38) NAD+ at the crossroads: exploring the role of PARP inhibitors in rotenone-induced neurodegeneration Dr. Piyali Mukherjee
12:55-13:10 (L39) Effect of fluid shear stress on human breast cancer cells Dr. Siddhartha S Jana
13:10--15:30 Lunch (Food Court) + POSTER SESSION II (Centenary Building 1st floor)
15:30-16:00 Panel Discussion: (MLS Hall)
16:00-17:00 Poster Prize and Concluding Session Valedictory (PS) and High Tea

Accommodation

Coming soon.....

Places of Interest

Ahalya Cruise

Ahalya Cruise

Victoria Memorial

Victoria Memorial

Princep Ghat

Princep Ghat

Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Howrah Bridge

Howrah Bridge

Ecopark

Ecopark

Dakshineswar Temple

Dakshineswar Temple

Belur Math

Belur Math

ST Paul's Cathedral Church

ST Paul's Cathedral Church