2^nd International Conference on Regulatory Network Architecture in Bacteria

Program Schedules

Day 1- December 16, 2016 (Friday)
08:00 – 9:30 am	Registration
09:30 – 10:00 am	Inauguration of the conference
10:00 – 10:15 am	Photo Session
Session 1- Pathogenesis and Infection
Chair- Dr. Diane McDougald		Co-chair- Dr. Sai Subramanian
10:20 – 11:00 am	Plenary Talk – I		Dr. Diane McDougald Microbial Biofilms and Public Health & Medical Biofilms Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, NTU, Singapore
11:00 – 11:20 pm	Lecture – I		Dr. CV Srikanth Associate Professor,Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Gurgaon
11:20 - 11:50 am	High Tea and Poster Session - I
11:50 – 12:30 pm	Plenary Talk – II		Dr. T Ramamurthy National Chair, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana
12:30 – 1:00 pm	Plenary Talk – III		Dr. ChitraMandal Professor, PhD, FNASc, FTWAS, FNA, FASc, FAMS, FAScT CSIR- Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Kolkata
1:00 – 1:20 pm	Lecture – II		Dr.Jayapradha AP-III, SCBT, SASTRA University
1:20 – 2:30 pm	Lunch
Session 2- Deciphering Quorum Sensing
Chair- Dr. Prince Sharma		Co- chair- Dr. Nithyanand
2:30 – 3:10 pm	Plenary Talk – IV		Dr. Prince Sharma Professor, Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh
3:10 – 3:50 pm	Plenary Talk - V		Dr. Manoj Kumar Senior Scientist CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh
3:50 – 4:20 pm	Coffee break/ Poster session II
4:20 – 4:40 pm	Lecture – III		Dr. Balamurugan National Post-Doctoral Fellow, Quorum Sensing Lab, SASTRA University, Thanjavur
5:00 pm onwards	Sri Brihadeswara temple visit
Day 2- December 17, 2016 (Saturday)
Session 3- Regulation and transcriptional networks in bacteria
Chair- Dr. Bianca Sclavi		Co-chair- Dr. Thiagrajan Raman
9:00 – 9:40 am	Plenary Talk – VI		Dr. Bianca Sclavi Principal Investigator, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
9:40 – 10:00 am	Lecture – IV		Dr. Deepti Jain Assistant Professor,  Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Gurgaon
10: 00 – 10:30 am	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:10 am	Plenary Talk – VII		Dr. Arati Ramesh Reader-F, National Center for Biological Sciences,  Bangalore
11:10 – 11:30 am	Lecture – V		Dr. Varadharajan Reader, National Center for Biological Sciences,  Bangalore
11:30 – 11:50 am	Lecture – VI		Mr.Ramanujan Director, Bugworks Research India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore
1:00 – 2:00 pm	Lunch
Session 4- Antibiotic action , resistance and persistence
Chair- Dr. Supreet Saini		Co- chair- Dr. Jayapradha
2:00 – 2:40 pm	Plenary Talk – VIII		Dr. Ashima Bhardwaj Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Advanced Research, Gujarat
2:40 – 3:00 pm	Lecture – VII		Dr. Sri Nandan AP- Research,  SBCT, SASTRA University
3:00 – 3:40 pm	Plenary Talk – IX		Dr. Medicharla V. Jagannadham Sr. Principal Scientist, CSIR- Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
3:40 – 4:00 pm	Lecture – VIII		Prof.Chandramohan AP-II, SCBT, SASTRA University
4:00 – 4:20 pm	High Tea
4:20 – 5:00 pm	Plenary Talk – X		Dr. Supreet Saini Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.
Day 3- December 18, 2016 (Sunday)
Session 5- Policy issues in Drug Development
Chair- Dr. Anil Kumar		Co- chair- Dr. Sri Nandan
9:00  – 9:40 am	Plenary Talk – XI		Dr. Anil Kumar Staff Scienist, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
9:40 – 10:00 am	Lecture – IX		Mr.Ramanujan Director, Bugworks Research India Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore
10:00 – 10:30 am	Valedictory / Award Ceremony
10:30 – 11:00 am	High Tea

• Letter of Invitation
• Conference flyer

SASTRA University,
Thanjavur

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