Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Tentative Programme

Venue: CCMB Lecture Hall

Day 0 – Friday, December 11, 2009

09.30 – 12.00 hrs	Registration and tours of CCMB; Coffee/Tea
12.00 – 12.30 hrs	Welcome by Director, CCMB.
12:30 – 14.00 hrs	Lunch with GL/PL
14.00 - 20.00 hrs	Optional - City sightseeing / Charminar / Golconda Fort Sound & Light
20.00 hrs	Dinner at CCMB.

Day 1 – Saturday, December 12, 2009

09.30 – 11.10 hrs	Session I :	Chair: Lalji Singh (CCMB)
09.30 – 10.20	Speaker 1	Rajesh Gokhale (IGIB) – From an amoeba to fruiting body - path laid by polyketide synthases in Dictyostelium Development.
10.20 – 11.10	Speaker 2	Shiv Grewal (NIH) - RNAi-mediated Epigenetic Control of the Genome.
11.10 – 11.30 hrs	Tea
11.30 – 13.10 hrs	Session II :	Chair: Rajendra Prasad (JNU)
11.30 – 12.20	Speaker 3	Eric Selker (U. Oregon) - Control of DNA methylation through Chromatin in Neurospora
12.20 – 13.10	Speaker 4	Kaustuv Sanyal (JNCASR) - Tracing the path of centromere evolution.
13.10 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.40 hrs	Session III :	Chair: Bharat Chattoo (MSU)
14.00 – 14.50	Speaker 5	Rashna Bhandari (CDFD) - Inositol pyrophosphates regulate eukaryotic physiology via protein pyrophosphorylation.
14.50 – 15.40	Speaker 6	Jay. C. Dunlap (Dartmouth Med. Sch.) - Genetic and Molecular Dissection of the Neurospora Clock: Proteomics and Epigenetics.
15.40 – 16.00 hrs	Tea

16.00 – 18.30 hrs	Session IV :	Chair: Eugene Katz (Stony BrooK Univ)
16.00 – 16.50	Speaker 7	Pratima Sinha (Bose Inst.)- The budding yeast protein Sum1p is a novel regulator of microtubule assembly.
16.50 – 17.40	Speaker 8	K. Muniyappa (IISc) - Holliday Junction Binding and Processing by Meiosis-Specific Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hop1 Protein.
17.40 – 18.30	Speaker 9	Himanshu Sinha (TIFR) - Lessons from quantitative trait analysis in yeast
19.00 hrs	“Discussion”
20.00 hrs	Dinner

Day 2 - Sunday, December 13, 2009

9.30 – 11.10 hrs	Session V :	Chair: J. Gowrishankar (CDFD)
9.30 – 10.20	Speaker 10	Amar J.S. Klar (NCI) - Asymmetric cell division through epigenetic differentiation of sister chromatids and their selective segregation in mitosis.
10.20 – 11.10	Speaker 11	Jennifer Loros (Dartmouth) – Environmental Sensing: Neurospora Photobiology
11.10 – 11.30 hrs	Tea
11.20 – 13.00	Poster Viewing	15 authors
13:00 – 13:30 hrs	Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 hrs	Travel to LaCONES
14.30 – 14.45 hrs	Tea
14.45 – 16.25 hrs	Session VI :	Chair: Amar Klar (NCI)
14.45 – 15.35	Speaker 12	Purnima Bhargava (CCMB) – Nucleosome dynamics on the genes transcribed by RNA polymerase III of yeast
15.35 – 16.25	Speaker 13	Santanu K. Ghosh (IIT-B) - The multicopy plasmids of yeast segregate equally through cohesin mediated recognition of sisters.
16.25 – 16.45 hrs	Tea
16.45 – 17.00 hrs	“Big cats”
17.00 – 18.40 hrs	Session VII :	Chair: Vidyanand Nanjundiah (IISc)
17.00 – 17.50	Speaker 14	Partha Kumar Sarkar (Shantha Biotech) - Development of a novel methylotrophic yeast expression system.
17.50 – 18.40	Speaker 15	Chandralata Raghukumar (NIO) - The Biology of Deep-Sea Fungi.
18.40	Discussion
19.30	Choice 1.	Return to CCMB for Dinner (20.30)
	Choice 2.	Sandwiches at LaCONES.
21.30		Last bus to CCMB from LaCONES

Day 3 – Monday, December 14, 2009

09.30 – 11.10 hrs	Session VIII :	Chair: Pratima Sinha (Bose Inst.)
09.30 – 10.20	Speaker 16	Marc Orbach (U. Arizona) – Fungal pathogens of humans.
10.20 – 11.10	Speaker 17	Jeffrey Coleman (Harvard Medical School) – Pea pathogenicity, pisatin tolerance, and supernumerary chromosomes in Nectria haematococca MPVI.
11.10 – 11.30	Tea
11.30 – 13.10 hrs	Session IX :	Chair: Jennifer Loros (Dartmouth Med. Sch.)
11.30 – 12.20	Speaker 18	Anand K Bachhawat (IMTECH) - Glutathione utilization pathways in fungi.
12.20 – 13.10	Speaker 19	Arnaldo Videira (U. Porto) - Modulation of programmed cell death in Neurospora crassa.
13.10 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.40 hrs	Session X :	Chair: C. Subramanyam (Osmania Univ.)
14.00 – 14.50	Speaker 20	Seshagiri Raghukumar (Myko Tech) – Some unique biological aspects of the marine stramenopilan fungi, the Labyrinthulomycetes
14.50 – 15.40	Speaker 21	Kevin McCluskey (FGSC) – Fifty years of fungal genetics: A perspective from the Fungal Genetics Stock Center.
15.40 – 16.00	Tea
16.00 – 18.30 hrs	Session XI :	Chair: Gopal Pande (CCMB)
16.00 – 16.50 hrs	Speaker 22	Eugene R. Katz (Stony Brook) – Dictyostelium discoideum: A Model System For All Seasons
16.50 – 17.40 hrs	Speaker 23	Shweta Saran (JNU) - Rapamycin induces autophagic cell death in Dictyostelium discoideum.
17.40 – 18.30 hrs	Speaker 24	Vidyanand Nanjundiah (IISc) - Evolutionary basis of social behaviour in the cellular slime moulds.
18.30 – 18.45 hrs		Prof P Maruthi Mohan Best Poster Award (about PMM, Sobhanaditya Jonnalagadda and honours, D. Balasubramanian)
19.00 hrs	“Discussion”
20.30 hrs	Dinner