Annual BSBE Winter Workshop-2014 [Neurobiology of Disorders]

The Annual BSBE Winter Workshop-2014 on "Neurobiology of Disorders"

December 18-20, 2014

Venue: BSBE Seminar Room

Program

Session I: Thematic Popular Talks

December 18, 2014 (Thursday)

(2:00 to 6:00 pm)

Chair: S.Ganesh [IIT Kanpur]

2:00 - 2:40 pm: S.C.Lakhotia [BHU, Varanasi]

Drosophila - a versatile model for neurobiology and neurodegenerative diseases (part 1)

2:40 - 2:50 pm: Q&A

2:50 - 3:30 pm: R.Raman [BHU, Varanasi]

Your health is your genes

3:30 - 3:40 pm: Q&A

3:40 - 4:00 pm: Tea break

4:00 - 4:40 pm: Mitali Mukerji [IGIB, Delhi]

Ayurgenomics: An integrative approach for personalized, predictive and preventive medicine

4:40 - 4:50: Q&A

4:50 - 5:30 pm: Vidita Vaidya [TIFR, Mumbai]

Making new neurons in the adult brain: relevance to psychiatry

5:30 - 5:40 pm: Q&A

Session II: Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration

December 19, 2014 (Friday)

(9:00 am to 1:00 pm)

Chair: Ashwani K Thakur [IIT Kanpur]

9:00 - 9:30 am: S.C.Lakhotia [BHU, Varanasi]

Drosophila - a versatile model for neurobiology and neurodegenerative diseases (part 2)

9:30 - 10:00 am: Mitali Mukerji [IGIB, Delhi]

Whole exome sequencing in cerebellar ataxias: Disease de-convolution and genetic diagnostics

10:00 - 10:30 am: Rajiva Raman [BHU, Varanasi]

Epigenetic susceptibility to Down syndrome

10:30 - 11:00 am: S.Ganesh [IIT Kanpur]

Molecular basis of locus heterogeneity in Lafora disease

11:00 - 11:30 am: Tea break

11:30 - 12:00 am: Nihar Ranjan Jana [NBRC, Manesar]

Ube3a deficiency accelerates disease pathology in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

12:00 - 12:30 pm: K.P. Mohanakumar [IICB, Kolkata]

A cross-talk between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes in neurons: Evidences for mitochondrial involvement in Parkinson's disease

12:30 - 1:00 pm: Ashwani K. Thakur [IIT Kanpur]

Mechanism based discovery of peptide inhibitors against polyglutamine aggregation and their delivery to brain in Huntington's disease

Session III: Brain: Development & Function

December 19, 2014 (Friday)

(2:30 pm to 5:00 pm)

Chair: Jonaki Sen [IIT Kanpur]

2:30 - 3:00 pm: Jonaki Sen [IIT Kanpur]

Molecules that shape the vertebrate forebrain

3:00 - 3:30 pm: Nitin Gupta [IIT Kanpur]

Role of spike timing in a sparse sensory code

3:30 - 4:00 pm: Rishikesh Narayanan [IISc, Bangalore]

Functional maps within a single neuron: Homeostasis and plasticity

4:00 - 4:30 pm: Narayanan Srinivasan [Allahabad Univ., Allahabad]

Visual Attention

4:30 - 5:00 pm: Braj Bhushan [IIT Kanpur]

Studying Human Affect: A Psychobiological Perspective

5:00 - Vote of thanks by S.Ganesh

5:15 - 5:30 pm: Tea