Meeting Programme

India-UK Systems Biology of Metabolism, Stress and Disease


Seminar Hall, Tower 1, Technology Campus, Salt Lake, University of Calcutta

Monday

21 January 2013




09:30 – 10:00

Registration



Introduction




10:00 – 10:20

Welcome

Prof. D.J. Chattopadhyay (Pro-Vice Chancellor – Acacdemic, University of Calcutta; Prof David Fell, Dr Sudip Kundu


10:20 – 11:10

Prof Arun Lahiri Majumdar and Dr Sonali Sengupta (Bose Institute)

Plant Systems' Biology: A Bird's Eye View


Session 1

Rice Systems Biology

Chair: D Fell


11:10 – 12:00

Dr Ashwani Pareekh (JNU, New Delhi)

Dissecting Out The Complex Trait Of Abiotic Stress Tolerance In Plants: Will A Systems Biology Approach Be Of Some Help?


12:00 – 13:30

Lunch (for all)



13:30 – 14:20

Dr Mark Poolman (Oxford Brookes University)

Genome-Scale Metabolic Modelling and its Application to Rice


14:20 – 15:10

Dr Sudip Kindu (University of Calcutta)

Analysis Of Metabolic Interactions Between Cellular Compartments In Rice


15:10 – 15:40

Tea (for all)



Session 2

Plant Stress and Disease

Chair: Dr Maitree Dasgupta (University of Calcutta)


15:40 – 16:30

Dr Hemant Ritturaj Kushwaha (ICGEB, New Delhi)

Pathway analysis in view of whole genome studies


16:30 – 17:20

Dr Christine Faulkner (Oxford Brookes University)

The Regulation Of Cell-To-Cell Communication During Pathogen Invasion


17:20 – 18:00

General discussion






19:30

Pre-dinner drinks / Dinner (by invitation)





Tuesday

22 January 2013




Session 3

Plant Metabolism

Chair: M Poolman


09:00 – 09:50

Dr Nick Kruger (University of Oxford)

Probing the performance of central carbon metabolism in plant cells by 13C-metabolic flux analysis


09:50 – 10:40

Prof A S Raghavendra (University of Hyderabad)

Optimisation of Photosynthesis by Multiple Intracellular Compartments in Plant Cells: A Systems Biochemistry Outlook


10:40 – 11:00

Tea / Coffee (for all)



11:00 – 11:50

Prof David Fell (Oxford Brookes University)

Modelling Tomato Fruit Metabolism


Session 4

Modelling Metabolism and Disease

Chair: S Kundu


11:50 – 12:40

Dr Anu Raghunathan (NCL, Pune)

From Cell Lines To Tissue Specific Flux Balance Models: Cancer Cell Growth And Metabolism


12:40 – 14:00

Lunch (for all)



14:00 – 14:50

Prof K V Venkatesh (IIT Bombay)

Multi-scale Structured Kinetic Model for Analyzing Disease States in Metabolic Syndrome


14:50 – 15:40

Dr Santanu Datta (Cellworks, Bangalore)

Delineating The Genetic And Chemical Vulnerability Of Anti-Infective Drug Targets


15:40 – 16:00

General Discussion and close

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