India-UK Systems Biology of Metabolism, Stress and Disease

21-22 January 2013, University of Calcutta

The meeting was part of a collaborative project on the modelling of rice metabolism. Though the main focus of the meeting was on experimental and theoretical systems approaches to plant (especially rice) metabolism, and its responses to stress and disease, studies on humans and microbes using cognate methods were also included.

Organisers

• Sudip Kundu
• David Fell
• Mark Poolman

Speakers

The following were invited:

• Prof Arun Lahiri Majumdar (Bose Institute)
• Dr Ashwani Pareekh (JNU, New Delhi)
• Prof A S Raghavendra (University of Hyderabad)
• Dr Santanu Datta (Cellworks, Bangalore)
• Dr Hemant Ritturaj Kushwaha (ICGEB, New Delhi)
• Dr Anu Raghunathan (NCL, Pune)
• Prof K V Venkatesh (IIT Bombay)
• Dr Nick Kruger (University of Oxford)
• Dr Christine Faulkner (Oxford Brookes University)
• Dr Sudip Kindu (University of Calcutta)
• Prof David Fell (Oxford Brookes University)
• Dr Mark Poolman (Oxford Brookes University)

The detailed programme, abstracts and many of the slides are now available.

Venue

The meeting was held in the Seminar Hall, Tower 1, Technology Campus, Salt Lake, of the University of Calcutta.

Hotel accommodation for speakers from outside Kolkata was arranged at the nearby Hotel The Sojourn.

Further details are given on the Venue page.

Support

• (Grant No: BB/G530317/1)
• University of Calcutta
• Oxford Brookes University