Through this symposium, we seek to bring together biologists, engineers and data scientists, to cross-fertilise ideas and initiate collaborations in various domains of biological data analysis. A key focus of the symposium will be on novel methods and algorithms to dissect omics data at multiple levels, enabling a deeper understanding of complex phenotypes. The symposium seeks to bring together about 15 leading scientists from India and abroad, as well as provide an opportunity for up to 60 early career researchers to participate. We have planned sufficient time for discussions and networking during the event. The venue, IIT Madras, is the top-ranked engineering institute in the country. The campus is situated in the heart of a busy metropolis, Chennai, but boasts of hundreds of acres of forests, which are also home to a variety of birds and animals, including the endangered black buck.
The Symposium runs from Monday, January 22 to Wednesday, January 24, 2018. A workshop on NGS data analysis for student participants will be held on Sunday, January 21, 2018 (DAY 0) at the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras. A tentative schedule is given below.
0900 - 1000 | Registration at Department of Biotechnology Foyer |
1000 - 1230 | Practical session (theory) by Dr Rohit Gupta |
1115 - 1130 | Tea at Department of Biotechnology Foyer |
1130 - 1230 | Practical session (theory) by Dr Rohit Gupta |
1230 - 1330 | Lunch at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
1330 - 1500 | Practical session (theory) by Dr. Rohit Gupta |
1500 - 1515 | Tea at Department of Biotechnology Foyer |
1515 - 1800 | Practical session (hands on) by Dr Rohit Gupta |
1900 - 2000 | Dinner at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
0830 - 0900 | Registration at IC&SR Foyer |
0900 - 0930 | Inauguration by Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director IIT Madras |
0945 - 1030 | Amit Dutt - Translating cancer genomics to medicine |
1030 - 1115 | M Michael Gromiha - Data driven approach for discriminating driver and passenger mutations in cancer at large scale |
1115 - 1145 | Tea at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1145 - 1230 | Rune Linding - Decoding of network attacking mutations rewiring cancer |
1230 - 1300 | Two short talks selected from the poster presentations |
1300 - 1400 | Lunch at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
1400 - 1530 | Poster session at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1530 - 1600 | Tea at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1600 - 1645 | Mahalingam S - Comprehensive and integrative genomic characterization of breast cancer in an Indian population |
1645 - 1730 | Shamith Samarajiwa - Systems level exploration of perturbations in cellular regulomes driving carcinogenesis |
1730 - 1900 | Panel discussion |
1900 - 1930 | Departure for Holiday Inn Dinner at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
1930 - 2300 | Banquet Dinner at Holiday Inn |
0900 - 0945 | Edda Klipp - Yeast mating in space and time |
0945 - 1030 | Simon Anders - Using interactive visualization tools to explore big data |
1030 - 1100 | Tea at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1100 - 1145 | Shekhar Mande - Prediction of the substrates of Serine/Threonine Protein Kinases (STPKs) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and analysis of the resultant signalling network |
1145 - 1230 | Niranjan Nagarajan - Systems biology modelling of microbial communities |
1230 - 1300 | Two short talks selected from the poster presentations |
1300 - 1400 | Lunch at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
1400 - 1500 | Poster session at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1500 - 1530 | Tea at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1530 - 1615 | Manikandan Narayanan - Peering thru' zeroes: computational approaches to study single-cell variation |
1615 - 1700 | Erik van Nimwegen - Tools for mapping gene regulatory networks |
1700 - 1745 | Balaraman Ravindran - Some studies using hypergraphs for modeling multi-way relations |
1800 - 1945 | Carnatic Vocal Concert by Kalaimamani Gayathri Girish at Central Lecture Theatre (CLT) |
2000 - 2100 | Dinner at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
0900 - 0945 | Giriraj Ratan Chandak - Genotype to phenotype through epigenotype: Gene-nutrition interaction in Diabesity |
0945 - 1030 | Rudiyanto Gunawan - Pathway analysis for understanding the biology of aging |
1030 - 1100 | Tea at IC&SR Auditorium Hall |
1100 - 1130 | Rohit Gupta - An NGS based in silico approach to model the tumor microenvironment for cancer immunotherapy applications |
1130 - 1215 | Vinod Scaria - Personal genomes to precision medicine |
1215 - 1315 | Haja Kadarmideen - Towards personalized medicine via multi-omics data integration and systems genomics methods |
1315 - 1415 | Lunch at IC&SR Auditorium Dining Hall |
1415 - 1500 | Lars Steinmetz - Reading, editing and writing genomes for 21st century biology |
1500 - 1515 | Valedictory address |
All talks and poster sessions will take place at IC&SR Auditorium, IIT Madras. Student workshop on NGS data analysis will take place on Sunday, January 21, 2018 (DAY 0), at the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras.
Student participants who are selected to attend the Symposium will be paid return 3AC railway fare as per norms.
All participants who requested for accommodation will be provided boarding and lodging facilities inside IIT Madras campus.
Depending on how you arrive, there are various modes to reach IIT Madras campus. Further details are given here.
Student and postdoc applicants who have been short-listed have been informed by email. All short-listed participants are required to pay the registeration fees of ₹ 3,000 and submit confirmation of fees payment using the form given below. In addition, those who have also opted for poster presentation have been given a link for abstract form and are required to submit an abstract for their poster by the last date of registeration, December 29, 2017.
Faculty and Industry participants are only required to pay the appropriate registeration fees and fill in the confirmation form given below.
Registeration is now closed.
Short-listed applicants ₹ 3,000.
Registration fees for faculty ₹ 5,000.
Registration fees for industry participants ₹ 10,000.
Registration allows all participants access to talks, lunch and tea sessions.