INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING IN ANTHROPOCENE

(ISEFA -2022), February 23-25, 2022

Centre of Advanced Study in Botany, Institute of Science
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India

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Conference Presentation Schedule

Day-1 Wednesday 23 February -2022

Inaugural session Session Chairs: Prof. NK Dubey and Prof. RK Asthana, BHU
Inaugural remarks and introduction to the seminar
10.30 - 10.45
Prof. N K Dubey, HOD, Department of Botany
KL-1: Santa Rosalia revisited: Why are there so many kinds of chemicals?
11.00 - 11.45 Prof. Renee Maria Borges
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
KL-2: Biodiversity conservation in Terai landscape of Uttar Pradesh: Issues &

11.45 - 12.30 Challenges

Mr. Ramesh K Pandey, IFS
Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India
12.30 - 13.00 Break
Technical Session-1 Climate Change and Sustainable Development (CCSD)

Session Chairs: Prof. Jitendra Pandey and Dr. Supriya Tiwari, BHU
IL-1: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and Sustainable
Development
13.00 - 13.30
Prof. Uma Charan Mohanty
Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
IL-2: Managing Climatic Risks in Agriculture
Dr. Himanshu Pathak, Director
13.35 - 14.05
ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Maharashtra,
India
IL-3:Implications of Climate Change and Sustainable Water Resource
Management in India
14.10 - 14.40
Dr. R.P. Pandey
National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India
14.40 - 14.50 Break
Technical Session-2 Environmental Pollution (EP)
 Session Chairs: Dr. Ashalata Singh and Dr. Anita Singh, BHU
IL-4: Paradigm for pollution prevention or control: policy for cost-benefit
assessment
14.50 - 15.20
Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Ex-Director (NEERI)
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Delhi, India
IL-5: Applications and significance of ‘biomarkers’ to assess ecosystem health
and functioning in the Anthropocene
15.25 - 15.55
Prof. Awadhesh N. Jha
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
IL-6: Who really pays the price? How poor air quality influences wheat price
and consequences for welfare schemes in India
16.00 - 16.30
Prof. Lisa D. Emberson
University of York, United Kingdom
IL-7: Metagenomic study for characterization of microbial diversity of
Pangong lake for biodegradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons
16.35 - 17.05
Prof. Indu Shekhar Thakur, Director
Amity University Haryana, India

Day-2 Thursday 24 February -2022

Technical Session-3 Green Technology and Nature-based solutions (GT&NBS)

Session Chairs: Prof. Nandita Ghoshal and Dr. RK Sharma, BHU

* This time slot will be used by Prof. Andrew Ogram due to the time difference
9.00 - 9.30*
between USA and India
IL-8: Waste Remediation with Resource Recovery: Nature-Based Solutions
9.35 - 10.05 Dr. S. Venkata Mohan
CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India
IL-9: Maintaining Ecosystem Structure and Function through Socio-ecological

10.10 - 10.40 Restoration of Agroecosystems in South Asia

Prof. Madhav Bahadur Karki
Executive Director, CGED-Nepal
IL-10: Green solution to abate straw burning and extract energy from rice

10.45 - 11.15 straw

Dr. P. K. Dhakephalkar, Director
MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune-411004, India
11.15 - 11.25 Break
Technical Session-4 Ecological Energetics and Economics (EEE)

Session Chairs: Prof. RP Sinha and Prof. Satheeshkumar PK, BHU

IL-11: Managing Reactive-N for a Healthy Planet, Environment and Economy
11.25 - 11.55 Dr. T.K. Adhya
Director, South Asia Nitrogen Centre, New Delhi.
 IL-12:Achieving Sustainable Development Goals through Carbon finance
12.00 - 12.30 Mechanism in Forestry Sector in India
Dr. Jitendra Vir Sharma, IFS
Forestry & Biodiversity Division, TERI, New Delhi, India
IL-13: How do economists think about the Natural Environment? 
12.35 - 13.05 Prof. Anamika Barua
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
IL-14:Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services of Kanwar Taal: The only
Ramsar site located in Bihar
13.10 - 13.40
Dr. Kishore Dhavala
Nalanda University, India
13.40 - 14.30 Break
Technical Session-5 Molecular and Microbial Ecology (MME)

Session Chairs: Prof. SK Dubey and Dr. Sanjay Kumar, BHU

IL-15:The Mercury Cycle: The Everglades as a model nutrient impacted
9.00 - 9.30* wetland, with speculations for India
Prof. Andrew Ogram
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
IL-16: Strategic Engineering of the Rhizosphere for Sustainability in
14.35 - 15.05 Agriculture
Prof. Shilpi Sharma
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
IL-17: Plant Legacy on Soil Microbiome through rhizodeposition
15.10 - 15.40 Prof. Paolo Nannipieri
Emeritus Professor, University of Firenze, Italy
IL-18: Balancing microbial ecology for sustainable environmental
15.45 - 16.15 remediation
Dr. Atya Kapley
CSIR-NEERI, Nagpur, India

Day-3 Thursday 25 February -2022

Technical Session-6 Invasion Biology (IB) and Restoration ecology (RE)

Session Chairs: Prof. R Sagar and Prof. Hema Singh, BHU

IL 19: Biodiversity: Challenges on account of invasive alien plants in India
9.30 - 10.00 Prof. Ravinder K. Kohli
Amity University, Mohali, Punjab, India
10.05 - 10.35 IL 20: The paradox of forest-grassland mosaics: revisiting the 'one climate-
one biome' paradigm
Dr. Mahesh Sankaran
 National Centre of Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru, India
IL 21: Environmental Restoration of Degraded Lands: Lessons from
10.40 - 11.10 Northeast India
Dr. Ayyanadar Arunachalam, Director
ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi, India
IL 22: Phytoremediation Technology – An Ecofriendly Approach for
Restoration of Ecology and Carbon dioxide Sequestration on Mining
11.15 - 11.45 Wastelands
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute Nagpur, India
11.45 - 11.50 Break
Technical Session-7 Biodiversity (BD)

Session Chairs: Prof. Shashi Pandey and Dr. Deepak Kumar, BHU
IL 23: Studies on ecosystem functioning under diverse anthropogenic
stresses provide successful eco-restoration strategies
11.50 - 12.25
Prof. SK Barik, Director
CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow
IL 24:Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystems Services in the Hindu Kush
12.25 - 12.55 Himalaya
Dr. Eklabya Sharma
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
IL 25: Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity of Western Ghats: An urgent
call for action
13.00 - 13.30
Prof. Muthukumar Muthuchamy
Central University of Kerala, Tejaswini Hills, Periye, Kasaragod, India

13.30 - 14.00 Valedictory session