An interactive International conference on Convergence of Scientific Disciplines to Advance

Biotechnology (CSDAB-2023)

21 November to 24 November 2023

IISER Berhampur, Permanent Campus

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

21 November 2023
REGISTRATION AND VISIT TO IISER BERHAMPUR RESEARCH LABS
VENUE: LH1

Time Subject/Title Speaker/Delegates

14:30-15:00 Registration at Permanent Campus (PC)

15:00 -15:45 Travel to Transit Campus (TC)

16:00-18:00 Visit to Labs and Research Facilities Bio/Chem/Phys (Student

volunteer teams and Faculty)

18:00-18:15 Tea and Refreshments

18:15-19:00 Travel to PC
19:30-21:00 Dinner On Campus
 22 November 2023
PRE CONFERENCE TUTORIALS AND TECHNICAL TALKS
VENUE: KCD

Time Session/Title Speaker

9:45-10:00 Tutorial Session Inauguration and Prof. Ashok Ganguli,

Introduction to the Meeting Director, IISER Berhampur

10:00-11:30 Tutorial 1
Nanomedicine-enabled combination Prof. Indrajit Roy
therapies for complete eradication of University of Delhi
cancer

11:30 - 11:45 Tea Break

11:45 - 13:15 Tutorial 2
Introduction to AI/ML approaches for Dr. Rahul Sharma,
Scientific Research IISER Berhampur
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:45 Tutorial 3 Dr. Vyas Akondi,
Adaptive optics in vision science and IISER Berhampur
retinal imaging
15:45 - 17:15 Tutorial 4
Illuminating the unseen: X-ray Dr. Shanti Swaroop
Crystallography Unveils Nature's Srivastava
Intricate Secrets IISER Berhampur
17:15 - 17:35 Tea Break
17:35 - 17:45 Technical Talk 1 ThermoFisher
17:45 - 17:55 Technical Talk 2 Premas/Illumina
17:55 - 18:05 Technical Talk 3 Leica
18:05 - 18:15 Technical Talk 4 Laser Spectra
18:15 - 18:25 Technical Talk 5 Kubtech
19:30 onwards Dinner
 23 November 2023

CONFERENCE TECHNICAL SESSION DAY 1

VENUE: KCD

Time Subject/Title Speaker/Delegates

8:30 - 9:30 Conference Registration for Delegates

9:30 - 9:50 Lamp Lighting followed by Prof. Ashok Ganguli

Welcome and Inaugural Address
Session 1: SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Ashok Ganguli
9:50 - 11:15
9:50-10:20 Keynote Lecture 1 (online)
Data Governance at the Intersection of
Genomic and Digital Revolutions
10:20-10:50 Keynote Lecture 2
Deep-Tech innovations for low-cost
healthcare in India
10:50-11:15 Invited Lecture 3
Multifaceted Synthetically Tunable
Suprahybrid Nanocarriers for
Advanced Drug Delivery
Director,
IISER Berhampur, India
Prof. Anurag Agrawal
Ashoka University, Sonipat,
India
Prof. Shashidhara
National Centre for Biological
Sciences, Bengaluru, India
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Pathak
Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research
Berhampur, India

11:15-11:35 High Tea

Session II SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Paras Prasad

11:35-13:00
11:35 - 12:05 Keynote Lecture 4 (Online)
Nanoimmunochemistry: Modulating Tumor
Immunosuppressive Microenvironment for
Boosting Cancer Immunotherapy
Prof. Chengzhong (Michael)
Yu
University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia

12:05 - 12:35 Keynote Lecture 5 Prof. Irina Zavestovskaya

Advanced Nuclear Physics and
Nano-technologies for Radiation
Theranostics
12:35 - 13:00 Invited Lecture 6
Nanomaterials for externally-activated
anticancer and antibacterial applications
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch and Poster Session
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
(LPI) of Russian academy of
Science
MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
Prof. Indrajit Roy
University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Poster Session Venue: KCD
Session III SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Sunil Krishnan
15:00-16:55

15:00 - 15:30 Keynote Lecture 7

Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana
Combination of Raman Spectroscopy and Rajiv Gandhi Centre for
MD Simulations as an emerging tool for Biotechnology,
Thiruvananthapuram, India
drug-protein interactions, protein
structure-function, and diagnostic
applications.

15:30 - 16:00 Keynote Lecture 8 Prof. K.N. Ganesh

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
JANUS Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA) with Advanced Scientific Research,
non-identical faces for programmable Bengaluru, India
supramolecular assemblies IISER Pune, IISER Tirupati

16:00 - 16:25 Invited Lecture 9 Prof. Jayanta Haldar

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for
Outwitting antibiotic resistance : A perpetual Advanced Scientific Research,
battle Bengaluru, India
16:25 - 16:55 Keynote Lecture 10 Prof. N.R. Jagannathan
Distinguished Visting
MR Imaging in Biomedical Research: The Professor, Koita Center for
Indian Story Digital Health, IIT Bombay,
Mumbai

16:55 - 17:15 Tea Break

Session IV: SESSION CHAIR: Prof. K N Ganesh

17:15-19:15
Keynote Lecture 11
17:15 - 17:45
Fusion of chemistry and protein Prof. Rajendra Roy
engineering: Unravelling the secrets of Regional Centre for
epigenetic modifications Biotechnology, Faridabad,
India
17:45 - 18:00 Short talk 1
Dr. Surya Pratap Singh,
Raman stable isotope probing for Indian Institute of Technology
microbiology applications. Dharwad, India

18:00 - 18:15 Short talk 2

Dr. Anirban Samanta
Folding double stranded DNA into designed Ramakrishna Mission
nanostructures Vidyamandira, India

18:15 - 18:45 Keynote Lecture 12 (Online)

Prof. Surya Prakash
Sambhara
CDC, Atlanta, Georgia
 Integration of multiomics and AI tools in
immunological assessment of vaccines,
RNA therapeutics and infections
18:45 - 19:15 Keynote Lecture 13 (Online)
Prof. Blaine Pfeiffer
Diverse Bioengineering across Natural State University of New York at
Products and Natural Immunity Defense Buffalo

19:15 onwards Departure for Dinner

24 November 2023

CONFERENCE TECHNICAL SESSION DAY 2

VENUE: KCD

Time Subject/Title Speaker/Delegates

6:30-8:00 Beach Walk, Birding at IISER Campus Dr. Bodhisatta Nandy and
Oasis (Eco club)
IISER Berhampur
8:30-9:30 Breakfast

Session V: SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Denise Zezell

9:30-11:25

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote Lecture 14

Convergence of Science Approaches for
Biophotonics and
Nanomedicine to impact on Health Care
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote Lecture 15
Targeted Structures for Oncotheranostics
Prof. Paras Prasad
State University of New York
at Buffalo
Prof. Sergey Deyev
Lebedev Physical Institute of
the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia

10:30 - 11:00 Keynote Lecture 16

Overcoming barriers to nanoparticles
reaching tumors via the blood stream and
overcoming depth limitation of light to
trigger tumor events
Prof. Dr. Sunil Krishnan
University of Texas Health
Science Center, Houston

11:00 - 11:25 Invited Lecture 17 Dr. Nitin Singhal

National Agri-Food
Administration of PCK-1 siRNA and Biotechnology Institute, Mohali,
G-ELNs decreases hepatic glucose India
 production and improves insulin sensitivity
in the Type 2 diabetes mellitus
experimental model.

11:25 - 11:45 Tea Break

Session VI SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Irina

11:45-13:30 Zavestovskaya

11:45 - 12:10 Invited Lecture 18

Prof. Sameer Sapra
Stabilizing the Pb-halide perovskites for Indian Institute of Technology
optoelectronic applications Delhi, New Delhi, India
12:10 - 12:35 Invited Lecture 19
Prof. Shobha Shukla
Additive Manufacturing of Functional Indian Institute of Technology
Micro/nanostructures using Two Photon Bombay, Mumbai, India
Lithography

12:35 - 13:05 Keynote Lecture 20

Prof. Debasis Dash
Decoding Brain Variant Peptides: A DBT-Institute of Life Sciences,
Proteogenomic Quest with Quality Control Bhubaneswar, India
CSIR-Institute of Genomics
and Integrative Biology, New
Delhi, India
13:05 - 13:30 Invited Lecture 21
Dr. Jiban Jyoti Panda
BBB Traversing Peptide/Amino Acid Institute of Nanoscience and
Nanotherapeutics Targeting Neural Technology, Mohali
Disorders

13:30 - 14:45 Lunch Break

Session VII: SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Sergey Deyev

14:45-17:05

14:45 - 15:15 Keynote Lecture 22 (online)

Prof. Andraud Chantal
NIR chromophores for biophotonics Ecole Normale Supérieure de
applications Lyon/CNRS, France

15:15 - 15:45 Keynote Lecture 23

Advancements in Biophotonics: From
Lasers in Dentistry to Tumor Diagnosis
through FTIR Imaging and Machine
Learning
Prof. Dr. Denise Zezell
University of Sao Paulo
Brazil
15:45 - 16:10 Invited Lecture 24 Prof. Pramit Choudhury
Indian Institute of Technology
Different Aspects of Macromolecular Delhi, New Delhi, India
Crowding: From Hard-Soft Interactions to
Energy Flow

16:10 - 16:40 Keynote lecture 25 Prof. Ashok Ganguli,

Indian Institute of Science
Design and controlled growth of Education and Research
nanostructures and biological applications Berhampur, India

16:40 - 17:05 Invited Lecture 26

A novel non-invasive approach to Unravel Dr. Vivek Tiwari

Clinically Relevant and Precise Genome - Indian Institute of Science
Phenome and Structure - Functions Education and Research
Berhampur, India
Relationships in Gliomas and Aging Brain:
Radio Genomics and Radio Metabolomics
Approaches to study Brain Health and
Diseases

17:05 - 17:25 Tea Break

Session VIII SESSION CHAIR: Prof. Indrajit Roy

17:25 - 18:45
17:25 - 17:40 Short talk 3
Dr. Sanjukta Das,
Cell lineage as a predictor of immune KIIT, Bhubaneswar, India
response in neuroblastoma

17:40 - 17:55 Short talk 4

Dr. Himanshu Singh,
Unveiling Enzymatic Water Networks for Indian Institute of Science
Advancing Biotechnological Applications Education and Research
Berhampur, India

17:55 - 18:35 Concluding Remarks, Poster Awards Prof. Ashok Ganguli and
and Valedictory Function Prof. Paras Prasad

18:45 onwards Departure for Dinner