| 8:30 - 8:50 am |
Registration |
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| 8:50 - 9:00 am | Opening Remarks – Prof. Reshma Taneja (Head of Department, Department of Physiology) |
| SESSION 1 Chair: Karen Crasta | |
| 9:00 - 9:20 am |
Ashok Venkitaraman Metabolic triggers for cancer evolution NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| 9:20 - 9:40 am |
Vidita Vaidya Serotonergic Modulation of Emotion: Circuits, Experience, and Cellular Plasticity Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad India |
| 9:40 - 10:00 am |
Derrick Ong Novel mechanisms of proliferation/self-renewal of cancerous and normal brain stem cells, and their therapeutic implications NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| SESSION 2 Chair: Manoor Prakash Hande | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 am |
Laxmi Rao Risky decision-taking behaviour with elevated curiosity as an early marker for addictive behaviour at adolescence? National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, India |
| 10:20 - 10:40 am |
Chandrima Das Epigenetic Regulator UBR7 links extracellular matrix stiffness to immune signalling driving breast tumor heterogeneity Saha Institute, Kolkata India |
| 10:40 - 11:05 am |
Tea Break |
| SESSION 3 Chair: Soong Tuck Wah | |
| 11:05 - 11:25 am |
Sajikumar Sreedharan
How Metaplasticity Shapes Memory in Health and Disease NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| 11:25 - 11:45 am |
Reshma Taneja Characterizing tumour initiating cells in rhabdomyosarcoma NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| 11:45 - 12:05 pm |
Kundan Sengupta Dissecting the role of nuclear envelope dynamics in cancers Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune India |
| 12:05 - 1:10 pm |
Lunch |
| SESSION 4 Chair: Ling Shuo-Chien | |
| 1:10 - 1:30 pm |
Rickie Patani Decoding Molecular Mechanisms of Human Neurodegeneration using Stem Cells NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| 1:30 - 1:50 pm |
Tee Wee Wei Exploiting embryonic vulnerabilities in cancer NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| 1:50 - 2:10 pm |
Thameem Dheen Spatial transcriptomic profiling of microglial dynamics in the mouse brain after ischemic stroke NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| SESSION 5 Chair: Herbert Schwarz | |
| 2:10 - 3:15 pm |
Flash Talks by Students/Postdocs |
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| 3:15 - 3:40 pm |
Tea Break |
| SESSION 6 Chair: Andrew Tan | |
| 3:40 - 4:00 pm |
Dimple Notani Revisiting Enhancer Logic: RNA-Driven Transcription Factor Binding at Low-Affinity Sites National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore India |
| 4:00 - 4:20 pm |
Ajay Mathuru Fishful thinking: Aquatic models of human brain function and dysfunction NUS Medicine, National University of Singapore |
| 4:20 - 4:40 pm |
Ullas Kolthur Plasticity & Memory of Biological Mechanisms: translating basic discoveries to public health efforts Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad India |
| 4:40 - 5:00 pm |
Tapas Kumar Kundu Lysine acetyltransferase KAT3A/3B mediated acetylation is critical to alleviate depression Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore India |
| 5:00 - 5:20 pm |
Prize Presentation and Closing of Symposium |
| From 7:00pm |
Botanic Gardens Visit and Dinner for invited guests at 7pm |
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