Schedule


Day 1: Wednesday, 22 MAY 2024

12:00 - 13:55 : Registration

12:30 - 13:45 : Lunch

14:00 - 14:05 : Welcome Note

14:05 - 14:15 : Introduction to RNA Group Meeting

14:15 - 14:20 : Inauguration of RNA India website


SESSION I: Regulatory RNAs

Chair: Rakesh S. Laishram and Purusharth Rajyaguru


14:20 - 14:45 : IT-1 Meetali Singh (small RNA-mediated epigenetic regulation of pathogenesis and host-parasite interaction)


14:45 - 15:10 : IT-2 Bhupendra Verma (tRNA-derived non-coding RNAome during Dengue Virus Pathogenesis)


15:10 - 15:35 : IT-3 Veena S Patil (Human CD4+T cell memory subsets in infectious diseases: lessons from multiomics analysis)


15:35 - 16:00 : IT-4 Dimple Notani (RNA modulates phase-separation of enhancers for robust signaling response)


16:00 - 16:25 : IT-5 Zhumur Ghosh (Regulatory Noncoding RNomics Orchestrating the journey across pre- and post-fertilization stages)


16:00 - 16:25 : Coffee/Tea Break


SESSION II: Flash Talks - I

Chair: Rakesh S. Laishram and Purusharth Rajyaguru


16:55 - 17:02 : FT-1 Pratyasha Bhowal (Unravelling the secrets of a key enzyme in a trypanosomal parasite: Insights into structural and functional attributes)


17:02 - 17:09 : FT-2 Nivedita Dutta (Modulation of structure and thermodynamics of RNA G-quadruplexes by A to I editing: Possible route to G quadruplex-based RNA therapeutics)


17:09 - 17:16 : FT-3 Safirul Islam (Determining novel cytoplasmic mRNA capping enzyme-targeted, hypoxia-responsive RNAs in hypoxic osteosarcoma cellular model)


17:16 - 17:23 : FT-4 Dipanjana Banerjee (Early life stress-induced RNA methylation regulates spatial memory)


17:23 - 17:30 : FT-5 Prerna Narwal (Translation inhibition primes cells to face stress via activation of acute inflammation)


17:30 - 19:30 : Poster presentations

19:30 - 21:30 : Business Meeting and Dinner


Day 2: Thursday, 23 MAY 2024

SESSION III: Ribonucleoprotein Complexes

Chair: Sudip Kundu and Srikanta Goswami


09:00 - 09:30 : IT-6 Saumitra Das (RNA binding proteins and RNA viruses: A journey together)


09:30 - 09:55 : IT-7 Ranjit P. Bahadur (Predicting protein-RNA recognition sites using sequence and structural features)


09:55 - 10:20 : IT-8 Jeetender Chugh (Differential conformational dynamics in two type-A RNA-binding domains drive the double stranded RNA recognition and binding)


10:20 - 10:45 : IT-9 Pradeepkumar P.I. (Structural and Functional Insights into the RNA Pseudoknots of the CRISPR-Cas12a Assemblies)


10:45 - 11:10 : IT-10 Shruthi S Vembar (Discovery and validation of novel compact RNA targeting CRISPR/Cas13 systems)


11:10 - 11:40 : Group Photo and Coffee/Tea Break


SESSION IV: Post-transcriptional Gene Regulations

Chair: Pankaj V. Alone and Shovamayee Maharana


11:40 - 12:05 : IT-11 Vasudevan Seshadri (PIP4K, a kinase with RNA binding activity)


12:05 - 12:30 : IT-12 Arumugam Rajavelu (Plasmodium falciparum YTH2 Domain Binds to m6A-Containing mRNA and Regulates Translation)


12:30 - 12:55 : IT-13 Jomon Joseph (Autophagy-dependent regulation of processing bodies (P-bodies))


13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch Break (Mentor Mentee Lunch)


SESSION V: Flash Talks-II

Chair: Pankaj V. Alone and Shovamayee Maharana


14:00 - 14:07 : FT-6 Sweta Tiwari (RGG-motif protein Scd6 affects oxidative stress response by regulating Cytosolic caTalase T1 (Ctt1))


14:07 - 14:14 : FT-7 Aditya Singha Roy (Hidden in the Code: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of 5สน-UTR Variants,uORFs, and RNA G Quadruplex in the regulation of human cIAPI gene expression)


14:14 - 14:21 : FT-8 Debraj Manna (Regulation of the expression of ribosomal proteins by small downstream ORFs)


14:21 - 14:28 : FT-9 Koushick Sivakumar (Emergence of an effective translation proofreader enabled the surge of proline-rich proteins in metazoans)


14:28 - 14:35 : FT-10 Payal Gupta (Tetraphenylethene Derivatives Modulate the RNA Hairpin-G-quadruplex Conformational Equilibria in Proto-Oncogenes)


14:35 - 14:42 : FT-11 Akshay Chaudhari (DRASTIC lncRNA may regulate DNA damage response via FUS dependent LLPS)


14:45 - 16:45 : Poster presentations and Coffee/Tea Break


SESSION VI: Ribosome Structure And Translational Control

Chair: BiswadipDas and Rajat Banerjee


16:45 - 17:10 : IT-14 Jayati Sengupta (Structural insights into the interplay of nascent chain processing factors with the 70S ribosome)


17:10 - 17:35 : IT-15 Prem S. Kaushal (Ribosome structure of pathogenic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica)


17:35 - 18:00 : IT-16 Tanweer Hussain (mRNA recruitment during protein synthesis in eukaryotes)


18:00 - 18:30 : IT-17 Umesh Varshney (Initiator tRNA-centric mechanisms of faithful translation initiation and ribosome maturation in bacteria)


18:30 - 19:00 : Felicitation Ceremony

19:00 - 21:00 : GALA DINNER


Day 3: Friday, 24 MAY 2024

SESSION VII: RNA-Protein Interactions

Chair: Ansuman Lahiri and Mandar V Deshmukh


09:00 - 09:30 : IT-18 Rajan Sankaranarayanan (When Paul Berg meets Donald Crothers: An achiral connection through protein biosynthesis)


09:30 - 09:55 : IT-19 Dasaradhi Palakodeti (Unravelling the role of Polyadenylation Machinery in asymmetric stem cell division)


09:55 - 10:20 : IT-20 Ritu Kulshreshtha (Decoding the role and clinical relevance of Non-coding RNAs in Glioblastoma)


10:20 - 10:45 : IT-21 Mahavir Singh (RNA pseudoknot at the core of bacterial type III toxin-antitoxin systems)


10:45 - 11:10 : IT-22 Amanjot Singh(Balanced interplay among the structured and disordered domains of RNA-binding protein)


11:10 - 11:40 : Coffee/Tea Break


SESSION VIII: RNA Splicing

Chair: Sandeep M. Eswarappaand Ashish Misra


11:40 - 12:05 : IT-23 Sanjeev Shukla (Unraveling the Nexus: Hypoxic Tumor Microenvironment and Alternative Splicing)


12:05 - 12:30 : IT-24 Indrani Talukdar (Alternative splicing and its impact on the metabolic syndrome to stem cell differentiation)


12:30 - 12:55 : IT-25 Amaresh C. Panda (Discovering Transcriptome-wide Circular RNA Interaction with mRNAs)


13:00 - 13:30 : Prize Distribution and Concluding Remarks

13:30 - 14:30 : Lunch Break and Departure