Latest Programme Women in Science Seminar

INDO-FRENCH “WOMEN IN SCIENCE” SEMINAR through CEFIPRA
3-5 February 2015
Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
3rd February 2015
9:30 onwards Seminar Registration
10:30
Inauguration Ceremony
Welcome and remarks: Rohini Godbole, Anurag Kumar, Eric Lavertu,
Debapriya Dutta, Jenifer Clark, Dipankar Chatterjee
Chief Guest: Manju Sharma
Vote of Thanks: Jayesh Wagh
Chair of Session: Franc Pattus
12:00
Catherine Jessus
Keynote Address – Meiotic divisions : new ideas from an old story
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Jyotsna Dhawan
Constructive sleeper cells in regeneration: Deconstructing the
quiescent state
14:30
Laurent Kodjabachian
Ontogenesis of mucociliary epithelia in vertebrates
Chair of Session: Vandana Nanal
15:00
Shobhana Narasimhan
Nanocatalysts from First Principles
15:30
Sylvie Rousset
Spin-Polarization at the Molecule/Ferromagnet Interfaces
16:00
Poster Session (1st set of posters) and tea/coffee
17:15
Chanda Jog
Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies
17:45
Sabine Kraml
The Quest for Supersymmetry
18:15
Tools for Indo-French cooperation
Debapriya Dutta & Jenifer Clark
4th February 2015
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:45
12:15
12:45
13:15
14:00
14:20
14:40
17:00
17:30
Chair of Session: Sylvie Rousset
Ophélia Fabre (young researcher selected presentation)
Generation of magnetic field seeds before recombination with
Thomson scattering and Coulomb scattering
Mythily Ramaswamy
Control aspects of a fluid model
Hannah Yevick (young researcher selected presentation)
The role of out-of-plane curvature on epithelial tissue
Poster Session (2nd set of poster) and tea/coffee
Chair of Session: Renée Borges
Joyoti Basu
How pathogens subvert the immune response
Graca Raposo-Benedetti
Regulation of Human pigmentation: molecules, organelles and
intercellular communication
Shyamala Mani
The effect of maternal malnutrition on brain development
Lunch
Chairs of Session: Rohini Godbole and Jenifer Clark
Anne Pepin
Women in Science in France: the CNRS experience
Vineeta Bal
Women in Science: Indian scenario
Panel Discussion: “Issues of Women in Science: focus Indo French
cooperation”
Panelists: Anne Pepin, Veronique Pierron-Bohnes, Sabine Kraml,
Namita Misra, Ramakrishna Ramaswamy, Sudha Nair, Indira Nath,
Usha Vijayraghavan, Satyajit Mayor
Tea/coffee break
Rohini Godbole
Keynote Address – Quo Vadis: Particle Physics after Higgs Discovery
5th February 2015
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
13:00
13:30
Chair of Session: Sandhya Visweswariah
Neha Vyas (young researcher selected presentation)
Vesicular Sonic Hedgehog: Companions matter
Purnima Bhargava
Mechanisms of gene regulation: beyond genetics
Laurianne Davignon (young researcher selected presentation)
Novel regulator of late myogenic differentiation
Tea/Coffee break
Chair of Session: Prajval Shastri
K. Preethi (young researcher selected presentation)
Three Dimensional Extinction Map of the Milky Way Galaxy
Veronique Pierron-Bohnes
State-of-the-art studies of nanoparticles
Anjana Dogra
Artificially Engineered Heterostructures of Oxide Insulators
Rupamanjari Ghosh
Manipulating atoms by light
Closing Ceremony and Poster Awards
Lunch
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