| 16 February 2026 | Venue: Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai |
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| 0845 – 0930 | Registration and Tea/Coffee |
| 0930 – 0940 | Opening Remarks |
| 0940 – 1015 | Sitabhra Sinha (IMSc Chennai)
Devo-Eco: Environment, interactions and the embryo |
| 1015 – 1050 | Deepak Agrawal (IIT Bombay)
Optimizing chemotherapy balance with reinforcement learning |
| 1050 – 1130 | Tea Break and Poster Session |
| 1130 – 1205 | Chetan Gadgil (NCL Pune)
A systems pharmacology model for extrapulmonary tuberculosis |
| 1205 – 1240 | Samrat Chatterjee (THSTI Faridabad)
Targeting calcium-dependent perturbations in the functioning of pancreatic beta cells using mathematical modelling |
| 1240 – 1400 | Lunch |
| 1400 – 1435 | M. Michael Gromiha (IIT Madras)
Development of computational models for predicting the binding affinities of protein complexes and their mutants |
| 1435 – 1510 | Nagasuma Chandra (IISc Bengaluru) Exploiting immune selfness, A tumour immunosculpting strategy |
| 1510 – 1535 | Tea Break and Poster Session |
| 1535 – 1610 | Athi Naganathan (IIT Madras)
Proteins, strings, ensembles and mechanisms |
| 1610 – 1645 | Debnath Pal (IISc Bengaluru)
From static structure to dynamic landscapes: Understanding macromolecular function |
| 1645 – 1740 | Poster Session and High Tea |
| 1740 – 1815 | Debarka Sengupta (IIIT Delhi)
AI approaches in detecting and treating cancers |
| 1815 – 1850 | Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee (NCBS Bengaluru)
The beginnings of transcription regulation |
| 1900 – 2100 | Conference Dinner |
| 17 February 2026 | Venue: Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai |
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| 0900 – 0930 | Registration and Tea/Coffee |
| 0930 – 1005 | Rahul Siddharthan (IMSc Chennai)
Gene regulatory sequence: Beyond motifs |
| 1005 – 1040 | Satyanarayan Rao (IIT Roorkee)
Understanding gene regulation: From sub-angstrom sensitivity of transcription factors to language models |
| 1040 – 1130 | Tea Break and Poster Session |
| 1130 – 1205 | Sanjay Jain (University of Delhi)
A mechanism for the evolution of protocells without genes |
| 1205 – 1240 | Brato Chakrabarti (ICTS Bengaluru)
The physical consequence of sperm gigantism |
| 1240 – 1400 | Lunch |
| 1400 – 1435 | Chirag Jain (IISc Bengaluru)
Algorithms for assembling human genome sequence |
| 1435 – 1510 | Susan Idicula-Thomas (ICMR-NIRRCH Mumbai)
Multiscale systems analysis of host–Candida albicans interactions in vulvovaginal candidiasis |
| 1510 – 1545 | Tea Break and Poster Session |
| 1545 – 1620 | Olivier Martin (INRAE, France)
Inferring driver-to-target interactions in gene regulatory networks |
| 1620 – 1655 | Ram Rup Sarkar (NCL Pune)
Multi-scale modelling of immune dysregulation under microgravity |
| 1655 – 1730 | Sangram Bagh (SINP Kolkata)
Towards AI bacteria |
| 1730 – 1900 | Poster Session and High Tea |
| 1900 – 2045 | Conference Dinner |
| 18 February 2026 | Venue: Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc Chennai |
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| 0930 – 1005 | Manikandan Narayanan (IIT Madras)
GWAS across borders: Simple models for cross-ethnic disease risk prediction |
| 1005 – 1040 | Satyavani Vemparala (IMSc Chennai)
Functional group mediated mechanisms of membrane recognition in antimicrobial peptides and polymers |
| 1040 – 1130 | Tea Break and Poster Session |
| 1130 – 1205 | Pranay Goel (IISER Pune)
The oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), a 100 years later can we build an alternative? |
| 1205 – 1240 | Sandeep Choubey (IMSc Chennai)
Pearls on a string: Phase-separating proteins on biopolymers as functional assemblies |
| 1240 – 1400 | Lunch |
| 1400 – 1435 | Debayan Chakraborty (IMSc Chennai)
Exploring energy landscapes of model polyampholytes and intrinsically disordered proteins using minimalist models |
| 1435 – 1510 | Nivedita Deo (University of Delhi)
Viewing protein structure through the random matrix and network lens |
| 1510 – 1545 | Parul Verma (IIT Madras)
A neural mass modeling approach to understand biophysics of brain regional activity |
| 1545 – 1600 | Concluding Remarks |
