Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Venue:

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Seminar Hall
Guest House, IISER Pune

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:15 – 09:30

Inauguration

Session 1 Chairperson: Prof. Jayant Udgaonkar, Director IISER Pune
09:30 – 10:00

IL1: Prof. Sandeep Verma, Secretary of SERB and Professor at IIT Kanpur
Peptide-based palette in chemical neuroscience and structured materials

10:00 – 10:20

IL2: Prof. Siddhesh Kamat, IISER Pune
A metabolomics approach towards enzyme function annotation

10:20 – 10:40

IL3: Prof. Dhanasekaran Shanmugam, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune
Chemo-genetic phenotyping of apicoplast mediated delayed death in Toxoplasma gondii

10:40 – 11:00

IL4: Prof. Karishma Kaushik, Savitribai Phule Pune University
Adding a new dimension: Multi-level structure and organization of mixed-species
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilms in a 4-D wound
microenvironment

11:00 – 11:30

High TEA

Session 2 Chairperson: Prof. M. Jayakannan, IISER Pune
11:30 – 11:50

IL5: Prof. Sun Choi, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Comprehensive computational studies of adenosine receptor for the elucidation ofmechanism of action and drug discovery

11:50 – 12:10

IL6: Prof. Young-Tae Chang, POSTECH, Korea
Universal strategy for live cell distinction by fluorescent imaging probe

12:10 – 12:30

IL7: Prof. H. N. Gopi, IISER Pune
Attenuating the A42 aggregation and its cytotoxicity by designed hybrid peptide foldamers

12:30 – 12:50

IL8: Prof. Ankona Datta, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR, Mumbai)
Chemical tools for tracking autophagy

12:50 – 13:00

Dr. Ajit K Sharma, Royal Society of Chemistry

13:00 – 16:30

Lunch followed by Students’ poster session(including tea and coffee break)Session 3 Chairperson: Prof. Srinivas Hotha, IISER Pune
16:30 – 16:50

IL9: Prof. Pinaki Talukdar, IISER Pune
Artificial ion transport as a tool to target cancer

16:50 – 17:10

IL10: Dr. Janesh Kumar, CSIR-CCMB Hyderabad
Emerging insights into functions and modulation of kainate receptors

17:10 – 17:30

IL11: Dr. Amrita Hazra, IISER Pune
Engineering the biosynthesis of unnatural vitamin B2 analogs-probing the molecular basisof nucleobase specificity

17:30 – 17:40

Dr. Anindita Adak, Solution Scientist Merck
Synthia™- A retrosynthetic software by Merck

17:40 – 17:45

Closing remarks and vote of thanks

19:30 – 22:00

DinnerSeptember 15 to 18, 2022
Venue: Zuri White Sands, Goa

Thursday, September 15, 2022
15.30 – 16.30

Registration

16:30 – 16:45

Inauguration and opening address by ACBI members
Prof. Motonari Uesugi, Prof. Sandeep Verma and Prof. K. N. Ganesh

Session 1 Chairperson: Prof. Kenji Monde, Hokkaido University, Japan
16:45 – 17:10

IL1: Prof. Motonari Uesugi, Kyoto University, Japan
Self-assembling bioactive small molecules

17:10 – 17:30

IL2: Prof. Ruchi Anand, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Decoding origins of antibiotic resistance via deciphering the mechanism of targeting ofpathogenic ribosomal methyltransferase

17:30 – 17:50

IL3: Prof. Vishal Rai, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Human nature inspires precision engineering of proteins

17:50 – 18:10

IL4: Dr. Niti Kumar, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Probing into unique genome and proteome maintenance pathways for design ofalternative antimalarial intervention strategies

18:10 – 18:20

Dr. Ajit K Sharma, Royal Society of Chemistry

19:00 – 22:00

Dinner (Sponsored by The Royal Society of Chemistry)

Friday, September 16, 2022
Session 2 Chairperson: Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Director IISER Tirupati
09:30 – 9:55

IL5: Prof. Kenji Monde, Hokkaido University, Japan
Malabaricone C, an inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the SAR & mechanism studies

09:55 – 10:20

IL6: Dr. Souvik Maiti, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi
Biophysical insight into FnCas9 Editor Linked Uniform Detection Assay (FELUDA):FELUDA-V2

10:20 – 10:40

IL7: Prof. Harinath Chakrapani, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,
Pune
Chemical tools to modulate the cellular sulfane sulfur pool

10:40 – 11:00

IL8: Prof. Ishu Saraogi, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Identification of small molecules for therapeutic applications

11:00 – 11:30

Tea BreakSession 3 Chairperson: Dr. Anil Kumar Mishra, INMAS Delhi
11:30 – 11:55

IL9: Prof. Kazuya Kikuchi, Osaka University, Japan
In vivo multicolor imaging with fluorescent probes revealed dynamics and function ofosteoclast proton pump

11:55 – 12:20

IL10: Prof. T. Govindaraju, JNCASR BangaloreAlzheimer’s disease: pathophysiology, diagnostics and therapeutics

12:20 – 12:40

IL11: Prof. Reji Varghese, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,Thiruvananthapuram
Circularly polarised luminescence enabled highly specific detection of potassium ionsusing DNA-based sensors

12:40 – 12:50

IL12: Prof. S. G. Srivatsan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Probing nucleic acid conformation and recognition using nucleoside analogs

12:50 – 13:00

Thermo Fisher Scientific

13:00 – 14:30

LunchSession 4 Chairperson: Prof. H. N. Gopi, IISER Pune
14:30 – 14:55

IL13: Prof. Hiroki Oguri, University of Tokyo, Japan
Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids and their analogs
exhibiting potent anti-cancer activities

14:55 – 15:20

IL14: Prof. Manickam Jayakannan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research,
Pune
Synthetic Polymer Nanoscaffolds to Breach Blood Brain Barrier

15:20 – 15:40

IL15: Prof. Shobhna Kapoor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Chasing the functions of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Glycolipids during Infection using
Chemical Proteomics and Membrane Biophysics

15:40 – 15:50

Dr. Paidi Yella Reddy, Sapala Organics Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad
A Journey Towards Large-Scale Manufacturing and Modified Phosphoramidites for
Therapeutic Oligonucleotides.

15:50 – 16:00

Ms. Ruta Nachane, Cytiva India
Sense and sensitivity : Screening and characterisation of fragments against WT GPCR
targets using Biacore Systems.

16:00 – 16:30

Tea BreakSession 5 Chairperson: Prof. Sandeep Verma, Secretary SERB and Professor at IIT Kanpur
16:30 – 16:55

IL16: Shri. Sanjeev Kumar Varshney, Adviser & Head International Cooperation,
Department of Science & Technology (DST). Government of India

International Scientific Cooperation and Funding Opportunities from DST
16:55 – 17:30

Building the future Chemical Biology community in Asia
Prof. Motonari Uesugi, Prof. K. N. Ganesh, Prof. Sandeep Verma
Followed by discussion

19:30 – 22:30

Banquet Dinner (Sponsored by American Chemical Society)Saturday, September 17, 2022
Session 6 Chairperson: Prof. Kazuya Kikuchi, Osaka University, Japan
09:30 – 9:55

IL17: Prof. Takeaki Ozawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Imaging and controlling G-protein coupled receptors activities in living cells

09:55 – 10:20

IL18: Prof. Eylon Yavin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Bright FIT-PNAs: Sensitive probes for RNA detection

10:20 – 10:40

IL19: Dr. Dhiraj Bhatia, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
DNA based programmable nanodevices to instruct biological systems

10:40 – 11:00

IL20: Prof. Jeet Kalia, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
A metabolic labeling-based chemoproteomic platform establishes choline metabolites as
profound protein function modulators

11:00 – 11:30

Tea BreakSession 7 Chairperson: Prof. Meital Reches, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
11:30 – 11:50

IL21: Prof. Srinivas Hotha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Chemical glycan editing

11:50 – 12:10

IL22: Prof. Suvarn Kulkarni, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Bacterial rare sugars: what can we do with them?

12:10 – 12:30

IL23: Prof. Dimpy Kalia, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Sensitive free cysteine detection and rapid protein bioconjugation via facile Michael
addition-elimination reactions

12:30 – 12:50

IL24: Dr. Shailja Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Discovery and Development of medicines for Malaria: progress, challenges andrecommendations

13:00 – 14:15

Lunch

14:45 onwards: sightseeing, city tour and dinner

Sunday, September 18, 2022
Session 8 Chairperson: Prof. Ruchi Anand, IIT Bombay
09:00 – 09:25

IL25: Prof. Meital Reches, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Peptide-based functional assemblies and coatings

09:25 – 09:45

IL26: Dr. Sudeshna Manna, University of Utah, USA
Breaking riboswitch speed limits through engineering and rational design of an RNAbased biosensor

09:45 – 10:05

IL27: Dr. N. Ayyadurai, CSIR-CLRI
Building Biomaterials through Genetic Code Expansion

10:05 – 10:25

IL28: Prof. Sun Choi, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Comprehensive computational studies of adenosine receptor for the elucidation ofmechanism of action and drug discovery

10:25 – 10:45

IL29: Prof. Young-Tae Chang, POSTECH, Korea
Universal strategy for live cell distinction by fluorescent imaging probe

10:45 – 11:00

Closing remarks and vote of thanks

11:00 – 11:30

Tea Break and Departure