Schedule

Pre-Symposium Workshop

20-05-2025

Title

Duration

Instructor(s)

Parallel Session-I

Genome Wide Association Studies

10:00 am - 1:00 pm (3 hrs)

Dr. P Supriya, ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management

Machine Learning in Plant Genomics

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm (3 hrs)

Dr. Sajitha S Lulu, Vellore Institute of Technology

Parallel Session-II

Computational Metagenomics

10:00 am - 1:00 pm (3 hrs)

Dr. Ratna Prabha, ICAR-Indian Agriculture Research Institute

Transcriptomics: From Reads to Pathways

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm (3 hrs)

Dr. Sarika Sahu, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute

Symposium

21-05-2025

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Registration

10:00 am - 11.00 am

Inauguration and Keynote Address 1: Prof. Chittaranjan Kole,

Chairman, Prof. Chittaranjan Kole Foundation for Science and Society, New Delhi, India.

11.00 am- 11:15 am

Tea and Networking

Theme 1: Innovations in Genomics, Genome Editing, and Horti-Informatics

11.15 am - 11.40 am

Lead Talk 1: Dr. Satendra K Mangrauthia, Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Hyderabad

11.40 am - 12.05 pm

Lead Talk 2: Dr. Rehena Augustine, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, Vellanikkara, Kerala

12.05-1.00

6 Selected Oral Presentations (8 min presentation + 2 minute discussion)

1.00 - 1.30 pm

Industry Spotlight Session

1.30 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch / Poster Session

Theme 2: From Expression to Ecosystem: Insights from Transcriptomics and Metagenomics

2:30 pm - 2:55 pm

Lead talk 1: Dr. Kalyani M Barbadikar, Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research

2:55 pm -3:20 pm

Lead Talk 2: Dr. Jinu Jacob, Scientist, ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research

3:20 pm - 4:20 pm

6 Selected Oral Presentations (8 min presentation + 2 minute discussion)

4:20 pm - 4:40 pm

Industry Spotlight Session

4:40 pm - 5:40 pm

Tea / Poster Session

22-05-2025

Theme 3: Proteomics, Metabolomics and Nutrigenomics in Plant Science

10:00 am - 10:25 am

Lead Talk 1: Dr. Ahammed Shabeer T.P., Senior Scientist, NRC- Grapes, Maharashtra

10:25 am - 10.50 am

Lead Talk 2: Dr. Veda Krishnan, Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi

10:50 am - 11:10 am

Tea

11:10 am- 12:10 pm

6 Selected Oral Presentations (8 min presentation + 2 minute discussion)

12:10 pm- 12.30 pm

Industry Spotlight Session

12:30 pm-1.00 pm

Lunch

Theme 4: Artificial Intelligence and Computational Biology in Plant Research

1:00 pm- 1:25 pm

Lead Talk 1: Dr. Shailesh Kumar, Staff Scientist IV, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi

1.25 pm- 1:50 pm

Lead Talk 2: Dr. Mir Asif Iqbal, Senior Scientist, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi

1:50 pm- 2:50 pm

6 Selected Oral Presentations (8 min presentation + 2 minute discussion)

2:50 pm - 3:10 pm

Industry Spotlight Session

3:10 pm- 3.30 pm

Tea Break

3:30 pm- 4:30 pm

Valedictory Program