Day 1 • Friday, Mar 13, 2026 •
G.N. Ramachandran Lecture Hall, TSB Building Ground Floor, Ashoka University
Breakfast and Registration
8:30 am – 10:15 am
Inauguration and Welcome Address
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Tea Break
11:00 am – 11:15 am
Session I (Chair) –
Prof. Vidya Avasare(Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ashoka University)
11:15 – 12:00 pm
Plenary Talk 1 –
Prof. Ram Vishwakarma (Distinguished Scientist, CSIR-New Delhi;Former Director, CSIR-IIIM,
Jammu; Former Vice President, Piramal Healthcare) Title - Chemical Biology of GPI Anchors
12:00 – 12:35 pm
Keynote Lecture 1 –
Prof. Jeet Kalia (Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, IISER-Bhopal) Title - Imaging PE lipids in live mammalian cells
12:35 – 01:10 pm
Keynote Lecture 2 –
Prof. Pinaki Talukdar (Professor & Dean Faculty, Department of Chemistry, IISER-Pune) Title - Supramolecular Channels for Responsive Ion Transport and Biomedical
Applications
Lunch Break
1:10 pm – 2:10 pm
Venue: RH 06, Ground Floor, Ashoka University
Session II (Chair) - Dr. Rajani Mathur (Associate Professor, Department of
Pharmacology, Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
University, New Delhi)
02:10 – 02:55 pm
Plenary Talk 2 –
Prof. Tapas Kundu
(Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, JNCASR, Bengaluru;
Former Director, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow)
Title – Epigenetic Regulations of Chronic Diseases
02:55 – 03:20 pm
Invited Lecture 1 –
Dr. Kshatresh Dubey
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University
Title – Unraveling Enzyme Mechanism Through Computations
03:20 – 03:55 pm
Keynote Lecture 3 –
Prof. Parasuraman Jaisankar
(Chief Scientist & Head, Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Division, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata)
Title – Synthetic Small-Molecule Modulators for the Rare Genetic Disease Friedreich’s Ataxia: A Dual-Mechanistic Approach
03:55 – 04:20 pm
Invited Lecture 2 –
Dr. Ayan Mukherjee
(Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IISER-Thiruvananthapuram)
Title – Targeting MDR Gram-Negative ESKAPE Pathogens with an Aminoglycoside-Based Permeability Enhancer and Clp Inhibition
Tea Break
4:20 pm – 4:40 pm
Session III (Chair ) - Dr.Deblina Raychaudhuri (Assistant Professor, Department of
Biology, Ashoka University)
04:40 – 05:05 pm
Invited Lecture 3 –
Prof. Krishna Pada Bhabak
(Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Guwahati)
Title – Development of Small-Molecule Fluorogenic Prodrugs and Drug
Conjugates for the Effective Treatment of Cancer
05:05 – 05:30 pm
Invited Lecture 4 –
Prof. Shobhna Kapoor
(Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Bombay)
Title – Mycobacterial Sulfoglycolipid-1 is a novel regulator of host actin dynamics during infection
05:30 – 05:55 pm
Invited Lecture 5 –
Prof. Arindam Talukdar
(Senior Principal Scientist, Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Division, CSIR-IICB, Kolkata)
Title – Precision Agonism-Antagonism Functional Switching of Endosomal TLRs Signalling by Single-Point
Chemical Changes for Vaccine and Autoimmune Therapeutics
05:55 – 06:30 pm
Keynote Lecture 4 –
Prof. Ankona Datta
(Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR-Mumbai)
Title – ABATaRs, Activity-Based Alkyne-Tag Raman Sensors for Live-cell Multiplexed Imaging
Dinner
7:30 pm onwards
Venue : RH 06, Ground Floor, Ashoka University
Day 2 • Saturday, Mar 14 •
G.N. Ramachandran Lecture Hall, TSB Building Ground Floor, Ashoka University
Breakfast
08:00 - 09:00am
Session IV (Chair IV) - Prof. Trayambak Basak (Associate Professor, School of
Biosciences and Bioengineering, IIT-Mandi)
09:00 – 09:35 am
Keynote Lecture 5 –
Prof. Vellarkad N. Viswanadhan
(Vice President, Computational Chemistry, Molecular Solutions)
Title – Trends in AI and Physics-based methods in Computational Drug Discovery
09:35 – 10:10 am
Keynote Lecture 6 –
Prof. Munia Ganguli
(Chief Scientist, CSIR-IGIB, New Delhi)
Title – Building targeted non-viral gene delivery systems
10:10 – 10:45 am
Keynote Lecture 7 –
Dr. Atul Goel
(Chief Scientist, Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow)
Title – Dual-labelled oligonucleotides for development of RT-PCR based diagnostics for infectious diseases
10:45 – 11:10 am
Invited Lecture 6 –
Dr. Shailendra Ashtana
( Principal Scientist-II, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad )
Title - To be announed
Group Photo & High Tea
11:10 am – 11:40 am • HDFC Library Staircase
Session V (Chair) –
Dr. Munmun Ghosh(Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ashoka University)
11:40 – 12:05 pm
Invited Lecture 7 –
Prof. Sharmistha Sinha
(Professor, INST-Mohali)
Title – Tunable Prokaryotic Organelles: Exploiting the Crystalline-Disordered Interface of Bacterial Microcompartments
12:05 –12:40 pm
Keynote Lecture 8 –
Prof. Rajkumar Banerjee
(Chief Scientist, Department of Chemistry, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad)
Title – Platform for targeting glucocorticoid receptor:
a nano-therapeutic strategy for immuno-modulation in cancer
12:40 – 01:15 pm
Keynote Lecture 9 –
Prof. Surajit Sinha
(Senior Professor, School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Science, IACS-Kolkata)
Title – From Bench to Market: Morpholino Antisense for Therapeutic Applications
Lunch Break
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Venue : Venue: RH 06, Ground Floor, Ashoka University
Session VI (Chair) - Prof. Bimlesh Lochab (Professor, Department of
Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University)
02:15 – 02:50 pm
Keynote Lecture 10 –
Prof. Surajit Ghosh (Professor, Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, IIT-Jodhpur) Title – Designed Chemical Tool for Calcium Dyshomeostasis and Other Factors Causing Memory Impairments in Alzheimer's Disease
02:50 – 03:15 pm
Invited Lecture 8 –
Prof. Sarit Agasti (Associate Professor, New Chemistry Unit, JNCASR-Bengaluru) Title – Programming Synthetic Molecular Assemblies for Next-Generation Biological Imaging
03:15 – 03:50 pm
Keynote Lecture 11 –
Prof. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay (Professor, School of Computational and Integrative Science, JNU, New Delhi) Title – Understanding ion selectivity of proteins using statistical mechanics and molecular dynamics simulation
03:50 – 04:15 pm
Invited Lecture 9 –
Dr. Dilip Kumar (Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Ashoka University) Title – Proline hydroxylation-induced conformational changes in Flavivirus NS2B reveal a host-dependent regulatory mechanism
Tea Break and Poster Session
04:15 pm – 06:30 pm
Gala Dinner
07:00 pm onwards
Venue : Wyandham Garden, Sonipat
Day 3 • Sunday, Mar 15 •
G.N. Ramachandran Lecture Hall, TSB Building Ground Floor, Ashoka University
Breakfast
08:00 am – 09:00 am
Session VII (Chair ) –
Dr. Deepak Asthana(Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ashoka University)
09:00 – 09:45 am
Plenary Lecture 3 –
Prof. R. Sowdhamini (Senior Professor, Department of Biochemistry, NCBS-Bengaluru) Title – Computational Modelling and Search for Inhibitors
09:45 – 10:10 am
Invited Lecture 10 –
Dr. Santanu Mondal (Assistant Professor, Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, IIT-Delhi) Title – Kinetic Stabilizers: Potential Therapeutic Interventions against Cardiac Amyloidosis
10:10 – 10:35 am
Invited Lecture 11 –
Dr. Garima Mishra (Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Ashoka University) Title – Knots Under Tension: Non-Monotonic Mixing Behavior
10:35 – 11:00 am
Invited Lecture 12 –
Dr. Ragothaman Yennamalli (Senior Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, Sastra University) Title – Calcium Dependent Conformational Changes in Human Transglutaminase 2 and its Implications in Celiac Disease
Tea Break
10:50 am – 11:10 am
Session VIII (Chair ) - Dr. Santu Bera (Assistant Professor, Department of
Chemistry, Ashoka University)
11:20 – 11:55 am
Keynote Lecture 12 –
Dr. Sudipta Ghosh Dastidar ( Technology Leader, Hindustan Unilever, Bengaluru) Title – Sustainable Material Efficient Soaps
11:55 – 12:20 pm
Invited Lecture 13 –
Dr. Somnath Maji (Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Hyderabad) Title – Polypyridine Transition-Metal Complexes as Emerging Metallopharmaceuticals for Cancer Therapy
12:20 – 12:55 pm
Keynote Lecture 13 –
Dr. Sourav Singha Roy (Deputy General Manager, Premas Biotech, Gurugram) Title – Crossing the Valley of Death: De-Risking Early-Stage Science
12:55 – 01:20 pm
Invited Lecture 14 –
Dr. Sandeep Ameta (Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Ashoka University) Title – Dynamics within liquid-liquid phase-separated microenvironment
Validictory Session and Poster Prize Distribution
01:20 - 01.50 pm
Venue : G.N. Ramachandran Hall, TSB Building, Ashoka University