BESCON-2017
Biological Engineering for the 21st Century
September 8 – 9, 2017
Day-1 (8th September)
Registration: 8.30-10 am
Inauguration: 10.00 – 11.30 am
- Lighting of Lamp and Introduction : 10: 00-10.05
- Welcome Address : Prof. A. K. Dubey, Convener, Bescon-2017 : 10:05-10.10
- Address by Prof. Sanjoy Ghosh, General Secretary, BES : 10:10 -10:15
- Address by Prof. J. P. Saini, Director, NSIT : 10:15-10.25
- Address by Shri R. Chaudhry, Chairman BOG, NSIT : 10:25-10.35
- Address by Prof. P. Ghosh, President, BES : 10:35-11.05
- Address by Guest of Honor : 11:05- 11.15
- Felicitation to Prof. T. K. Ghose : 11:15 -11.25
- Vote of Thanks by Dr. Shilpa Sharma : 11:25-11.30
Tea – 11.30 am to 12:00 pm
Session-I: Systems and Synthetic Biology
Session Chair: Prof. T. Satyanarayana Co-Chair: Prof. James Gomes
Rapporteur: Dr. Yatender Kumar
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 12.00 – 12.20 pm | Dr. Pawan Dhar
JNU, Delhi |
Designing novel drugs from the unused genome |
| 12.20 – 12.40 pm | Dr. Biplab Bose
IIT Guwahati |
Signal discrimination through a negative feedback |
| 12.40 – 13.00 pm
|
Dr. Guhan Jayraman
IIT Chennai |
Regulation of metabolic pathway fluxes by synthetic biology approaches |
| 13.00 – 13.20 pm
|
Dr. Pratyush Shukla
MDU, Rohtak
|
Synthetic and systems microbiology and metabolic engineering approaches for industrial enzymes |
| 13.20 – 13.30 pm | Session Chair Sum-up |
Lunch –13.30 – 14.20 pm
Session-II: Bioprocessing
Session Chair: Prof. Sanjoy Ghosh Co-Chair: Dr. Banwari Lal
Rapporteur: Mr. Akhilesh Dubey
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 14.20 -14.40 pm | Dr. Sanjay Nene
CEO, Innovation Biologicals Pvt Ltd |
Historical overview and current advances in fermentation technology |
| 14.40 – 15.00 pm
|
Dr. U. C. Banerjee
NIPER, Mohali |
Development of bioprocesses using nanobiocatalysts as enzyme source for the synthesis of chiral drugs and drug intermediates |
| 15.00 – 15.20 pm | Dr. D. K. Sahoo,
IMTECH, Chandigarh
|
Biopharmaceutical process development: a case study on Escherichia coli as host for production of therapeutic proteins |
| 15.20 – 15.40 pm | Dr. A. K. Panda
NII, Delhi |
High-throughput folding of inclusion body proteins |
| 15.40 – 16.00 pm | Dr Banwari Lal
TERI, Delhi |
Microbial enhanced oil recovery |
| 16.00 – 16.10 pm | Session Chair Sum-up |
Tea &Poster Session : 16.10 –17.30 pm
BESI Meeting : 17.30 – 19.00 pm
Cultural Programme : 19.00 – 19.30 pm
Dinner : 19.30 pm onwards
Day- 2 (9th September)
Session-III: Biological Engineering in Drug / Small Molecule Discovery
Session Chair: Dr. Amulya K. Panda Co-Chair: Dr. Prashant Mishra
Rapporteur: Dr. Shilpa Sharma
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 9.00 – 9.20 am | Prof. Siddhartha S. Ghosh
IIT Guwahati |
Emergence of cancer diagnostics |
| 9.20 – 9.40 am | Dr. Supreet Saini
IIT Bombay |
Coordinated control of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance in enteric bacteria |
| 9.40 – 10.00 am | Dr. Anirban Roy
BITS Goa |
How can we tune the biological response of a membrane surface: an investigative study |
| 10.00 – 10.20 am
|
Dr. Mohd. Ali
Jamia Milia Univ. Delhi |
Lower terpenes and aromatherapy |
| 10.20 – 10.30 am | Session Chair sum-up |
Tea – 10.30 – 11.00 am
Session-IV: Environment, Bio-energy and Bioseparation
Session Chair: Dr. D. K. Sahoo Co-Chair: Dr. Kashyap Dubey
Rapporteur: Ms. Akanksha Kulshrestha
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11.00 -11.20 am | Dr. D.K. Tuli
Chair, DBT-IOC centre for Bio-Energy Research |
Lignocellulosic ethanol – current status and impediments |
| 11.20 – 11.40 am | Dr. T. R. Sreekrishnan
IIT Delhi |
Biotechnology of waste water management |
| 11.40 am -12.00 pm | Dr. Ram Prakash and Dr M. Krishnamohan
CEERI Pilani and BISR Jaipur |
Mercury-free plasma UV lamp based technology for environmental protection |
| 12.00 -12.20 pm
|
Dr Arun Kansal
TERI University, Delhi |
Anaerobic digestion in sanitary landfills |
| 12.20-12.40 pm | Dr. P. Mondal
IIT Roorkee |
Phytoremediation of arsenic, fluoride and manganese containing wastewater |
| 12.40 – 12.45 pm
|
Session Chair Sum-up |
Panel Discussion and Closing Ceremony: 12.45 – 14.15 pm
Panel Discussion: Curriculum and Career – Biology Based Engineering
Chair: Dr. Sanjoy Ghosh
Panel: Dr. Amulya Panda; Dr. A. K. Dubey; Dr. Aradhana Srivastava; Dr. Prashant Mishra; Dr. T. Satyanarayana; Dr. T. R. Sreekrishnan
Vote of Thanks: Dr. Shilpa Sharma
Lunch: 14.15 pm onwards