A state-of-the-art event highlighting the latest advancements in modern oncology, this workshop aims to provide young researchers and emerging scientists with an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that acknowledge cancer as a systems biology disease. The contents of the workshop will cover modern techniques that allow to study the molecular and cellular heterogeneity that present as cancer hallmarks. A broad spectrum of computational modelling and experimental technologies will be introduced to the audience through lectures encompassing research and pedagogy following a panel discussion with eminent scientists.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 ‒ 09:30 | Arrival, Registration |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Opening Remarks/Ceremony |
| 09:45 – 11:00 | Keynote (Philip Maini): Modelling cancer cell invasion and adaptive therapy |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee Break + Poster Session |
| Session 1: Chair - Arindam Maitra | |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Drug Development in Oncology today, how can mechanistic thinking can help – Rukmini Kumar |
| 12:10 – 12:50 | What does not kill cancer makes it stronger: Investigating cancer as a complex adaptive system – Mohit Jolly |
| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2: Chair - Rukmini Kumar | |
| 14:00 – 14:40 | Statistical error models for scRNA-seq data – Saket Choudhary |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | From Bulk Tissue to Single Cells: New Insights into the OSCC Tumour Ecosystem – Arindam Maitra |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | Machine Learning Approaches to Decoding Cancer Driver Genes – Karthik Raman |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Panel Discussion (Career Opportunities in Systems Oncology: Philip, Karthik, Rukmini, Saket, Kumar Selvarajoo; Moderator: Mohit) |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Poster session + High Tea |
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Session 3: Chair - Kumar Selvarajoo | |
| 09:30 ‒ 10:10 | MYC dependent mouse model of Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a preclinical model for aggressive proliferative subtype – Nathiya Muthalagu |
| 10:10 – 10:50 | S Mahalingam |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Chair - Ujjaini Dasgupta | |
| 11:10 – 11:50 | Exploring Non-Coding RNA-mRNA Interactions in Pan Carcinomas - Shibashish Chowdhury |
| 11:50 – 12:30 | The interplay of transcriptional regulation and chromatin structure, in normal and cancer cells – Rahul Siddharthan |
| 12:30 – 13:10 | Towards Digital Twin Approach for Cancer Treatment – Kumar Selvarajoo |
| 13:10 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 5: Chair - Saket Choudhury | |
| 14:00 ‒ 14:40 | Decoding Tumour Cell Contributions to Heterogeneous Stromal-microenvironment - Sharath Chandra Arandkar |
| 14:40 – 15:20 | Lipids in the Forefront: the New Generation Omics in Health and Diseases - Ujjaini Dasgupta |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6: Chair - Sharath Chandra Arandkar | |
| 15:40 – 16:20 | Integrative analysis reveals the downstream impact of cellular deconvolution - Sanga Mitra |
| 16:20 – 17:00 | Relapse prediction in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia using Artificial Intelligence - Venkatraman Radhakrishnan |
| 17:00 – 17:40 | Exploring Metabolic Diversity and Synthetic Lethality in Cancer Using Genome-Scale Metabolic Models – Maziya Ibrahim |
| 17:40 – 18:00 | Closing remarks, High Tea |
| Category | Fee (inclusive of GST) |
|---|---|
| Students – UG/PG/PhD | Rs. 3000 |
| Post-doc/Project Staff | Rs. 5000 |
| Faculty/Industry | Rs. 8000 |