5th IBSE International Symposium

The Symposium

During the 3-day meeting, we will discuss microbial omics approaches associated with human, gut, and environment where computational advancements have been made to analyze biological "big data". Microbial omics and its translational aspects will be correlated with new biotechnological discovery. In addition, renowned scientists will be presenting how the microbial omics technologies are enabling for the safe exploration of future space missions with respect to astrobiology and planetary protection.

The study of microbial communities or microbiomes has widespread applications, from human health, agriculture and animal husbandry to waste treatment, bioremediation and environmental health. We foresee that a critical emerging technology is the ability to model and engineer microbiomes and leverage their extraordinarily diverse functional capacities to find solutions for many of the challenges that we face, from eliminating childhood malnutrition to degrading plastics, to exploring other planets.

Through this mini-symposium, we seek to bring leading scientists from India and abroad and to present their recent findings, and discuss important directions and ideas for fostering a strong microbiome community in India. There is also an opportunity for early career researchers to actively participate and contribute.

Organisers

• Karthik Anantharaman, Univ. of Wisconsin
• Karthik Raman, IIT Madras
• Kasthuri Venkateswaran, NASA JPL

Schedule

19 February 2025

About IBSE

The Centre for Integrative Biology and Systems medicinE (IBSE), a CoE, at IIT Madras is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to pioneering innovative approaches and algorithms that integrate multi-dimensional data across scales, to understand, predict and manipulate complex biological systems. The centre closely collaborates with Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI), one of the premier data science and AI centres in India.

The main sponsor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, is the top-ranked engineering institute in the country; and encourages interdisciplinary research at the interface of engineering, including computer science and biomedicine. While being situated in the heart of a busy metropolis, Chennai, the campus boasts hundreds of acres of forests, which are also home to various birds and animals, including the endangered blackbuck.

Funding

Acknowledgements

Abstracts

Will be updated later

Speakers

• Jillian Banfield - UC Berkeley
• Eugene Koonin - NIH
• Kasthuri Venkateswaran - NASA/JPL
• Evelien Adriaenssens - Quadram Institute (UK)
• Deepa Agashe - NCBS Bengaluru
• Karthik Anantharaman - University of Wisconsin
• Brett Baker - UT Austin
• Anshu Bhardwaj - CSIR-IMTech
• Dhiraj Dhotre - NCCS
• Narendra Dixit - IISc
• Yamini Jangir - IIT Kanpur
• Fumito Maruyama - Hiroshima Univ
• Georgios Miliotis - University of Galway
• Niranjan Nagarajan - A*STAR, Singapore
• Jennifer Pett-Ridge - LLNL
• Karthik Raman - IIT Madras
• Srivatsan Raman - University of Wisconsin
• Shilpi Sharma - IIT Delhi
• Shruthi Vembar - IBAB Bengaluru
• K V Venkatesh - IIT Bombay / MetFlux
• Paul Wilmes - University of Luxembourg
• Tanja Woyke - JGI

Register

Registration for this symposium is open: click here.

Important Deadlines

Deadline	Regular	Extended
Registration Deadline	15 Dec 2024	28 Jan 2024
Poster/Flash Talk Abstract Submission Deadline	5 Nov 2024	-
Chosen Participants Will Be Notified By	10 Nov 2024	31 Jan 2024
Payment Deadline	20 Nov 2024	31 Jan 2024

Registration fees

Category	Early Bird (Till Nov 5)	Regular/Extended (Till Jan 31)
IITM Students	₹ 5000	₹ 8000
Other Students	₹ 8000	₹ 12000
Researchers	₹ 10000	₹ 15000
Startups	₹ 10000	₹ 15000
Faculty	₹ 15000	₹ 15000
Industry*	₹ 20000	₹ 30000

Address

Centre for Integrative Biology and Systems Medicine (IBSE)
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai - 600036
INDIA

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