Indo-U.S. Symposium
Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
January 9-11, 2005
Bangalore, India
Sessions:
- Attention: Ignoring the World Around You
- Biotechnology Applications to Improving Food
- Body Weight Regulation
- Dynamics of Complex Systems
- Galaxy Formation
- Nanostructured Materials/Semiconductors
- Ordered Protein Aggregation
- Single Molecule Biophysics
Attention: Ignoring the World Around You
Organizers: Shubha Tole and Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Chair:
Attention: Ignoring the World Around You
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Speakers:
Executive Control of Action
Aditya Murthy, National Brain Research Centre
Dual Nature of Visual Attention
Giedrius T. Buracas, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Biotechnology Applications to Improving Food
Organizers: Gail Jarvik and Nikhil Tandon
Chair:
Genetic Regulation of Flowering: Laboratory Models to Crop Plants
Usha VijayRaghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Speakers:
Designer Crops for Better Human Nutrition and Higher Productivity using Nutritional and Stress Genomics Approaches
Shubra Chakraborty, National Centre for Plant Genome Research
Daphne Preuss, Howard Hughes Center, University of Chicago
Body Weight Regulation
Organizers: Gail Jarvik and Nikhil Tandon
Chair:
Body Weight and Regulation
David E. Cummings, University of Washington, Seattle
Speakers:
The Adiopstat: Neural Sensing of Energy Status
Michael Cowley, Oregon National Primate Research Center
G.R. Chandak, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Dynamics of Complex Systems
Organizers: Eberhard Bodenschatz and Srikanth Sastry
Chair:
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Overview
Sanjay Jain, Delhi University
Speakers:
Computational Challenges in Systems Biology: Modelling Memory
Upinder Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
Igor Efimov, Case Western Reserve University
Galaxy Formation
Organizers: Chris Reynolds and Sanjay Mittal
Chair:
Galaxy Formation
Miguel Morales, MIT Center for Space Research
Speakers:
Galaxy Formation and Evolution: The Radio Perspective
Jayaram Chengalur, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Probing Cosmolgical Structure Formation Using Redshifted 21cm HI Radiation
Somnath Bharadwaj, Indian Institute of Technology
Nanostructured Materials/Semiconductors
Organizers: Nat Finney and Shrikanth Joshi
Chair:
Bioinspired Nanomaterials Synthesis
Murali Sastry, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Speakers:
Semiconductor Nanostructures: Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots
Arnab Bhattacharya, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Diana Huffaker, University of New Mexico
Ordered Protein Aggregation
Organizers: Nat Finney and Uday Maitra
Chair:
Ordered Protein Aggregation: Background, Issues and a Few Comments about Model Systems
James Nowick, University of California, Irvine
Speakers:
Protein "Malfolding" and Ordered Aggregation
Sudipta Maiti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Sandip Verma, Indian Institute of Technology
Single Molecule Biophysics
Organizers: Eberhard Bodenschatz and Satyajit Mayor
Chair:
Single Molecule Biophysics
Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
Speakers:
Single Molecule Biophysics of Nucleosome Dynamics and Gene Regulation
G. V. Shivashankar, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cornell University
