CBC 3.0 · INVITED SPEAKERS

Meet the minds shaping computational biology.

Meet researchers, scientists and innovators from across India and around the world who are contributing to the future of computational biology and life sciences.

Anurag Agrawal

Anurag Agrawal

Dean, Biosciences and Health Research, Ashoka University

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From open weights to open health systems: sovereign and verifiable health AI

Neel Sarovar Bhavesh

Neel Sarovar Bhavesh

Group Leader, Transcription Regulation Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi

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Multi-omics approach to delineate molecular signatures of Prakriti in healthy humans

Amit Dutt

Amit Dutt

Professor, University of Delhi South Campus

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Genomic and mechanistic interplay between the host, the tobacco scar, and the microbiome in oral cancer

Dhiraj Dhotre

Dhiraj Dhotre

Scientist E, National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune

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TBD

Jennifer Fleming

Jennifer Fleming

Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) Coordinator, EMBL-EBI

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Advancing Structural Insight at Scale at the PDBe and AlphaFold Database

B. Gopal

B. Gopal

Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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Computation-guided engineering of chassis strains and enzymes for biotransformation applications

Matthew Hartley

Matthew Hartley

Team Leader BioImage Archive at EMBL-EBI

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Sharing biological images at global scale with EMBL-EBI’s BioImage Archive

Pankaj Jaiswal

Pankaj Jaiswal

Professor, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University; Program Director, Directorate of Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation, USA

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TBD

Bratati Kahali

Bratati Kahali

Principal Scientist, Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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TBD

Sandhya P. Koushika

Sandhya P. Koushika

Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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Principles of cargo movement in neurons

Nakamura Yasukazu

Nakamura Yasukazu

Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Japan

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TBD

Debnath Pal

Debnath Pal

Professor, Department of Computational & Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

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Understanding small noncoding RNA structure-function relationships

Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan

Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan

Associate Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru

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Understanding cancer evolution through single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Gajendra P. S. Raghava

Gajendra P. S. Raghava

Professor, Department of Computational Biology, IIIT, Delhi

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Challenges in developing and maintaining computational resources for community

Krithika Rangarajan

Krithika Rangarajan

Associate Professor, Radio-Diagnosis (Oncoradiology), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

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Open data in medical imaging

Sarangthem Indira Devi

Sarangthem Indira Devi

Scientist-F, BRIC-Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (BRIC-IBSD), Imphal, Manipur

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Transforming Multi-Omics Data into Biological Knowledge Using AI and Knowledge Graphs

Durba Sengupta

Durba Sengupta

CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune

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Structural dynamics of copper binding proteins

Shantanu Sengupta

Shantanu Sengupta

Chief Scientist, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi

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Phenome India: Building India’s National Resource for Precision Health

Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar

Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar

Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram

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Epidemiological and Genomic Variants related to Disease Conditions in Mizoram Population

Paul D. Thomas

Paul D. Thomas

Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland

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Homology as a tool for predicting gene functions: what are the limitations and can we push past them?