09:30 - 10:00 - Conference Inauguration and SGRF scholarship handover
Chief Guest: Prof. K. Ramasamy, Vice Chancellor, TNAU, Coimbatore, India
Host: Dr. George Thomas
Session 1
Chair: Dr. George Thomas
10:00 - 10:45 - Evolution of sequencing technologies and its applications
Dr. Sekar Seshagiri, Genentech Inc., California, USA
10:45 - 11:00 - High Tea
Session 2
Chair: Dr. Maheswaran
11:00 - 11:30 - Our Experience in Rice Genomics: Structure to Function
Dr. Mohapatra, Director, CRRI, Cuttack, India
11:30 - 12:00 - Genomics assisted breeding for resilience in crops: rice, a case study.
Dr. R Chandra Babu, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
12:00-12:30 - Facts and Fallacies towards Genetics and Genomics of Plant Resistance to Biotic Stresses.
Dr. Maheswaran, Director Research, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.
12:30-13:00 - Growing to a shape and size: molecular mechanisms of leaf development.
Dr. Utpal Nath, IISc, Bangalore, India
13:00-14:00 - LUNCH
Session 3
Chair: Dr. R Murali Gopal
14:00-14:30 - Genome Sequencing of Indian Diploid Cotton and Genetic Mapping of Fiber and Yield Traits using NextGen Sequencing.
Dr. V. B. Reddy, SciGenom Labs, Hyderabad, India
14:30-15:00 - Development of genetic markers for wood property traits in Eucalyptus using target enrichment and exome sequencing of candidate genes
Dr. Madhumita Dasgupta, IFGTB, Coimbatore, India
15:00-15:30 - break - Tea
Session 4
Chair: Dr. V. B. Reddy
15:30-16:00 – Nematode genomics for new generation management strategies
Dr. Uma Rao, IARI, New Delhi, India
16:00-16:30 – Extremely long reads to resolve complex plant genomes and to elucidate the full length transcript isoforms
Dr. Bhaswar Maity, ILS, India
16:30-17:00 – Sugarcane as a platform for molecular pharming.
Dr. N. Subramonian, Former Principal Scientist, Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
17:00-17:30 – NGS opens up new frontiers in microbial research
Dr Murali Gopal, Principal Scientist, CPCRI, Kasaragod, India
17:30-17:40 – RiceVarDb - A platform for studying Oryza sativa variation from high-throughput data.
Mr. Bipin Balan, IIT-M, Chennai, India (Student Short Talk)
17:40-17:50 - Unravelling molecular basis of salinity tolerance in finger millet.
Mr. Hifzur Rahman, TNAU, India (Student Short Talk)
17:50-18:00 – wrap up
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