10th Annual Symposium, BE 2024
With sustained efforts from the faculty and students, the Annual BE symposium will be organized on January 12 and 13, 2024. The prime objective of the symposium is to acquaint the students and corporate fraternity worldwide to recent developments in bioengineering, particularly in immunology, oncology, novel therapeutics and next generations diagnostics. The symposium will enhance the communication network within the research fraternity and also serve as a platform that provides a glimpse of the technological advances in these research areas in India through a series of plenary talks. The symposium will also conduct a STEM career discussion among people with diverse career roles and current graduate students with an intent to gear up the students for the professional challenges ahead.
Important Dates
| 11th January | STEM Career Discussion |
| 12th-13th January | Symposium Talks and Poster presentations |
Program Schedule
STEM Career Discussion (Jan 11, 2024)
The session aims to bring together established graduate scholars in various STEM fields and students to discuss-
- What are the possible career options after PhD
- Scope of the career fields in India and abroad
- How an individual converges to a best possible career option
- What skill sets are required, and how to prepare for them well in time
- What are the application processes, and timeline of the events
We have clubbed careers in broadly three categories and are grateful for the following speakers for joining us:
| Time | Career groupings | Speakers | Position |
| 4 – 5 pm IST | Science Communication, Publishing and Grant Writing | Aditi Jain | Development Editor, ACS Publications |
| Aparna Ganguly | Editorial Development Manager, Royal Society of Chemistry | ||
| 5 – 6 pm IST | Industrial Position (R&D and management), and Start-ups | Akshay Datey | Lead Scientist, Ykrita Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd |
| Anil Vishnu | Research and Development Engineer, IMEC, Belgium | ||
| Anjali Gupta | Scientific Writer, Elucidata | ||
| Rajesh Yadav | Co-founder Aerobiosys | ||
| 6 – 7 pm IST | Academic Postdoctoral and Faculty position | Ameya Dravid | Postdoctoral fellow, Georgia Tech |
| Aritra Chatterjee | Assistant Professor, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus | ||
| Rajeev Mudakavi | Postdoctoral fellow, Chemical and Biological Engineering – Colorado School of Mines | ||
| Zinia Mohanta | Postdoctoral fellow, KKI John Hopkins |
Join us to hear anecdotes and decisions made that helped the above speakers to land up in their current positions.
Time: 4-7 PM IST
Venue: Online (link will be shared to registered participants)
Speaker Sessions (Jan 12-13, 2024)
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Biological Sciences Main Auditorium, Ground floor, Biological Sciences Building
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Jan 12 |
8:30 – 9:00 AM |
Tea, Coffee and Sandwich |
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9:00 – 9:10 AM |
Introduction to the 10th Annual BE Symposium – Prof. Kaushik Chatterjee |
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9:10 – 9:15 AM |
Introduction to the Sanjay Kumar Biswas memorial lecture Prof. Medhavi Vishwakarma |
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9:15 – 10:15 AM |
Sanjay Kumar Biswas memorial lecture Prof. Suman Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur |
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10:15 – 10:45 AM |
Tea and Coffee Break |
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10.45 – 11:30 AM |
Dr Vasan Sambandamurthy, Bugworks Research Inc |
Session 1 – Novel therapeutics |
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11:30 – 11:50 AM |
Yeswanth Kalapala Chakravarthy |
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11:50 – 12:10 PM |
John Kulathu Mathew |
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12:10 – 12:30 PM |
Pooja Annasaheb Patkulkar |
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13:00 – 13:45 PM |
Lunch |
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13:45 – 14:05 PM |
Vinod Kumar Dorai |
Session 2 – Immunological phenotyping |
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14:05 – 14:25 PM |
Susmitha Karunasree Perumalla |
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14:25 – 14:45 PM |
Dr Somenath Ghatak, Carl Zeiss India |
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14:45 – 17:00 PM |
Poster session over high tea |
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Jan 13 |
9:00 – 9:30 AM |
Tea, Coffee and Sandwich |
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9:30 – 10:10 AM |
Prof. Shilpee Dutt, ACTREC, Mumbai |
Session 3 – Tumour microenvironment |
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10:10 – 10:50 AM |
Prof. Amit Awasthi, THSTI Gurugram |
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10:50 – 11:10 AM |
Sindhu M |
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11:10 – 11:30 AM |
Madhumitha S |
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11:30 – 11:50 AM |
Arshed Nabeel |
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11:50 – 13:00 PM |
Poster Session |
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13:00 – 13:45 PM |
Lunch |
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13:45 – 14:25 PM |
Prof. Santosh Misra, IIT Kanpur |
Session 4 – Next generation diagnostics |
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14:25 – 14:45 PM |
Ananya Sharma |
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14:45 – 15:05 PM |
Sayantani Garai |
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15:05 – 15:25 PM |
Rohitraj Ray |
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15:25 – 16:10 PM |
Prof. Bhushan Toley, IISc |
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16:10 – 16:40 PM |
High tea |
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16:40 – 17:00 PM |
Closing Ceremony |
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