Indo-US Workshop on Human Diversity and Health Disparities

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 16 - 18 January 2020

Venue: CSIR-IICT Auditorium

Programme

Day 1, Thursday, 16th January 2020

14.00 - 19.00 h Registration (Centre Court, CCMB) 15.30 – 16.00 h Tea / Coffee Opening Remarks

16.00 – 16.25 h

Welcome Address Rakesh K. Mishra, Director, CCMB

Comments Keshav K. Singh, Organizer, Indo-US Workshop

About the Workshop K. Thangaraj, Organizer, Indo-US Workshop

Chair / Speaker Session / Title

16.30 – 18.00 h

Rakesh K. Mishra, CCMB, Hyderabad Diversity & Health Disparities

K. Thangaraj, CCMB, Hyderabad Human diversity and its relevance to health disparities Analabha Basu, NIBMG, Kalyani Connecting population genetics to human diseases: Our

experience with GenomeAsia 100K Keshav K Singh, UAB, USA Human diversity and health disparities in United States

18.00 – 18.30 h Tea / Coffee break 18.30 – 19.30 h Indian Classical Violin Ensemble by Kalaratna Ashok G. Gurjale 19.45 – 22.00 h Dinner

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Posters, exhibition stalls, tea / coffee & lunch: East wing parking area Dinner: Terrace of the CCMB main building Group photograph: In front of CCMB main building High Tea: Shantiniketan

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Indo-US Workshop on Human Diversity and Health Disparities

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Programme Day 2, Friday, 17th January 2020

08.00 – 18.30 h Registration (IICT auditorium)

Chair / Speaker Session / Title

09.30 -11.00 h

Anil Mulpur, Sunshine Hospital, Hyderabad Lung & Heart Diseases

Anurag Agrawal, IGIB, New Delhi Respiratory health and disease in India: Nature or nurture

Brid M. Ryan, NIH, USA Population diversity in lung tumor biology in the United States

P. Dhandapany, inStem, Bengaluru Functional genomics of children heart disease

11.00 – 11.30 h Tea / Coffee break & Group Photograph

11.30 – 13.00 h

Subhas Kaul, KIMS, Hyderabad Rare & Neurological Disorders

B. K. Thelma, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi

Genetic fabric of common and rare disorders - Distinct hues from India

Anuranjan Anand, JNCASR, Bangalore Genes for a sensory epilepsy triggered by tactile and temperature cues

S. Ganesh, IIT, Kanpur Glycogen in neuronal life and death

13.00 – 14.00 h Lunch & Poster Session

14.00 – 15.30 h

D Kasbekar, CDFD, Hyderabad Diabetes: Genetic & Epigenetic Perspectives

G. R. Chandak, CCMB, Hyderabad Gene-nutrient interaction and developmental origin of health and diseases (DOHaD)

Dwaipayan Bharadwaj, JNU, New Delhi Transiting from phenomenology to mechanism: The case of TMEM163 and type 2 diabetes (T2D)

K. Satyamoorthy, Manipal University, Manipal Epigenetics of endothelial dysregulation by inflammation in type 2 diabetes

15.30 – 16.00 h Tea / Coffee break

16.00 – 17.30 h

Murali Bashyam, CDFD, Hyderabad Breast Cancer

Brittny Davis Lynn, NIH, USA Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer etiology and progression in the U.S. and abroad

Ritu Aneja, Georgia State University, USA The triple negative breast cancer landscape: Research, resources, and global initiatives

Arun Sreekumar, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Metabolic re-wiring in African American breast and prostate cancers: Insights into biological basis of cancer health disparity

17.30 – 18.30 h

Satish Rao, University of TDU, Bangalore Technologies & Methods

Malali Gowda, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore

Genotyping of human population using Super-HLA typing method

Nitya Nand Sharma, Premas Life Sciences, New Delhi

Changing paradigm of personalized healthcare: The genomics angle

Toby Huang,  MGI, a Subsidiary of BGI, China From sample to report: MGI’s DNBSEQ™ clinical whole solutions

Prathap Naidu, ThermoFisher Scientific, Hyderabad

Ion Torrent Genexus System: Specimen to report in a single day with a hands-off, automated workflow

18.30 – 18.45 h Tea / Coffee break

18.45 – 19.45 h Bharathnatyam by students of Shri Nrityakshetra

19.45 – 22.00 h Dinner

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Indo-US Workshop on Human Diversity and Health Disparities

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Programme

Day 3, Saturday, 18th January 2020 Chair / Speaker Session / Title

09.30 - 11.00 h

Moinak Banerjee, RGCB, Trivandrum Genetics & Immunological aspects of Cancer

Wei Zheng, Vanderbilt University, USA Identifying novel genetic susceptibility loci for breast and colorectal cancer: Results from two large consortia of Asians

Anil Shanker, Meharry Medical University, USA Immunological basis of cancer health disparities

Joseph Lachance, Georgia Inst. Tech., USA Challenges to generalizing genetic predictions of cancer risks

11.00 – 11.30 h Tea / Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00 h

S. Shivaji, LVPEI, Hyderabad Pharmacogenomics & Personalized Medicine

Vinod Scaria, IGIB, New Delhi Pharmacogenetic diversity from population genomes

Amit Dutt, ACTREC, Mumbai Biological and therapeutic insights from the cancer genome

Aruni Wilson, Sathyabama University, Chennai Human microbiome interactions - A focus on personalized medicine

13.00 – 14.00 h Lunch & Poster Session

14.00 - 16.00 h

AK Munirajan, University of Madras, Chennai Prostate Cancer

Deepak Kumar, North Carolina Central University, USA MicroRNAs and prostate cancer disparities

Folakemi T. Odedina, University of Florida, USA Addressing health disparity through migration research: Prostate cancer disparity model

Ajay Singh, University of South Alabama, USA MYB, a novel determinant of racial disparity in prostate cancer

16.00 – 16.30 h Concluding Remarks

16.30 – 17.00 h High Tea