Tuesday, February 8, 2011

20:00-22:00

Welcome Dinner

1st Day-Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Venue

8:00-9:00

Registration

Conference Centre

9:30-9:40

Inaugural Function

Convention Hall

9:40-9:45

Welcome Address: Rup Lal (Organizing Secretary, ISCB)

9:45-9:50

About ISCB-SDC: Doris Herrmann (Program Manager, ISCB)

9:50-9:55

About ISCB-DBT: S. R. Rao (Advisor, DBT)

9:55- 10:00

About ISCB-BR: Christof Holliger (Organizing Chairperson, ISCB)

10:00-10:05

Remarks: A. K. Singh (Head of the Department, Dept. of Zoology)

10:05-10:10

Remarks: Umesh Rai (Director, South Campus University of Delhi)

10:10-10:25

Remarks: M. K. Bhan (Secretary, DBT)

10:25-10:30

Remarks: Vivek Suneja (Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi)

10:30-10:40

Remarks: Dinesh Singh (Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi)

10:40-10:55

Inaugural Address: Minister of Environment and Forests/Minister of Science and Technology

10:55-11:00

Vote of Thanks: Neeta Sehgal (University of Delhi)

11:00-11:30

High Tea

Convention Hall

11:30-12:15

Convener: Rup Lal (Organizing Secretary, University of Delhi)
Chairperson: Christof Holliger (Organizing Chairperson, EPFL)
Plenary Lecture: John Vijgen (IHPA, Denmark)
Alpha-, Beta-&Gamma-HCH: The legacy of HCH production- Can the world community clean-up contaminated sites- and what are the perspectives for India?

Convention Hall

12:15-13:00

Special Session: Yuji Nagata (Tohoku University, Japan)
Aerobic degradation of lindane (g-hexachlorocyclohexane) in Sphingobium japonicum UT26 and its biochemical and molecular basis

Convention Hall

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break + Poster Session I

Conference Centre

14:00-16:00

Scientific Session A (Lectures + Discussion): Fate of Environmental Pollutants
Convener: Timothy M. Vogel
Chairperson: Yuji Nagata

Convention Hall

14:00-14:40

Keynote: Hans Peter E. Kohler (Eawag, Switzerland)
Microbial transformation of HCH – A plethora of isomers and metabolites

14:40-15:20

Jiri Damborsky (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Degradation of 1,2,3-trichloropropane

15:20-15:35

Natesan Manickam (IITR, India)
Exploration of Microorganisms for the Degradation Chlorinated Toxicants: From Pure Cultures to Genome Mining

15:35-16:00

Banwari Lal (TEERI, India)
Biodegradation of the insecticide Endosulfan by indigenous strains isolated from a consortium enriched from pesticide contaminated soil

16:00-16:20

Tea Break

Convention Hall

16:20-18:20

Scientific Session B (Lectures + Discussion): Bioremediation of Synthetic Organic Compounds in the Environment
Convener: Vishakha Raina
Chairperson: Hans Peter Kohler

Convention Hall

16:20-17:00

Keynote: Christof Holliger (EPFL, Switzerland)
Bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes in aquifer systems: Challenges for the use of a novel anaerobic respiration process

17:00-17:35

Rup Lal (University of Delhi, India)
Title to be received

17:35-17:55

Sunil  Khanna (NIIT University, India)
In Situ Bioremediation of organochlorine pesticide-Endosulfan

17:55-18:20

Rolf Wittich (High Council for Scientific Research, Spain)
The need for genetically optimized bacteria for an efficient bioremediation of environmental pollutants

20:00-22:00

Banquet Dinner

2nd Day-Thursday, February 10, 2011

Venue

9:00-11:00

Scientific Session C (Lectures + Discussion): Merging metagenomics and synthetic biology for bioremediation
Convener: Banwari Lal
Chairperson: Rolf Wittich

Convention Hall

9:00-9:40

Keynote: Timothy M. Vogel (Université de Lyon, France)
Metagenomics and molecular biology insights of chlorinated compound bioremediation

9:40-10:10

Yuji Nagata (Tohoku University, Japan)
Genomic organization and its structural dynamism of Sphingobium japonicum UT26, an archetypal g-hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterium

10:10-10:40

Rup Lal (University of Delhi)
Title to be received

10:40-11:00

Rakesh  Sharma (IGIB, India)
Title to be received

11:00-11:15

Tea Break

Convention Hall

11:15-13: 15

Scientific Session D (Lectures + Discussion): Evolving trends in bioremediation
Convener: Sunil Khanna
Chairperson: Timothy M. Vogel

Convention Hall

11:15-11:55

Keynote: Jim Spain (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Title to be received

11:55-12:20

Dayananda Siddavattam (University of Hyderabad, India)
Promiscuity to prominence – An evolutionary path of organphosphate hydrolases

12:20-12:45

V. C. Kalia (IGIB, India)
Potential of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia of bioremediation of recalcitrant pollutants

12:45-13:15

T. K. Adhya (CRRI, India)
Journey from Pseudomonas paucimobilis  to Sphingobium paucimobilis B90A

13:15-14:00

Lunch Break + Poster Session II

Conference Centre

14:00-16:00

Scientific Session E (Lectures + Discussion): New avenues in Bioremediation
Convener: T K Adhya
Chairperson: Hermann J. Heipieper

Convention Hall

14:00-14:40

Gunjan Pandey (CSIRO, Australia)
Kinetic and sequence-structure-function analysis of LinA and LinB variants

14:40-15:00

S. K. Apte (BARC, Mumbai)
Title to be received

15:00-15:20

Prashant Phale (IIT, India)
Title to be received

15:20-15:40

Ashwani Kumar (IITR, India)
Characterization of a novel LinA variant from a HCH-contaminated soil metagenome

15:40-16:00

D. K. Singh (University of Delhi, India)
Title to be recieved

16:00-16:30

Tea Break

Convention Hall

16:30-17:30

Special Session: Hermann J. Heipieper (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany)
Adaptive mechanisms of microorganisms to cope with toxic chlorinated organic compounds and other forms of environmental stress

Convention Hall

20:00-22:00

Banquet Dinner

3rd Day-Friday, February 11, 2011

9:00-10:30

Scientific Session E (Lectures + Discussion): Global Problem of HCH & Other Pesticides
Convener: Rup Lal
Chairperson: John Vijgen

9:00-9:45

Anko Fischer (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany)
Assessing biodegradation of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers within contaminated aquifers by compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA)

9:45-10:05

R. K. Sharma (All India Network Project (AINP) on Pesticide Residues, Indian Agricultural Research Institute)
Title to be received

10:05-10:25

Balvinder Singh (Punjab Agricultural University, India)
Title to be received

10:25-10:40

XXXX (Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, India)

10:40-11:00

Tea Break

11:00-12:30

Policy Session
Coordinator: S. R. Rao

John Vijgen (IHPA, Denmark)

Industry Participant

Christof Holliger (EPFL, Switzerland)

Indian Counterpart

12:30-13:00

ISCB Special Session

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:00

Valedictory Ceremony

15:00-15:30

Tea