PROGRAMME AT GLANCE (MEDICAL VIROLOGY) DAY-01: November 12, 2018 Time Event Proceedings 08:00 AM -09:00 AM Registration 09:15 AM -10:45 AM Inauguration 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM HIGH TEA 11:30 AM - 11:40 AM S.P. Raychaudhuri Life time achievement Oration Award Dr. R K Singh, Director, IVRI, Bareilly 11:40 AM 12:00 PM Special Invited Lecture: I Significance of Transovarial transmission of dengue virus (Prof. Vinod Joshi, Professor & Dy. Director, AIVI, Amity University 12:00 PM - 1:25 PM 20 Mins each Joi nt Symposium I: Molecular diagnosis: Paradigm shift in 21 st Century 12:00 PM -12:20 PM Joint symposium Lecture 1 12:20PM-12:40PM Joint symposium Lecture 2 (Plant) 12:40PM 01.00PM Joint symposium Lecture 3 (Veterinary) Prof. Anupam Varma (President IVS) Prof. G P Rao (Secretary IVS) Prof. Urmila Kulkarni-Kale, Bioinformatics Centre,SavitribaiPhule Pune University) Dr. Narayan Rishi (Professor, Amity Institute of Virology and Immunology, Amity University) Dr. B Patnaik (Director, Directorate of FMD, ICAR, Ministry of Agriculture, GOI) Dr. V Ravi (Professor, Dept of Neurovirology, NIMHANS, Bangalore) Dr. Indrani Karunasagar (Dean, Faculty of Biological Sciences, NITTE Univ. Mangalore) Impact of molecular multiplexing in patient care and management. (Dr. Rangarajan Selvarangam, Kansas city, USA) Advances in diagnostics for emerging viral diseases in horticulture crops. (Dr. V.K Baranwal, Prof, division of Plant pathology, IARI, New Delhi) Application of molecular techniques in the diagnosis of viral diseases of live-stock. Dr. M P Yadav (Former Director, ICAR- IVRI, Itaznagar, Bareilly)
1:00PM -01:15 PM Joint symposium Lecture 4 (Aquatic) Molecular Diagnostic approaches to understand transboundary movement of aquatic viruses. (Dr Indrani Karunasagar, Dean, Faculty of Biological Sciences, NITTE Univ. Mangalore) 1.15PM -1.25PM 1:25PM 2:00 PM Scientific Sessions I: : 2.00PM -3.30PM Lead Lectures 1 (2:00 PM 2:20 PM) Lead Lecture 2 (2:20 PM 2:40 PM) Lead Lecture 3 (2.40 PM 3:00 PM) Lead Lecture 4 (3.00 PM 3:20 PM) 3.20PM-3.30PM 3.30PM -3.50PM Discussions LUNCH Break Theme: Viral epidemics: Threat to human life and Challenges Ahead 1. Prof. A K Prasad (Chairman, IFI & Former President IVS) 2. Dr. A C Mishra (Former Director, NIV Pune) Influenza in India (Dr. Parvez A Koul, HOD, Internal and Pulmonary Medicine, Chief Clinical Research, SKIMS, Soura, SriNagar, J&K) Clinical diagnosis and management of Pandemic influenza A ( H1N1) (Prof. Anant Mohan, AIIMS, New Delhi) Nipah outbreak in Kerala: Lessons learnt ( Dr. Pragya Yadav, Scientist F, BSL4 Incharge, NIV, Pune) Zika virus infection : A growing concern in India (Dr. Gajanan Sapkal, Scientist E, Diagnostic Virology Group, NIV, Pune) Discussions Group Photography 3:50 PM 4:50 PM Tea Break and poster reviewing session 4:50PM 5:10PM 5:10PM - 5:15PM Scientific Session II: : Lead Lectures 5 (5:15 PM 5:35 PM) Special Invited Lecture: II Viral Infections in Pregnancy and their impact in MTCT (Dr. Venkat Raghavan Sivaprakasham, UK) : Dr Ranjit Ray, USA Prof Vanita Suri, Head, Dept of O&G, PGIMER, Chandigarh DISCUSSION Theme: Viral Bio informatics: Recent trends and future prospects 1. Dr. Andrew Davison, UK 2. Dr. Manoj Kumar (Senior Scientist, IMTECH, Chandigarh) Structural bioinformatics of viral capping enzymes (Dr. B Venkatram Prasad, Houston, USA)
Lead Lectures 6 (5:35 PM 5:55 PM) Lead Lectures 7 (5:55 PM 6:15 PM) (6:15PM- 6:25PM) Technical Session: I (6:25 PM 7:25 PM) Population genomics of Dengue viruses: a perspective on viral evolution (Prof. Urmila Kulkarni-Kale, Bioinformatics Centre, SavitribaiPhule Pune University) Structural and enzymatic variance of emerging Nipah virus in India (Dr. S K Saxena;CFAR, KGMU Lucknow) Discussion Industry Academia Meet: Viral research: Industry perspectives 1 Springer Nature 2. Roche 3. Ortho-clinical Lab 4. Biomeriux 5. Fast Track 6. Serum Institute. 7:30 PM Onwards Banquet Dinner DAY-02: November 13, 2018 Time Event Proceedings 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM Kameshwar Sahai Bhargava Oration Award Prof. AnupamVerma, (President IVS) Prof. G P Rao, (Secretary General, IVS) 09:30 AM -10:00 AM Plenary lecture I : Virus Taxonomy: Challenges and changes (Dr. Andrew J Davison, Prof. of Viral Genomics, MRC, Univ. Glaxo, President ICTV, UK) 10.00 AM-10.10 AM DISCUSSIONS 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM Special Invited Lecture III: Zika virus associated neuropathogenesis (Dr. Ranjit Ray, Division of Infectious Diseases, Allergy & Immunology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Molecular Microbiology &Immunology, Saint Louis University, USA) 10:40 AM 10:45AM DISCUSSION Dr A C Mishra, Former Director, NIV, Pune Dr. T N Dhole, Prof. & Head, Dept. of Microbiology, SGPGI, Lucknow Dr. Indranil DasGupta (Vice President IVS, UDSC New Delhi)
10.45AM- 11.05AM Planary Lecture 2: Genetic diversity, diagnosis and evolutionary pathogenesis of poleroviruses (Dr. M. Krishna Reddy, ICAR- IIHR Bengaluru) 11.05AM-11.10AM DISCUSSIONS 11:10 AM 11:40AM Tea Break 11:40AM - 12:50PM 20 Mins each Joint Symposium II: Viral vaccines: Regulations and clinical use 11:40-12:00 PM Joint symposium Lecture 5 12:00PM-12:20PM Joint symposium Lecture 6 12.20 PM-12:40PM Joint symposium Lecture 7 (Veterinary ) 12:40 PM- 12:50 PM DISCUSSION 12:50PM - 02:00 PM Lunch Dr. M P Yadav (Former Director, ICAR-IVRI, Itaznagar, Bareilly) Dr. V.K. Baranwal, Professor, Division of Plant Pathology, IARI, New Delhi Dr. V. G. Ramachandran, Former Head Microbiology UCMS New Delhi. Manufacturing issues related to human vaccines in clinical use (Dr. Vivek B. Vaidya, Additional Director, Vaccine Production, Serum Institute, Pune). Issues pertaining to Quality control and releasing of vaccine batches (Dr. Vedhagiri Kumaresan, Deputy Assistant Director, CRI, Kasauli) Veterinary vaccines: Success and Failures (Dr. B.Pattnaik, Director, Directorate of FMD,ICAR,GOI Scientific Sessions III: : Lead Lectures 8 (02:00 PM 02:20 PM) Medical Virology: HIV and Tuberculosis : Travelling through decades 1) Prof. D Behera, Former Dean (Research), Dept. of PGIMER Chandigarh 2) Prof. Shobha Sehgal former Head, Dept. of Immunopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh Role of Myeloid Dendritic Cells in Chronic HIV Subtype C infections (Prof Sunil Arora, Dept. of immunopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh)
Lead Lecture 9 (2:20 PM 2:40 PM) Development of novel diagnostic techniques for detection of active Tb in HIV infected tuberculosis patients. (Dr. Suman Laal, Nyuiv (Indo-US project, USA) Lead Lecture 10 (2:40 PM 03:00 PM) 03:00 PM 03:10 PM DISCUSSIONS Exploration of Host Cellular Mechanisms by HIV (Dr. Akhil Baneirjee, NII, New Delhi) 03.10PM - 04.00PM Dr. Anita Desai, Dept of Neurovirology, NIMHANS, Bangalore Dr. Sulochana Devi, Prof and Head, Dept of Microbiology,(RIMS), Manipur ORAL PRESENTATIONS 4:00 PM 5:00 PM Tea Break with Poster Review Scientific Sessions: VI 5:00 PM 5:50 PM Lead Lectures 11 (5.00 PM-5.20 PM) Lead Lectures 12 (5:20 PM 5:40 PM) HOT Topics (Medical Virology) Dr. Rangaraj Selvarangan, Director, Clinical Microbiology, Virology, and Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratory, UMKC School of Medicine, USA. Dr. Anuradha Tripathy, NIV, Pune Microbial forensics in Biodefence perspective (Dr. P K Dash,Head Virology, DRDE, Gwalior) Circulating vaccine derived poliovirus in post eradication era: Problems and solutions (Dr. T N Dhole, Prof. and Head, Dept. of Microbiology, SGPGI, Lucknow) (5:40 PM 5:50 PM) Disscussions 5.50 PM-6.30 PM Oral Presentations 6:30 PM -7:30 PM General body meeting 7:30 PM Onwards Dinner DAY-03: November 14, 2018 Time Event Proceedings 9:00 AM-10:30 AM IVS Young Scientist Award Dr. AnupamVarma (President IVS) Dr. G P Rao (Secretory IVS) 10:30AM 11:00 AM 11:00AM- 11:30 AM Scientific Session: V 11:30 AM 1:00 PM Brain teasing competition (Young scientists) Tea Break Theme: Viral Infections and the community
Lead Lecture 13 11:30 AM -11:50 AM Lead Lecture 14 11:50 AM-12:10PM Lead Lecture 15 12:10PM-12:30PM Lead Lecture 16 12:30PM-12:50PM 12.50PM-01:00PM Dr. A K Bagga, (Scientist F, Cordinator, VRDL, DHR) Prof. Rajesh Kumar (Dean, Academics, PGI, Chd) AFI and AES surveillance in India: Lessons learnt (Prof. V Ravi, Professor, Dept. of Neurovirology and Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore) Epidemiology of dengue in selected districts of India: Experience from secondary case based surveillance (2014-18) (Prof. G. Arun Kumar, MCVC, Manipal) Hepatitis C in the UK: a general practitioners perspective (Dr. Sahadev Swain, Blenhem Medical Centre, London, Bedfordshire, UK) Genital HPV infection and its prevention: The UK perspective (Dr. Anjali Agrawal, (OBG) MRCOG, FFSRH Associate specialist and Lead clinician for contraceptive services, Sexual Health Hertfordshire, UK) DISCUSSION 1:00 PM 02:00 PM LUNCH BREAK Plenary lectures: 2.00 PM-2.30 PM Measles elimination in india : strategies and progress update Dr. Lucky Sangal, Laboratory Focal Point WHO Country officer for India Prof. V Ravi, Professor, Dept. of Neurovirology and Neurology, NIMHANS, Bangalore Prof. Meenu Singh, Paediatrics, PGI, Chandigarh 2.30 PM-2.35 PM DISSCUSSION Scientific Session IV: : Lead Lectures 17 (2:35PM 2:55 PM) POTPOURRI Dr. Asha Abraham, CMC, Vellore Dr. Anita Chakraborty, New Delhi Aptamers:A promising alternative to antibodies in Virus Research (Dr. M M Parida, Scientist G& Head, DFRL, DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Mysore) (2:55 PM 3.00 PM) DISSCUSSION 3:00 PM- 4:20 PM Oral Presentations 4:20 PM 4:30 PM Tea Break 4:30 PM 5:00 PM Young Scientist & Quiz contest Award Ceremony and Valedictory Function