Spatial Organization of Biological Fuctions | BPS Thematic Meeting

Spatial Organization of Biological Functions Meeting

Daily Schedule

Spatial Organization of Biological Functions Bangalore, India October 20-25, 2025 All scientific sessions will be held in the Ramanujan Lecture Hall unless otherwise noted. PROGRAM

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Ramanujan Lecture Hall

13:00 – 17:30

Registration

13:50 – 14:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Session I

Chromosome Organization I Chair: Ranjith Padinhateeri

14:00 – 14:30

Mahipal Ganji, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Molecular Mechanism of NAPs: How Lsr2 and H-NS Sculpt the Bacterial Genome Janani Gnanavelan, Vellore Institute of Technology, India * Stochastic Modelling of Semi-Discontinuous DNA Replication in T4 Bacteriophage Vicky Lioy, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, France Bacterial 3D Genome Folding: Lessons from Pseudomonas Chromosome Anjana Badrinarayanan, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India Chromosome Dynamics During Bacterial Recombination

14:30 – 14:45

14:45 – 15:15

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee Break

Foyer Area near Ramanujan Lecture Hall

15:30 – 16:00

Session II

Chromosome Organization II Chair: Linda Kenney

16:00 – 16:30

Apratim Chatterji, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India Topology Mediated Organization of E. Coli Chromosome in Slow and Fast Growth Conditions Rajat Mann, National Centre for Biological Sciences-TIFR, India * Temporal Dynamics and Nucleation of Erα Phase -Separated Condensates in Estrogen Signaling Ranjith Padinhateeri, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India Connecting Active Chromatin Folding Properties from Nucleosome Scale to Whole Chromosome Scale

16:30 – 16:45

16:45 – 17:15

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