Spatial Organization of Biological Fuctions | BPS Thematic Meeting

Spatial Organization of Biological Functions Meeting

Daily Schedule

Session V

Membrane Organization Chair: Jitu Mayor

16:00 – 16:30

Madan Rao, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India Activating Epithelia

16:30 – 16:45

Karthika S Nair, CSIR National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, India * Unveiling the Role of Membranes in Modulating Biomolecular Condensate Size

Dinner

ICTS Cafeteria

19:00

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Ramanujan Lecture Hall

9:00 – 17:30

Registration

Session VI

Cytoskeleton Organization Chair: Maithreyi Narasimha

9:30 – 10.00

Pramod Pullarkat, Raman Research Institute, India Myosin II Independent Cyclic Contraction of Actin Filaments in Membrane Nanotubes Suchismita Bhowmik, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India * Surface Charge Rewires a Lipid-Rab-Cytoskeletal Network to Steer Intracellular Fate of Nanoparticles Masatoshi Nishikawa, Hosei University, Japan Emergent Order from Cellular Dynamics at Bacterial Swarming Fronts

10.00 – 10.15

10:15 – 10.45

10:45 – 11:00

Srishti Mandal, Indian Institute of School, India * Spatiotemporal Perturbation of the T-Cell Actin Cytoskeleton

Coffee Break

Foyer Area near Ramanujan Lecture Hall

11:00 – 11:30

Session VII

Cell-Cell Interaction and Communities Chair: Tapamoy Bhattacharjee

11:30 – 12.00

Tam Mignot, CNRS-Aix Marseille University, France Myxococcus Xanthus: From Single Cell Mechanics to Collective Predation Aniruddha Panda, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India * Understanding Spatial Protein-Lipid Clustering Through Lipid Bilayer Native Mass Spectrometry and Its Role in Neuronal Communication

12:00 – 12.15

12.15 – 12:45

Zemer Gitai, Princeton University, USA TBD Sreepadmanabh M, NCBS-TIFR, India * An Oxo-Mechanical Regulation of Cell State

12:45 – 13.00

Lunch

ICTS Cafeteria

13:00 – 14:00

Poster Session II

Foyer Area near Ramanujan Lecture Hall

14:00 – 15:30

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